REVENGE

I found my friends very busy that Sunday morning. Everybody was collecting this and that from here and there. I rushed to Sonal and asked, “Aren’t you going to swim in that pond today? You are looking very busy! Where are you going today? You need not take me with you but at least tell me the secret!” He replied me seriously, “You are a dull creature. What can you do for the society? We are going to teach a lesson today to our nation. We will set fire to as many buses as possible, block the roads, thrash the government employees dragging them on to the roads and create a hell in the city. All this takes place in one hour’s time. Nobody knows who did it and why they did it? We were badly disappointed and disgusted with these hellish daily bus journeys for years. We wrote letters to the authorities and held demonstrations. Nobody paid attention to us. We chose this path of violence as the last resort. Ten of us are going to execute this plan of revenge against the government”. I consoled him and requested him to bring all his friends to me for once. I took them all into a cemetery and told authoritatively, “We are living in a democratic country. Here lazy fellows would be honored and honest and hard-working ones would be crushed down. Your plan is very wrong. Police would arrest you within hours after your secret acts in the city. The court of law would severely punish you all. Your parents, relatives or friends cannot change your fates thereafter. Please do not spoil your lives with your stupid methods of retaliation. I have a bright idea with me. I do agree that majority of our government employees are just symbols of living. They have neither enthusiasm to serve the people nor innovative thinking to develop our nation fast. We kiss a cute pup when we like its beauty. We beat up a street dog when it barks at us irrationally. As you know well, the special ticket allows one to travel throughout the day on any bus in the city. You should enquire about the woes of other victims in the city and invite them to join you to execute our plan successfully. There should be at least 50,000 youngsters to implement my idea. Fifty boys and girls form a group. Thus there would be 1000 groups. Every member of each group boards a bus in the early morning at its starting point at a time. They would occupy 50 seats in the bus within a few seconds. They would carry food and water with them for that day. They would not get down from the bus till midnight. The bus conductor cannot ask them to get off because they have special tickets with all of them. This way you can implement my plan in 1000 city buses on every day. Do like this for a month continuously. They would lose lakhs of rupees due to your plan during these 30 days. The police and the courts can do nothing against you because whatever you are doing is unquestionable as per the government rules. Then our big brothers sitting in the highest court of the state would formally and legally ask us to say something about our common problems to them. Then we can hand over our small report to them. We will continue this plan until this menace is rooted out from our city. Even other victims of similar nature in other parts of India follow our route and then it becomes a burning national issue. This plan doesn’t require much money or equipment from the active participants. It’s like hiring a tourist bus at a very low cost for a daylong journey in the city. Sitting in the same seats continuously in the same bus from morning to the night won’t be a problem for youngsters. Then our dear bus drivers need not stop their buses at every bus stop. Our helpless bus conductors need not distribute tickets to all the passengers time to time. It is a cool job for all. I am here to guide you time to time. Avoid those methods of violence and follow this cool way. Work on this plan from this very day. If any foolish guy or girl has doubts about this strategy, you can send them to me. Thereafter we would implement this plan in the Indian Railways also. Our cool belly baboos sitting in the AC rooms in New Delhi then introduce more trains for poor Indian passengers throughout the nation”. “Gang Leader Bongi Junka…Jindabad Jindabad”, they kept shouting, clapping and whistling in praise of me for ten minutes continuously. I felt very delighted and excited visualizing my plan being victoriously and challengingly implemented in Hyderabad and Secunderabad by thousands of girls and boys. I felt, ‘Revenge is a sweet game for me. I know well how to handle it with the help of hot boys and girls. Bravo Bongi!!”

Datla Chiranjeevi Raju