When Comrade Parsuram, accompanied by his sidekick Comrade Hanuman, accepted garlands and blessings from a republican Godman at the Marwari Brahman Society last month we thought that the baddies were well on their way to becoming goodies.
And sure enough, last week they attended a meeting of Christian evangelicals during which they said atheism didn't mean intolerance of minority religions. Then on Buddha Jayanti, the comrades all trooped off to Lumbini and, in the presence of a Maoist monk on the podium, Awesome once more underlined the many similarities he shared with Siddhartha Gautam Buddha.
There is a certain logic to all this: being an atheist means not believing in God, but there is nothing stopping an atheist from trying to be God himself. Lotus Flower really thinks he is the reincarnation of the Buddha. Wonder what the widow and children of Ram Hari Shrestha think of that.
The reason PKD needs divine attributes is probably because he intends to perform a "miracle" in this country in the coming months. He hasn't really specified whether the chamatkar is going to be economic, political or spiritual but he sort of hinted that the nation was going to be brought back, Lazarus like, from the dead. For that he definitely needs a miracle, how on earth are we going to be Switzerland in the next 25 years at the rate we are going? And for this country of 28 million growing at 2.5 percent we need to attain an economic growth rate of 25 percent a year if we are to attain a per capita income of $3,000 in ten year's time. Given the difficulties, YCLs armed with iron rods are having to discipline traffic at Kalanki, we may need more than a miracle. We may need a Second Coming.
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Girjau also went to Lumbini for Buddha's birthday and it was confession time. "I'm not personally greedy anymore," the prime minister said. Glad he admitted that he has been greedy in the past.