BEEFING UP THE RAJ

Heard of the MCD?  Well, I am certainly not alluding to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, but the “Mad Cow’s Disease” that once took the entire Europe, leave aside, Brtiain, by storm.  As the British government beefed itself up for the “major crisis”, one is forced to acknowledge the fact that the big wheel has indeed come a full circle.

In the old colonial days, India was said to reflect the developments taking place in London, Manchester, or Northamptonshire.  From Warren Hastings to Lord Mountbatten, hordes of Englishmen strove to “civilise” this cradle of civilisation and “share the white man’s burden.”

However, the British now finally seem to have taken a cue from the developments taking place on the Indian political ramp.  The animal husbandry scam in Bihar (gai wala scam) appears to have found its anglicised ramifications in the “Raj” even as the beef panic spread far and wide.  As an aftermath, the European Union slapped a ban on British beef.

The poor bovines!!  They must not be having even the slightest inkling that they can be an indirect cause of the breakdown of the European Union.

Of course, our very own Laloo Prasad Yadav ji has never been the one to be laid low by any situation or person.  Grapevine has it that he and the then Prime Minister of UK - John Major had even devised a counter-strategy to break the respective impasse – namely, the animal husbandry and the beef crisis.  Given the historical proximity between the two countries, a novel idea also being then mooted around was an exchange of their respective positions – Laloo Prasad Yadav becoming the Prime Minister of England and their Prime Minister taking over as the CM of Bihar.  Needless to say then, London would be transformed into Patna, though I have my doubts whether the British PM would have been able to transform Patna into London.   In fact, the British PM might have gone back to England quipping– “arre budhbak, hum hoon England ka Prime Minister-wa!!!”

 However, jokes apart, Britain seems to be really in the severe grip of the ire of animals.  A few years ago, it was a veritable danger which had manifested itself in the form of a pork scandal.  And now the MCD – “Mad Cow’s Disease,” has the British Raj scurrying for cover and beefing up the already mauled image of an empire on which the “sun never set.”

Finally, some riddles to beef up your knowledge – “which is the next scam brewing in Britain?” ……Well, first it was pork, then beef………so logically it is not meant for the chicken-hearted people – yeah you got it right – eggs!!  And what do you call people who eat the beef of cows suffering from “Mad Cow’s Disease?”  Simple……..”Mad Guys.”

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