Yes, you read it right... India Listens with Eyes...
I have always been astonished by the fact about how few critical issues fell on deaf ears. It would give me real tough thinking on why we ignore the voices of millions in pain, grief and agony. But today I have my answers. I feel like Buddha- enlightened, aware and more importantly, relieved... A sense of freedom prevails within me. All the chaos , the conflicts have now stopped. I have my answers.
India Listens With Eyes.
It is not what you talk, how you talk, to whom you talk, where you talk or when you talk. It is who are you. In this democratic nation,where everyone has equal rights, only a few enjoy the privilege of being heard.
Someone in my city has been fighting cancer for long and has been requesting donations for undergoing a treatment that can afforded only by top 10% of the Indian population. But no one heard her. One so called cricketer "Prince" has just returned from a cancer treatment (well, his survival chances were always 100%) and now is endorsing some "nariyal tel", retail shops and "power capsules" using his cancerhood. His fans feel that he is much more stronger than Lance (with 40% of survival chances). I do not blame them. For them, he is the ONLY person on earth with cancer who has fought back (ofcourse with hell lot of money he had and all the media attention he generated). They hear with eyes. Otherwise, they would have certainly helped the family of the Greatest Indian Sportsman - Dhyanchand and not left them on streets with a life that resembles the ignorance we display for the glorious past.
It took one Amir Khan to tell people how bad are the medical facilities in our country. He even cried for it! But then what about the thousands of cases that are pending in the courts against so many doctors and hospitals?
In a country where words are bought and faces are sold, I feel dejected by the ignorance we show for the real heroes we have amongst us. Girisha, On behalf of the entire country, I say a sorry to you. But then you are not a cricketer who has made a lot of centuries (21% against minnows) and evaded taxes on a gifted car or you are not even a cancer patient who will now represent my country and make millions out of it... You are not a celebrity who was kissed in a party that you will be invited to a talk show, neither you steal music from English songs for us to consider you to be a host of a reality show. You are a mortal common man, just like the remaining 109 crores. And you deserve this treatment.
Welcome to the club of people who listen with eyes and ears are merely meant to hang glasses to read what your eyes missed!
I have always been astonished by the fact about how few critical issues fell on deaf ears. It would give me real tough thinking on why we ignore the voices of millions in pain, grief and agony. But today I have my answers. I feel like Buddha- enlightened, aware and more importantly, relieved... A sense of freedom prevails within me. All the chaos , the conflicts have now stopped. I have my answers.
India Listens With Eyes.
It is not what you talk, how you talk, to whom you talk, where you talk or when you talk. It is who are you. In this democratic nation,where everyone has equal rights, only a few enjoy the privilege of being heard.
Someone in my city has been fighting cancer for long and has been requesting donations for undergoing a treatment that can afforded only by top 10% of the Indian population. But no one heard her. One so called cricketer "Prince" has just returned from a cancer treatment (well, his survival chances were always 100%) and now is endorsing some "nariyal tel", retail shops and "power capsules" using his cancerhood. His fans feel that he is much more stronger than Lance (with 40% of survival chances). I do not blame them. For them, he is the ONLY person on earth with cancer who has fought back (ofcourse with hell lot of money he had and all the media attention he generated). They hear with eyes. Otherwise, they would have certainly helped the family of the Greatest Indian Sportsman - Dhyanchand and not left them on streets with a life that resembles the ignorance we display for the glorious past.
It took one Amir Khan to tell people how bad are the medical facilities in our country. He even cried for it! But then what about the thousands of cases that are pending in the courts against so many doctors and hospitals?
In a country where words are bought and faces are sold, I feel dejected by the ignorance we show for the real heroes we have amongst us. Girisha, On behalf of the entire country, I say a sorry to you. But then you are not a cricketer who has made a lot of centuries (21% against minnows) and evaded taxes on a gifted car or you are not even a cancer patient who will now represent my country and make millions out of it... You are not a celebrity who was kissed in a party that you will be invited to a talk show, neither you steal music from English songs for us to consider you to be a host of a reality show. You are a mortal common man, just like the remaining 109 crores. And you deserve this treatment.
Welcome to the club of people who listen with eyes and ears are merely meant to hang glasses to read what your eyes missed!
That's how the life is ... You and me have the access to the internet - u wrote this and I read that bt there r souls who can't scribble other then some slant lines on the ground who nvr gone to school. That is how the life goes on. If everything will be so good and perfect - life will be monotonous. The essence of life is in STRUGGLE. King and Pauper are replaced by Riches and Poverty now but they were the part and parcel of every society. Today if Prince is enjoying that princely treatment than we shouldn't forget he didn't enjoy his childhood like u n me. when kids of his were busy in dreaming abt their crushes he would b getting out of his somber at 4 in d morning 4 his net practice and run.
ReplyDeleteMy instructor once said - LIFE IS A BIG LEVELER. so the teachings of Geeta says - wtever we r going through in present is either d result of our past or we r garnering it 4 the future which will get squared on sooner or later.
But it was a nice treat to my eyes going through ur heart felt blog. and you were very modest in ur statement wn u said - LISTEN BY EYES .. i wish people could do it that way even, while d reality is PEOPLE TURN THEIR BACK WHEN THEY HEAR D VOICE.