The Bull and the Bill

An Ongole Bull kicked the Andhra Pradesh Speaker with its hind legs.

There is a lesson somewhere tucked away in this. Not the well enough known Aa baile mujhe maar one. In a fortnight’s time Sri Nadendla Manohar may well recall such a muhaavara , if Telangana based legislators, regardless of Party affiliations, do indeed submit valid resignations in pursuit of a separate State.But let us, for a moment, look at national, not local significance of the Bull’s Feat.

It is common wisdom that Bull’s tend to use their head to butt and horns to gore when frontally confronted. And that donkeys pack a powerful hind- kick. Are bulls behaving in unpredictable ways in response to the rapidly evolving societal changes?

It is an interesting riddle.

One basic inference may be that no one wants to take the bull by the horns. Even the best matadors will tell you this is potentially dangerous to life.Our own Jallikattu testifies to this, every year. Generally all this happens in the sport of men.

But an English bard pointed out once that we are like flies to wanton boys....they [Gods] kill them for their sport.

English educated legal minds that Chidambaram and Sibal are therefore wary of sport, especially the bull-by-the-horn variety.So they agree on a new strategy, attack the bullish from behind.

At the national political level, this is certainly gaining popularity across party lines.Only simple-minded Mamata will stick with the age-old strategy. Shrewd Sibal and Clever Chidambaram will use dumb Digvijay and macho ( no,don’t confuse with MC, BC swear-words) Manish to make moves up-front, while they themselves can manage the hind quarters.

That is how they tried to deal with Anna bhai.

The old man believes in the dictum: to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Bullish. The old bull and the old bill is the sport-line. Will the Bill be drafted and will Team Anna stop its ‘uncivil’, bullish attempt to run of a parallel government?

This is where the AP Speaker and the Ongole Bull enter the picture.

Sibal and his team will find that this sport is Aa Bhai, mujhe maar!

No matter how you approach a bull, it will devise its mode of attack. If it is not a bull’s way, it will be a donkey’s... depending on what you deserve.

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