शनिवार, 17 नवंबर 2012

Can Death be Celebrated!

Most of you know me very well, Those who don’t ; for them let me clarify, I am an Indian by birth, did 10th from Bihar and then my family settled in Mumbai. Equally attached to both places.

Had been a avid Shiv Sena supporter at some point of time. Even now I don’t hate them, but don’t blindly endorse them either.

Schooling from Bihar, Rest of my life in Mumbai, Currently staying at third place. Naturally my friend list is truly cosmopolitan. It has people with equally distributed demographic origins.

Even if you don’t know me, just look around you, you will find someone like me. If you still can’t find; assume anything as vague as an Irish living in England. Give that name to me. Context remains same. As this is story of Indian collectively not about one individual.

If you do imprecise analogy of India Map to Human Body, Bihar and Maharashtra will represent Heart (Dil) and Liver(Jigar) respectively.

Long before Internet was so spread and within reach of common people, I believed; one day information will be free, and It will be biggest Boon for Mankind till date.

I always firmly believed in Idea of free knowledge & information. Knew connectivity, Social Networking are biggest boon for generations to come, people of my generation and preceding ones too.

But I somehow now, am getting vibes I was wrong, totally mistaken in my beliefs.

I, a mere less than ordinary human, along with entire generations of geniuses failed miserably in predicting this.

All through our life we have been taught to be considerate to people, we were so courteous that we even closed criminal cases of people who are no more. Bofors is classic example. We were so generous that we always used Swargiya (स्वर्गीय) for late people. We were trained to be like that. I never admired that part. But there has to be a line which should not be crossed.

Lately we have started insulting people even on death. Any Tom Dick and Harry doesn’t think twice before commenting on greats, forget about mediocres. Problem is not that shallow, India is free country and everyone have right to express their opinion. I too understand that and respect that too.

The problem is of being intolerant! Take example of today , One of the greatest leader(many will argue, righly because his greatness lies in precipitating people at extremes) of recent times passed away. A cartoonist of highest order! Someone, who firmly believed in his beliefs and stood behind it. I agree he took someone wrong decisions at crucial junctures, लेकिन पुत्रमोह तो दशरथ को भी हुआ था (Even Dashrath fall into trap of fascination for his son ), Why to blame him if he also came into same trap. One of rare leaders who believed and told Pakistan is enemy and so is Kasab, when most of our Leaders were not able to differentiate between communalism and patriotism and thinking both are same. I will always remember this tiger for that.

People from Dil and Jigar are writinging in totally contrasting views and expressions, how someone can be so indifferent. How people can simply abuse for sake of abusing each other.

Can death ever be celebrated?

Are we still one nation? Politically correct answer can be yes, but somewhere inside we all know cracks have developed. Half of my friends will argue its was started by his nephew. They might be right. Issues is not about who did what, issue is as deep as or as simple as exercising ( abusing) all our rights as citizen forgetting all our duties. Even I don’t agree with few of his points. But this certainly is not the time. Everyone deserve and honorable fairwell/funeral.

Where are we heading: Intolerance, Insensitiveness, are they going to help us to build Integrated India (अखंड भारत)?

Are we talking about the first civilized society of the world?

We are forgetting our culture. People may argue the entire concept of culture here. Let them do.

We are giving opportunity to Orthodoxist to be right. They always believed too much freedom is not good, we are proving them right.

While writing this some part of me is frustrated and have become cynical. Somewhere a small part also say there might be light at end of tunnel. These are just initial hiccups like a child do after getting new toy, slowly slowly we will understand our duties, we as society will become responsible.

We will not celebrate someone’s death. We will not expect people to be perfect. No one ever was. We will give respect to elders.

I am not preaching. I am just hoping. Hope of a mere, less than ordinary man; who is going places to meet his basic needs.

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