On YSR Reddy's Death
The most creepy vehicle invented by the successors of the Wright brothers is the Helicopter. It defied nature, for unless it follows the super yogic practice of levitation, except the dragonfly, nothing can lift off perpendicularly. For go getters like YSR Reddy, and Sylvester Stallone, the one man army, nothing is impossible, which is why Reddy scoffed the idea that inclement weather could put off his jaunt to a stupid meeting. The meteorological experts at the airport who were doing their work honestly, lost to a punctual man who had a tryst with destiny.
“The rulers must obey the laws before they enforce them. Reddy forgot that he was just another feeble human being before the force of nature and that even Rambo the indestructible warrior wouldn’t have hazarded a flight in such a funny machine when the weather was beastly.” opined Jugallu Rao.
“Not necessarily Juggalu; he must have read the astrological forecast for that week in some stupid Telugu magazine that told him to take a calculated risk that would boost his family’s climb to stardom. Who wouldn’t be lured by such a prospect? His son is M.P. and this trip could probably lead on to something big that would boost his chance to be in the Central ministry. Why not neighbour? Chief’s son Azhagiri, is a minister there. These familial thoughts must have caused his defiance of the weather man’s guess, which more often than not, is far off the mark.“
“But he had no business to risk the lives of the four chaps who accompanied him. Those four probably don’t read what the stars foretell. The two pilots should have refused to lift the dragonfly up. Reddy may be an expert with the scalpel, but a non-entity in flying a helicopter in terrible weather over hilly terrain and thick forest allegedly crawling with Naxalites, deadlier than any animal.”
“The jaded and trite expression that Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion, slightly modified to suit democratic norms would read ‘rulers must obey the rules’. Howzzat cricketily!”
“That’s why when the Supreme Court thought that it is above The RTI Act, and questioned it before the Delhi High Court, people thought that judges have something to hide. Shylendra of Karnataka High Court and Kannan of Haryana High Court bared everything. Judges are interpreters of law in order to do justice, and not play hide and seek. So is the rest of the human network that manages the affairs of the billion plus of this country. If only the weatherman had refused clearance and the pilots had refused to risk their necks, Jaggu wouldn’t be losing sleep over his ascension to the CM’s throne as the youngest CM in the history of the country. Defiance of rules is sometimes like the tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood leads on to fortune…”
