12/01/2013
Today I make a return to the world of blogging almost a year later and finally I believe I will have more to write on this blog site as I intend to brush up my film review skills via this platform.Today also marks the 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda who undoubtedly is still "modern" and even till date is ahead of the current generation... The Nation's Government has termed this day as "National Youth Day" but really, with almost the entire Youth of this Nation up in anger and protesting the various gender driven atrocities in the Indian Society, one goes on to wonder whether or not in these 150 years anyone has ever truly read or even minutely tried to fathom Swami Vivekananda's teachings.
One may argue that what other way is there to stage protests that will not fall unto deaf ears, but I must ask... whichever way the protest is... will it reach non-deaf ears? Even if it does, will the Youth be really interested in waking up to the Politics, taking the plunge in it and attempting a cleansing of this Country's tarnished image in terms of its flawed system?
Civil Society movements viz the Anna Hazare stir or the Candle Marches against Rape are all seemingly good TV segments for the over populated regional and english language News Channels. When will we stop the marches and actually try to be part of the System? Perhaps never!
Why you ask? Because at the very basic level we were all taught to be fending for ourselves and cuddling up in a ball to defend our own tail and not care for the fellow species? Last day I heard someone say, society and parents teach us these because its dictated by Animal Kingdom... no one sees one raccoon fight for another raccoon's rights.. same with humans from the system infested society like ours. I didn't know how to respond, guess God didn't do the right thing by giving us brains then.
Sad times indeed.
- Annesh Bilas Thakur
