To the People by Anil

Anil's hypothetical speech to the people after the MTN deal was called off...

[bellowing] Mukesh has meddled with the primal forces of nature, and I won't have it! He thinks he has merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! He has taken billions of dollars out of this enterprise, and now he must put it back - its payback time! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! He is a man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Africans. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, roubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And HE has meddled with the primal forces of nature, and People, HE... WILL... ATONE and SO WILL YOU! After all, I am not friends with Amar for nothing. To hell with the greater good. "The only good, is your own good", is what the allegiance with Samajwadi Party has imbibed in me.

[calmly] Am I getting through to you, People? You get up in front of your tiny TV screens and howl about India and democracy. There is no India. There is no democracy. There is only ADAG, and Reliance, and Infosys, and Wipro, Tata, Bajaj, and Airtel. These *are* the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, People. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, People. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, to see that . . . perfect world . . . in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality in theory. IT'LL BE REALITY! Let the Humanoids take over from Humanity. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. Whoever thought about implementing and enforcing Competition Laws in this country. And I have chosen Mr. Jethmalani to preach this evangel. Why him? Because he's the best, you dummies. A Billion people can't fight against him.