Not much left to say really. The coup-de-grace is almost complete. Just the trimmings remaining, I suppose. We tried. I tried. Sigh! The rampant corruption, greed, self serving fiascos are almost palpable. A nation wretched for eternity? I am reminded of a parable I read in primary school. I think it was in “Kudakudhinge Bageechaa”. The book, not the park, silly! Anyway, the allegory goes as follows.
One day two cats stole a boakibaa (fish cake?). The two cats tore it into two bits, and one bit was bigger than the other. The cats started quarrelling as to who should get the bigger half. Along came the monkey who offered to adjudicate (the operative word in the current context). The monkey started eating from one bit, and then the other, supposedly trying to get the two bits equal. Eventually the monkey managed to eat the boakibaa down to two tiny bits that were equal. Just when the two cats thought they were finally going to get at least a tiny bit, the monkey claimed that he was entitled to a fee for adjudicating and claimed the remaining bits as the fee.
I am also reminded of a verse from a poem I learnt while in primary school, which goes as follows (if I recall correctly):
“Haama vee reethi manzaru thakey nethi dhanee
Maamalun eyge thaazaa kamey gellenee
Dhaamagun dhuniye hin’gamun miharagen dhanee
AA MAGEH GAI HIN’GEYKAH NETHEY ANGANEE”
Oh! Mother! More of your sons have raped you yet again! How deep will these wounds be? Why do you not desert us and look out for yourself? Of course! You are Mum, after all, silly me! The country has surely gone to the dogs. Let us hope and pray that the dogs will be magnanimous and kind to us all.
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