News in Limericks 3

There was this team from India,
That lost badly to Britannia,
Not once but again,
and again and again,
Par apne gali main goro ko dikha diya!

There was this domino in Tunisia,
That fell and rocked Arabia,
The dominoes did fall and fall,
And fall and fall and fall,
Till they reached Wall Street in America!

There was this thing called Corruption,
Which was attacked by this thing called anshan,
The government did shake,
And managed the fast to break,
But now Team Anshan’s mired in dissent and corruption!

There was this exotic “Indo-Pak talk”,
That was opposed by many a hawk,
The moment it raised its head,
A blast would turn everything red,
And peace would be forced to take a walk.

These versions by Sunil Rajguru

Decoding the Wall Street protests…

Styles of government…

∙ First there was Monarchial Dictatorship….

People revolted and that became a minority.

∙ Then there was Religious Dictatorship….

People shook that off too and its impact has lessened.

∙ Then came Ideological Dictatorships like Communism….

The sham was exposed and they’re on their way out too.

∙ Also on the decline are things like Military and Aristocratic Dictatorships…

∙ While a majority of countries in the world have democracy today (the Economist Democracy Index lists only about one-third of the countries of the world as authoritarian regimes)…

…there’s still Economic Dictatorship (another name for the way Capitalism is practiced today)…

The people have finally risen against that and best of luck to them!

© Sunil Rajguru