From ‘Desi Katta’ to ‘Dragunov’

With the passage of time, we the people kept on getting so result oriented, that our own dear ‘Desi-Katta’ has been replaced almost entirely by ‘Dragunov’. Now few might debate, why not Dragunov when it’s unanimously better? And that very question is the origin of this write-up.

All I can do but update a, ‘I am missing facebook’, status on facebook. I had never thought that this simple ‘I am missing facebook’ is such a catchy line but yes, if you’ll examine me using even a flawless lie-detector, I’ll clear it with my ‘I am missing facebook’ feeling. It was a tremendous, if not less, source of topics to ponder upon. And yes I was extremely careful while adding the adjective ‘worthy’ with the word ‘topics’. What? You couldn’t find? Never mind! In the real world, where God is not Zuckerberg, people are less philosophical, even less talkative and less social. Amidst this excess of ‘less’, it was this night, a few days back, where I luckily found something.

At a small get together of friends with a pair of ‘more than friends’, enjoying at the intelligently designed terrace of some intelligent house owner, the pair of ‘more than friends’, begun rising to the higher degree of ‘dear’, with every sip of the Royal Challenge. They went past ‘dearest’ in a peg. When the driver, Royal Challenge in this case, got strict, soon the adjectives turned to verbs of kisses and hugs. Have I already made you familiar with the phrase ‘more than friends’? Yes, it’s the social and diplomatic synonym of earlier used phrases like ‘no strings attached’, ‘friends with benefits’, etc. To define it even further, the relation defined under this phrase, is often characterized as having two people at different level of intensity. One of them, the poorer one, is always committed. Now coming back to the same point where the story went off course, it was this guy who snobbishly, somewhat subconsciously, entitled them with another phrase of ‘Desi Katta’, with great care of the decibels. It wasn’t meant for anybody else to listen but I suppose, the care wasn’t that great.

Now just for a while, let’s talk about this less careful guy, and since we can presume that this guy hates ‘Desi Katta’, let’s for the time being, call him ‘Mr. Dragunov’. If I am not wrong in inferring the meaning of this trendy phrase, it could probably mean someone with a limited range of, may be, thoughts, who can not act like a ‘Dragunov’, who is sluggish at adapting the western civilization or precisely, who is slow in broadening his/her mind. Mr. Dragunov also uses some synonyms of that phrase, among which the most popular and trendy one is ‘Jamna-paar’. Applying a bit of logical reasoning, even any Ordinary Joe can tell that what he means is every individual living across the other side of the river Yamuna, is a ‘Desi Katta’. But what he always fails to interpret is the actual data of that ‘Desi Katta’s who with every passing year are widening their range and crossing the Yamuna in enormous numbers. And also he is unaware of the disguised ‘Desi-Katta’-ism he is practicing. Surprisingly, he himself has never been to the other side of the Yamuna! How limited is the range of Mr. Dragunov!

A few days back, while I still had an access to the ‘worthy’ topics to ponder upon, I saw a video on facebook, where the intelligence, to be precise, memory, of a young, hardly a bottle-ridden girl, was on expo by her presumed Dragunov-mom, who was the camerawoman. Examine me again under the same lie-detector and again I’ll do well with ‘The girl had a real fine memory’. She had learned and retained so many stuffs at that budding age of three, that she almost had acquired a habit of learning things. Believe me, the girl was trying real hard to look cute, but all she showed comprised few retained stuffs of our constitution and few unnatural looking retained acts of cuteness.

And since now I am myself weary of recollecting and sewing stuffs together and also I am tired of this write-up, let me come to the prior question.

A ‘Desi Katta’ has all the emotions twined up in it. It is based on the principle that animosity is never heavier than a life. It has the property to satisfy both the sides. You can shoot a person and spill all your anger but at the same time you are also giving him an option to survive. And even if it kills the other guy, unlike Dragunov, you’ll never get rid of the emotions and expressions of that dying person. At least you’ll give him time to die. Time to speak something he always wanted to. Imagine, ‘Hey Ram’ would never have got so famous, if Godse would have used Dragunov!

Now how about reconsidering the goodness of ‘Desi Katta’?

The article is really turning out to be a pain for me, so please take some pain on your side to watch Equilibrium, if you want to attain an idea of emotion less future.

P.S. Christian Bale has an amazing skill of expressing emotions!