Blame Game…!!

 Blame Game…!!

We dream of peace unity and progress but do we really believe in those concepts?? Do we really want peace? If so then why we act against it every time we get a chance? Do we really want to live in a progressive world where we can build a new future, then why we take a step backward whenever we get a chance? Loving a family member or a blood relative is easy but loving a stranger is perplexing. Throwing words around is easy but doing something to help our world is difficult.

What are we doing now? Arguing about things that does not help us create a world safe and innovative for the next generation, we are destroying it. We are ripping to shreds any chance of peace and unity with our bare hands, we are shouting arguing blindly about matters that are not even relevant. What about real issues? Why there are people still dying of hunger? Why there are kids who are working in their childhood but not getting any education? Why people are dying of malnutrition and illness that are curable? Why we are not talking about a better healthcare for poor, and why we are not talking about the corruption in our country? There is so much to be done, nothing is happening & we are living in denial. We are avoiding the real problems but those are not going to solve themselves.

When logic & rationalism dies, when we shut our eyes close we could not see the real monsters lurking in the shadows. We fuel hate, discrimination, & suspicion but we weaken love, respect, and unity. With our words we are not actually doing anything creative or constructive, we are stuck in a game of hide and seek. Hiding the real problems and finding a trivial thing to fight about. We are going to die anyway, and our existence is just over like that. We live for very little amount of time, and we are wasting it with hate, war, & death. This is how we are using our time on this earth, using our brains our precious breath, why because we are scared of our truth, we are insecure, afraid, weak, & we are confused. We don’t know what to do about the problems so we hide them & throw them aside and shout and scream to make others feel bad, we are acting like sadist. We can’t find our own happiness so we want to destroy others maybe then we can be happy. 

But happiness comes from within. Satisfaction comes from hard work and trying. Nothing else can help. So we should open our eyes, use our brilliant brains and fight head on against all the problems around us together with love. But it is a dream right? Who would choose love against hate? Who would fight against problems? Playing the blame game is much easier isn’t it?

Living in a Nightmare..!!!!

Living in a Nightmare..!!!!

I am having frequent nightmares, every time I close my eyes I woke up with a start & sweat but I forget what I have been dreaming about. Still I crave for a sleep and dreams, but I don’t know what I am seeing in my dreams and what is making me so afraid!  Once I thought I have to remember what I am dreaming, it is happening in my brain so I have to train it to remember. I tried and tried one-step at a time; I started to remember glimpses of my dream. Then one day I remember all of it. I was not having a nightmare I was alive, having a life, a beautiful Utopian life, with bright light, love, laughter and peace. The sun shining bright with a pleasant warm feeling, the moon in the night so silvery and gentle, I read, I sing I smile and wonder about anywhere I want, but then I come to a dreadful realization that I am dreaming, this happy place is not my life it is not anybody’s life, it cannot be reality, it is a dreamworld a neverland one must call it that I read in the stories. The land I live never known peace, though it craved for it, the sun shines but with hate and anger, people can’t read, sing or say anything that they want, if they are nobody then they don’t matter, if their words don’t match to the beliefs of the people with deadly weapons they must die like nothing. Here one word is enough reason to kill someone. But we are well designed to withstand any violence nay inhumanity, maybe we died one day without realizing, that is why nothing affects us, we hardly ever scream in desperation, we hardly ever cry for anything real. We are more evolved now, emotionless machines. And among us who accidentally left with little emotion and not quite machine yet we kill them, we try to kill their mind or their body, though mind is more important and dangerous because a creative, curious, rebellious mind can infect many more so kill the mind, the body will die eventually. But do machines dream? May be they do, may be the evolution is not yet done. Maybe we are still a little human inside.

We scared of death, because we don’t know what is waiting for us behind the dark veil, but what if we know where we were going back if we woke up? In a dream that so beautiful and peaceful waking up is a curse and it is heartbreaking and terrifying, it is bad not knowing but it is much more worst that knowing where we are and where we have to live in fear in hate in despair, we cannot avoid, we cannot change. So I woke up terrified with a start and my brain forgets the wonderful dream just to remain sane in this cruel brutal reality. In dreams I live, and I die when I wake up. 

Words to Thunder…!!!!

Words to Thunder…!!!!

What do we have, to stand against injustice, brutality, abuse or anything that stands on the way of our freedom of being a human being? We have our heart to make us strong, we have our courage to make us unbreakable, we have our will power to fight to the end, & we have our voice to break the silent, of fear & hesitation. We have our words, words are powerful, it is capable of trembling empires & bring an end to the tyranny, it can influence, motivate, & inspire people, and it can light fire into the hearts of sleeping ignorant crowd, it can give birth to a revolution. All of this can be start from some words spoken from the heart, the pain the anger that it shows can change the world, can change the faith of the powerful it can end injustice, all we need is right word.

Power intoxicates people, there are very few in history those who fought its seduction and stood still with principle and determination, power makes people greedy, cruel, manipulative and most of all insecure, the fear of loosing it, is far more terrifying than anything else, so the people have power, act of this fear and try to crush any opposing voice or mind that it can. The happiness is much less than the fear and insecurity for a person poisoned by the taste of supremacy or dominance, they want it to be evermore so they ignore any logic any morality or any humanity, just controlled by greed, insecurity and pure frustration a person can be extremely dangerous for society. History shows us many examples of power hungry people, but we keep our blinds on in the same situation and hope that it will pass & history will not repeat itself but that is denial  and it have to end at some point.

We the people the majority of the society who don’t have power, we have a tendency to fight back if put in the corner, it going to happen sooner or later because people don’t endure tyranny or brutality for long, the people have a breaking point, and when it breaks, people need some word to guide them, and the words becomes weapon & dynasties fall.

There can be only so much fear, or patience or ignorance, after extreme fear there nothing but only rage and anger, after so much patience there is only a thirst to change and after a decade of ignorance there is a revolution. Nothing stands still, nothing stays same, everything changes, powerful become weak, and weak can become powerful, the circle keeps going but in-between there are phases that mark the beginning and the end.

The whisper of distress becomes a noise then it became a roar, words are powerful, we all have them, we all can see can feel but most of the time we don’t use our words, because we are scared, we are confused we are alone, we are powerless. But if we find the voice inside us, if we listen to the words around us then we can see we are not alone, we are not weak, we have the power that no one can imagine, in a breaking point of all the pain & all torment, we roar in one voice and we use our words that can make us free; that can change the circle & only that can turn the fear around. With the right word, we can destroy or create anything, but if we don’t use them or lost them on the way we will always be at the end of a sharp sword, we will always be in dark and we will always be subject to brutality. Words can change it all if we let it become a thunder. 

What part we play in our democracy!

 

What part we play in our democracy!

Shrutasree Chattopadhyay

The biggest festival of our country is knocking on our door, the election is here, we the people of our free democratic country can use our supreme power of vote to select representatives for our own administration, we are going to choose the people who can have all the power and responsibility, and then for next five years we are going to relax and enjoy our that particular choice in peace. Is it not an agreeable idea? It is really, we choose few people, they rule over us, and we live a secure, healthy, fruitful life, there is nothing negative about this system. But is it a reality? I don’t know, we vote for the candidates that the different political parties choose for us. We have a list of people who we can vote for, do the political parties asks us who to select as there candidate or who to select to represent us? No they don’t because they don’t have to. We the people of this country have the supreme power of vote but not the power of choosing the right person or system for that.

Every institution has some rules and boundaries, we have too, and we live according to that. Nothing is wrong with that picture either. But we the common people of India the king makers, do we really feel that powerful? We can feel the rush of election, the festivities around us, the throwing stone of opposing parties to each other, we can enjoy a good teatime debate about which party is better or which candidate has more charisma, which one can save us from the corruption and from all the chaos. Then we sleep and forget all that and live the day to day normal life. But the election can change the life or fate of the winning party, they acquires all the power, and the power to control the  mass, by force or by rule, or by every single instrument there is for the security and protection of the common people, they can turn all that power against us. What are we during the election? The king makers, the power is in our hand, they beg they cry, they act they promise, the sing songs, entertain us, manipulates us, influences us. What we are after the election? We are the subjects, insecure, confuse, weak, without any power, many of us without food, education, health, money, we are nothing but a forgotten bunch of resources that have been used and will be used again after 5 years of merriment.

The question we sometimes ask to ourselves, why do we need politicians for? They are here to represent us, represent the common people, they are selected members of our communities to discuss our problems in a big stage and find some solutions, they can help to run our country as a well-oiled machine and all of us can move forward along with our country to a bright future.  As an idea all of it is quite brilliant, that is why democracy is a common way to run a country now, we don’t believe in monarchy, or dictatorship, we know better that a power so much as the supreme of a country is very dangerous in one hand. Like a family, in which every member is very important, in a country also every single citizen is extremely significant, so why we need an intermediate class to rule the country behalf of us? Why can’t all of us rule? That is impossible, we are millions in number and that many people can only achieve chaos, who is going to listen and who is going to work?  There are already people who work, government officers, IAS, IPS officers, are already there, there are institution for every aspect of our country to handle, there are people who work every day as police, doctor, nurse, teacher, administrators and in every single sector.

What we need for the progress in education? What kind of people can lead us to the new age of growth and progress? Social scientists, scientists, researchers, scholars, academicians people who are connected with education, so why we put a politician with no such background or qualification above that entire creative and intelligent bunch? Can they really lead us to the growth and spread of education? I sincerely doubt that, people doubt that. Who should be in charge of health of this nation? A politician with no such knowledge or a council of doctors, biomedical scientists, researchers of   disease, diagnostician, and people who are involve and connected with medicine and health care. Who to put in charge of the forests of this country? A person who don’t have any idea about forest’s ecology the relevance of the forest in common life, or about the resources we can find in the forests, we need people who can understand the ecology, the connection of  forest with life cycle. Like that in every sector in every matter we need working people who understands the problem, deals with that in real life and work on that. Not an oblivious person that knows nothing about the subject but just a part of a huge power play.

Intermediary class are everywhere, the inbetweeners,  who works in the middle, the biggest of all middle men there is our politicians, they are standing in between of our country and us, the common people, why do we need them for, actually? They don’t represent us, not really! do they know how a worker live on the edge unsure of the future, if he can provide food for his children that day or not, or can they feel the agony of a poor youth who wants to study but don’t have any means for it. They don’t belong with the common people, they rule, they fight the opposing party, they insult each other and we enjoy the spectacle. Then they acquire the power and that changes their life, in the loss of power they become less fortunate in the gain of power they earn more, but nothing changes for us, not really, not ever.

We need people in our institutions, people with brain people with moral values, people with the means for doing the job that is needed to be done. We don’t need people in-between. We evolved from divine monarchy, from enlightened monarchy, from dictatorship, now standing in democracy, we need to evolve more, we need to decentralize the power to the masses, we need a model which can run a country with the power and resource from a country from geographical materialistic resource to the human resource, we don’t need an intermediary class, we don’t need some group of people to rob us blind. The people with power never want to give that up that is the universal truth. By quoting a line from, Spider man “great power comes with great responsibility” they have power but they don’t care about responsibility. We have a power too, we are the kingmakers, the people of India, millions of us, we need a transparent logical active institution to run our country do we really need some middle men? It’s a question we should ask ourselves, and then it will be really hard to fall asleep.

Silence!! But, for how long ???

Silence!! But, for how long ???

Silence is a very bad habit for both of them, bad for those who are just keeping their mouth shut and those who just assumed that, who are not saying anything are can’t even feel anything. So a huge misunderstanding can be created by all this keeping a silence thing. Why a fully grown person just chooses to keep their mouth shut along with their mind? Why? It is an interesting question, why? Because of inner fear? Clueless attitude or just disappointing life makes a person so numb that saying something just makes no sense to him. May be, but when someone just believes that people are not saying or shouting so they are not feeling anything or nor watching or understanding anything then it is very pathetic for both of them. A constant ignorant can also weakens some loud voices some shouts just echo everywhere but can’t properly make a roar.

What makes a nation? The people the common men or just the machine which mean to run the system that’s all? But no sometime the machine runs without any aim and the people keep all the sound down may be to keep peace or just be calm or just waiting for the right moment to talk all together. I wonder for a very long time that why I should live every moment in this in my own country in fear, in every step fear is lurking around, women are scared to live the people are scared to ask for their truthful rights, creativity is scared to expressing something all of us living like half dead zombies somehow. But why? What is wrong? May be being scared we all just made ourselves weaker more than ever, that is why when someone from us do something worth doing feels alone in the crowd and system grind them like veggies in a mixer grinder it is a creepy analogy though but still familiar with us.

It’s been a very long time we spend in silence, in fake peace in a illusion, in stupid fear without a life force without a proper energy without a back bone, in this way many thinks that no one is feeling anything, or not watching their dirty unmoral works not going to say anything like always but may be sometimes all misunderstanding are meant to be clear out, silence for a very long time can simply be misunderstood as weakness, but after a long silence always a huge storm waits just around the corner...