Irony...Here,There, Everywhere....
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Am I scribbling
anything special today? Anything intended to go viral?
Well the answer is NO as well as a bit of
YES.
NO because whatever I am going to pen down
today surrounds a quite common yet surreal and boring life, a life taken for
granted. YES because I feel it is high time for us to grow
beyond the barricades of the unreasonable acceptance.
So buckle up for the
ride is going to be way bumpy.
TAPE 1 :
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I am listening to “Lovely” by Billie Eilish from the
web series 13 Reasons Why Season 2,
perhaps the sole reason for me to write down something substantial. I just finished watching Season 2 today,
beginning with a sense of revenge, expecting that this season might show up the
punishment inferred upon the culprits who were responsible for Hannah Baker’s
suicide. To those who haven’t watched the show or about to watch the same, I am
sorry for the spoiler, but nothing happened as expected. The culprit walked the
shame with his head held high, being a rich brat; he had no sense of remorse. I
was angry as to why was he not sentenced to jail or probably killed by anyone
that mattered. Well it was my judgemental mind that pronounced a judgement over
one side of the coin. However the other side proved me wrong. The
picture of Hannah being a victim was always clear to me but what if she wasn’t
one? What if it was just the same old Karma that came back haunting, a past
where she was held responsible for bullying and harassing a girl from another school?
What if the juveniles who raped her (both physically and mentally) were facing
a hostile adolescence? Why didn’t this matter to me at all? Who was wrong?
Hannah? The other juveniles? Or me (the Third Person) who preferred to be one
sided?
TAPE 2 :
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June 8th 2018, a dark day in the history of
Assam. It all began with a video going viral where a villager was seen taking
pride in inflicting pain on the poor souls. As per news, Nilotpal Das, 29, a sound artiste and Abhijeet Nath, 30, a businessman were coming back from
Kangthilangso, a picnic spot in Karbi
Anglong, on June 8, when the SUV they were driving was stopped at Panjuri
by a group of villagers who pulled them out and thrashed them on the suspicion
of being child kidnappers. Now here is what happened after that. Within
seconds, my live feed was full of distress calls and hate speeches. I won’t
deny a fact that while watching the video; I was filled with anger to
retaliate. This came along with a support all across the state of Assam in the
form of hatred against the entire district. How savage and uneducated can
those people be that they didn’t even let visitors of their own state to withstand
their perimeters? But as minutes went by so did hours the realisation
kicked in. Why was I blaming the entire community due to a heinous crime of the
(as identified) accused named Alphajoz Timung. Who gave me the right to call
them savage when we people decided to lynch down the people of their community?
How could I call them educated when we did nothing except making Committees
after Committees for their so-called upliftment? How could I even think of
taking action against them when I failed to make the rest of the country
realise that something has happened in my state? The biggest irony was the fact
that except for a few puny efforts of certain news channels and social media,
India remained ignorant of North East as always.
TAPE 3 :
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The last quarter of 2018 saw Elections in Karnataka. Here is
how I relate my life with it. Working 5 days a week, I travel to office on a
regular path of Whitefield trafficked roadways. Paying a whooping amount on
food, water, lodging and transportation, all I get is only a good weather, rest
all inundated with ill managed traffic, improper sanitations, pot holes and
unchecked drillings everywhere. Metro construction is worsening up things to a
different degree. Now elections were held on May 12th, 15th
was the day of results with a hopeless no-majority to any of the political
parties. BJP being the single largest party gets a chance to form the
government, Congress and JD(S) shouts seeking for justice as to what happened
in Manipur and Goa. Congress manages to hide all its MLAs until 19th
May, the floor test, and as expected on that day at 4 PM, Yeddyurappa says “I will not face confidence vote; I am going
to resign”. Finally a coalition government kicks in against the
wishes of the people but then who cares about them. Meanwhile in the game of the musical chairs,
the Internet was on meme laughter. In all these drama we forgot to see a state
of financial crisis among the farmers due to three consecutive droughts? What
did I gain out of these? Did my problems come down? What went wrong with the
elections? Was BJP/Congress/JD(S) at fault? Or was it us, who are politically ignorant
of the system and take voting as an “ini mini miny moe” tale?
TAPE 4 :
Talking of the countries, oh boy there are lot of hot news
coming up. Russia, America, India, China and many more to the list adding to
military deals, increase/decrease of import duty tax, too many foreign trips
but nothing in return, sanctions after sanctions, N Korea being a friend or foe
; a plethora of diplomatically ruptured rumours. Oh my bad, I just forgot to
mention the not so important dots. How’s Syria? Well only more than half a million
have been killed since the outbreak in 2011. Guess what the number is only
increasing and the situation is most likely to worsen. How’s Jammu and Kashmir?
Nothing much, just a few Indian soldiers and citizens were killed even though
India had called for a month-long ceasefire on the occasion of Ramzan. And as
expected the BJP ditched PDP, CM resigns and Governor’s rule pitches in. What
is the point of so called diplomacy when we still live in the age of savages?
What is point of building schools and colleges when we can’t sustain hospitals
for the victims of outbreaks? Why is that being a fastest growing economy,
India has failed to provide refuge to its own people (the last thing one could
expect)? What have we failed as citizens? Why are we paying taxes when they
aren’t reaching the right hands?
If you have successfully
managed to read all the 4 tapes by now, you must have realised that all these
tapes cover ironies right from an individual to a community, from one country
to the entire world. These ironies break down the world in two parts: The first
part comprising of the people who are so ignorant that they take everything for
granted whatever comes on the way without thinking of its implications. The
other part is comprised of a few who knows how to control the first. All we
have done so far is to follow them blindly. There are more than just 4 ironies
one can pen down, but the underlying questions remains the same
When
are we going to learn from our mistakes? When are we growing up? When are we going to finally say "NO"?
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