Public speakers marked by their rhetoric derived from their knowledge on various subjects specific to their captive audiences as well as perception often take fascination to extol the land’s culture in glorious terms, not forgetting to lament on the current scenario of money power, muscle power and mass power holding sway, even as the various affected sections in the population are feeling helpless, taking the brunt of consequences of the principle of might-is-right followed by a) The vote-seekers, b) The goons and c) Those with a plethora of unmet demands (such as the case of just-ended country-wide stir by doctors as a mass). Dwelling on the vicious side of money, exchanged in horse-trading by vote-seekers, stashed in Swiss Banks, filling the pockets of cash-hungry dishonest functionaries in the Government, traders dealing in faked goods of popular brands, extortionists and so on amounts to the proverbial beating the dead horse. Muscle power in public life, having come out of wrestling arenas and boxing rings in our times has tended to mock at the law-keeping machinery of the government. Mass power happens to be the best bet in arm-twisting of administration and grab the pound of flesh as it were.
Chroniclers of events during the past few centuries seem to have bestowed low level attention to the play of the aforementioned powers, except the power of mass associated with the freedom movement that ultimately witnessed the exit of colonial rulers of the sub-continent.
