Basanti, rang de tu mohe basanti... thats the song making buzz around the nation. Movie does tinge hearts and minds with its flavour of basanti.
One of the characters, aslam, says something to the effect that he would never have imagined that someday something would happen in their happy go lucky lives. Something so big that would stir them into action. Something that would change the values of people around them and something that would change their assessment of life completely. We also weren't expecting a movie like this specially as last 2 decades in the liberalized era have spawned only (mostly)chocolate romances.
a fresh wave of idealism, packaged with ample doses of history and refurbished with a modern Indian youth's perspective of life does its trick.
I sat flipping channels and my mind a bundle of million thoughts after watching the movie.
trying to reassess my life before the colour wears down with daily dose of reality.
feel like a time bomb ticking and waiting for hour of glory to explode someday.
aren't we all time bombs ticking slowly to death, just not knowing when that would happen?
Though it is hard to say if the recent public activism in Jessica Lal case has been in anyway catalyzed by Rang de Basanti but it would be heartening to believe that movie had some effect in some direct or indirect way.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
conversion ..?
most of my posts are news or tv derivative and this one is no different.
this comes from VHP/RSS's latest Shabri Kumbh. these days both these organizations are out to stake their claim on population of this country as their domain. They want all unclaimed hindus on firnges like adivasis to be well and proper cardholding members of hindu community so that these poor souls will not lose their chance to achieve nirvana by falling prey to conversion to any othe religion.
they want a law to prohibit other religions to convert any hindus and such other ambiguous hindus.
one question i want to ask these two organizations and any other such organization as to what they have done or would do to stop the caste violences in hindus, specially north india. where one hindu is not equal to the other after 5000 years of enligtenment and 50 + years of independence. i havent seen people like Mr. Togadia still make any of his trishul marches to protect any of these victims who are put under all kind of discrimination and violence.
i dont know if these organizations were ruling the earth in our previous milleniums and centuries there would be no zainism/ budhism/ sikhism. Hindutva always allowed people to introspect and find their own belief and gods. But i guess now hindutva is left to VHP/RSS prescription only
this comes from VHP/RSS's latest Shabri Kumbh. these days both these organizations are out to stake their claim on population of this country as their domain. They want all unclaimed hindus on firnges like adivasis to be well and proper cardholding members of hindu community so that these poor souls will not lose their chance to achieve nirvana by falling prey to conversion to any othe religion.
they want a law to prohibit other religions to convert any hindus and such other ambiguous hindus.
one question i want to ask these two organizations and any other such organization as to what they have done or would do to stop the caste violences in hindus, specially north india. where one hindu is not equal to the other after 5000 years of enligtenment and 50 + years of independence. i havent seen people like Mr. Togadia still make any of his trishul marches to protect any of these victims who are put under all kind of discrimination and violence.
i dont know if these organizations were ruling the earth in our previous milleniums and centuries there would be no zainism/ budhism/ sikhism. Hindutva always allowed people to introspect and find their own belief and gods. But i guess now hindutva is left to VHP/RSS prescription only
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