Here Comes The Sun...

"Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter

   Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here"

- The Beatles 

There has been no bigger truth spoken than the above lines to summarize what the country has been faced with in the past decade. An impotent government, a mute prime minister and a greedy family, the adjectives have kept coming. For a long time, now. 

Not many people really know that the Indian National Congress, or the Congress as they are known nowadays, were meant to be disbanded after India got it's Independence. Mahatma Gandhi, the man who always spoke the truth; so much that he named his autobiography "My Experiments with Truth", played the biggest con when he refused to disband the party, albeit all the lip service. The so called Father of Our Nation also had the audacity to go on and name his good friend, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of the country. This was inspite of wide support for a certain Lal Bahadur Shastri.If only normal voting protocols were observed. If only the interests of the people were heard. But no. Gandhi always did what Gandhi wanted. He gifted away the Prime Minister post like it was his property, and with it, the hopes and dreams of millions.

We all know what happened thereafter. Gandhi became the Nehru family name. No prizes for guessing why. The Nehru family would just have been another page in the books of Indian History, if not for Gandhi. After the Grand Old Man died, India went on to fight wars, suffer depressions, economic uncertainity, all thanks to the whims and fancies of one person.

It never seemed to end. 

Until the last one year. 

How ironic that the end of the road for one of the most infamous families in Indian History had to come in the hands of a chaiwala. A poor tea seller's son had risen rather spectacularly in Gujarat, through the RSS and the BJP, and had risen so well and so high that he started to dream. He dreamt of miracles. He dreamt of an India without the Gandhis. 

And India dreamt with him.

That is how the journey started. This was as good a David vs Goliath story as any other. 

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears. This man didn't fear, at all. He made his point to his party. He showed through his successes that he was the person they needed to help them tide over the upcoming elections. He showed them his baby. Gujarat. The party loved the baby, the country loved the baby.

And so the man travelled. The man spoke. And a million listened. And voted.

On the 16th of May, 2014, the Gandhi family stand overthrown. They don't even have enough votes to become the opposition. To the world, this is the end of the Gandhi period. 

From the 17th would start a new reign. A reign that would hopefully not disappoint. 

Mr. Narendra Modi should understand that the nation has pinned all it's hopes on him. Lest how could he have gotten the clear majority which has eluded parties for the last 30 years? 

This isn't the end of a journey, Modi. This is just the beginning. You, of all people, should know that if the country's most powerful family could be overthrown, you don't stand a chance. So do not disappoint the nation. 

For the nation never forgives.