We are free to plunder, for we plunder for you. “Look! Can’t you see? It’s all here, green and inexhaustible. A plant of money, a minting press! There’s nothing to worry about, our future’s never looked brighter. Meanwhile, we’ll pluck a few leaves, if you don’t mind. We’ll get some loans sanctioned, and when they turn bad we’ll waive them off. We’ll build hospitals we dare not visit, we’ll build schools we dare not send our kids to, we’ll subsidise our bungalows and their electricity, our phones and their bills, our lal-battis and their petrol, our bureaucrats and their field trips. We’ll subsidise our stay in hotels, our train travel, our air travel, our time travel, our wheat, our rice, our bajra…yes, we’ll milk this nation dry for a better tomorrow. Of course, by ‘we’ I mean you, dear citizens. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together, remember? But here’s the thing: before we can rationalise the ration, we’ll have to nationalise the nation! Now, are you with me? Are you?!”