Harry Potter and the Silly-Con capital of India

About 60 years ago, the great freedom fighters of India had fought a ferocious battle to the extent of sacrificing their lives to free India from the British rule. When Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his speech on the Red Fort at the stroke of midnight on 15th August, 1947 he along with others had dreamt of building a country that would see its citizens independent and educated.

Today if Jawaharlal Nehru would be giving the same speech, he would be saying that he would dream of seeing Indian politicians educated. As today, our politicians are still propagating age old practices and blind beliefs. The recent incidents in Bangalore narrate a story of ignorance and blind faith among men in power who are misleading the state into a doom.

These incidents not only paint a wrong picture of Bangalore but put the developing country of India to shame. These obnoxious incidents are holding back Bangalore’s development and converting it from Silicon capital to Silly-con capital of India (name given by Indian express following this incident).

Incidents mentioned below are not scenes from a Masala Telugu Movie but real life incidents at the power house of Karnataka, the Vidhana Soudha.

We are in Vidhana Soudha now

Strewn on the lawns of Vidhana soudha were some bangles, a handful of vermilion and turmeric, a lemon pierced with four nails, an egg, a copper bowl, a so-called mantra-energized Yantra inscribed on a silver plaque, the head of a sacrificed poultry bird and a doll made of dough. A passerby spotted the black magic paraphernalia and raised an alarm. Clearly not the kind of drama he expected to see. Soon, a crowd gathered at the spot and started getting clicking pictures with their mobile phone. I guess many face book profiles would have a picture mentioning, “Me at the black magic spot at Vidhana soudha”. This news moved faster than light and spread in the City like a wildfire.

"It's a high security place… how could anyone do this when the police are there and that too without the knowledge of the government," said JD(S) leader M C Nanaiah.

As always, we are blind to the happenings

Policemen guarding Vidhana Soudha apparently were clueless on how the materials turned up in the high security zone. They cannot be blamed as somebody may have hoodwinked them into a temporary coma while performing their ritual. The DCP in charge of the area, Kumaraswamy, rushed to the spot and managed the situation by announcing that an inquiry had been ordered into the incident. That’s the end of the story as far as the police action goes on this.

None of the 74 high resolution CCTV cameras managed to capture this. Whoever did this must have done black magic on the cameras and rendered them with temporary blindness. Or they could have used the Harry Potter invisible cloak for this whole exercise. 

I am the best thing to happen to you

BJP leader Dhananjay Kumar blamed the opposition for this, "Power mongers have stooped to such a low that they are indulged in Vamachara (witchcraft) with the sole objective of grabbing power. This is shameful," he quivered in righteous anger.

He declared that his party had no belief in black magic and believed only in “the almighty”. This was well demonstrated by Yeddy, who is busy temple-hopping trying to ward off the evil spirits plaguing his government. An attempt was made to pin the blame on opposition parties. I am not sure how he and the BJP Government would explain the next set of actions ordered by them. Superstition played a major role in creating chaos in the state assembly on the day when Yeddy sought a trust vote.

Staff at the Vidhana Soudha believed that the so-called sorcery performed inside of Vidhana Soudha. They seemed to be surprised at the ignorance level of the leader of the state and the level anyone can stoop to hold on the CHAIR.

Close the Northern door and let Opposition come
through Eastern door. I will cast a losing spell on them.  

There was strict instruction that nobody should be allowed through the northern door of the assembly, as it was considered bad for the government. The unprecedented security at the northern door was a pointer to this. This is the door where traditionally opposition and other members enter. This is a very clear Harry Potter influence. Imagine the ruckus, few more books of Harry Potter would have created. UPA Government should consider banning HP books in India.


City Police Commissioner was personally manning this door when normally there is no security during previous sessions. If this is a part of his duty roaster, the increasing crime rates and bombs going off are not a surprise.


The sorcerer apparently had performed black magic at the eastern door to defeat the opposition and the ruling party wanted opposition members to enter the assembly through this door. They avoided entering the hall through this door and forced their way in through the blocked door. Commissioner who was at this gate tried stopping then and this led to a physical embroil between him and opposition leader Siddharamaiah. All this drama was on live TV. 

I am the most pious man in Karnataka today

When cornered by the media on this, City police commissioner Shankar M Bidari clarified that his men prevented entry through the northern door, as ordered by the speaker, KG Bopaiah. “When I found the opposition MLAs attempting to break open the door, I tried to dissuade them. The north door was opened only after the speaker’s permission to do. The allegations that I prevented MLAs’ entry through this door are false and baseless,” the commissioner had said. Commissioner seems to be depending on short term memory of the public, hoping that they have forgotten what they saw on live TV.
All said and done, Yeddy tided over the storm. My personal belief is Shobha Karandlaje’s fast to appease Goddess Chamundeshwari helped him more than the above set of activities.


But all these activities have tarnished the name of Karnataka and is set to stay like this for a long long time to come. National media laughed at this and so did the people from all over India.