Mr. Gyanesh Kumar is being absolutely fair and rational in refusing to resign. One only hopes he doesn’t suddenly look into the mirror, develop pangs of conscience, wake up to morality or Constitutional propriety, and—God forbid—succumb to the mounting pressure.
The Neha Boras, Anjali Bhardwajs, Yogendra Yadavs and Prashant Bhushans of the world are being extremely insensitive to his character, tendencies and proclivities. How cruel of them to accuse him of possessing values, principles and self-respect!
Mr. G. Kumar must stick to his chair, come what may. After all, promoting and protecting the interests of his clan—daughters, sons-in-law, et al.—has to be his primary duty. How bad these times are for the clan: court cases, convictions, media pressure and public hostility! It is his fatherly, Commissionerly duty to use his position and influence to ensure that no harm comes their way.
Besides, imagine the consequences of someone without a spine resigning from the job at hand and having to look for a new one. Jobs are so difficult to come by, whatever Nirmala Tai or the vaunted 7.8% GDP growth might say. In any case, the Modi-Sitharaman cabal has apparently scrapped NREGA.
And he is well aware that PhDs are doing menial jobs while engineers are delivering pizzas, driving Ola and Uber, and riding Rapidos. So what if they at least have a clear conscience and their self-respect intact? What’s the big deal about making an honest living? These people have such strange priorities.
The only mitigating assurance for him would perhaps be the five kilograms of foodgrain that he, along with 80 crore Indians, is assured of.
Sticking to one’s job is also so natural in these times of use-and-throw dispensations. Ask Smriti Irani! Ask Amit Malviya! But our man need not suffer from such low self-esteem. He could be quite useful to that North Korean gentleman, Kim Jong Un. He could even make himself useful to someone like Netanyahu in Gaza.
The danger with joining Putin, of course, is that he might deploy Gyanes in Ukraine like those hapless unemployed Indians who were shown rosy pictures of employment in Russia and subsequently found themselves on the Ukrainian battlefront.
He could also explore the possibility of joining the troll army. They were reportedly paying ₹2 per tweet the last time we heard. There need not have been any change even after the IT Cell was “overhauled.”
The bottom line, Mr. Kumar, is this: it is wise to stay exactly where you are. Any other job, anywhere else in the world, would require inconvenient things like spine, self-respect and the application of one’s own mind.
Yes, and one more thing: perform a yajna. Pray hard that the Opposition does not come to power any time soon. Otherwise, you never know—the skeletons might come tumbling out of the cupboard.
Neha Bora, Anjali Bhardwaj, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav—please understand and have some sympathy!
Best of luck to you, Mr. Kumar!
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*Civil rights leader
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