Tune in to the radio and instead of soothing voices in your ear, you’ll hear domesticated parrots talking to themselves in a language of their own or impecunious callers wasting away their money, praising their gab. Or you may hear two of these parrots co-hosting a program and going gaga over each other. And if you return home dead beat and flick through the many television channels, you’ll find nothing but utter disarray and screaming or one person pulling another’s leg. What you may find is sheer despondency, and the realisation that only God can save this country.

Once you get past these politicians and self-made journalists, you will come across the religious scholars who are not only all set to revive your faith through their lengthy dialogues, but also are employed to sing songs with great gusto (which, although are unlawful for others to sing, but permissible for them) for your entertainment, hosting cooking shows on which type of meat to cook to seek admission into heaven, how much spice and turmeric to use or how important it really is to garnish or how much oil to add to secure a place in your ‘corporeal God’s’ heart through his stomach.

Similarly our judges, whose sole responsibility was to listen to people and afterwards reach a verdict, have now taken a fancy to talking instead. They consider their lives unproductive unless their words reverberate in daily newspaper headlines. Now, they are the ones who talk and the addressees listen in silence, lest they be held responsible for contempt of court.

I sometimes feel that with all these people talking to each other and their voices being relayed to us through satellite, ought to be making a huge amount of commotion in space. So many voices must be circling around the Earth, and these invisible sounds must have made life for the angels and super natural beings a living hell.

At least we on ground may get some solace in finding a silent corner to get away from all this commotion but what must the ethereal beings do to escape this whirlwind of clamor?