“An entry to The Great Indian Blogging
Contest as part of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2015."
The Great Indian
Chamcha
‘Chamchagiri’ is the fascinating
art that Indians seem to have perfected with years of tireless practice. Just
look around and you will find many fake people, praising you to the skies just
for gaining few favours. For such chamchas, flattery is the cheapest ticket to
the haut monde. They see perks offered by their boss, they want
increment without doing any productive work and always follow the “haanji pose(
of TOI )”; students want marks without studying and gaining knowledge so they
start flattering their teachers and often bribe them. Boss pays more to the
person who flatters the most. Bribing works both ends. People at both ends
think that they are benefitting but in reality they are losing. ‘Chamchagiri’
inevitably leads to corruption, something which is happening in India.
The employees and students
provide a micro model for the greater political scenario of chamchagiri in
India. Its just a micro model trying to explain the macro model-The Indian
Politics. Chamchas think of short term only and in the long run they are sure to
lose. Foolish Boss gets lured by the flattery of employees(chamchas) which
leads to his own downfall which in turn affects chamchas and this is what
happened in Indian Politics. “Sonia Gandhi
has subverted the constitution without resorting to Emergency measures
but simply putting chamchas into top positions.”-(Source:1) The result of
keeping chamchas at top postion is in front of us.
‘Chamchagiri’ affects all
walks of life. A junior might flatter his senior to get all his notes. Basically instead of putting 100% of his energy in creating his own notes, the junior would put more than 100% of his energy in flattering the
senior and would dream of getting readymade notes. Here senior is a leader
and will remain a leader and the chamcha will remain a chamcha. So do you want
to be a Chamcha? Chamchas come up with brand new ways of flattery. They are
witty but they use their wit in doing foolish things. 
We are chamchas to our
politicians and they are our chamchas. Here's the vicious circle of chamchagiri.
Volume of chamchagiri increases at every point of time. Politicians go around
the country to flatter people to get maximum votes and people flatter their
favourite politician to get maximum benefits, one of them being getting
admission in a top college through political power. Chamchagiri is now a normal
thing for us and has become part of our daily life. We are forgetting that
because of chamchagiri we are losing our moral values and self respect.
Actual chamchagiri in Indian
politics starts from election time and completes the round at an interval of
every five years. Practice makes a man perfect. Similarly Chamchagiri makes a
perfect chamcha.
Well all this was a part of
my chamchigiri! I wrote this article just to please the readers. But why to
please unknown people? Well this is one way to become famous. So I might be The
Great Indian Chamchi!
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