Indian Spring to Red Summer.

JNU , the liberated zone in the heart of the capital city, was to be the spark for an "Indian Spring".

Faultlines were brushed up and put to low simmer. Christians under attack, Muslims being lynched over lunch, Dalits being forced to suicides, agrarian distress, workers exploitation, forcible land acquisition, and even violent caste-based demands for backwardness among the most powerful sections across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana.

Everything was set. Media was setting it up perfectly for opposition to deliver a crushing Blow to Modi. Unfortunately for them, their bets were on tired middle-aged options : a rent-a-cause activist or drama-a-day anarchist. The two between themselves can smash the China to pieces. I meam the dishes, not the People's Republic (may peace be upon the Chairman Mao)!  And so the plan failed. And how!

The revolutionaries are in a spin. Their revolution has led them running round in revolutionary circles. Many have accepted government hospitality (with some Bassi encouragement) and started squeaking and singing melodiously. Others have bravely hibernated. The entire edifice is under attack. Instinctively, the comrades are all trying to hold against the mighty push, against this demolishing cascade of popualar public opinion, which they have so carefully insulated against in their cultivated make believe world.

The pressure is too much. Magically, Things have started falling in place on their own.  The street thug admitted to gaddari. Bad-NAAM,  NAMAK-harami and NISHAN-E-PAKISTAN, the values a news channel lived upto, blackened themselves. The last time they lit a candle in their dark studios was in support of the rape-republic label by Beeb.

The government, instead of capitulation like they were expected to in the fine tradition of their predecessors, insisted on the writ of the state on the liberated zone. The spring has quickly turned to summer. Heat is on the springers. The revolution needs their Tiannamen square to weather this storm. Anything. Like a crowd jostling within patiala house court. That'll be quite enough to discredit all that the Nation which wants to know.

In the meantime, friends of Lal Salaam are calling to keep the faith. Atheist far left rationalists, are expected to embrace their Arab beckon and join the call for prayers. That's as close to anything Arab as the spring could ever get before the fall.