Our USP – We Agitate
We Indians like controversies. In fact we love them. For us
it is no fun if things go their usual self without skirting an outrage or two. It
is an absolute disinteresting thing if what we do or say doesn’t revoke an
episodic response from every quarter possible. In a way, these controversies
add some spice to our average daily lives which otherwise is full with tension,
pollution, lot of work or no work to do, random ogling, official lecture on
secularism, Cricket and Arnav Goswami’s daily blabbers. So when people start
tearing each other’s Kurta for anything and everything, I don’t get dismayed or
annoyed but sit back and try to enjoy some ugly street fight. If these childish
responses could be and should be replaced by mature thinking is a separate
debate; I really don’t mind them coming as long as there is at least some
substance behind the action first and the reaction that follows.
Since the days a certain Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi roam
this part of the world, we have developed this tendency to agitate. While Gandhi
agitated against the British, we tend to agitate against every damn thing. Few
agitate against some nuclear power plant, while few other agitate against lack
of electricity in their homes. While few agitate against FDI, few others
agitate against the price rise. We agitate against RTE, we agitate against porn
movies playing in our theaters, we agitate to have a Mandir, we agitate to have
a Mosque, we agitate if someone tweets and we agitate if someone doesn’t tweets.
We even agitate and beat the crap out of the poor teacher if students are not
allowed to copy in the exams. Hell even we agitate if Sachin Tendulkar is
adjudged LBW the wrong way. It seems every reason available on this planet is
one agitation worthy cause for us and it is our moral duty to agitate without wasting
any time. Now the question arises, why we are so fond of these agitations,
Dharnas and Bhasan Wajis? No not because we are aggrieved against the scheme of
things but because we are a bunch of entities without much work in our hands.
To fill the void in our worthless and workless lives we agitate, with most of
the time knowing not an ounce on the reasons of any such agitations.
Look at this controversy surrounding Ram Jethmalani and his
oration about Lord Ram. I am surprised both for what he has to say and the
reaction that followed. But, the most surprising part around this farce is
that, people actually take Ram Jethmalani seriously. I always felt Mr.
Jethmalani is the only entity whom Digvijay Singh must be thoroughly envious of
when it comes to showcase of some terrible foot in the mouth syndrome. Didn’t
this top grade criminal lawyer of India have gone overboard on many things on
many occasions? Be it calling Prophet by names which forced the envoy of UAE to
leave the arena in anger or edging Rahul Gandhi and his mother by all possible prophase
regularly on Times Now debates while nonchalantly having his evening drinks; he
is all over the place, most of the times. I am not sure how good an advocate he
is but for sure I have seen him talking nonsense majority of the times he
opened his mouth on any issue. Does he anyway in any situation look someone to
be taken seriously for anything? Not to me at least. But look at how people
still have reacted to his Lord Ram comment. If the statement of Mr. Jethmalani to
begin with was horrendous and non-required; the reactions were equally, if not
more, bizarre. Most prominent of the lot is the theatrical reaction of that
Baba. I still unable to find credible reasons for the announcement of the goon
turned Baba, who promised to pay Rs 5 Lakhs if someone obliges Mr. Jethmalani
for his comment by spitting on his face. Spitting on the face? Really? Since
when spitting on the face of another human has become so noble an
accomplishment, if what Mr. Jethmalani said is heinous of an act? From where did
that Baba, who claims Lord Ram to be his personal property got this teaching
that spitting on someone is just the befitting, moral and religious response
for whatever he has done? From Bhagwat Geeta? Isn’t that Baba who pledges
himself as the last man standing for Hindutwa and Hindus is equally obnoxious
as Mr. Jethmalani himself? Shouldn’t someone rush through and slap that Baba
some tight ones for maligning the core ethics of Hindutwa?
On a second thought, what Mr. Jethmalani said, is it entirely
wrong? You feel so? Then please show me one person who dumps his pregnant wife
in Jungles, just because a bloody Dhobi casts some funny question mark on her character.
Do you condone such act of Lord Ram? You ask me? Well, I feel happy for Lord
Ram. On the positive side, this is only good for Lord Ram that it happened some
thousand years back. Mr. Jethmalani being a criminal lawyer himself knows very
well; had it been today, Lord Ram would have been booked under at least a
thousand IPC, starting with dowry harassment and domestic violence act. Forget
Lord Ram, even Dasharath and his three wives Kaushalya, Sumitra and Kaikei
would have been behind bars already, without being a charge sheet filed. So get
a life guys. Just because it is written in so called holy books, it hasn’t had
to be correct always. Tolerate different views with an open heart. This is what
our great religion teaches us. Isn’t it? Since when Hindutwa has become so
intolerant towards criticisms like few other religions when even Lord Krishna by choice has
subjected himself to strong reproaches on the battle field of Kurukshetra? I would
suggest all those duffers who vouch by the very essence of Hinduism to dig
their vacuum brains inside something called Bhagwat Geeta and carefully read
each line first before proclaiming themselves to be the flag bearers of the religion.
So stop that bloody agitation at once and get back to your work if you have
any. If you don’t have any work, then at least allow other productive people to
contribute to nation’s growth than becoming a party to your business of
spitting at each other’s face.
I know there would be few who would tear off their balls for
the heck of it by reading these two paragraphs. Chill guys, since I am also a
staunch and unapologetic Hindu but with a difference. And the difference is, I
carry something called brain and I am open to opinions, debates or for that
matter outright exchange of blows when it comes to my religion. Except the
blows that I mentioned, our religion teaches pretty much every other good
attributes of daily life through its scripts. And if at all you care to know,
even Lord Ram has admitted to have ditched Mata Sita so that he could put
himself to the scrutiny of the cruel world. Lord Ram knowingly let himself to
be criticized in order to pass a simple message to the world – “no one is
perfect and full with only good qualities or there is no one on this planet who can
never do any wrong, even if he is the God himself”. And we jokers have
misrepresented the teachings of the Lord via few spitting Cobras like that
bounty announcer Baba and cocooned ourselves too much to even look beyond the
written lines and see the real teachings behind such deplorable actions of our own Lord. I am sure Lord
Ram would be turning in his grave by looking at such clowns who unfortunately happen
to be his worshipers.
But
hell with any mature thinking. No? We love to agitate, because we don’t have
anything else to do. So let’s agitate like a crazy hoard of ships and jump
around like monkeys, without realizing why we should jump. By the way, are you
aware of the agitation that brewed somewhere in Kerala because the parents and
obviously the students were dead against the prevailing long teaching hours in a
school? Argument in for of this craziness – students need enough free hours for
other extra-curricular activities. Oh yes; Facebook certainly can’t wait for
some bloody textbook to finish.
I thought the blog is on agitations but it turned out be one between two Ram and rest. I think you have been bitten by another Ram,RGV; don't know where you start and what you end with.
ReplyDeleteThis is called confusing your readers Mohammad Bhai :)
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its true, we agitate even whr its not required.. but our violent agitations are not something for which Mahatma Gandhi can be blamed.. He never ever practiced or supported violent agitations..
ReplyDeletebtw u're so right abt jethmalani's evening drinks..