New King of Hirak
Ray had filmed a movie long back around 80s of the century we left behind.The movie narrates the story of an anarchist King who perniciously vitiated all subjects under him and Ray presented the entire saga with master touch of his golden camera.
In such situation subjects are expected to keep their lips locked tightly. They are expected to lead an average life viz. They would go to workplace on time, comeback, buy groceries and provisions, come back home, take homemaker wife and children out for a stroll, come back again have dinner, watch all hopeless soaps in television, go to bed, have some routine sex, sleep, then get up early, move out to drop the child in school and the same circle will continue up to attaining retirement age.
One famous economist of yesteryear, Nurkse referred one "vicious circle" for some other situation, but the life moves in the regime of Hirak within a vicious circle. If someone, comes out as a pedagogue named Udayan by Ray with any idea contrary to this cycle of life he/she would be termed differently. One should not "ask reason why"
In the movie Ray shown that the king deliberately acted against educational institutions in his kingdom. Udayan acted against the wish if King and he was reprimanded in custody. Lastly, the all powerful autocratic King wanted those educational institutions are to be closed, because according to him quest for wisdom is infinite and so it is useless to go for this.
Now I wish to represent a scenario where subjects are deprived of many basic needs of life and they are tethered within a threshold for longest period of their life. Those who wanted to be the Udayan, they are branded sullen, sacrilegious to the kingdom.
Let us come to present day out of our rumination and watch this episode of Mumbai. A poet of Bengali origin named Bappadittya Sankar recently disembarked from a flight at Mumbai. He had a red scarf covering his neck and was hoping a tambourine in his held hand.He booked an Uber for his destination and started talking over his mobile phone with someone at Jaipur. The car moved and driver overheard few words from the discussion like French revolution, Lal Salam etc and he took the passenger to Santa Cruz police station and reported " sir take this man in custody, he is anti national." Police took both inside the post and that was 10.30p.m. With an arrest although interrogation prolonged up to 1.30 a. m. The question level soared up to the name of his father, where he is employed, what his his salary ( all questionnaires regarding father). Then what type of poem he writes, is he a communists etc. Then they snatched his handset and scrolled all recent names and numbers he called. The faith was more on a faithful Uber driver then a honest citizen of the country.
He was ultimately released at 1.30 a.m.with an advice not to carry tambourine with him (may be a weapon can be used against government) and not to use RED scarf around his neck (may be used against government) with a cautionary word "Mahol Achha nahi hai".
Hirak is again afraid of a new Udayan!
Ray had filmed a movie long back around 80s of the century we left behind.The movie narrates the story of an anarchist King who perniciously vitiated all subjects under him and Ray presented the entire saga with master touch of his golden camera.
In such situation subjects are expected to keep their lips locked tightly. They are expected to lead an average life viz. They would go to workplace on time, comeback, buy groceries and provisions, come back home, take homemaker wife and children out for a stroll, come back again have dinner, watch all hopeless soaps in television, go to bed, have some routine sex, sleep, then get up early, move out to drop the child in school and the same circle will continue up to attaining retirement age.
One famous economist of yesteryear, Nurkse referred one "vicious circle" for some other situation, but the life moves in the regime of Hirak within a vicious circle. If someone, comes out as a pedagogue named Udayan by Ray with any idea contrary to this cycle of life he/she would be termed differently. One should not "ask reason why"
In the movie Ray shown that the king deliberately acted against educational institutions in his kingdom. Udayan acted against the wish if King and he was reprimanded in custody. Lastly, the all powerful autocratic King wanted those educational institutions are to be closed, because according to him quest for wisdom is infinite and so it is useless to go for this.
Now I wish to represent a scenario where subjects are deprived of many basic needs of life and they are tethered within a threshold for longest period of their life. Those who wanted to be the Udayan, they are branded sullen, sacrilegious to the kingdom.
Let us come to present day out of our rumination and watch this episode of Mumbai. A poet of Bengali origin named Bappadittya Sankar recently disembarked from a flight at Mumbai. He had a red scarf covering his neck and was hoping a tambourine in his held hand.He booked an Uber for his destination and started talking over his mobile phone with someone at Jaipur. The car moved and driver overheard few words from the discussion like French revolution, Lal Salam etc and he took the passenger to Santa Cruz police station and reported " sir take this man in custody, he is anti national." Police took both inside the post and that was 10.30p.m. With an arrest although interrogation prolonged up to 1.30 a. m. The question level soared up to the name of his father, where he is employed, what his his salary ( all questionnaires regarding father). Then what type of poem he writes, is he a communists etc. Then they snatched his handset and scrolled all recent names and numbers he called. The faith was more on a faithful Uber driver then a honest citizen of the country.
He was ultimately released at 1.30 a.m.with an advice not to carry tambourine with him (may be a weapon can be used against government) and not to use RED scarf around his neck (may be used against government) with a cautionary word "Mahol Achha nahi hai".
Hirak is again afraid of a new Udayan!
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