Juan Dias de Salgados, “26” !!
Rossie !! ( as he was otherwise called by friends) introduced himself while also mentioning his “age”,
Rossie was a short tempered man, from Argentina, was a Sanskrit & Latin
scholar while also being a sought after man in the field of Neo Marxism – a new
School of Research funded by the likes of Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford
and 500 other World renowned Universities that included some of the oldest Universities
of Planet Earth covering virtually every Continent, every geographic region and
about 300 Countries, over 5000000 communities, provinces, languages, cultures
it was a huge, massive project funded by a complex set of Global Socially
Responsible funds lead essentially by a new stream belonging to a world wide
association of Human Resource Development based in Seattle, USA.
As a child Salgados grew up in
India. His parents came from mixed race and ideology – his Father was a
Protestant Latin American monk ( who was also a Stanford drop out, having several
Research credits to his name) and his mother was from India – he knew very
little about her. All he knew was that She was a batch mate of Sr. Salgodos while
studying at Stanford, they were not married, but Rossie was conceived and
delivered to the world anyways – not that he had any regrets about that.
Rossie, was a free bird. He was
given every space he sometimes did not even demand. He came from a family that had
its contribution to the South American identity – that’s what he was told, by
his Father and his huge entourage of brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts
et al – that they were landlords owning estates of Coffee, Cocoa, Timber,
Grapes he was told they were also owners of mines - Gold, Diamond and several other
metals – the influence of the Salgados family stretched across the globe –
within the geographica of Chile, Columbia, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay
etc, they were the invisible Corporate mafia – basically in the Americas and
beyond many of their family members were legends.
Jr. Salgodos wasn’t really interested in all
his wealth, he was more into deep research, he referred to be known as a
scholar and his pet research was on the idea of Freedom, Liberty, Evolution and
allied subjects – he was completely vexed with his protected world and rebelled
to the extent of being considered a bohemian by his family.
As of now Rossie was trying his best to smoothen
the process of his arrival and checking into a hotel at Jaipur , India.
He had booked into a random Bed
& Breakfast hotel around Central Park , he was being assisted by a clerk who
wasn’t exactly dressed to look like an official clerk ( he was wearing a cheap faded
torn jean and a Calvin Klein T that had a slogan ‘come hit me’ written in
stylish English script, the font so large that it was on your face, and the man
wearing the T almost seemed inviting the person reading the slogan to do what
the slogan said … but the T clearly looked a fake, so most humans who came face
to face with Hrithuraj ( lord of 4 seasons), also 26 ( who was the kind of “
official, unofficial receptionist, house keeper, steward, bell boy, cook,
dhobhi, toilet cleaner et al (except manager ) of Karan Niwas Palace Guest
House Hotel, MI Road, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India ( considered India’s # 1 tourist
destination by numbers after Taj Mahal was the poster Rossie noticed ) – the
clerk continued to find the name confounding and absolutely incomprehensible,
the problem was Rossie’s bag along with all his official passport and papers
were somehow mixed up by his airline when he had landed in New Delhi, while
they had profusely apologised for the mishap and promised to make good the mix
up ASAP, Rossie had to continue his scheduled journey to the Jaipur Literary
Festival to be held at the Capital City of Rajasthan, a famed desert state, located in India.
He was an invitee
to present a brief on his newly published book that took an opposing view of Umberto
Eco’s essay on the Absolute and the Relative – he was supposed to be a part of
the panel that included the haloed Eco to debate on the topic – Rossie had
rejected the offer by the organisers of the Literary festival to manage his
stay etc., , he had told them he would prefer to manage it himself ( he hated
chauffeured services, he believed that such services lacked reality, they were
clearly sanitised to project a certain picture, lacked art, lacked history,
people who accepted were basically promised freedom from risk and Rossie felt
risk was the essence of truth, so he rejected the organisers ) – Juan Dias De Salgados, 26, Rossie
finally decided to write on the back of a brown envelope that he found lying
around the front desk space, he made sure he tore just the piece he required
and left the rest – he gave Hrithuraj $50 and simply said take me to a room,
we’ll manage the rest.
Hrithuraj flashed a smile so
white Rossie almost lost sight, Hrithuraj commanded and almost 4 men came out
to help Rossie with his luggage, which was just 1 backpack – Juan Dias De
Salgados, 26, checked in – it was a 20 x 20 room, without any A/C’ing ( Rossie
said he wanted to check the ‘non ac rooms first’ , he regretted his decision
almost immediately ( the temp read 44 degrees centigrade) but yet decided not
to revoke his own decision, all the 4 men receded, Salgados kicked the door
shut almost as if he was venting his yang, then stripped naked just so that he
could breath and think.
Once Salgados took bath ( the
cold water shower actually vented out steaming hot water ) Salgados rushed out
and screamed at Hrithuraj thru the intercom, Hrithuraj immediately sent another
army into Salgados’s room, they all came, made sure of making a mess of Salgodas’s
need for hygiene and privacy and then finally fixed things and then left
apologising, leaving Rossie completely out of air.
Rossie was building a theory that clearly defied accepted concepts of Contemporary Poltical Science, Religion and Socio - Political Dharma. He believed that humans were over estimating the idea od evolution and that the fundamental Philosophy that had built the idea od democracy, liberty, freedom etc. had to be disconnected from its archaic roots and redifined.
He believed the world deserved a new theory of the Republic - which he thought would in turn trigger several new theories of Art, Science, Literature etc.,
He believed the old theories had no idea of the new, contemporary socially networked world- the new technology enabled world lived on the web, and thrived in that space- democracy as a deliverance to free the oppressed was being exploited by a neo set of Political Feudal Elite- Salgodos belived that the UN had to be strengthened and the Freedom might need a a new Global Charter - signed and acknowledged by all the members of the UN - he believed that the new freedom charter had to go into every aspect of Social life - he was proposing new charters covering the idea of Freedom of Speech ( with specific reference to the freedom on the web ), Freedom of Religion, Religious expression, faith, culture etc., Freedom of the Press across media, Limitations needed for a global Politician, Freedom of Expression across art etc., etc.,
Salgodos was a Neo Liberal. He disliked 'relative existence' and felt the world was on the brink of discovering a new degree of the absolute.
Absolute Existence.
Break from Conventions
Accept
fresh ideals.
