You must have already read this bit of the news, right? Oh,yes, I am referring to the furore caused by Rishi Sunak's "error of judgement", namely; removing the seat belt while filming an Instagram reel.
In a way, it is exemplary how our erstwhile rulers rule by the rules. Even when currently they lag behind us financially/economically, we indeed need to follow them in rejecting the celebrity culture, and standing by both the spirit and the letter of the law!
In India, however, many politicians and their near and dear ones often blithely flout all sorts of stated and unstated rules and proprieties/conventions. Indeed it is unfortunate that fickle power, which seems to go to their head, makes them blind to realities and decorum. Either the Prime Minister has to rap them on the knuckles or there erupts a (social) media frenzy, often over an absolutely avoidable non-issue, when grave themes are staring us hard in the face.
Undoubtedly, laws, conventions, decorum are for the sustenance and betterment of the public sphere. These are made by human beings, and sure can be amended, corrected, rectified, and so on.
At the same time, all, the rulers and the ruled both, must instinctively and religiously follow the existent and definitely alterable, when irrelevant, legalities. Thus would we never need that famous quote, "pata hai mera baap kaun hai", that is, "don't you know who my father is?"😀😝😀
Pratima@"Dharma: rakshti rakshitara:"!
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