So Many Demons to Deal With!!!

The world over, homo sapiens have had to deal with so many demons in the last few weeks. Look at the Americans – in a soul-sucking election campaign that seemed to go on forever, you had half the country ‘demon-izing’ the other half. While one half shouted that the other half was rallying behind a ‘demon-gogue’ (well, actually demagogue, but nobody doubted that they meant ‘demon-gogue’), the other half was mighty cross with the ‘Demon-crat’ (yes, yes, I know - Democrat, but you get the gist) candidate, who had these curious memory lapses when it came to questions about inconvenient emails.

Then came the results. And more demons with it – this time in the form of ‘demon-strations’ across multiple cities – some simply ‘demon-strating’ against the brand-new President-elect, and some ‘demon-strating’ what exactly they thought of folks who didn’t quite look like them, or behave like them….

 And then of course, India! Just when those of us, who had got hooked on to the soap-operatic twists and turns of the US elections, were settling into our couches to watch the finale, the leader of our ‘demon-cracy’ unleashed ‘demon-etisation’ upon us. And when such a tricky demon is let loose, can ‘demon-ization’ and ‘demon-strations’ be far behind?

We’re now into a week of ‘demon-etisation’ and while I’m still struggling to ‘demon-etise’ my share of the notes that have been so summarily thrown into ‘disrepute’, my boss thinks I’m nevertheless obliged to work on a ‘demo’ (surely, a shortened version of demon?) of a product that I’m supposed to sell to a specific ‘demon-graphic’.   

With so many demons on the loose, I’ve decided that we need to formulate a workable game plan to deal with them. Let’s start with ‘demon-graphy’ - a study of demon populations and how they shape ‘demon-cracies’ across the globe. Now, if you think that should have been ‘demon-ology’, well, you can always ‘demon-strate’ to express your displeasure over my choice of words. After all, I’m as ‘demon-cratic’ as anyone can be in these unsettling times.