Post Ramayana and Mahabharata history of India is both tumultuous and fascinating. At the time of Alexander’s invasion, India was in a state of geographic fragments with political and leadership bankruptcy to say the least. A visionary with a missionary zeal called Vishnugupta rose to the occasion and unified fragmented Indian kingdoms and forged them into a single country which encompassed several small neighboring countries of present day India. To put it in a politically more correct manner, Vishnugupta who is also known as Chanakya (son of Chanak, a well known and respected political economist of his generation) is called by his adversaries as Kautilya which is a scandalous title for unifying the country, punishing lethargy and corruption and establishing a golden era and a truly global University and dying as teacher in his hermitage with minimum of comforts. A school of thought of present day political intelligentsia believes that one of the non-family PMs of a certain political party which owns the nation is a reincarnation of the same Vishnugupta who is more often referred by his acquired name.
Someone said: if anything can go wrong, it will. There is more to it. Something or other always goes wrong; it has been going wrong yesterday, going wrong today and will go wrong tomorrow. That is a Law of the Universe. Stephen Hawking is yet to figure it out whether this Law is applicable to other Universes which might exist outside our Universe.
When India faced economic bankruptcy, it is PV who saved it with his vision and wisdom and gave his protégé, today’s PM, a free hand to deliver goods and insulated him from the taunts of other politicians and bureaucrats. PV got criticized when he was alive, people raised objection for cremating him at a place where his mortal remains were consigned to flame and people will continue to blame him tomorrow.
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ndia has its share of wrongs. Babri, Bofors, Bhopal, Kashmir, Naxalites, Maoits, LTTE, Reservations, Religions, Castes, Census, Democracy, Judiciary, Police, Military, Illiteracy, Poverty, HIV, Sanitation, Traffic, Education, CWG ... The list is unending. Since independence, almost everything is going wrong in India but we are fortunate to have someone to blame and one can blame it all on PV.One will be absolutely right in one aspect, though. Those who are unhappy with present two-time, non-family, apolitical, indigenous PM, can certainly blame it on his mentor, PV.
