What is my identity? Do I need an identity? How can I get an identity if I am just a common man? Is identity just a social term or the society is identity based? Am I born with an identity or I will get my identity?
What is religion? Do we need one? Does being atheist can also be a form of religion? What is the purpose of having the religion? Can't I decide my own code of living after all I am a human being? Does religion protect us? But how? Or we protect the religion? But why?
As per the definition, Identity is considered as qualities that make people different than others; there may be many people in that category but not all. So except having one nose, one mouth, two ears, two eyes blah blah whatever you have gives you an identity. Religion is just the identity given to men by few other men to discriminate them from others. Identity is in fact a lucrative concept and so its protection becomes vital, this becomes even more important and sacred if one links the concept of god with religion. People can give up any thing just to protect their identity, the identity which does not come naturally, the identity which was given to make us insecure, the identity which was given to discriminate us, the identity which was given to rule over us.
I can hardly find any reason for anyone to support any organization for the protection of their religion. I don’t know how Muslims think that voting against non-BJP candidate will help them, we know that any agenda these traditional political parties have can be oversimplified as vote-politics. I don’t know from whom Hindus and Indian Muslims want protection? Do Hindus want protection from Muslims; who actually gave them identity of Hindu? Do The Muslims want protection from Hindus, who got their identity of Hindu from Muslims? The religion Hinduism, the so called oldest religion or way of living, got its name only when Islamic rulers came to India and to discriminate their men from the people of this side of river Sindhu (mispronounced as Hindu by Persians and Arabs) they gave us identity of Hindu. But for them the term Hindu just meant non-Islamic.
Why do we need the concept of God, people only need the concept of God but not the God, judge of our deeds and misdeeds? Can’t we act ethically and behave morally without any fear of some superpower watching us? Why do we need some Godly protection or believe that someone is looking after us? It’s better to face the harsh reality than the comfort of lie. Why we always manage to give some name to God and refuse to believe that it or he or she does not exist. Why we want to disgrace our self by believing that some superpower controls us by some mysterious means?
These are the questions which come to our mind consciously or sub-consciously. Most of the time we ignore them but they are strong enough to haunt us. The words here are very weak to mock the situation of our minds haunted with these questions. We do sin only when we ignore ourselves and the questions of our mind are the part of us.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Inspired by kala bandar
Once again Rakyesh omprakash mehra managed to expose the society but this time in more ubiquitous sense. Besides the emotional and masala touch in the movie he added the problems of India from the perspective of small region of Chandni Chowk; and amazingly it makes sense.
If you will follow the movie from the eyes of protagonist, you may think how stupid and idiot these Chowk guys are. You may not find yourself as a part of that society. But in the back of our mind we know where do we stand.
The few people actively creating problem by arbitrary connections with religion, of course our society has religion only to divide the people so once again it served its purpose, while the politicians, just to make their vote-banks strong, are supporting the wrong instead of suppressing the communal tensions. But there are even few people against the situation and obviously it makes them weak in the democracy.
But the majority of people are silent, so we are. They are like us, they can think and they know thats all is pathetic. But to whom is the ignorance of this larger section of society is helping. In the fight between a mouse and a cat mouse will not appreciate you being neutral. The silence or ignorance of the society is just like supporting the wrong doers and giving them indication that we don't want to take our responsiblities, so you please carry on we do not have any issues and you are free to treat us like we don't have any opinion and may be we are not humans.
That makes me remember the following lines by Sydney J. Harris :
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem,
but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon
poses its own problems."
The irony is that we all know that the problem is our ignorance and we all are still ignoring that, we are not yet free we do not have yet break the shackles of fear and prejudice. We are still in the hands of those mindless idiots just because of our ignorance from ourselves.
Kala bandar hoax reminds me of other beliefs existing in our society and it gives me a kind of explanation for the existence of those beliefs without any base. But they are not the part of this post.
If you will follow the movie from the eyes of protagonist, you may think how stupid and idiot these Chowk guys are. You may not find yourself as a part of that society. But in the back of our mind we know where do we stand.
The few people actively creating problem by arbitrary connections with religion, of course our society has religion only to divide the people so once again it served its purpose, while the politicians, just to make their vote-banks strong, are supporting the wrong instead of suppressing the communal tensions. But there are even few people against the situation and obviously it makes them weak in the democracy.
But the majority of people are silent, so we are. They are like us, they can think and they know thats all is pathetic. But to whom is the ignorance of this larger section of society is helping. In the fight between a mouse and a cat mouse will not appreciate you being neutral. The silence or ignorance of the society is just like supporting the wrong doers and giving them indication that we don't want to take our responsiblities, so you please carry on we do not have any issues and you are free to treat us like we don't have any opinion and may be we are not humans.
That makes me remember the following lines by Sydney J. Harris :
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem,
but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon
poses its own problems."
The irony is that we all know that the problem is our ignorance and we all are still ignoring that, we are not yet free we do not have yet break the shackles of fear and prejudice. We are still in the hands of those mindless idiots just because of our ignorance from ourselves.
Kala bandar hoax reminds me of other beliefs existing in our society and it gives me a kind of explanation for the existence of those beliefs without any base. But they are not the part of this post.
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