From: mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota)
Subject: The Gundekota File: The Indian-American Dream
Organization: Somewhere near Chicago
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 20:10:37 GMT



The Gundekota File-Entry#7: The Indian-American Dream
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Bali finished his last verse as: ``The whores approached Him to peel
his skin and find for themselves His essence.'' Mahound walked into
the cave and shot Bali with an AK-47. The reverberations woke Jibreel
Farishta who had been sleeping in his own wetness thinking it to be a
swimming pool in his dream. Back to reality for poor unrelenting
Gibreel whose heart had long ago been broken into a million pieces by
Babloo Minakshi back in Bollywood when she refused to sleep with him.
Not even on the last day of the out-door shooting near Andamans when
they were deserted by the crew and tied to poles by aboriginees
preparing them for the sacrifice. 

Well, a dream is not always a piece of fictional book, even if it is
the most controversial of our times. However, a dream is always not
real. That is, it is just a dream. Question: What is the
Indian-American dream?  Some answers:

* To wake up every morning from the right side of the water bed and
  then sit on the toilet seat thinking about the dreams
* To go home in the 10-acre ranch and make love to the little
  Americanized wify or  hubby 
* To turn the million dollars around into profitable rupees and buy
  anything in India
* To be able to go to India on a short notice on a private jet and
  party with the stars in the latest favorite video film release

I can think of some sleazy ones like contesting for parliament,
writing a regular column in Times of India or motivating a conservative
bum to reach for civilized heights in dating (although the last
one is not all that sleazy).

All these are dreams, rightly so, for they are whims in some one's
fancy. A real Freudian American Dream, whatever that means, is to see
Indian society become like American in all its wrong places: roads,
buildings, poverty, power, resources, food, transportation,
universities, sports, television, radio, computers, cars,
entertainment parts, fast food, kissing in public, pre-marital sex,
x-power-n-rated movies, etc. 

You will know the gap between dream and reality, as Gibreel would say,
when you wake up on an empty bed except for yourself and your
wetness. So the Indian-American dream is not hard to achieve if there
are two fundamental changes in the current Indian society:

* Let the politicians who use religion to get elected and elect
  religion to power die
* Let the socialists who make debt to service army and use GNP to
  service debt die

See, it is not all that difficult. We have to just let them die. That
is, including letting them die without followers. Do whatever 
works--neutering, nuking, aging by chemicals. Anything but
imprisoning them, 'cos it costs money to feed them.

Of course, there is this one ardent wish that has to be necessarily a
part of Indian-American dream: let there be no national language.
Americans don't have one. What they have is an official language and
what works for the goose...so we can do great with English. Next time
if you argue: ``How can the SC or ST or aboriginee or Brahmin Hillbilly
or rickshawallah or railway porter or bus conductor or farm worker
understand a government run by English speaking people?'' remember
in the land of immigrants no one cares for the government because
government doesn't talk to people. Government is there to protect
people whether national security or welfare net. And it doesn't
matter what language you speak when the marauding enemy pushes the
sharp and cold bayonet on the neck and sez: ``Comrade, *&%^$ fuck $@#
die *$#@ pig @#@&%( alien &^% gadha @#&%.'' Because you don't have
time to explain you are not a gadha.


Murthy