I dunno whether 'nothingness' is a word...actually I cant really think of a better word at this moment in my fourth and fifth dimensions - time and life!!
Today is close to a fortnight after my motherland was scarred in excess of 4100 times in the last 34 years!! And it has evoked a wide spectrum of reactions from her denizens. However the first and the eventual one would have a high consensus among all classes of Indians. To begin with, most of us were awestruck and in the long run most of us shall let time get the better of us. It would only be confined to a dusty magazine cover and for a handful - that of their heart.
I have sat back to brood about the proceedings that has been occurring in my motherland and my search for answers has always brought me to the same place where I had embarked on my sojourn. Nothing else but 'nothingness' prevails there, currently.
The milieu comprises - the feelings of a friend who had his better half minutes away from the gunshots which got conveyed miles across to this antipode, thanks to advances in telecommunication; distantly knowing the Indian doctor who treated one of the injured miscreants, having most of my near ones in that land and having a mixed bag of highly opinionated individuals around. The people closest to the site of action (or inaction initially, as opposition parties would slur) had a sense of urgency - trying their best to reverse the course of things. People like me at a distance had lesser urgency and hence more time to delve into the deluge of thought processes.
We as individuals always look for solutions to problems. Some of us want to strategically eliminate some of the places where these miscreants are trained, some of us want to mount the international pressure on the state that houses these people, some of us are trying hard to keep Mumbai as normal as possible in order to pay homage to the demised individuals, some of us think that a lot has been taken for granted as the spirit of Mumbai, some of us earnestly look up to the sky and sigh in our quest for answers, some of us choose to ignore the proceedings becoz we didnt lose a friend or a family member and then there are some of us who are trying to gain political mileage out of it, some who are surmising the future of South Asia and then again there are some of us who are planning our next strike!!
The definition of 'us' is so contorted and limited to some of us - human beings, that we not only fail to identify our problems but severely cripple our approaches to solve it.
At this point, I lose it all and turn back to my gramophone -
"...You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one"
Carbide
I have sat back to brood about the proceedings that has been occurring in my motherland and my search for answers has always brought me to the same place where I had embarked on my sojourn. Nothing else but 'nothingness' prevails there, currently.
The milieu comprises - the feelings of a friend who had his better half minutes away from the gunshots which got conveyed miles across to this antipode, thanks to advances in telecommunication; distantly knowing the Indian doctor who treated one of the injured miscreants, having most of my near ones in that land and having a mixed bag of highly opinionated individuals around. The people closest to the site of action (or inaction initially, as opposition parties would slur) had a sense of urgency - trying their best to reverse the course of things. People like me at a distance had lesser urgency and hence more time to delve into the deluge of thought processes.
We as individuals always look for solutions to problems. Some of us want to strategically eliminate some of the places where these miscreants are trained, some of us want to mount the international pressure on the state that houses these people, some of us are trying hard to keep Mumbai as normal as possible in order to pay homage to the demised individuals, some of us think that a lot has been taken for granted as the spirit of Mumbai, some of us earnestly look up to the sky and sigh in our quest for answers, some of us choose to ignore the proceedings becoz we didnt lose a friend or a family member and then there are some of us who are trying to gain political mileage out of it, some who are surmising the future of South Asia and then again there are some of us who are planning our next strike!!
The definition of 'us' is so contorted and limited to some of us - human beings, that we not only fail to identify our problems but severely cripple our approaches to solve it.
At this point, I lose it all and turn back to my gramophone -
"...You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one"
Carbide
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