Anna and the Indian Tea Syndrome

The Need: Sakharam awakes and needs a Tea to awake himself. He shouts at his wife to make Tea.

The Need (Parallelism)  : India awakes and feels the need to wipe out corruption. Anna volunteers to be every Indian’s wife.

Requirements:
½ Cup Water
½ Cup Milk
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon Tea Powder (The cheap Assam CTC would do as Darjeeling Tea might be too expensive).
1 Stove
1 Utensil
Sakharam’s wife.

Requirements (Parallelism):
1 Anna Hazare
1 Lokpal Bill Draft (Which Anna thinks as a highly potent weapon against corruption).
1 Kiran Bedi (Distinguished to be first woman IPS officer)
1 Arvind Khejriwal (Never had heard about him before. Supposed to be a RTI Activist)
Angry Indian Citizens (who drive vehicles without liscenses, go to colleges on donations etc etc)

How to Make it:

Place the utensil over the stove with the mixture milk and water. Add sugar and tea powder. Once it comes to a boil lift up the utensil from the flame. Let the boil subside before placing it on the flame to boil again. Serve it hot to Sakharam.

How to Make it (Parallelism): 

Anna Hazare goes on a hunger strike to fight corruption. His weapon The Lokpal which he believes would wipe out corruption from India. The Lokpal appears as strong or as weak as the Constitution of India drafted by B. R Ambedkar decades ago. The movement gains momentum as the Angry Indians (That includes a beautiful moll to an arrested gangster)  join it signing petitions, wearing I am Anna caps, lighting candles etc. Media endorses it. Pandurang the Traffice Police man stops taking bribes from offenders. The govt. seems shaky. Its dilemna how should it quiet the agitators and its corrupt politicians at the same time. Couple it with fiery speeches that make the Angry Indians all the more angry. Finally he calls quits and the anger of the Angry Indians die down as they go on with their day to day activities that includes bribibg the traffic cop, bribing the passport officers, bribing everyone they could bribe.


The Effects: 


Sakharam is content drinking his morning tea. He smiles at his wife. Goes to work. Now even if he is served with another cup of tea an hour later he would politely decline and wait for the evening to set in for his next cup of tea.


The Effects (Parallelism):


The angry Indians are content with the show expect phenomenal changes to happen. Well nothing happens save for the ruling party losing few seats in leglislative elections, a few standing comitte meetings, reviews, drafting of an impotent bill that his still 'hung'in the leglislature. Anna calls for another protest this time very few Angry Indians have the time, media is tired and only one saffron clad, long haired and tax evading Godman endorses it all confident that all black money in the foreign banks would turn white with it. Life is normal again. Scams resurface and drown like frolicking dolphin in a sea and Pandurang the traffice policeman is back to taking bribes from offenders. 


INDIA STILL REMAINS INDIA AND WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN INDIA.