Rang de basanti
I had written this piece as a mail reply, sent to Aishwariya’s (my CTS-colleague) review of rang de basanti (movie) on her blog http://crashwithash.rediffblogs.com .
My view:
You always have the right and left wing way of expressing things. Just think about it, would it have been possible for people even to imagine leave alone sitting thorough a movie where Amir khan and others would have wore those kathar (Khadi) shirts and caps and gave a road roko or a silent protest march etc. those things are not working any more – try plying more buses or trains across the border still, what we get back is only treachery and Bullets! But the revolutionist is always revered after a point of time – take for instance the case of IRA/LTTE/Hamas/ULFA/PWG/Maoists and scores of other such rebels (or may be Terrorists in their respective locality – for Bhagat singh and others were also called as Extremists and Terrorists during the British Raj). All these so called blood-bath organizations, when they have a huge regional support, have been invited for Talks and forming coalition governments. There are even cases of giving public freedom to the rebels and their files destroyed!!!
But then how many Mehta pathekars or the like have survived and their cases won – both regionally and internationally – we are still begging behind Union Carbide and others to give us money. And NBA has been washed off in the Narmada waters.
Think about the Media – do they give attention to the Ahimsa process unless it becomes a real powerful movement! We have forgotten and forgiven (may be) Harshad Mehta, Telgi and so many other multi millionaire scammers. And we all believed in our Judiciary! A simple case how many Tamilians were compensated for the Cauvery violence of the 1990’s in Karnataka. We are still begging for water from the state where, a Cauvery River Tribunal, River authorities and even Supreme Court verdict and advices are neglected.
Our country is proud to have a UP minister for Haj and other related affairs who has announced a 51crore prize to the person who gets him the Head of the Danish cartoonist and also gold equivalent to the weight of the victorious and people in the current govt. defending him, saying it was announced against somebody who is in a distant land.
Who knows! all this might be the way Elections are fought right from a councilor seat to the Central seat across countries!!! Peace with neighboring country, state etc. and we like fools are left with no other option than to choose one of the political parties! There must be a button in the electronic voting machine to register null vote and another to call for President’s rule. If there are too many null votes then things must begin afresh under the president’s rule---but who knows 10 to 15 years down the lane even that system might get corrupted – that’s why weeding out the bad elements is an essential process. The way we do it is a subject for discussion!!!
The bottom line is:
When we are fighting against our own clans who have turned cannibalistic, no amount of Ahimsha will help to tame these beasts and ‘they’ have always loop-holes in law to escape across boundaries. So maybe this is one of the ways the current scenario in our country could be tackled.
By the way I am no big advocate of extremism but going by Abahaynker of ‘Hey Ram’ “you have to be a Wolf to say whether killing a deer for self and its family is a mistake or not”.
My view:
You always have the right and left wing way of expressing things. Just think about it, would it have been possible for people even to imagine leave alone sitting thorough a movie where Amir khan and others would have wore those kathar (Khadi) shirts and caps and gave a road roko or a silent protest march etc. those things are not working any more – try plying more buses or trains across the border still, what we get back is only treachery and Bullets! But the revolutionist is always revered after a point of time – take for instance the case of IRA/LTTE/Hamas/ULFA/PWG/Maoists and scores of other such rebels (or may be Terrorists in their respective locality – for Bhagat singh and others were also called as Extremists and Terrorists during the British Raj). All these so called blood-bath organizations, when they have a huge regional support, have been invited for Talks and forming coalition governments. There are even cases of giving public freedom to the rebels and their files destroyed!!!
But then how many Mehta pathekars or the like have survived and their cases won – both regionally and internationally – we are still begging behind Union Carbide and others to give us money. And NBA has been washed off in the Narmada waters.
Think about the Media – do they give attention to the Ahimsa process unless it becomes a real powerful movement! We have forgotten and forgiven (may be) Harshad Mehta, Telgi and so many other multi millionaire scammers. And we all believed in our Judiciary! A simple case how many Tamilians were compensated for the Cauvery violence of the 1990’s in Karnataka. We are still begging for water from the state where, a Cauvery River Tribunal, River authorities and even Supreme Court verdict and advices are neglected.
Our country is proud to have a UP minister for Haj and other related affairs who has announced a 51crore prize to the person who gets him the Head of the Danish cartoonist and also gold equivalent to the weight of the victorious and people in the current govt. defending him, saying it was announced against somebody who is in a distant land.
Who knows! all this might be the way Elections are fought right from a councilor seat to the Central seat across countries!!! Peace with neighboring country, state etc. and we like fools are left with no other option than to choose one of the political parties! There must be a button in the electronic voting machine to register null vote and another to call for President’s rule. If there are too many null votes then things must begin afresh under the president’s rule---but who knows 10 to 15 years down the lane even that system might get corrupted – that’s why weeding out the bad elements is an essential process. The way we do it is a subject for discussion!!!
The bottom line is:
When we are fighting against our own clans who have turned cannibalistic, no amount of Ahimsha will help to tame these beasts and ‘they’ have always loop-holes in law to escape across boundaries. So maybe this is one of the ways the current scenario in our country could be tackled.
By the way I am no big advocate of extremism but going by Abahaynker of ‘Hey Ram’ “you have to be a Wolf to say whether killing a deer for self and its family is a mistake or not”.
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