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“Oh God, it’s getting
tougher and tougher!” I mumbled to myself as I finished reading about the
latest reform being imposed on the nation by the government.
“Really? I thought you didn’t believe in god.” I looked around and saw no one. Yet I was sure I heard the voice. There was a chuckle then.
“Oh God is just an exclamation I use like alas or Oh I see and
nothing more,” I said to test the voice.
“I see,” said the
voice. “Anyway, what’s getting tougher
and tougher? You sound quite frustrated.”
“Who are you?” I was
dismayed obviously.
“You called god and here
am I.”
“God?”
“Well, some people call
me that. People like to call me by a lot
of names.”
“You mean you’re real!”
“As real as you.”
“If you are really real,
how do you put up with all the nonsense perpetrated in your name by people?”
“Do I have a choice?”
“What kind of a god is it
without a choice?”
“You are a writer. Do you have a choice about what your readers
do with your writing?”
“A writer is not god,” I
protested vehemently.
“But god is like a
writer. Creation is a text.”
I thought there was some
sense in that. So I stopped to
contemplate.
“What’s it that you find
so tough, anyway?” The voice sounded eager
to know that.
“See this report,” I
said. “It says that the government is
all set to pass the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill.” I exhibited to the voice my mobile phone
screen which showed the report. “The
little money I have saved in the bank may be plundered by the government any
day now.”
I went on to tell the
voice how demonetisation and cow protection and assault on dissenters and erection of statues and temples and rewriting of history and so
many other things have made life quite unbearable in every way. Prices of essential commodities have touched
beyond the common man’s reach. Cows are
more sacred than human beings. Thinking
is forbidden. We are mere numbers now,
Aadhar numbers which can be erased from records anytime using digital
technology. Yeah, the country has become
digital!
“Who asked you to elect
such a government?” The voice asked.
“Did I vote for that
party?”
“But people voted, didn’t
they? People get what they vote
for. I’m sure you didn’t expect god to
tamper with the voting machines.” There
was the chuckle again.
Of course, I wouldn’t
expect god to stoop as low as the government.
“Oh God!” is all I could
mumble.
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