What It Means to Be A VVIP

The acronym VVIP stands for ‘very very important person’ and it is a highly cherished social designation. For a VVIP, life is indeed very smooth-sailing. But one has to attain this special social status in the first place and the fast way is to get elected as people’s representative. Better still, if one can wrangle a ministerial post. Even a deputy minister’s job for a few months (till the next ministry reshuffle or the dismissal of the government on no-confidence voting whichever is earlier) will do. If you are a celeb or you excel in music, sports and any other field, you qualify for the privileged class. Moreover, just being a kin or a friend of a VVIP, one also gets bestowed with the social power albeit in a diminutive way.
 VVIPs do not have to queue up for anything. Their movements are facilitated by others - security men, hangers-on and officials. When they go to airports to catch a flight, the normal traffic in the city is diverted or held up for hours to make way for the cavalcades to pass. They always board trains or planes last and if they are delayed in reaching stations or airports, the officials oblige by delaying departures of trains or planes. For travelling abroad, their papers are not even examined. Such preferential treatment helps some VVIPs to carry out human trafficking without any hindrance or murmur. They can walk up to any police station and get their men released after giving a mouthful to the officials for daring to arrest them. All rules made for ‘aam admi’(common man) are flouted with a vengeance so that everyone can feel what it means to be a VVIP .
 Even while seeking blessings from God, they offer their prayers from special enclosures.While visiting Tirupati temple, for example, one may have to stand in queue for 8-10 hours to get ‘darshan’(glimpse) of Lord Venketaswara. But for Bachans of Bollywood, they could seek blessings at the closet distance from the deity without wasting time by making a token donation of Rs 51 lacs and that too taking along their family friends from the political and industrial world who also made equal donations promptly. Thousands of devotees waited unlike the VVIPs as the latter always have the right of way - even to God.   
   I am unable to list down other benefits of being a VVIP due to lack of space. However, next time you pray, please ask God to make you somehow a VVIP in India. It would then be like living in Heaven.