This is about how a blog, Shivaji – The Boss of crap in IBN Live caused turbulence.
Our ardent hero worship or due to the nobleness of the individual behind the character, the melodrama seems to be quiet fascinating, or should I say rather disappointing. The sub-continent that marks an idol for the whole world by governing 28 states with 28 different languages and still keeping up with the pace of economic development, has given up its rational thinking or critical reasoning to a blog which portrays a persons opinion of a movie he/she watched amidst circumstances.
The interesting point which gained my attention is how people involve personal ego into a non-relevant situation. Rather than looking at the contents and expressing a comment on how a blog has been written, we are here, questioning a person’s perception on a movie. I would think this is probably a media gimmick to popularize and attract attention on a subject matter.
Shivaji – The Boss could be a very good movie or a very bad movie, both these instances does not matter here, and Rajnikanth as a person played a character in that movie, and his existence in that movie is only in the form of that character Shivaji and the movie being good or bad, does not make him good or bad.
What we come across from this drama is that we Indians still live on the belief and worship, though we try to copy the western style and way of living. This character is ingrained and unchangeable. The manifestation of basic Indian culture and tradition is what plays as the ground rule in taking us to this level of worshiping each other. Moreover in a country like India were there are so many rituals, religious practices, gurus, saints, fakirs and philosophers, this should be expected and understood.
Transformation of Indian thought process from traditional worshiping to the new age radical thinking is utopian at this point. Or should I say it would spoil the inert feel or belief we have for a respectable character.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
3 get death sentence for 1993 Mumbai blasts
This has hit the headlines of news today.
Circumstance that India is in right now, where substantial evidence could be bought with muscle power and money power, is it really advisable to give a capital sentence.
Punishment has been a mode of conditioning that our society follows to keep people away from doing wrong things. Here this conditioning could be in 100 different ways, depending on situation and circumstance.
The objective or morale of this is to restrain people from doing barbaric activities. What concerns me here is giving a death punishment, would that really help in anyway? We have a very strong and good judicial system, but can this judicial system see beyond the eyes and ears present at the court room?
I remember of a short story of Leo Tolstoy, in which he portrayed a fruit selling boy with his cart left unattended for some valid reason, and a thief running down the street finds this cart and hides his knife which becomes inevitable evidence before the court of this boy being the murderer. He gets sentenced for life after being considered his age. Here the court sentences based on the evidence they have seen and heard, but the fact is it was situation built on circumstance. The story ends with the actual thief coming into the prison and accepting the murder charges leading way to freedom for this lad who has spent half his life in jail. Here the lad was set free though very late, while was not given capital punishment which gave a ray of hope.
This story describes a circumstance. Our law says not even a single innocent should be punished even if 10 convicts are left free...
The pace in which our country is advancing, where nothing you see and hear are certain, belief has become a imaginative story, should capital punishment be a part of our judiciary system?
The conditioning of capital punishment is put forth to initiate fear in people so that they do not commit similar treacherous deeds, but in this age where we have suicide bombers, does this really form a conditioning of the right kind?
It is for all of us to react and understand, what makes these people different, they are also human, they do have flesh and blood, but their mental attitude …….? A psychiatrist could better explain. With the advancement and development happening to our country we also need change in our attitude and behavior toward our fellow beings. We need to grow over cast, creed, nationalism and understand the brotherhood of man. This would be a conditioning that would make a difference.
Circumstance that India is in right now, where substantial evidence could be bought with muscle power and money power, is it really advisable to give a capital sentence.
Punishment has been a mode of conditioning that our society follows to keep people away from doing wrong things. Here this conditioning could be in 100 different ways, depending on situation and circumstance.
The objective or morale of this is to restrain people from doing barbaric activities. What concerns me here is giving a death punishment, would that really help in anyway? We have a very strong and good judicial system, but can this judicial system see beyond the eyes and ears present at the court room?
I remember of a short story of Leo Tolstoy, in which he portrayed a fruit selling boy with his cart left unattended for some valid reason, and a thief running down the street finds this cart and hides his knife which becomes inevitable evidence before the court of this boy being the murderer. He gets sentenced for life after being considered his age. Here the court sentences based on the evidence they have seen and heard, but the fact is it was situation built on circumstance. The story ends with the actual thief coming into the prison and accepting the murder charges leading way to freedom for this lad who has spent half his life in jail. Here the lad was set free though very late, while was not given capital punishment which gave a ray of hope.
This story describes a circumstance. Our law says not even a single innocent should be punished even if 10 convicts are left free...
The pace in which our country is advancing, where nothing you see and hear are certain, belief has become a imaginative story, should capital punishment be a part of our judiciary system?
The conditioning of capital punishment is put forth to initiate fear in people so that they do not commit similar treacherous deeds, but in this age where we have suicide bombers, does this really form a conditioning of the right kind?
It is for all of us to react and understand, what makes these people different, they are also human, they do have flesh and blood, but their mental attitude …….? A psychiatrist could better explain. With the advancement and development happening to our country we also need change in our attitude and behavior toward our fellow beings. We need to grow over cast, creed, nationalism and understand the brotherhood of man. This would be a conditioning that would make a difference.
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