Fearless Living !

We are slowly and steadily heading towards a period which will be dominated by evil forces. To achieve their sinister goals they will unleash fear in the minds of everyone with the sole purpose of ensuring that none will dare to challenge their motives. Living a life without fear could be something of the past.

Corruption in high places is the nemesis for all of us. Their overwhelming authority and access to muscle power can be unnerving for the peace loving and generally docile individual who rather bow in obeisance, than dare to challenge a group which operates in a clandestine manner.

Social media regularly displays videos of various crimes being committed in different parts of the country. Mind you, these videos are uploaded by citizens and exhibit violence against women, the elderly, police atrocities and other heart-wrenching incidents.

What is of upmost concern is the fearlessness exhibited by the perpetrators in broad daylight, without fear of reprisal from the not so long arm of the law.

Where do you think such criminals derive their courage from? No prizes for guessing, it's obvious for all to see. Political clout blesses them with nerves of steel and with influential persons watching their back, they feel a sense of invincibility.

Let's rewind to the pre-independence era and scrutinize the mindset of our freedom fighters. They possessed a single minded purpose and collectively fought selflessly and relentlessly to achieve a purpose for subsequent generations to live with freedom and dignity.

If at that moment, there was a fast forward mechanism for them to look into the future, it would have immensely grieved those valiant fighters of what future generations would do to their legacy. I consider it a mutilation of our heritage and culture. In harsher words, it is nothing but a gang rape of the legacy we inherited from our ancestors.

Another disheartening factor to be considered is that this mass mutilation and erosion of basic human values is the handiwork of a very minuscule percentage of people. It is their muscle power which invokes fear in the minds of the vast peace loving majority.

I declare this majority, myself included, to be a spineless, gutless species which needs to be plunged into a bottomless pit of doom, for allowing this hooliganism to pervade and corrupt society.

Are my words harsh? Well so be it, because if our ancestors had the same mindset of what we possess today, we would still be under British rule.

Wake up citizens of India and let's fight our second independence movement with the enemy living amongst us or else the fractured legacy we leave behind will spell doomsday for future generations.

I personally prefer fearless living and am willing to sacrifice my life to achieve this goal. How many of you are ready to do likewise? The time for procrastination is over, the time for discussions, debates and blogs is definitely over. In unsympathetic words, get off your lethargic behinds and move ahead.

Let’s emulate our forefathers who fought tooth and nail to allow us a life of dignity and freedom, we have no right to disrespect that legacy.

Are we still Human?

I was watching the news channel during the recent Cauvery water agitation, and there was wide coverage of the after-effects of the Supreme Court ruling.

Burning trucks, buses, vandalism and physical abuse of individuals was being beamed and it was a sorry state of affairs. Life had come to a standstill and the general public was subject to a sense of fear and uncertainty in Bengaluru city. Violence was spilling over to other parts too. Even Chennai city witnessed vandalism inflicted on businesses being run by Kannadigas and as per reports the same was being repeated in Bengaluru too against Tamil business establishments.

What struck me was the statement by the news anchor of the conflict between the Kannadigas and the Tamilians, she was repeatedly emphasizing on these two communities.
It was at this moment the story of the group of pigeons came to my mind, which I had recently read on Facebook.

Apparently a group of pigeons had to keep shifting their residence from a church to a mosque and a temple, as each time some renovation work was being undertaken prior to a festival and this caused them disturbance. Finally they housed themselves on the top of a monument and as they were perched proudly above, one of the baby pigeons noticed a communal riot going on below. Out of curiosity and concern, the baby enquired from the mother about the disturbance. The mother shook her head sadly and replied.

'They are human beings, but change their identity when it suits them, people who pray in the church are known as Christians, the people who pray in the mosques are known as Muslims and the temple worshippers are Hindus'.

'But why don't they just call themselves human beings? Because when we were in each of those places it didn't change who we were, we remained pigeons, so should it be in their case too.'
'Very true my child, the difference is that we have experienced God and live in an elevated place peacefully. They are yet to feel the presence of God and therefore indulge in meaningless violence'.

I have absolutely no idea as to the origin of this story, but it has a powerful message. Where has our humanity disappeared? At the drop of a hat we divide ourselves into caste and regions, forgetting the human values we possess or tend to ignore, allowing our selfishness and parochial mindset to take over our actions. We allow individuals with vested interests to dictate terms and disrupt our life.

Do we need pigeons to tell us what we have actually become?