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Sourav Ganguly’seighteen year old daughter, Sana, is said to have posted a message on Instagram, against the CAA. But loving father that he is, Sourav has said, that ‘she is too young a girl to know about Indian politics!’
And in that statement lies the snooty, snigger and smirks greeting the cries and protests of students all over India.
“You are children!”
“You are being manipulated!”
“You are too young to know about Indian politics!”
So, Dada, when did you start playing cricket for your state? When you were eighteen wasn’t it? Or have you forgotten? Did you understand the game? Or do think it was just a children’s game, of which now at the age of 47 you have become president off?
As I listened to student protestors from all over India, speaking out on TV, I realized, how intelligent, decisive and articulate they were.
And maybe that is what politicians, most of whom have, if at all, scraped through their schools or bluffed their degrees, need to know, that education gives you the power to analyze, to think, to probe into the deeper meaning of things, and to open up for scrutiny, lies, that the uneducated accept as gospel truth.
Also, it’s only in politics, even cricket politics, that seniority counts, whereas in todays corporate world, people like the forty seven year oldGanguly, would have been serving under a thirty or thirty five year old boss.“And he wouldn’t even call you Dada!”
“Would you call him ‘too young’MrGanguly?” I’m sure you wouldn’t, seasoned politician that you are.
So, also the politician, if he was working anywhere else other than the secure walls of Parliament, would have been like Sourav, serving under one of these youngsters.
These in colleges are not the vote banks of the country. Vote banks get swayed en masse. Like a herd of sheep, they follow blindly, trusting completely in rhetoric and scripts written for good actors.
Vote banks are what brings wrong men and women to power, while thinkers are those who can see beyond.
And yet, we call these the thinkers of India, naïve, ‘too young’ and impressionable?
What a laugh!
Wake up India! These socalled children you are firing upon, hurling tear gas onto and brandishing your lathis on are today’s generation!
They are ‘not too young’, they know more than you and I do.
It is not they, the educated who have been manipulated, it is we who have been.
If the father of Sana could play for his state at eighteen! If Sachin could have played for his country at even less, shouldn’t we stop thinking of them as ‘young’ and start thinking of them as ‘mature educated thinkers’ who are showing us, and here I quote Shakespeare, ‘that there is ‘something rotten in the state of Denmark..!’
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“I’m bored!” is not a cry we hear often nowadays. Every effort has been made by shrewd marketeers and technologists to see that not a moment of monotony and dullness creeps into the waking hours of our youngsters and also ourselves. Instant gratification is available at the click of a finger, through the phone, watch, laptop and other available gadgets.
I believe it is this need to be instantly satisfied that is slowly stopping us from understanding the repercussions of foolhardy speedy fulfillment!
I also believe it is this need to be gratified immediately that is allowing our leaders to get away with outrageous laws, which we ‘instant gratifiers’ don’t have the time or inclination to look deep into!
How quickly, the vigils, the protests, agitations, demonstrations, marches and anger disappeared as soon as the four rapists were shot dead!
But did you the concerned, stop to think that the real culprits; your protectors, who are never there to protect, your political leaders, who are as involved in sexual crimes as the assaulters, your men whose wrong thinking of themselves as the superior gender, are all at large?
Have you, who have been satisfied by those four bullets, or knowing the skill of our policemen, fifty bullets, realize that you have been popped a soother, a pacifier into your mouth, which is what instant gratification is all about.
Yes, the law takes a long time to act, but in the process, we get to the root of a crime. Through a justice system that we think is endless and dreary, we may at the end find that the police, just to close the case, and go about their business of pleasing their bosses and wallets, or who needed to get away from spending their time in the drudgery of detective work arrested a conveniently available four innocent men.
And maybe, just maybe, four rapists, the real ones, still roam free!
So it is with the contentious Citizens Amendment Bill (CAB ). This is not just about majorities and minorities, nor only about refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Take your ear plugs off and let me explain: This is about fiddling with a Constitution which till today, allowed anyone of any kind to live in this country, but with this new discrimination, could well begin the process of, “If you don’t think like me, don’t live here with me!”
Which my dear friend, before you put your ear plugs on again, could be you who thinks different, me who decides to act different and anyone who decides not to be a Cloned Citizen of this Country!
Instant justice, immediate gratification, may look after your pressing need for appeasement but, spells disaster in the long run.
Throw away those ear plugs before it’s too late, or you’ll soon be really ‘bored’ cooling your heels in detention camps already being built for those who are different..!
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As I look at those who raise their hands in worship in a church, temple or masjid, I realize for me my soul lifts up in praise to my Maker and Creator at other moments!
I saw so much of this ecstatic worship within me, as I sang with and listened to an orchestra last week, with players from all over the world! As orchestra, and singers and ballerinas sang and played and danced on stage, I heard my soul whispering, “Bob, these are windows to heaven!”
Indeed, they were.
My soul lifts up in worship, when I see a beautiful painting. “How?” I ask myself, “Could there be a work so divine?” And the answer comes from above, “I opened a window!”
So, also a lovely garden, or a still lake, or a majestic mountain, all revealing beauty and grandeur, and giving us a glimpse through a window, of a life of eternity waiting for us, seeped in loveliness!
And then I open the papers, click the TV on, and hear the ghastly word, “Rape!”
From the highest peak of beauty, I stare at the lowest cesspool of grime, filth and dirt!
As much as the fingers can wield a paint brush to produce a work of art, or write a book, as much as those hands can plant a wonderful garden or landscape a beautiful scene, so also can those same hands, abuse, assault and attack, brutally, ruthlessly and violently!
Same hands!
“How?” I ask myself.
And the answer is, what are we as a people opening:Windows to heaven, or a trapdoor to the darkness below?
When there is compassion, kindness and love flowing from us, not just to our near and dear ones, but even to those of another faith, nationality or colour, then you sit on a sill of a window to heaven!
But when we spread hate, subtly bring about division, and turn a blind eye to injustice, then we know the trapdoor to darkness is being nudged open, inch by inch.
I see frenzied reactions to the rape in Andhra, and hear loud suggestions, some bizarre, and feel like crying, “It is not the work of a few rapists, no, but each of us, who instead of taking the brush, waving the baton, or a wielding a gardeners spade to create lofty beauty, have fallen prey to being openers of the trapdoor, and letting evil in!
God, beckons us back to beauty, a beauty that lifts our souls in worship, our hearts in compassion and love and our minds for justice! A window of heavenly music, a lovely painting, a beautiful book!
But move! Quickly move away from the evil that sucks you below,from those who have allowed our nation to slide into this sludge, slime and squalor and lift yourselves up to yon window of true beauty..!
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