It is the cumulation of experiences which made my stance shift towards left-leaning politics. One such incident in my childhood stayed with me, and made me a radical anti-capitalist, but not necessarily a socialist or communist - I am not even sure what those two terms are, apart from the two-to-three line definition on Wikipedia.

My dad wanted to procure some loan for his business. Well, this loan officer came to our place. My mom was dressed in one of those Indian-style nightgowns as he came to our house without informing prior - he wanted to inspect our place to ensure that he was lending money to the “right” type of people. He started berating and shouting at my mother, calling us slurs that are usually said for people living in the slums, denied the loan, telling my dad to not waste his time. In front of a ten year old. I could never forget that incident, and it often kept playing in my head, even when I grew up.

This made me think about these scums make a fuss when a common person tries to run a business, harass us when we don’t pay on time, refinance loans with shittier terms without our prior permission, but when capitalist scumbags like Vijay Mallya, Gautam Adani or Anil Ambani lose their capital, they bend their asses, willing to transfer all the loses onto the common folks. The entire system was rigged. The rich will remain rich, their children will virtue-signal us about how they work harder than us, and how they followed their “passion”.