I am empty

I am empty.

Mechanically I am eating and sleeping. I was flying hard and was disturbing; so I was squashed and flattened as a fly.

I have returned from my maiden visit after 15 plus years.

The place had changed beyond belief and I did not recognize anything.

Hot and humid, the temperature was too high and not a drop of rain. With all that concrete and traffic, rain clouds disappeared and left the place alone. It could rain only in late night even in the monsoon!

Noticeable were some characteristics.

Shops do not open before afternoon and often after 2 PM. Sunday shops are usually closed. Office going crowd do not wake up before 10 AM. They hit the road only past 11 AM. When they reach office, I do not know, since I always came out before the crowd came out.

My acquaintances are prosperous now. They own multiple homes and their buying have not stopped.

Where from all these money is really coming?

Long ago I predicted the economy is in the ruins under the helm of economist prime minister who was hailed as the person who brought about economic turnaround. He adopted the western economic dogma of cure all disease by printing money endlessly and distribute the same to preferred few.

Things are simply not working. Currency has reached the exchange value 60 to a US$, inflation is at 12%, soon all these cars shall be motionless without fuel, all these concrete jungle would make the nation wealth kaput, with agriculture suffering and quality hard work missing, with no buyers to take their goods while ageless religious PM shall be reeling out figures of Growth rate and equally religious potato merchant chairing the Planning Commission will be lowering the poverty line to extricate poor below the line. If you have cash US$ 100 currency note any money exchanger would come in person to your house and take the same paying you more whatever the than official rate. I am told they go to Bangkok straight and not reserve bank.

The modern citizen is no longer God fearing but believer in miracles and ghosts. It is contagious.

I have become one too – I believe my mother land, somewhere is surviving its demise, and not entirely lost. I was told during my stay that ghost too has future!