THE GODS ARE ANGRY

THE GODS ARE ANGRY

Brahma trooped in hurriedly, huffing and puffing. He was late, held up. He had to get the approval of a million sub gods to nominate him for this meeting and that took time. He walked over to his seat on the round table and acknowledged everyone with a radiating smile and a nod. Others waved him to his seat.

The room was moderate in its decor, minimalist. The walls were painted white. On a table across and on the far side were the books. The bible and Gita with immense wear and tear was followed by the Koran and Granth sahib, etc. Above on the wall were posters, vividly depicting the occasions each faith fought the other, vanquished or lost. The dates and events were described below. Humans like a guy called Picasso, Ravi Verma etc were commissioned to do these. The wall was still half empty. The rest of the room was wide and empty but for the centre table. A large, 50 plus seater, round table made of teak with ornate work and cloth upholstered chairs, was the only indulgence seen there.

This was an urgently called high level meeting of the Gods. To tackle an unprecedented emergency.

You could notice that all of them were upset and tense. They had gone through a nightmare, the last few days. Reason: the humans had started behaving strangely with a potential far more devastating for the gods. All of these creations of the gods had stopped visiting the temples, churches, mosques, pagodas etc. No more were they singing praises in these places of worship. Some stupid process called lockdown! They looked forlorn and deserted. The representatives too were missing. This introduced panic depression among the gods and goddesses. By the way, the Hindus men gods had to tackle the wrath of the goddesses and that was never a task they could manage. So they were the ones who initiated this meeting.

The objective was to get these idiotic subjects back into the places of worship before they loose the habit.

Allah who has a sizeable following and whose followers were in perpetual battle with those of Jesus, started the discussions. He was a close friend of Jesus. Sitting beside him and glancing at him, Allah opined that this corona thing was the root cause. Jesus nodded in agreement. Brahma, who knew a thing or two about engineering, enquired as to why the designers made this fatal error and had not simulated what will happen? Zoraster who was the supervisor of the design shop shrugged.

Mahaveer of the Jains was eager to point out that what he has been propagating all along was now adopted by all faiths. Of wearing masks. He found that as a positive fallout. All nodded in agreement. Jesus pointed out that his followers sprinkled holy water on his disciples, their hand and body. It was to clean them off infections. Now the stupid humans are calling that as sanitizers. Brahma growled in agreement and mentioned theerth water in his case and the namaste greetings too. The fools needed corona to follow what we all had mandated!!

Buddha the quite type, still unable to fully come off a meditating mode and frequent hallucination of a banyan tree , asked for focusing on the issue and went back to meditating.

The debate went on for an hour with no solutions in sight. Several suggestions were made but after due evaluations, rejected. Use of wine with powers, nectar, shivamboo, water of magical Nile etc were suggested as vaccine but not acceptable to all. Frustration was sown on their faces.

It was then when one of them (name held confidential during the media briefing later) suggested that there is only way out. He outlined his strategy in detail. With the trigger, escalation, misinformation, use of social media, weapons etc. Time lines to get back humans to the places of worship. The plan, in a nutshell, was to initiate an interfaith war!! Brilliant one at that, time tested and most potent. Trigger the war by installing a seed of suspicion that Corona was a conspiracy by one faith or the other to annihilate the others. Spread it through WA university. There will be killings.

Someone suggested that they take the devils approval. Brahama said that’s not needed as he will approve this as either way humans will die -through corona , due to lock-down or this conflict and the Devil will benefit.

Someone asked why he was not called for the meeting. Brahama said he was on a earth visit advising the head of a country on statecraft and had expressed his inability to come.

So the decision was made. The estimated time line, about a month. Start date by end of March.

As expected, Allah was the chairman with executive directors as Jesus and Brahama. They will send a daily report to all. A review meeting will be held around 1st week of April. Meanwhile, Mahavira and Zoraster were to negotiate with the Devil to rein in Corona temporarily.

The Gods felt relieved. They then settled down to a frugal lunch of meat soup, pita, pulao and fruits. So back to what you do best, Humans!! Keep at it!! 

All’s well for the gods.

Name : K A S Menon

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