There is a guy called Avinash Upadhyay. His past is quite murky – in a way of thinking, that is – but interesting.
This guy did postgraduation in Biochemistry, a science that deals with chemical reactions and cellular processes that go on within the human body and, to broaden the subject, inside every conceivable living being. Having done this, Avinash wanted to do Ph. D. and further research. So he went to one of his teachers soliciting his services as his research supervisor. This teacher did most of his research in Diabetes and, naturally, he offered Avinash a problem connected to the same disease.
Diabetics have several problems apart from the sugar levels in their blood being very high. One of these problems is to do with their reduced ability to fight infections. This makes them very susceptible to opportunistic microbes. One of the ways in which our bodies fights infections is that our white blood cells actually eat up the invading microbes and digest them. This process is called phagocytosis (phago means to eat). Phagocytosis is damaged in diabetic patients.
The topic given to Avinash was to find out some biochemical reasons leading to the damaged phagocytosis.
So what Avinash had to do every morning was rush to the Government Medical College and swoop down upon the hapless diabetic patients for blood sample. Having extracted their blood, he had to come back to the lab, process the blood, get the white blood cells. Simultaneously he had to take normal blood from one of the students and do the same procedure to this blood too. Eventually, he had to compare the two samples for various parameters.
Every morning, in the medical college, he moved from one patient to another, reading their medical details, trying to find the ideal sample. The thing was that the worse the diabetic condition, the higher the blood sugar, the higher the ketone bodies (a chemical derived from fats), the more problem there would be with fighting infection. This would then be the ideal sample.
So there would be a simple prayer on his lips everyday – please god, let me a get a bad, bad diabetic patient today. The worse the patient was, the happier was Avinash. If his blood sugar was 400-500 (normal being 80-120) and climbing, he got a smile to his lips. Wow! What sample! If the patient was near death and the immediate family was crying, it was even better. The sample, you see, the sample.
“I want a sample of your blood,” he would tell the patient gruffly.
“But doctor sahib, two blood samples have already been drawn since the morning,” the patient would respond with pain lacing his voice. “How many more samples will be drawn?”
“You want to get well, don’t you?” same matter of fact, gruff voice. “Extend your arm now. Don’t interfere in medical procedures.” Then in a more mellow voice, “This is for your own good. You give blood now and the findings will help us get you better.”
You have to understand that the people who came to the Govt. hospital were generally poor people without any voice as such. The misery of life had sucked away all glint of hope from their lives as it was. The only thing on which they survived was something called hope against hope. It was easy to get these people into believing that Avinash was a doctor and the sample being drawn was for medical procedures. The reality was that it was a bloody lie and the sample would only feed the process of getting a Ph. D. degree for Avinash. It was easy to lie to these patients and give them false promises of this being necessary for their own good health and benefit.
Avinash eventually got a Ph. D. degree.
Much later in the day came Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Gandhi family. Somehow he got the wind of this ordinary guy called Avinash Upadhyay. Struggling for his political career, he found an interesting case study in this person. I am sure he studied this person and the events and the modus leading to this guy’s Ph.D. The result is now before you. His behavior is exactly the same as that of Avinash during his Ph. D.
Every day he tries to find patients of the Indian diseases called poverty, caste system, religion, inflation, crop failure, corruption. His field is actually quite wide owing to the large number of diseases that plague this great country. Diseases that his family helped develop in the first place while trying to tell the patients that they were trying to cure them.
So there is a simple prayer on his lips every morning – please god, let me a get a bad, bad case of a caste massacre or farmer suicide or religious killing/riot etc. today. The worse the case, happier is Rahul. You see, he would get a chance to rush to the affected place, affected person. Enter their hut, eat a simple meal in their plate, say something in his Royal gruff and alternatively soothing voice, tell them that all he was doing is for them, to cure them of this deadly disease. All that is needed in return is their blood, err… vote.
You have to understand that the people who suffer from these diseases are generally poor people without any voice as such. The misery of life has sucked away all glint of hope from their lives as it is. The only thing on which they survive is something called hope against hope. It is easy to fool such people with a bloody lie. The reality of the promises is that it is a ruse to feed the process of getting to the throne.
Whether Rahul succeeds in his quest, time will tell.
But the bottomline is this: May be someday the research finding of Avinash will find some use but the deeds of Rahul will find no other use than catapulting him to the throne!
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Not Just Rahul... Every politician is studying Avinash jee these days. Especially the Gowda duo in Karnataka where polls are in place and the 'faction' sekhara reddy of Andhra where polls are expected this year end.
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quite right
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Thanks Usha for the comments and commendation.
Avinash
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SO VERY TRUE.hE IS LOOKING FOR ISSUES TO ENCASH INTO POLITICAL POTENTIAL
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Thanks Sudha.
And you are absolutely right - the heartfelt things come out far better.
Avinash
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very well done
i enjoyed it..
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Thnaks Bharat for the comment and for the commendation.
Avinash
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Avinash,
So aptly put, infact I have always felt that the ones that come from the heart are the ones that usually turn out really well than the ones that we write carefully and edit it a few times.
- Sudha
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Hi ravi,
You have quoted the perfect example. Thnaks for bringing this to my notice. Also thanks for your comments and commendation.
Regards
Avinash
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great write
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