So i got arrested today...
And so did 3 of my friends who were with me,cringing under the hot noon (winter?) sun,beginning to enjoy an iced lolly. We did notice some heavy duty 'bandobast',and one of them was nice enough to ask us to stay inside the college campus,in rolled the senior officer's car and suddenly we found ourselves cramped in a pseudo cosy Bolero,quiet,and me still going at my lolly.Upon reaching the station,we were placed at the office and lined up, still not knowing just what on earth was going on,and i had just finished my lolly. They said we looked Tibetan,and the government wasnt too fond of them right now.The Alpha Chinky was in town,the chinese premier-Mr.(drop the utensil) wasn't all to impressed by the protests put up by the Tibetan population in Delhi,and wanted to make sure his view of the sea wasn't marred by masses of similar looking faces,pink out of anger and the sun.And all he did was just take away their country,bleed it dry,kill half their people,ruin their religion and turn them into refugees overnight, he obviously didn't think he deserved such a violent welcome.
So while we were sipping government funded tea at the cop station,we were told we would be kept in for a few hours,until Mr.(drop it again) had reached his air conditioned comfort. The television streamed repeated footages of peaceful slit eyed strangers getting thrashed left,right and center.One's pants caught fire(liar?liar?),so his peers were trying to douse it by slapping the flame with super inflammable Tibetan flags(Tibetans are by nature a bit...slow).They tore his pants off and dragged him away.I doubt if he got his acre of land in Lhasa.
So their efforts at questioning us brought froward strange results. One of us answered in chaste Marathi,why shuldn't she?She was born and brought up in Maharashtra...oops. The other answered in a marathi like garble-another maharashtrian...double oops. The third hails from Jammu & Kashmir...triple oops. I'm half Nepali,half Gujju,from Darjiling...hmm. So where did all them damn Tibetans go?!The cops swooped down on all creatures slit eyed(do i smell sheer ignorance?).To their joy they managed to catch hold of 3 true blue Tibetans,but i still cant figure out where the other 10 came in from-because they were Manipuris,Mizos and Nagas.Well they all look the same!
They did let us off after 2 hours, we weren't entartaining or tainted enough for them to keep us any longer. But I'm not too pleased with the way they picked up unsuspecting chinkies at random,just to satisfy the whim of Mr.(one more time) Everybody deserves a good old fashioned ultraviolent procession, because every significant leader has a lot of dirt under rug swept. They deserve a little spot of cowpat on their windshields every now and then. A few grenades here and there aren't all too bad,everybody needs a reality check.
We were lucky enough to have been treated nicely by the cops there.One of them asked me what Tibet was all about,I said it gets a tad bit nippy up there.
Well they gave us tea,I wonder why they didn't give us any food...
