Elephants are elephantine creatures. Before
Veerappan, who made countless elephants vanish from the jungles of Karnataka
and Tamil Nadu over decades, there was Harry Houdini. Houdini, who was arguably
the greatest escape artist in history, in 1917, performed a single illusion
that has been hotly debated ever since. In New York’s theatre Hippodrome he made a live
elephant vanish under bright arc lights.
The EC by its order to cover the elephant statues
in a park in NOIDA may be attempting a ‘Houdini’. The similarity is that both
are an illusion. The jury is still out to decide what is more titillating – a
covered form or a naked exposure. It is beyond any doubt that both attract.
What it does expose is the fallibility of
inefficient laws difficult to implement in deed and spirit!!!!! – And yet why
do we insist on more such laws?
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