An amazing story

If i would have been a movie director i would have been tempted to make a movie about this.

An Italian fugitive, a Queen and a God-mother who rescues the fugitive from the laws of a nation of one billion dodos. What a deliciously attractive plot !

Quotrochi was let off in 1993 by the government of India and allowed to leave the country. In 2005, when the same government came back to power, his account worth 23 crores (coming from Indian tax payers like me and you) was defreezed on the orders of Indian government and within couple of days the entire amount was transferred to Quotrochi's italian account.
Neat.
(Wonder which government would do that ?)

And here's the best part. The Queen remains unaffected. Her "popularity" remains intact. Infact people actually love her. Her party man actually fall over one another to lick their "Godmother's" feet. (I would have liked to use a different word instead of feet here) And the media is uncharacteristically mum. Infact one of them, what's its name, oh right NDTV, gives the "Queen" its "Indian of the year" award.

One wonders how apt that song from one of Govinda's movies- "It happens only in India", is.

We may have "freed" ourselves from the British raj. But guess what, we still are slaves to a mentality. A mentality which says - the Dynasty can do no wrong. A nation of one billion dodos is taken for a royal ride by the Queen, all along portraying herself as a political victim and a widow who is so great that she "sacrificed" and "renounced" the Prime Minister's seat because she apparently heard her "inner voice" - whatever that means.

I am sure Congress will win next elections with a thumping majority. The scion of Gandhis and the prince-in-the-waiting will take over his "rightful" chair as the PM of this unfortunate nation where it's people actually love the nation's biggest culprits. And the Queen will rule again - this time not through her puppet but through her own blood, her own son. And then many more Quotrochis and many more Volckers later the Indian people will wake up. !!!
No just kidding. We will never wake up. We will never have our own French revolution against a shrewed Queen- thats just a mirage.

Which by the way reminds me. This movie will never have a hero. The slaves will continue to remain so...
Amen !

Refer the articles - The Family Does no wrong and Q marks dent the halo around a ‘renunciant’