SHORT STORY: ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE, ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE

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By Kamlesh Tripathi

SO DON’T JUST BASK UNDER THE GLORY THAT YOU’RE ALL TOO POWERFUL

On 24^th of June 2015 Kiran Rijijiu, the all powerful minister of state for home, Government of India, was returning from Leh to Delhi along with his assistant Nirmal Singh. And to accommodate them in the flight three members of a benign family of an IFS officer, including a child, were disallowed from boarding the flight AI-446, according to reports. This also delayed the flight and brought Kiran Rijiju under a much avoidable, yet virulent controversy called the #VVIPRACISM.

In this world often the rich and mighty feel they are all too powerful, and nothing can strike and ground them, even when they are at large. But, I guess, this is not how God works. And, in this case also, when Kiran left for Leh he couldn’t have imagined, in his dream, that he will be caught up in such a odd controversy, considering he was the all powerful minister of state, for home, in the Government of India. But he forgot about God Almighty who has his own ways of tracking such devious stories—and this time it was through the media.

And this brings us to a moot point that anything can happen to anyone, anytime and anywhere no matter how powerful he or she is. And, this is what the controversy conveys to the society.

Take for instance, in this case also, had Kiran Rijiju known that by gate crashing into flight AI-446 he will become a clumsy news item, even when he is going for an official visit, and enter a zone of controversy where the matter will escalate right up to the PMO, in all probabilities he would have shunned this flight. But God’s vibes had not passed on, any such inkling to Kiran.

That apart, for Kiran too, retaining a prestigious job, as minister of state, for home, in the government of India, any day is much more preferred than getting entrapped in such stupid controversies.

     But, I presume, he too never anticipated this ruckus. Perhaps, he thought I’m the all mighty minister for state, and that too for home, so who can question me, and so he got on to the flight, and this larger than small, arrogant mistake of his, hit him like the bolt from the blue.

And so this gives us all a lesson of life; no matter how powerful you are, you wouldn’t know when what will come and hit you, sooner, or even later, especially, if you try to be devious with the hapless.

For God has his arrows, in his quivers, that the notorious rich and mighty can’t see. And, these episodes keep happening at regular intervals, only to remind us of this stark reality, where this time minister of state, department of home, government of India, Kiran Rijiju was the chief protagonist.

Kiran Rijiju will remember this episode for life, but more important is need for the message to spread across to the society.

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