Differently Abled

 My heart goes out to poor Pooja, imagine the plight of this girl who braved artificially created or invented disabilities, ranging from vision to locomotor to even mental ones and then she had to suffer the ignominy of being clubbed with the backwards even. After having undergone such trials and tribulations this poor princess is being subjected to all kinds of trolling, and as if this wasn't enough now she is even being reverted back to the Academy for some chastising. 

Let us deliberate on each of her alleged misdemeanours, the first one being for ‘lack of vision’, that anomaly afflicts almost all, most of our babus have displayed this quality  in the 75 odd years of independent governance, so she is no exception and she should be given the benefit of doubt. I am quite sure once she rises in the hierarchy she will display this trait in ample abundance which will leave nobody in any doubt whatsoever. Locomotor disability was probably misunderstood by Ms Pooja as motor disability, as when she applied for the examination, she did not probably own the Audi then, so merely possessing an SUV obviously was a huge disability that too without the blue or red light perched on top to signify her eminence. This disability she was trying to overcome hence the efforts for having this ultimate symbol of power affixed on her Audi. Let us examine the mental issues now, this is quite obvious as with her shenanigans she has amply displayed temporary insanity, which is a clause which she will rely on to prove her innocence. After all an insane person is expected to do things out of the ordinary, and mind you geniuses are also borderline insane, as the famous quote by Nobel laureate Albert Einstein himself,"Only difference between genius and insanity is that a genius has his limits!" We have yet to ascertain her limits, so you never know she might just be a genius.

I am sure you recall that statement about ‘poverty being a state of mind’ by another genius, similarly backwardness is also a ‘state of mind’; i.e. it has nothing to do with belonging to the oppressed classes. As we all are aware, we have plenty of examples where generations have enjoyed the fruits of reservation, despite that they continue to languish in the state of backwardness as they haven't decided to progress into being a forward. Let me explain, in Football a Full Back remains a Full back, does he become a forward just because he ventures ahead once in a while. He retains his position and does not get convinced into changing it with that of a forward. Similarly a backward like poor little Pooja will retain this backwardness of mind irrespective of the best efforts by the state to con her.

There is another flimsy allegation against her about resorting to changing her names a couple of times, now that is actually victimising the lass, after all didn't the Bard himself state, "What's in a name, that which we call a rose by any other name will still smell as sweet!" So Khedkar Pooja Deeliprao will remain equally reverential as Pooja Manorama Dileep Khedkar. If you haven't got the reverential bit, well it is the literal meaning of Pooja, 'to offer prayers'. In fact we all should actually draw inspiration from her at this noble act of women empowerment, as she has inserted her mother's name with her name, like another celebrity film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. 

 There are some other minor skeletons which have tumbled out like the divorce case of her parents being false. Once again instead of applauding this great couple at trying to salvage their marriage; despite having been divorced they are trying to put up a brave face and staying together for the sake of their precious pearl Pooja. Now who can possibly find fault with such genuine affection and no wonder they are seen together in election rallies too, even Dimple Khanna accompanied Rajesh Khanna when he canvassed for elections for New Delhi constituency in the nineties. Nobody pointed a finger at them. We can't be targeting these poor backward class parents. Her illustrious mother too was in the news for brandishing a gun; imagine she was only trying to protect her land, so just self defence and mind you she did not fire as she believed in just a show of force. 

So friends, tell me shouldn't we be honouring this girl rather performing her 'pooja' in place of harassing her. She is definitely differently abled, how differently is for you to figure out!