An American society is perceived to be champion of individualist approach and a Chinese society as a collectivist approach.They say that if an American have two eyes and he believes in more truths in world than sex,Beer,Osama-Bin-Laden and a persistently lurking sabotage threat to them from xanoid sort of species carrying out their sustenance in mars,then if shown an image of a fish tank the American will usually describe the biggest fish in tak and what it is doing.They say that if a Chinese is able to open his two eyes,(i am really in illusions about the fact,anyways few more scathing comments like this and then it won't be only Google banned in china )and if he believes in more truths than Maoism,any other political institution than communism,any other heinous crime than urge to be rich and there are people living on the other side of gargantuan wall of china who live on oxygen only and they are also prosperous and harmonious,then if shown the same fish tank to him,he will usually describe the context in which fish swim.
They say this hegemonic bipartisan world's diaspora has a voyeuristic interest in each others thought process and a mephistophelian bellicosity of proving themselves trump that if a debate is surged on,the almighty will have to alter the schedules of doomsday.
As any great leader of world from public dais would say that for peaceful world order and establishment of the futuristic vision of world of brotherhood and harmony,the need is to look beyond these prety differences (now what a didactic speech that is),i would love to verbalize the same words. But what the greatest leaders till today missed out was to use the greatest democracy of world as an example to chalk out the conflicts in world's most debilitating issue.
talking from personal point of view,what attracts me to ogle,,the answer definitely will make this blog salaciously sensational,but then i am very proud of the mystically rich Indian culture that i have inherited which of all the good things it has blessed me upon also says that you can be accepted as appealingly dignified by keeping certain attributes veiled,and no need to worry you just need to keep them veiled. So any fishing tank or some other thing doesn't catch my attention.
Anyways ,I was on the sacrilegious mission of bringing the individualist and collectivist under the same tree by taking out the tableau of the fishing tank the nation where it is said that people believe in brotherhood and harmony, a nation where guests are still considered as gods, and lo for all those years i wasted my life in my own home as a not-so-important member. From the land of desrt the procession started and no doubt the natives did not show a whiff of individualist or collectivist influence seeing the fish tank ,but then the scene really turned into ruckus, seeing the importance of the fishing tank on world platform, its security was given the utmost importance and the whole 3establishment was moved to a safer haven, later on inquiring we were introduced to a newer issue which was more substantial for the people there ,i.e., water ,they had to go around 10 kms to get water and i heard somewhere that Indian parliament passed a historic nuclear deal bill and sooner India will be a domineering N-power in world, Doesn’t that sound disconcerting? On In all those documentation of issues of people of Rajasthan,i am left behind and the tableau is racing towards Gujarat,a state of art state of this arrogantly proclaimed secular nation, and as they say in this country, to be happy in this nation of billions forget the woes of thousands .
Gujarat came with more surprises wrapped around, First of all the government enquired whether Aamir khan or Medha patekar had championed for this cause ,In either case tableau won’t be allowed inside as it's a threat to state's security. Now after a grueling session of talks, approbation was given to us ,and in the end i prayed to god why it was given to us.The house was in utter disdain and the issues were ferociously petrifying here. The people were asking whether the was bougt from a Hindu shop owner or Muslim one and few started claiming that the fishes will be considered for analysis only when they were baptized through a Hindu ceremony whereas other were reflecting effrontery a they said it was a treachery against their religion and this calls for jihad.Now,cowardice it may sound, but i always prefer to keep myself aloof from these Urdu syllables and so we moved again with the whole procession to the grea land of marathas .This is a land which gave this nation chivalarous shivaji and have always stood up as an example of growth and development.I hoped things will be smoother this time around ,and quite pleasing it wsa to see that some pretty faces and stars from bollywood reached there .The were all quite captured by the beauty of the fishes .They said the fishes and fishing tak were different from all they have seen and a similarlly different sort of role they are doing in their next movie.Now,that was little difficult for me to comprehend .Things were going quite well till Salman arrived saying that Shahrukh is trying to malign his character by comparing him with these fishes which only can swim in a fishing tank and will faze out in strenuous ocean life,Aamir jumped into bandwagon saying that salamn is saying rubbish because the fish's eyes are reminding him of someone close to his heart ,who now is a bahu of a dignified family, and t he final stroke in the fire was provided by someone called vivek who said” The particular fish which was allege to remind salman of someone was quite beautiful and he wsa falling in love with it”. This erupted into a chaotic situation but everyone is still clueless why a person named Amar Singh joined the pandemonium when none in particular said anything to him.
Maybe that was not enough when a political party charged us with allegations of treachery against the state of Marathas as one of the chaperons we have used to feed the fishes in Rajasthan has his in-laws from the state of Bihar ,and so they want revenge ,and scared to death I was, but somehow we Reached Bangalore, the IT hub and a role model for entire world>But unfortunately it was a flop show there as they said it was a work outsourced from U.S. and so far giving any inputs on spot will cost 1000 dollars/hour,500 dollars or services to be provided in 1 weekend 100 dollars for one month of delay. I am famous as indolent in getting the ins and outs of materialistic side of mathematics, so i preferred to move ahead. Next in the stop was Madhya pradesh where the tableau was scheduled to be shown in the night but there also we got disappointment only as there was no electricity available for whole night and hence the only thing on which we were able to get some analysis were expected to never bring in light.
From the heartlands of Madhya Pradesh ,we reached the national capital CIty of Delhi, they call it the city of lutyens,where we expected very high profile dignitaries to be present, but then something quite unusual was known to us.In India the Govt. Officials just don't run on oxygen ,they belong to a species which is rather secluded from other species of world, if you want to see them working one need to splurge on them, they call this other oxygen with names such as "gifts","bakh-shesh","present","Tohfa","peshgi" etc and a derogatory synonym for it is "ghoos".
Now even that was also not a worthwhile trip in case of fishing tank problem, it was educational as we come to know about such a rare species.
Next in stop was the state of Jammu and Kashmir, about which we were told that certain palces in India are just on Map and It's better not to discuss about it as India follows Right to Speech but the rights have different meaning for J-K.
So,at the Fag end of journey we had to reach Uttar Pradesh, India’s one of the most populated state with people from diversified sects and religion .The story here is more interesting than all those told till now. They said the dictator of this state wants to know whether there is at least a single fish from a community called Dalit.I was flabbergasted because as per my best of knowledge these things were confined to human beings but all my efforts to convince her went in vain and we were not allowed inside the borders Of U.P.We trudged towards our next destination,i.e.,the state of west Bengal with a very dejected mood, but then someone said that state of W.B. is the lone state in India which believes in communism and their leaders after all those revolutionary changes in communism are still the orthodox one believing in Stalinism. we hoped that this state will give us some insights of collectivist mindset of people of India, but then as they say India is a country of its own kind in world. I would say W.B. is a state of its own Kind in India, and before we could thought of something else, we were hearing remarks from the peopel "The fishes are tasty”, the gathered people were feasting on a sumptuous meal of those legendary fishes.
They say tragedy has a very unique feature, when it strikes, it doesn't let you go out of its grip till you want to go,. So we moved towards our final destination, i.e., the state of Bihar with just a fishing tank. We were on a road journey to Bihar, and lo tragedy struck again! We were able to bear the incongruities of abyss that the road of Bihar offered but the fishing tank was not. In one of those abysses, the exhilaration became too much enthusiastic for fishing tank to bear and it went away with a sound of ""crash”. The newspaper headlines reported next day a foreign convoy was attacked by Maoist insurgents plundering away away all the wealth they have .I was told in Bihar truth has many dimensions which can only be understood by the natives of this place.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
What Pops UR Eyes?
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