Height of Shamelessness

Barbad-e-gulistaan karne ko bas ek hi ullu kafi hai,
Har shaakh pe ullu baitha hai anjaam-e-gulistaan kya hoga….

I remembered these two lines of a sher, which I heard long back from a school friend, when I saw a huge poster near Andheri station. The poster had a big picture, in background, of a flooded mumbai road with junta walking in west-deep water. In the foreground there were madam Sonia, Vilasrao Deshmukh (CM, Maharashtra) and some local congress MP or some other leader. The most important thing of the poster was its message. It said “We salute you all brave Mumbaikars, who put a brave face during natural disaster and helped each other” (this is a rough translation of the original Marathi message). It could have been justified to put such kind of poster by opposition party, although all politicians deserve blame for what happened in mumbai. I couldn’t stop laughing on the mentality of our leaders. But then I remember, “We get the government we deserve”.