Gorkhapatra
It comes from some sort of competition in the developed world of untying the computer wire knots. It started with six wires and ended with 12. The leaders are the same: create problems and try to solve them

They rightly say that life is a tangle of sorts. There’s always a knot to tie and another to untie. It’s for nothing that the tangle that results not only is perplexing but also problematic. Think of the adhesive tape, and the answer is clear. The more you try to untangle it, the more a sticky situation it creates.

Modern life is full of new innovative products flooding the market. They are supposed to ease the tensions of life by making doorways of conveniences. The computer is there to delight many of us. It has multi-faceted uses, which the knowledgeable knows well enough to get the desired benefits. But it requires electricity to run, and that means so many wires crisscrossing each other.

That the computer wires can create a puzzle was not realised until there was a competition somewhere in the developed world to untie the knots. That instance came to show that untying the knots is not as easy a task as presumed. If it had been a simple task, I doubt an international competition would have been organised.

Many wires are connected to the computer for various purposes. And there are times when they all get so tangled that it is difficult to find out which wire is related to which. That may be a scientific question to answer. Yet, in doing so, the brain gets taxed so much that you start cursing the wires for being there in an age when so much development has taken place with the ‘remote’ way of doing things. You are well used to the remote controller of the TV set or so many other gadgets.

This all reminds one of some other aspect of life, namely, the political one. Knots in the form of problems or decisions are created that can lead to protests. Now, to allow the protests to go on for days affects the credibility of the parties, so the need is to go for the untying business. That’s a political game, which the political leaders are well accustomed to. For example, there was the fuel price hike recently that led to protests, and to soothe the nerves it was rolled back.

This just shows how the tying and untying business is a part of politics or running the government. On top of that, in the present set up, the leaders belonging to the different parties have their own say, most of the time and often creating great confusion. But then the untying task starts with all the leaders sitting together and coming out with a joint statement. That shows the knack for getting things back to possibly what it was in the beginning.

Here, tying and untying the knots is more about testing your strength rather than doing it to win any international title of a champion. It seems that’s how politics works for some.

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