Resumed blogging
Dear Reader,
I have been away from blogging for quite a long time. I was in a slumber but after looking at the way things are underway in India, I thought to resume blogging.
The present situation in our country is not very encouraging.
A national newspaper editorial is crying for absence of law; yesterday all the accused in a prima facie murder case got acquitted due to lack of evidence and court saying "Police failed to sustain the grounds on which they had built up their case"; defence minister saying that no action was taken because 'he' didn't think classified document getting stolen as treason. There is a law which says that for this much guilt, you will get this much punishment. Where the hell a minister gets authority to weigh the guilt?
All this makes me cynical and loose hope. But in this situation what will you do, dear reader. Will you keep hope, try again and again till you run out of hope and energy or will you weigh the options and crib about the situation in your drawing room and then proceed to your dinner? Or will you try fruitlessly and foolishly like the boys in Rang De Basanti?
The choice is yours, dear reader and of our civil society whether it just watches and murmurs its disapproval or raises a storm. Where are todays JP, Lohia, Gandhi, Tilak? Have we run out of them, exhausted all of them in our journey to this abyss?
We all who sound so happy and boast about the new India, liberal India are the ones who have never got to do anything with law. The media who should know the truth of this illusion is following us in search of increased readers and more profit.
Our media is very incompetent. So many times I see a reporter, interviewing a personality, unable to retort back if the answer was a white lie. He will just say it's fair and time for break & thus a lie will be aired as a propaganda. The full grand gaze of media has many circles of comfortable blind spots which hides so many things from it.
I guess the normal (and perhaps more sensible) thing will be to proceed for dinner after a long crib in our drawing room. But by doing so are we not accepting the injustices, the wrong doings? How different it is from living with moments when you were humiliated, destroyed and made to feel your helplessness.
The question is in front of all of us, dear reader. If we don't stare at it, it will force us to stare at it.
I have been away from blogging for quite a long time. I was in a slumber but after looking at the way things are underway in India, I thought to resume blogging.
The present situation in our country is not very encouraging.
A national newspaper editorial is crying for absence of law; yesterday all the accused in a prima facie murder case got acquitted due to lack of evidence and court saying "Police failed to sustain the grounds on which they had built up their case"; defence minister saying that no action was taken because 'he' didn't think classified document getting stolen as treason. There is a law which says that for this much guilt, you will get this much punishment. Where the hell a minister gets authority to weigh the guilt?
All this makes me cynical and loose hope. But in this situation what will you do, dear reader. Will you keep hope, try again and again till you run out of hope and energy or will you weigh the options and crib about the situation in your drawing room and then proceed to your dinner? Or will you try fruitlessly and foolishly like the boys in Rang De Basanti?
The choice is yours, dear reader and of our civil society whether it just watches and murmurs its disapproval or raises a storm. Where are todays JP, Lohia, Gandhi, Tilak? Have we run out of them, exhausted all of them in our journey to this abyss?
We all who sound so happy and boast about the new India, liberal India are the ones who have never got to do anything with law. The media who should know the truth of this illusion is following us in search of increased readers and more profit.
Our media is very incompetent. So many times I see a reporter, interviewing a personality, unable to retort back if the answer was a white lie. He will just say it's fair and time for break & thus a lie will be aired as a propaganda. The full grand gaze of media has many circles of comfortable blind spots which hides so many things from it.
I guess the normal (and perhaps more sensible) thing will be to proceed for dinner after a long crib in our drawing room. But by doing so are we not accepting the injustices, the wrong doings? How different it is from living with moments when you were humiliated, destroyed and made to feel your helplessness.
The question is in front of all of us, dear reader. If we don't stare at it, it will force us to stare at it.
posted by Qais at 2:32 PM
1 Comments:
Good. Something good always comes out of bad.
but, don't you think your address to the reader is a litte too brief :)
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