Lindsay Pereira: The edge of innocence

Vijay Mallya is innocent He is misunderstood the poor man and is now being reviled simply for doing what businessmen and big brands have always done try and con the world at large in order to make a profit by any means necessary Unfortunately for him this minor issue of not paying employees their salaries has cropped up If it werent for that he would still be on Page 3 or at the Rajya Sabha where people accused of far worse things still manage to get their lunch and dinner at massive taxpayersubsidised discounts People attacking him are simply jealous of his success and his many selfies with beautiful women at partiesA policeman feeds the horse injured when BJP legislator Ganesh Joshi attacked it PicPTISri Sri Ravi Shankar is innocent He is misunderstood too the poor godman and is now being attacked simply for doing what socalled spiritual leaders have always done attract a lot of attention for events that mean nothing by any means necessary Yes there may be damage to the Yamuna floodplains but what do environmentalists know about the healing power of prayer Its their fault for doubting his pure motives Prayer and medication alone can heal the environment After all if it werent for the Art of Living the Yamuna would have vanished by now People attacking him are simply jealous of his success as a guru and his ability to travel the world without seeming to do anything of importanceRaj Thackeray is innocent He is misunderstood by everyone except the six loyal followers he presumably has left simply for doing what politicians have always done try and rake up nonexistent issues just before an election in order to divide people by any means necessary It does seem weird that he assumes all Marathi people want is to drive rickshaws but he probably knows something the rest of us dont People attacking him are simply jealous of the fact that he has managed to become a successful real estate developer out of nowhereChhagan Bhujbal is innocent He is misunderstood by the media and the courts and is being accused of corruption simply for doing what people in positions of power in any state government have always done take advantage of the system knowing that it protects the powerful and rarely makes them pay for any misdeeds The money he has amassed over the years has obviously come from his official salary and decades of saving every paisa The crores he has been accused of receiving as kickbacks are a figment of someones imagination Politicians in India never receive kickbacks They are here only to serve the people not for monetary gain Anyone who doesnt believe this is obviously an antinational People attacking Bhujbal are only jealous of the fact that he managed to save more money than they didBJP legislator Ganesh Joshi is misunderstood Video footage of him attacking a police horse with a lathi leaving the animal with a broken leg is obviously doctored There was no horse obviously and no legislator at the scene either This is just a fabricated video created by someone with an enormous amount of time on his or her hands to make us think that BJP legislators are cruel heartless people Everyone knows the BJP loves animals or at least bovine animals In fact many of us know that the BJP has more respect for bovine animals than it does for some human beings People attacking Ganesh Joshi are just jealous of the smooth way he wields a lathiEveryone in our country is being misunderstood these days but some of us are just more misunderstood than others As for the rest of us we are just unlucky If we default on our EMIs the banks will eventually take our homes If we cut down a tree in our building compounds we will be arrested under something called the Environment Protection Act which supposedly exists despite the rampant destruction of mangroves in our city If we ask our friends and neighbours to burn a bus or rickshaw we will be arrested for threatening the peace If we ask for a bribe our offices may sack us instantly And if we assault a poor defenceless animal we will be jailed because that is the right thing to do to people who do such heinous thingsUnfortunately we the common lawabiding people are never misunderstood it is only our rich and powerful countrymen who always are And this is something a lot of us now understand only too wellWhen he isnrsquot ranting about all things Mumbai Lindsay Pereira can be almost sweet He tweets lindsaypereira Send your feedback to mailbagmiddaycom