Swig or Two Will Help

Tako Dabi, Home Minister of Arunachal Pradesh deserves to be congratulated for his bold statement: it's ok for cops to drink while on duty. Read the article and look at his countenance at the page:

http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/ok-for-cops-to-take-a-swig-or-two-arunachal-minister-17667.php

To be able to make a statement that has the potential of damaging one’s political career, one should be spirited and bold at the same time. Some argue that spirit and boldness are the two sides of the same coin. Your Tarantula is not for entering into an intellectual debate on this topic.


Tako Dabi’s views deserve to be applied universally, in all walks of life and in all places of work. Armed forces have been applying Tako Dabi Principle (TDP, not to be mistaken with Telugu Desam Party) from pre-historic days. Recently some Air India pilots have applied it and were duly grounded, as it did not go well with passengers. Air India travelers have all along been nourishing some mistaken notion that it is their sole prerogative to consume free spirits.

It is not proven but clearly decipherable that our parliamentarians do take a swig or two before they take a spirited leap into the well and tear up bill documents on Chairperson’s table.

We are living in a world without boundaries and in a world with many boundaries within boundaries at the same time. It is strenuous to say the least. Everyone deserves a swig or two while working or better still, work while swigging!

Look at the positives. Churches, Mosques and Temples reverberating with spirited sermons or mantras surely attract all the youth who have forsaken these places of worship and get them back into their fold. Our spiritual education will get a timely boost. If our academicians deliver spirited lectures, absenteeism in our schools and colleges will come down and surely, the quality of education will improve. Besides, it gives them very little time for stone-pelting in surrounding areas. Our traffic police, after a swig are two, can help free flow of traffic. Our Babus can empty the bottles received as gifts in office itself and throw the empty bottles instead of carrying them home. Politicians of Tamil Nadu can make a poll promise of one-rupee-a-bottle-a-day-per-head and sweep forthcoming elections. Liquor industry will get a much-needed boost. Government revenues will improve. Vijay Mallya will top the Forbes’ annual list of the world’s top billionaires and soon become the world's first trillionaire (in dollar terms) by leaping ahead of Slim, Gates, Buffet, Ambanis et. al. Examples galore.