Friday, November 6, 2009

Victory of the Wrong

I just happened to read an interview of Arundhati Roy published in DNA and happened to read the comments below it.It really fascinated me that we as Indians are so overwhelmed and blinded by the glitter thrown upon us by the ”neoliberalism” and “capitalism”. A person who takes the side of the poor farmers or adivasis is outcasted and verbally abused by the “Proud Indians”.Bollywood and anything related to the glamour industry is glorified and unquestioned. It holds such an important part in our life that we have forgotten that there are more than 50% of the world population who live for less that $1 a day,who would really like a little helping hand atleast in the form of a intellectual resistant movement. We forget that there are “Men behind the curtain” who in real controls our world and life.And that is these guys,that we need to nail down and not the altruist human being who manage to somehow raise their voice above the chaos and make themselves heard.
(We all know and have heard about the RFID chips and the horrors associated with it. We know that a person being identified by a number is the beginning of this process. And somewhere down the lane, the person having the control mechanism to the chip embedded in your body controls and guides where you should go and not!!! )
Nobody is ready to understand the fact that World Citizens like her are considered and labelled anti-nationalist, for no right reason. In a situation like ours, nationalism is not going to save us.We need to look at us as a group of human beings and think and act together as a species.Thinking as an Indian ,will make us partial towards an American,African or Australian which is unfair and wrong.Anything that stands against the Oneness of Mother Earth is antihuman and anti –life.
Good people are never accepted and understood.Especially in India ,people are the least bothered about issues like war,climate change,Capitalism etc and the Men behind the Curtain makes sure that you are not fed up with useful information.Out of the 300+ channels available,they make sure that 90% of them telecast mindless enternainment 24*7.News channels are turned into equivalents of a Alfred Hitchcock movie,with the edge-of the seat coverage of national and international events twisted and flavoured conveniently to suite the approval of the sponsors and the owners.Parents and the students are just immersed in the grade system which has somehow strangely become associated to their prestige tag.Less and less people think of the majority and are immersed in their own new found upper middle class standard. (which I find is ludicrous in a democratic country).
I have a lot to write about this subject. Will soon do.
Bye for now.
If anybody is reading this,Please leave comments and your views on this article.

Is India in danger of becoming a police state?-Excerpt -A.Roy´s Interview

What do you mean, "of becoming"? What do you think it is in Orissa and Chhatisgarh and Kashmir and Nagaland and Manipur and Lalgarh? Maybe it's not a police state in Bombay though I am sure the surveillance is big time. You know, this Unique Identity Card, even the Conservative Party in English trashed it. Here everybody is saying it's a great thing. You can't give people water, you can't give people schools, you can't give people healthcare, but you can give them a unique identity card, and if they don't have it, they don't exist. So what are those 300,000 people hiding in the forests of Chhattisgarh now going to do? If they come out and get it, their land is gone; if they don't get it, they don't exist, and so they can be finished off, and it won't be on the record.
To read the full interview visit :- http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/interview_bachchan-was-the-coolie-but-now-in-movies-he-only-lives-in-villas_1297417-all