Baba Baba Black Sheep

Disclaimer: This article is not about the popular Nursery Rhyme,
so kids stay away as the contents may be harmful to your future.

So, Baba-‘I’ll bring back all the Black Money‘-Ramdev finally broke
his fast. But not before dressing up in a Salwar Kameez a -la
Chhatrapati Shivaji ( I apologise to everybody who think only
from the Right side of their brains, especially some tiger shaped
caricatures, for this ghastly comparison), and jumping in the sea
of his drowsy followers -yeah, it wasn’t a Rock concert, and
Ramdev is no Kurt Cobain either.

In fact I was hoping he did a Kurt Cobain, not by singing ‘Rape
Me’ (although that’s what he literally dared the Govt. to do) but by
actually ending his life fasting for a noble cause and making it
much bigger and revolutionary just like what Cobain did to
alternative music.

Baba Ramdev has disappointed me. While breaking his fast he
said that his fight against corruption will continue till his‘last
breath’, and then excused himself to breathe some more. What a
sham. I thought that at least a Yoga guru would have more
stamina to last more than 9 days. Bhagat Singh and his fellow
revolutionaries fasted for 64 days demanding equal rights for
Indian and British political prisoners. Blame it on our Baba’s jet-set
lifestyle, and the talk shows he has to attend with the Sambhavana
Seths on Rajat Sharma’s Janata Ki Adalat, or his visits to his very
own island in Scotland (gifted by a follower, before you scream
‘Black Money’).

This is what happens when you try to do a Jasmine revolution in
Saffron. In India, if you as much as smell saffron you are termed
as an RSS agent by the Grand Old Congress Party. The Badshah
of Bullshit, Digvijay Singh has already branded the Baba as
‘Mahathug’ probably hurt by the steep Rs.50,000 fees (his own
words) charged by Ramdev to teach Yoga . And what about our
so called civil society-when Anna Hazare, with Gandhi’s Teeth and
Nehru’s Cap, sat on a fast unto death at Jantar Mantar demanding
–you won’t believe it-setting up yet another committee, the whole
nation seemed to have suddenly discovered their collective
consciousness and somehow convinced themselves that they can
all be part of a revolution. And how, by relentlessly spamming
our Facebook news feeds. And what did the Lazy Armchair
Activism give us; yeah you are right, yet another committee.
Never trust a man with food whose main trick is making his
stomach sticking to back bone, giving an impression there is
none. Ramdev is now well advised to go back to his Yoga camp,
and maybe lower the fees a little so that the Congress party
workers (Read: Diggi Raja) can attend the same. As far as how the
nation will perceive this event, well we don’t give a damn for the
next 4 years; we have already won the World Cup, for Sachin of
course.