Thursday, April 10, 2014

Arvind Kejriwal

In one line, He is a Hero. Yes, and if someone does not agree with this statement, either he belongs to some other political party or does not understand enough english to know the meaning of the word 'hero'. Now just being a hero does not suffice in the country called India. Here scenario is different. People love heroes, people want to become a hero, people want their children to become hero, but someone else becomes a hero and we all go mad. we start feeling jealous, we start searching cons in the hero, we start pulling him down, in short we start behaving like crabs.

This is exactly what is happening to Arvind Kejriwal. Being a prominent face in the revolution lead by Anna Hazare in support of a strong and potent Jan Lokpal Bill and also a commanding leader of the anti corruption moment, he came to lime light and soon became an icon. This was a rise of a hero. For all our lives we, our parents, their parents just sat in front of the TV or read newspapers and just spat a sentence in air 'why no one stands up against this corrupt government?' He was and is the answer.

Question has changed now, someone is already raising his voice, but to what extent? Soon when he realized that Anna Hazare's way was not going to give any result in this insensitive political environment, he took the harder way, creating a political party after the moment was never easy, as we Indians have a tendency of criticizing every change. 'he was always power hungry' sentences like this i would keep in category of solely insensitive.

He came to the power. How? BJP with 32 seats never came forward to make the government but they kept blaming AAP for not forming it. What would a person like us, would have done in the scenario? he did the same thing, he formed government with help of 8 seats from Congress. That's it, we all went moral and ethics crazy. irrespective of lot of condition AAP has put on congress in order to form the government, they were immediately labeled as B party of Congress. What the hell. Poor guy kept explaining each and every step he took, and in return he got a label of fame hungry.

He is really common man. Could not understand the dirty politics. 49 days as Chief Minister of Delhi he has done enough changes and welfare, which years of Congress Government could not even think about. Only problem was his ways of getting things done. Its obvious for a new person in a job would definitely make some errors, but this is how someone learns and it never means that the person is not capable, he just needs time. Its same like, 'every one want to hire a person with experience, but if you don't hire someone at all, how in the gods name he will get experience?' But finally all those criticism made him resign from the post, one more label of running away was waiting for him. Media is such a weapon if used properly can break toughest moral. But this guy is still standing.

He has no money, whatever he got as donation everything is public. he doesnt have enough to make a brand of himself like Mr. Narendra Modi. He does not have power to control Media. No business tycoons are bearing his political campaign expenses. But still we keep targeting him and he keeps explaining it like a common man.

Now his party is gearing up for Lok Sabha elections and I am sure there are few people still out there who know that this is the time for a changed, neat and clean politics. And for others, you can use all your swearing, abuses and name callings, but remember one thing, you will lose the authority to ask the question, which our generations are asking and the question is still the same 'why no one stands up against this corrupt government?'

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Artificial world we live !!

Look at the projection all around, you would know that its a 'show world'. from a small child to an adult, we all are busy making ourselves presentable, making others believe how good we are, how good we look, how good we are doing, how good our life is, all presentations. We all have created a parallel world for ourselves and in that world everything seems to be so good, of course this world does not totally overlap with the real world, so every now and then we realize that our life just sucks.

For instance, look at the world's largest community, Facebook or Twitter for that matter
, How beautiful the world seems, everyone over there happy, enjoying their lives to the fullest, everyday i open it and my timeline shows, couples romancing, families holidaying, people getting new jobs, they are getting engaged, watching movies, eating in restaurants, cooking for their wives or husbands, hundreds and hundreds of birthday wishes, millions of comments and billions of likes, marriage pictures, newborn babies, and even honeymoon pictures, i mean literally you can find them kissing, hugging and romancing. then there are mother's day, father's day wishes, they forget to wish their mom, but never to the other citizens of this artificial country. what a beautiful world it is.

Effect: Drastic, first thought, apart from me, everyone is happy. now everyone wants to do the same to be happy, its a fashion trend. if you dont do the same, your are ancient. unfortunately in reality, you have a job, a boss, who gives you orders, you dont have leaves, your have bills to pay, there are EMIs, home loans, rent, daily traffic, no pay hike, increased prices everywhere, in all real life sucks, but its only yours, others are happy, wont beleive me? go and checkout Facebook..

Other and bigger artificial world is Television. I mean seriously, major part of the television is fake. First of all there is nothing called as 'reality show' and News channels are no different, but still we tend to believe it like its happening in our own life. serials and soaps are like killing our family mindsets. one person marrying thrice or more, every family has someone whose whole and sole purpose is to harm others, young people are in this world only to fell in love and then its cool to fight the world for their true and eternal love. Parents have only one task to oppose, well at least one of them if not both.

Effect: Joint families are old fashioned, fathers of daughters, search only for those guys who live away from family, or is single son. making girlfriend/boyfriend is must, always ready to fight opposing parents, tragedy is new cool you see. most importantly in a joint families people are loosing trust on each other. Its all expectations which are soaring high, and when they do not fill, which mostly don't, one feels like he has compromised in life and living a burden.

Then there comes a major stakeholder, commercials. think exactly what you see in any commercial? word is perfection, which does not exist in real. perfect girls everywhere, perfect hair, perfect eyes, perfect figure, perfect voice, perfect dress, perfect makeup, everything about the girls in a commercial is perfect. Male gender, stud, height-weight equation in equilibrium, not a single hint of fat, dream boy of every women. why? only because product must be sold.

Effect: we all want to be the same. girls want to look the same, boys want to be the same, and believe me nobody is able to achieve it, not even the people who are already their in those advertisements. the people whom we see in those ads are result of heavy makeup, high lenses cameras and most importantly, editing, mixing and photoshop. everything is made perfectly according to the script, yes its a script not the real world.

Problem is all these things have become an integral part of our life, so much that our happiness, sadness, jealousy, love, likes, care and all other emotions have become slave of these artificial world. this is making us more unhappy, looking normal is no reason to be sad, but we become sad, because we fail to look good. we become sad that others are holidaying and we are not, others traveling to different countries, we are not. others are falling in love, we are not. others eating in particular restaurant, people are watching movies, buying cars, buying houses, apartments, dogs, cats, buffaloes and what not. I am bald, i am not fair, i am not having a good looking wife, my husband is fat, all these criteria, what do you think has come from?

Only answer i can think of is the artificial world we live in !!