PK & CTCCC

After witnessing the current outburst against PK, not the best of the films or best of the storyline in its genre, I have found a new respect for politicians, everyone's favorite whipping boys.

Many of the angry-young-man films have been consistently depicting our politicians as villains of the highest order.  And yet there has been little protest from this class.  Probably they feel that the release provided by such films to the pent up frustration among voters is all for good.  Given this track record of exemplary tolerance, it did come as somewhat of a surprise when the tirade by Anna, Kejariwal and others called visible discomfiture amongst this class.  Probably the thought of being criticized by people who aspired to join their class was more discomfiting than being criticized by hapless voters.  The political class has also shown considerable tolerance towards literature that shows them in poor light.

The pique and sharp intolerance shown by our Mullahdom, Babadom and Priestdom is in sharp contrast with this exemplary tolerance shown by politicians.  A word against the priests or against their principals (gods of various denominations) and there will be a fatwa against you.  If you are in the wrong place, you and your children will be beheaded and females kept for sex slavery.  In timid places your book will be burnt and banned and your films will face violent protests or you may be asked to stop worshiping the wrong idols.

The interesting development is that some fundamentalists are now defending the rights of rival fundamentalists from competing religions to be as intolerant as they themselves are.  How democratic indeed!

Thus, I dare say, politics definitely seems to be a lesser evil.  Though, in several countries it mixes with religions in all sorts of concoction in the name of secularism or nationalism.  Whatever can form human beings into a group will definitely be of interest to politicians in a democratic setup.  However it should be possible to weaken this basis for grouping through state action in the form of conversions to a Common Civil Code.

The situation can, in my opinion, be remedied by introducing a CTCCC (Convert to Common Civil Code) bill and banning all inter-religion conversions.  The state should introduce a law that specifically allows one to give up his religion and owe allegiance to the law of the land alone.  The state must also grant special rights to such converts.  Any conversion to any other religion must strictly be banned because it is the ultimate idiocy.

As far as it concerns those who refuse to convert to CCC, their children must be taught, under penalty of legal action, from an early age that all scriptures and religious books are products, exalted or otherwise, of human mind alone and hence open to questions as any other doctrine, philosophy or theory.  They must be told that anyone who disputes this is either weak in the head or black in the heart.