Day and again I keep glancing on too many repetitive things
that keep on happening in our country and even without a single inch of improvement
in the desired sector, which made me think profoundly of the fact that exactly
where are we heading with this headstrong attitude. Unlike every smart human
being i also tried to figure out the grim nuances of the problem by hearing
debates and thinking over the probable hypothesis which could lead to such fore
bearing in our cultural country.
But I wasn't able to get the answer. So I tried an old trick
“When foresight gives you no idea, take the help of past”
And my musings knew no bound when I did find a little solace
from the answer that i received from the problem. Let’s start for that matter
of fact with the greatest of scriptures we know (for the matter of fact I won’t
be an iconoclast proving wrong the traditions)- the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.
There always been this Indian tradition of pin pointing everything that has
come up in our way. As a matter of fact had not Draupadi pin pointed “a blind’s
son is always a blind” the great distressing events of Mahabharata would have occurred.
Though it did add a little bit of melodrama to the thought of it being the
largest epic. Even in the Ramayana had not Kaikai been pin pointed the great
fact that her soon won’t be a regal patronage the kingdom of Ayodhaya wouldn't have
witnessed such dire circumstances too. One will question that even the
scriptures wouldn't have been written without these events but then I must ask
what actually did these events teach us. The fact that step-mothers are bad or
for the fact in order to seek revenge we must cheat our cousins or bereft them
of whatever they ever have had? The answer was just a simple NO. But the
English lived in the communion without pin-pointing and ruled us for 200 years.
Amazing isn't it!!! Stats don’t lie at times.
Looking at the debates we see on television where people are
just delving their brains, accusing each other and even the public for the
unrest. But what we never do is just find the real problem and implement it at
the grass root level. People have to die to make a bill pass. And that’s what
hurts our democracy. We will just sit at our tables read good books, drink
great tasting tea and coffee and give our expert opinion on the naive behavior
of the criminals. While the actual problem is left unaddressed, while us on the
other hand try to understand the problem through these mass discussion. But when
at one point we think with our rational brains we understand – what understanding
does a son or a daughter actually needs when his father is actually shot by two
assailants and police can’t catch them or the regards for a girl who has been
raped by their own countrymen.
And through this article too i wish this hypocrite could
just waiver people from just pin-pointing others and blaming unknown people for
the things that they are never accused off (at least they will never be accused
off). Just a fact that if we have problem it has to be dealt with in an urgent
manner because “A stitch in time saves nine”.
Well, its certainly a different "view-point" and a quite thoughtful one too.
ReplyDeleteIf only people just try to extract the idea in their lives then just reading it out, it would be a noteworthy change.
Just a small little mistake in the 2nd paragraph, where it should have been "...distressing events of Mahabharat wouldn't have occured...". Rest was awesome.
Varang, I am glad to read your article and your desire to analyze difference in how Asians and Caucasians review situations and attempt to resolve it. Basic problem between two culture is that how we look at any given issue in a whole and how western culture breaks down to minimum attainable level. What our generation is hoping that new generation (gen X!) will begin to transition dealing with issues more analytically rather than emotionally.
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