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"What do you want? Democracy or dictatorship?"
"Define democracy?"
"Reposing confidence in the Prime Minister and the President."
"Oh, I see. Can I suggest that the President change the Prime Minister?"
"That is not... that is not... I don't understand."
"See, if the President sacks the Prime Minister and let's be honest, he can do it in as long as it takes him to articulate the thought our lemur is out. And the President remains in power, the party remains in power..."
"Lemur?"
"Our Prime Minister reminds me of a lemur...a lemur if you recall is named after the lemures (ghosts or spirits) of Roman mythology due to the ghostly vocalisations, reflective eyes."
"I would agree with the eyes specially when he is tackling a subject that he doesn't like - the eyes kinda get reflectively uncomfortable, don't think he is used to too much reflection, and the moustache kinda droops..."
"Don't be facetious...learn to respect your Prime Minister."
"Why?"
"Just because..."
"Respect is earned and sorry but I am increasingly finding it difficult to make ends meet with an eroding rupee courtesy the government's flawed economic policies."
"Did you know lemurs arrived on Madagascar around 2,000 years ago, and at one time lemurs were as large as male gorillas."
"Well a gorilla is to lemur what Prime Minister's family was to politics: didn't you hear him say that his family has been in politics since Mughal times?"
"Even before elections were held?"
"That's the commitment of the Gilanis to democracy...they were in politics even before politics was about elections."
"Don't be facetious. But any way, perhaps during Mughal times they were party leaders. Right now they are simply followers."
"Ah yes, unlike the Bhuttos and the Zardaris.'

Copyright Business Recorder, 2012

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