“The country is on fire!”
“I know, I know, I’ll douse the fire!”
“Mamata says that instead of dousing the fire you are stoking it!”
“Ah, you know she’s just a loudmouth!”
“But now the country’s full of loudmouths!”
“I’ll shut them up!”
“With water cannons and tear gas? What’s that noise at my window?”
“It’s the people!”
“Still talking about the bill which we just made into an act! I guess they want me to repel it?”
“No, they are asking for jobs, for the prices of onions to come down, for the cost of living to be affordable, for food in their belly!”
“I don’t know how to do those things!”
“I know!”
“You know?”
“Yes, I know that you don’t know!”
“So?”
“So, I keep creating these little side shows, like this one happening with all the nation and students involved!”
“But you are saying there are people at the window wanting what I don’t know how to solve!”
“Not to worry, I will think of something new!”
“But no water cannons or teargas okay?”
“No! Now, I’m going to talk about the temple! It will touch the skies! Gold pillars, and arches like arches of palaces! It will be the biggest temple in the world!”
“You think we have the money for all this?”
“Did you have the money to put into their bank accounts?”
“Ha, ha, no!”
“Did you bring them the good days you promised?”
“Ha, ha no!”
“Then why are you bothered about money for any of my ideas?”
“But your sideshows are becoming dangerous, this present one could be dangerous!”
“Nah! Once I get the temple idea going, this will fizzle out!”
“Have the people gone? The ones at my window? The ones asking for food and jobs, and complaining about the economy?”
“Yes!”
“How?”
“I showed them the architect’s drawings!”
“Of the temple?”
“No, the detention centres..!”

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