So why did Rahul Mahajan did what he finally did? Simple. This is the real life they actually live. They abuse the system, which throws them up as people who are powerful and rich, and then they go ahead and do exactly what they feel like. No different from what the Manu Sharmas and the D P Yadavs are doing. No different from what the Pappu Yadavs and the Sadhu Yadavs have done. Or for that matter no different from what Fardeen Khan did. They have all broken the law only to see the law (rather then they themselves) amend itself. Which points to yet another thing. In typical King Lear speak. Pray do not mock me but I am an old and foolish law.

But the moot question is where does this buck stop if at all? Who is finally responsible for the Rahuls and the Manus of this world? To be honest, each one of us. For making them into the demons they finally become and what’s more, for tolerating them and blaming their faults on child-like innocence, which must be pardoned. In the process, the needle of impotence and inadequacy points firmly towards us. We have allowed these people to make a mockery of everything we believed in. And some of us still do. The fashion designer still has gala shows and no one has made him into a pariah. The Manu Sharmas of this world still open their bars and restaurants to an unfazed clientele and life just carries on. This is where the real tragedy rests. Life in India has the knack to go on as if nothing ever happened. Rahul Mahajan will be a footnote in India’s political history and the history of drugs in India. Just as Manu Sharma is for murder. This is how the play will end. Morality will be given the short shrift and life will just carry on.

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