Because, one can not stop to exist

Last week I saw some images of Bajrang Dal activists who blackened  the face of a couple on Valentine day. The couple in love were looking very distressed and our moral police activists were standing there proudly as they have saved the India from some nuclear attack. It’s really very disappointing to see such images in India who is looking forward to a prosperous future. I don’t know why our administration falls every time to save the basic human rights of freedom of ours citizens.   The bajrang dal activists were disturbed as Valentine day is copy of western culture and they think that western culture is something very dangerous like an epidemic.My question here is if our Indian culture is so week that it could be threatened by an expression of love ( or whatever it is ) of a couple.

My second question if we really know what is the Indian culture. Does it stop us to be a liberal society? According to the Vedas kaam (sex) is one of the most important purusharth ( Spritual duty of a man) which comes only after Dharma (religion) in order. If we go by history, we will find that Indian culture is something which always advocate the basic right of freedom of an individual.

Our history tells that not long but just before thousand years back, we were a very liberal society. Even sex was not a taboo subject like these days for us and we were a very happy and prosperous society. According to the historians, Mughal and British invasion changed our view toward the sex  completely and we turned into a most hypocrite society.

Come on , Let’s admit it that we are not honest to ourselves. When we spit our venom against western culture on Valentine day, we forget that our technology, movies, TV entertainment , dressing , Internet all are gifts to us from this culture. Tell me why  we should be so proud to be an Indian. Please don’t go to the Vaidic period and start telling me what our great forefathers had done. They were really great and they didn’t had time for petty politics and other time wasting exercise. women were free to dress whatever they want and we definitely were not a sex starved society in the Vadik period like today.  Molestation of a decent woman in Mumbai by dozens of goons on New Year eve is an example of our dual faced society.In fact, in some parts western culture is following the rules which we actully discovered in Vaidik period and see their progress. See the health, welath and lifestyle of people of west. These countries are among the most prosperops countries in the world while we have even  forgot that we are humans.

Are we able to provide to all our citizens clean water, non polluted air and hygenic food? No.

Are we able to provide every children of India that hight standard of education and an environment to grow their personality? No.

 Does our society treat our women with respect and diginity and protect their rights ? No.In fact,  we need to take some lessons from west when it comes to improve our lifestyle as an educated society.

My point here is why we are wasting our time in these useless activities like Valentine protest and some political rally which is being organized to fulfill the political ambition of a corrupt leader. Instead, we can devote this time to improve ourselves as an individual and as a society. I am sure that this will make Lord Bajrangbali more happy.

As a matter of fact,  lord Hanuman ( Bajrang bali) carried the message of love of Lord Ram to  Mother Sita and helped her to destroy her sorrow. I think Bajrandal “Anti Valentine” activists can take a lesson from this episode. Obviously they will say that couples celebrating valentine day are not Sita and Ram but  Doesn’t Hanuman ji  see only Sita and Ram in this whole universe?

If you do not know I would like to tell  you that Baba Neeb Karori Maharaj was a great saint of Northern India. Here I would like to end this feature with one of his story from book “ Miracle of Love”, authored by Ramdas. 

“A devotte was embarrased when Maharajji came to his room at university and discovered a pinup calender on the wall. Mahrajji asked who she was, and the devotee said no one, going to turn the picture on wall. But Maharajji stopped him, saying, “She’s is Ma. Don’t dihonor her.”     

We are tired of reading and listening the news that Raj Thackeray is made hero by a well thought out plan by media and central and state government. Will it work as an advantage or disadvantage to his image or his party or Mumbai is a matter of  debate but here I want to focus on a very different aspect of this whole issue.

I had been a great fan of Amitabh Bachchan since my childhood and I have seen the scene of movie Deewar innumerable times where he enters in the den of goons and locks the door. I could not forget the way he fought and won the fight with bare hands. This is only one scene of one movie. We all have grown up watching these kind of scenes from Bachchan’s movies. This was the time when we had literally no exposure to outside world and we were left to select very few options when it come s to choose our idol. Thanks to exposure to Hollywood that now we know that even the immortal Gabbar Singh learned to laugh from the villain of “ For Few Dollars More” a Clint Eastwood ‘s movie . Copying has become a little difficult these days. Now we immediately know when we see a shameless copy of Denzal Washington’s “Men on Fire” when we see Amitabh Bachchan in “Ek Ajnabi”.

Anyway, what I am trying to say that Amitabh Bachchan was like a God to us and we were fascinated by his image of a fighter of truth. But again , life teaches  us a lot of lessons and one of them is that it is very difficult to find a real fighter. I don’t expect a person to fight for his life but at least a person as powerful as Amitabh Bachchan can speak a few word of truth. It is so ridiculous when Amar Singh speaks on behalf of Mr. Bachchan. I wonder that all the lengthy  dialogues which I remembered and  repeated so many times was nothing but just empty words which do not have even a .001 % reality.

On the other hand when I see the fruit vendors, vegetable vendors, cab drivers and auto riksha drivers in Mumbai who never stopped to exist even for one day, I admire  their courage and fighting spirit. They were working as usual and as normal in the middle of all that insult, violence and a national crisis. They didn’t ran away from Mumbai with their family. They were there to fight the battle of life and livelihood with all courage, patience and non violence. 

I am grown up now. I know that they are the real heroes. It does not matter if they didn’t lock the door in the den of goons.

Hi friends,  Animation is the most talked about subject these days in art student’s circle and most of them wants to make big in this industry which is showing exponential growth every year.Yes, market for different animated contents are growing for sure world- wide  and we should look up to take an advantage from this growth. With  success of “Hanuman” we see a trend for animated movies in Bollywood and we hear a lot of announcement these days even from big producer like Chopras and Johars.  What I think that we are still far far behind from Hollwood animated movies when it comes to not even technology and expertise but we also lack original concepts. Why we are dependent on our Hanuman, Ganesha or Krishna? Why  we are not capable of developing our own Shrek, Lion King or The Incredibles?

Answer is simple. We are still not confident about our own concepts and we want to borrow something from our Mythologies or from Hollywood or from any where else. Lack or originality and blindly copying others is our national problem when it comes to anything like music, movies, fashion or style. Our top directors, actors and music composers rarely come up with something original and they are always proud of what they do. I think we lack innovation terribly and not confident enough to experiment something new. I may sound bitter but this is truth.What do you think ???? 

Rahul 

Gesture Graphics & Development, Mumbai, India.

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We believe that  animation is a medium which is directly connected with freedom. We can always create whatever we want through this medium.

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Gesture Graphics & Development, Mumbai, India