DAWOOD AULEEAR
Democracy has been defined as government of the people, for the people and by the people. Adherents to this belief would not have been able to cover the meaning by defining a government led by a non-elected lady inheriting the right to rule by marriage. And our manipulator-in-chief has been nicknamed most appropriately Lady Macbeth. Perhaps, someday, Moustass will unleash the similarities between the two.
Was Shakespeare inspired by 2020s Mauritius to write his play? Or was our Lady Macbeth inspired by Shakespeare to reenact his tragedy? Whatever the case, our PM survived by murders attributed to him and his appetite in line with « I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er » Will Navin’s reference to foreign police enlighten us on the identity of the serial killer?
PKJ unfortunately seems illiterate in history. He created a myth of 4-14 (constituencies). He forgot that SAJ, the architect of economic miracles, was swept out of power by those who elevated him to a few millimeters lower than God. He did not pay heed to his father’s wisdom that those socio-cultural sycophants surrounding him represent no one but themselves. Further, he did not pray to God to take care of his friends while he was taking care of his enemies. Alas. He will stay on the learning curve of a ‘sixième fail’.
The first writings on the wall, to those who have eyes and vision, appeared in Mare d’Albert during the first Labour rally and became bolder with successive meetings in Flacq, Vacoas and Triolet. But 10 years in power made PKJ feel invincible with the “yes sir” responses reinforcing his chimeric belief. At the height of his campaign, SSR enlisted the support of CAM and IFB. PKJ aides, as mad as him, were clipped of their wings … XLD, Pere Grégoire, Obeegadoo et al know better. To reassure the masses, Moustass brought the decisive final nail to PKJ’s coffin with his daily revelations. Give the devil his due: Moustass is a master striker and deserves our recognition. Do you need to be a Nobel Laureate in Maths to know that 1-20 is bigger than 4-14?
Armchair “politologues” had written off Navin. Ten years in the wilderness plus COVID were believed to be terminal for him. But DNAs do not die. Referees do not blow the knock-down whistle when a sportsman falls, but only when he refuses to rise. They helped to reinvigorate Navin in his mission to save the country from tyranny of Rawan as did Ram after 14 years in Ayodhya, and wash this summum of disgrace of being manhandled in a torn shirt and dragged to the nick. Is there a woman in this country or in the world to live that moment as a wife or a mother? Not the spirit of Lady Shushil. She was our “Queen Mum”. Navin’s fellow sufferers as individuals and politicians joined him wholeheartedly and gave the Mauritian nation a hope and drive that they did not get during the 100,000 march in Port Louis.
There is an eternal debate: does man create History or does History create man. I leave to you to answer. In the meantime, let us celebrate our era of liberation with the come-back of the Lion: “Ale Navin, ale Navin, ale Navin”.
November 2024