Dear SMS

Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:31

Written by Anshul

This is an open invitation to you and your colleague Mr. P. Chidambaram to visit my humble cottage, before your government hobbling on the crutches of the Left trips you down. This is an invitation for you to visit and see what your government has done to my life and to that of my small planned family and find out how your policies and star-touching inflation has destroyed this beautiful place called MyHome.

I am an ordinary middle class housewife, who feels happy when she is able to serve two meals a day to her family. I heard that Rahul baba is visiting the homes of Dalits across India and spending a night in their home. So I thought may be I should invite you to my place for tonigt's dinner. I will serve you the same dinner that we have every night; Dal, Rice, Chappati and Sabji. Sorry but due to high prices, I have started adding little more water to the Dal. Hope you will not mind it. For you can always go and claim that it was because of congress ka hath that we are having water in Dal otherwise it would have been 'Dal' in water.

And I certainly hope that you will be able to satisfy my younger son's queries because although he belongs to general category is dreaming of doing his P.G in Political Sciences. Perhaps, you could bring all your sagacity to bear and be able to make him change his stance and leave his seat for some OBC candidate. For even if he gets through and gets a seat, how are we supposed to pay for his education? Arjun Singh's family is rich, perhaps you can ask him to sponsor my son's education and get back into the good books of Sonia G.

Please bring that 4am-chicken-curry-in-ghee with steaming idlis-eating Finance Minister to help me balance my home budget without deficit and dipping into my non existing general reserves.You are the master of numbers, you are the ruler of this country please explain to an ordinary housewife how to manage her daily household budget. Here you will not have the pressure to please Left nor Sonia madam's wishes to be fullilled; here you have our Income at your disposal and a list of our expenditure. Every time we decide to visit the multiplex to watch a movie my budget collapses like a pack of cards being shuffled by an expert gambler. I think you should make gambling dens legal. For we housewives will teach your Finance Minsitry a trick or two. Out at the multiplex one ticket for 200 rupees is understandable, but please could you explain to me and my sweet darling daughter about the 100 rupees popcorn. Please explain me why the cost of things in Big Bazaar is cheaper, but I end up paying more. Is it because I buy more when I dont want to?

We have lived our lives, have learnt to crush our wishes, but please tell me how do i crush the dreams of my childre? It is you who asked them to dream and after having begun in good faith, you are asking them to slow down. You ask them to be practical. My son wants a motor-cycle but how do I get him the petrol? He wants to take his girl-friend to a film and then to the beach but your moral police have banned holding hands. What is wrong with that? Didnt you hold your wife's hand before marriage? Didnt Rahul baba live-in with that Colombian girl? Our dreams had been burnt, but from where should I get the costly petrol to burn their dreams?

Regards,

An Humble Indian Homemaker

Comments (3)

Shruti: ...

Hmmm....

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May 28, 2008

derebail2008: message to SMS

Well written anshul, This is the first time that Govt is creating panic and hoarding in Petrol across the country. An issue like this should be swiftly decided normally it is a practise to hike price at the stroke of midnight but now for a week there is a dicussions leading to hoarding of Petrol by dealers

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May 29, 2008

Maverick: ...

well written buddy.....

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June 09, 2008

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