Midwife's Children

The saga of Bharat's partition in 1947 has been dealt ad infinitum by various historians and novelists. Our history books mention a Lord Mountbatten as the Viceroy and Governor-General of India who oversaw the dismemberment of the vision of Akhand Bharat with intricate borders that stupefy high schoolers and adults alike. When the dust settled, the late Queen, in 1960, made a long declaration that ends as:

"I declare My Will and Pleasure that, while I and My Children shall continue to be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, My descendants other than descendants enjoying the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness and the titular dignity of Prince or Princess and female descendants who marry and their descendants shall bear the name of Mountbatten-Windsor"

It could be noble or inbreeding depending on which side of the pond you are dwelling on. No matter whose side you are on, you have to agree that the royal descendants were delivered in a hush-hush manner and some of the descendants bearing the aforementioned surname grew up to do hush-hush things. If one is a fusion artist like the Bengali author Nirad Chowdhuri, one sheds crocodile tears for the way the midwife's children are popping in the daily news grinder.

We all feel a thing or two for the noble Queen, but considering how she treated the betrothals as persona non grata before and after the nuptials, makes me wonder if there had been a grand plan behind all of this. Something Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes alone could figure out.

Coming back to Akhand Bharat, we are enlightened by the powers that be that LAC and LOC are not royal seals or padlocks, but something the global border police, such as the UN, take seriously. That is until they were evicted during the latest border skirmish. So what now? May be Jesus will make his second appearance in Kashmir this Christmas to enlighten us.

Meanwhile the influencers in the social media are relishing the military build up at the "Chicken's Neck" which is an euphemism for "we don't know why Bengali's die for imported Hilsa fish curry". One can put two and two together and arrive at the awareness that Bharat's border issues are actually due to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) that has not inducted the Chicken Tikka Masala into the Culinary Hall of Fame over the objections of Boston Brahmins.

Before breaking into a personal appeal about the benefits of vegetarian diet, and cruelty towards animals that deserve time and space to evolve, I would like to share the highlights of today's "History Detectives" show on public television. Apparently during WWII American military experimented with canines that could sniff out non-caucasians at the enemy lines and attack them rather ferociously. Guess what, they used the enlisted non-caucasians in the military as bait to train the canines on not-so-funny Cat Island near Mississippi!

Baghavata tells us that there are 8400000 species on earth. But they all fall into 4 broad categories: ‘Udbhija’ (sprouted from Earth like grass, vegetables etc.), ‘Swedaja’ (Krimi, Keeta and Flies that seem to appear from sweat), ‘Andaja’ (Birds, Fish etc. born out of eggs) and ‘Jarayuja’ (Animals, human beings etc. born out of physical bodies). Each of them has a soul, no matter how small or big, that deserves to evolve and achieve moksha. So we, as the most evolved, need to be aware of this.

All this tells me that one needs to travel far and wide to appreciate God's creation. I am waiting for the Akhand Bharat Passport before boarding a flight to nowhere.

Regards