Ladies & Gentlemen: Make Some Noise

I was really hooked to the Dainik Bhaskar advertisement “ Zid Karo” ( starring Dhoni). For the first few minutes I had a feeling that change is in the air. I really hope they do something more than just the advertisement. But the prior campaigns like the Lead India (TOI) or the “ Desh badalne ke lea Channel Badlo” ( India TV) has made me cynical about the intentions of this one as well. However whether they really change the world can be debated later; they have at least urged the people to dream for it.
But this made me think what is it that has happened to us? Why don’t we see any such advertisement or programmes or writings in the mainstream media? Is it a way to keep us in the trance of the lotus eaters ? So that we do not wake up to smell…(shall we say) the roses. Or is it that the angst is out of fashion? Are angry young men a passé? And the idea of a revolution is so 1970s. Only thing that has survived the test of time are the “fashionable” Che Guevara t-shirts. These t-shirts alone have been able to break the class barrier. From an auto-rikshaw driver in suburban Kolkata to the downtown fashion stylist in Mumbai, everybody have one.

Today the Indians famed for their argumentative nature is stifled by the absence of one. The public sphere of debate has now ceded to stance. Arguments hence have become one sided. And it is a win-win situation for everybody. The media can do a wafer thin research and the mass will not have to spend too many of those grey cells to think. And at the end of the day, all of us have a stance and none of us have to think.


Hence is this modest attempt to rekindle the fire that burns in our mind. This is just an attempt to shake the existing flimsy stances and create a broader and a stronger standpoint.

After all, there is some thing more to life than just living, nurturing and destroying. Had it not been so, the trinity would have been enough, the world wouldn’t have had human. Let us justify that we are that supreme race which with their innocuous impurity has in them what the Gods don’t possess…

We have that understanding, often flawed but never the less an understanding and an ability to probe, to feel, to sensitize and to excite. And most importantly to argue and to create the heterogeneity of views from where would arise that great idea.

And whenever the doubt of cacophony clouds our judgement, let us remember that even Cosmos was created out of the chaos .

Cheers!!!