Everyone
prayed hard for the rains last summer and 'God' decided he would send forth a
good downpour to the state that prides itself on being either his birthplace or
someplace he adopted as his along the way. The summer heat was almost
unbearable in Kerala and the monsoons hit with a vengeance and rocked Chandy
sir's government with the arrest of a bold trickster in the guise of the foxy
Saritha. S. Nair, a divorcee with a background in financial fraud. Currently
the face of the financial and sex scandal cradling the UDF which is being
pelted with demands for our dear chief minister Mr. Oomen Chandy to step down,
the first images of Ms Nair showed a confident, calm, collected and well
dressed lady who seemed unperturbed by the fact that she was under arrest for
embezzling over 10 crores.
Apart
from all the well-to-do doctors and business men she easily convinced to invest
in her imaginary solar and wind power projects, she is also accused of having
an affair with Ex -minister and MLA K.B. Ganesh Kumar. The opposition didn't
get time enough to capitalize on this scandal before being bogged down by MLA Jose
Thettayil's recent state of affairs with another divorcee who according to
local sources is quite a vixen herself. Like someone in the crowd pointed out
quite rightly that her accusation is quite bizarre in itself - she agreed to be
sexually preyed upon by the father to get him to let his son 'marry' her or at
the very least blackmail him to... what? anyway the physics of that relationship
is for those who have the perpetual need to click on that juicy headline that
reeks of sex.
Ask
Sreesanth...or on second thought never mind, I must admit the first time i read
the word honey trap was in an article about famous women spies quite a long
time ago. I'm unsure whether to categorize these women among them as each of
them have a different story and the damage caused in each of these cases can be
surveyed from a hundred different angles. Be it the women who were escorting
Sreesanth to his bedroom... err doom as a cricketer, Ms Sarita . S. Nair or was
it Mrs..., and of course our dear Thettayil's Sir's itch. These ladies
certainly are the determined type, if they were going down they were going to
take down someone responsible with them. Not always has a woman scorned yielded
such results in our greatly patriarchal society, not even when the mother of a
girl who took her own life decided to follow her daughter into the nether world
than live with the shame of being sexually abused, which one Mr. Kanda an MLA
from Sirsa is surely a witness of. It wouldn't be right to bring up past and
out of state ghosts as there plenty floating around in the present.
So
it was being said that the floodgates have to be opened and suddenly people are
dying in Uttarakhand, the ones desperately clinging onto life in a pilgrimage
that had to be suspended abruptly and the government shuts down all tourism
services to the flood hit region and begins rescue missions, a few in the
government looked around and spoke about getting help to the few malayalees
stuck there, maybe send a copter and fly them and whoever can fit in. 'It
doesn't seem to be of the most concerning matter right now because we don't even
know if we're gonna be in these seats tomorrow' seems to be the a thought
imprinted on many minds in the assembly.
Poster-girls of the downfall of the LDF and the UDF government on either sides are probably
worried about how this is all going to turn out or unimpressed by the threat of
morality or patriarchy and such.
I'm
certain we're heading there, a completely developed westernized state. We have
the elections like every state, the highest literacy rate in the country,
highest life expectancy, highest sex ratio, a rapid increase in sex scandals
and we probably are spiraling towards becoming the ideal state setting
standards for other states to follow, hence 'the American dream' for every
aspiring politico and youth party member in Kerala becomes, 'A malayali's
dream' which translated to Malayalam is increasingly starting to sound like
the title of a popular soft porn flick starring Shakeela or some other southern
siren that gets all the old men worked up.
The
word out on the street from a local daily wage laborer who lights up his beedi
standing at the tea stall nearby the ex-minister’s house while the place is
crawling with policemen to keep the protesters in check is that "It really
is a shame to see a politician belittled in such a short span of time. Bring in
a woman and they all come tumbling down just like poor P.J. Joseph." The
online community enticingly offer you a peek into the leaked video of the sex
scandal the 62 year old ex-transport minister's good name brings up on Google. While
the general populace is squirming at the thought that a one time public
prosecutor who struggled to become the transport minister of the state could
have so quick a downfall.
Well if only it were as easy as being a
Kardashian or a Hilton all this could have been put to good use now, what say
Mr. Adarsh Tetthayil. I wonder if the son who has reportedly gone into hiding
has a comprehensive idea of the shit storm his little affair has created for
his father and how quickly it dimmed his political future. Or maybe it could
also turn out as they say ‘any publicity is good publicity’ and we could
witness Mr. Thettayil rise like a phoenix from the ashes of this monsoon’s sex
scandal. The longer it takes to reach a conclusion, the more it unravels with
twists and turns turning it into something delightful for the media to up the
TRP ratings. At-least Sreesanth should have stopped crying now that all these
scandals have taken away the spotlight from his historic stupidity and fall
from grace.
-Twistdtales
-Twistdtales
