Democracy in a hurry

Last year, the Football world cup matches were in Brazil. During that period, almost everywhere people where watching football matches. It was in television; it was in Internet; it was everywhere. People used to watch those matches at home; or at work; or on-the-go.

In that period, there was a commercial in television. This guy avoids watching the match in the computer; avoids all his co-workers; avoids seeing the television screen in roadside shops; avoids his neighbors; finally enters into his house to watch the football match, right from the beginning. He wants to enjoy the match in total. There his little daughter runs towards him and says; we won.

Once you know the result, you cannot enjoy the match.

Likewise, movies.  That is the beauty of going to the first show on the first day. You could watch the movie with freshness. When you read the review; when you hear the story from your friends; all the freshness is lost.

Once, people didn't have in-depth knowledge about sex; but they did enjoy so much in life. Now, everybody knows too much; but mostly living as a single.

Knowledge is burden; people needs freedom from knowledge.

Long time ago, in India, our ancestors used to cast their vote in paper ballot. Now, we have electronic voting machine. That is good.

Long time ago, our ancestors didn't have photo id cards; so there were chances, others might case vote in their name. Now we have photo id cards.

A few decades ago, counting of vote used to take long time; because it was manual. Now, we just need to press the button. That is good.

Earlier nobody could predict the outcome. Now, there are too many tools and advanced technologies are available to predict the outcome; with minimal error. In few decades the error will be zero.

So, by next decade, the election and the result - the entire process would lose its beauty. It would be a mechanical process.

Just imagine.

People voted on 7 February 2015.

No exit poll; no predictions are available.

Everybody would eagerly wait for the results  on 10 February 2015.

It would be like, last ball; needs to score 3 runs to win. The match would resume after a short break.

That 7th, 8th, 9th there would have been a lot of emotions; debate; discussion; and so much lively things would take place.

On 10th February 2015, with hope and with total freshness, people would have listen to each and every bit of news; and comments.

It would have been like watching your favorite sports.

Whether it is food; or wine; or sex; little by little; slow; just like that Pankaj Udhas ghazals.

When the outcome is not known; the election would have brought total and complete joy to the winner; and total and whole sorrow for the loser.

It would have been like that cricket match between India and Pakistan. India had full joy; Pakistan had full sorrow. That is life.

Now, with the current life style, people don't get an opportunity to enjoy anything in whole; and also they don't get an opportunity to feel the sorrow in whole.

People have lost all those emotions. Now, people do have only two states of mind.

Excited. Depressed.

Known is burden. Human beings need freedom from the known.

All these exit polls and analysis - destroy the beauty of the democracy.

This is what happened for the Delhi election.

People did cast their votes on  7 February 2015.
Exit polls results were out by 7 February 2015, evening.

Arvind Kejriwal and his friends were excited.
Amit Shah and his friends were depressed.

By 10 February 2015 morning, all activities came to an end.
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This kind of hurry is not only in democracy, but also in every activity of human life.

They are in a hurry to do the yoga. They are in a hurry to do meditation.

Even food, they just have fast food; or cereal.

So, don't try to ban exit polls. You don't need to take any corrective action in hurry.

Just observe your life; your daily activities.

A decade ago, Prannoy Roy used to occupy the television for entire day, during election results. Now, Prannoy Roy couldn't entertain the viewers even for an hour.

Is this what they call, "the development"

Could we?

As, we, the people of India, could we?

Could we have the election without any exit or opinion poll?

Could we have an election without those charts; percentages; data; and analysis.

As an experiment, could we just have a simple election?

Let us enjoy the democracy; let us enjoy the fruit of democracy.

Let us not make democracy as just another fast-food.