A male student from Party
Politics course and a female student from Social Media Usage course are talking
in the canteen during break.
Girl: How do you start gaining power?
Boy: By working out (winks).
Girl: Very smart. Political power, not Batman power.
Boy (seriously): By knowing people who are more powerful than you. That
is the foundation of power.
Girl: I know who is the president of India. But that does not make me
anybody special.
Boy: No, then billions of people would be very powerful. It is not only
about you knowing them, it is also about them knowing you and…
Girl: But that number will be small. Most of such powerful people will
not bother to remember me, because as per your logic, they will also try to
know people who are more powerful than they themselves are. I am unimportant to
them.
Boy: I did not finish my explanation. I had stopped with an ‘and’.
Girl: Then please continue.
Boy: So, it is about them knowing you, and more precisely, them allowing
you to make direct contact with them.
Girl: Allow you to talk to them?
Boy: To be pragmatic, allow you to call them in their mobile. The more personal
mobiles numbers of political leaders you can have at your disposal, the more
powerful you are. Power is all about contacts.
Girl: So, if you break a traffic rule, you can call such a person and
get out of jail free.
Boy: That might be possible, yes. But to get such access to such a
person, you need to spend a lot of time with the people involved in politics. You
need both time and effort. Breaking the law is not as easy as you think.
Girl: Mmm…you are learning to be diplomatic already. Are you collecting
important mobile numbers already?
Boy: Yes, just started with it. We were given a task of collecting at
least five such important numbers.
Girl: How many have you got?
Boy: Two important and one very important.
Girl: Very important? Whose number is that? The Governor’s?
Boy: No, it is your number.
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