An early morning activity is of cars being washed.

Millions of gallons of water I am sure, is used by watchmen, pump men, man servants and maid servants to get their sahibs or memsaabs car looking spic and span!

But is that car of yours really washed?

Go out and have a look my dear friend and you’re going to be in for a rude shock. Like the remnants of yesterday’s meal on someone’s mouth, you will see a history of yesterday’s journey. There right across your bonnet is the brown slush that the bus splashed across from yonder pothole. Near the fender is a black sticky stuff that you know came from the nullah your brave car waded through last week. And those hub caps!

Car wash or eye wash?

We look out of the window and see these car washers round the car and assume our car is cleaned. And that my dear reader is happening in all walks of life in our country: Thousands of municipal workers report for work every day and sign the muster roll and we take it for granted that we have a clean city. Do we? Look around you at the garbage piled up at the filth and dirt and ask yourself who is fooling whom.

We elect representatives to municipal councils, state assemblies and into Parliament, but whom do they represent, themselves or us?

We employ policemen, but those lazy and callous money makers sit behind old British era desks steadfastly refusing to register FIRs of assaulted women!

Car wash or eye wash?

We have all heard the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes. How the emperor was deceived into believing that his royal tailors were indeed making him a fancy suit when in actual fact they were doing nothing. They fooled him into believing that the fabric was so fine that it could not be seen. The emperor, fool that he was, was finally draped by the tailors in the actually non- existent clothes and thinking that he was wearing a suit of the finest kind walked down the road. The people, his subjects watched as their foolish emperor walked naked. No one had the courage to tell the emperor that he had been fooled. Finally, it was a little boy in the crowd who suddenly shouted “The Emperor is naked, the emperor is naked.”

The rest of the world are shouting that we are naked, but we strut around thinking our country is draped in silken finery, when actually we are naked; rapes, communalism and authoritarianism exists.

Filth, muck, grime, sludge and foul matter are steadily getting ingrained into the delicate fabric of our country, as the car washers, our politicians, our police and leaders, fool us into believing we are clean.

Start pulling up our car washers, before the nation disintegrates…!

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