Thursday, August 11, 2011

To the civil society!

There are certain issues with whom you would like to break your so-called hiatus...This is definitely not the one. 9th August will remain as the day I would never like to forget. To see young teens making a mockery of the civil society and making everyone believe that whether you are under a glass ceiling or an asbestos roof the difference lies only in the view. Does this show us the fragility of the civil society that we boast of? Let me start by defining civil society. I will quote a commentator on BBC Manchester radio; he says the civil society is the one who doesn’t do things just because he/she would be put behind the bars and would bring a shame, a civil society is the one who just would never do it. Rightfully agree I would never put myself in a situation where just because I have nothing I would go and put Miss Selfridges on fire or loot the Apple store. I mean why on earth. To me if you fight for something you just fight not loot. There is a bigger name to things that you do for your society and it’s called ‘Revolution’. How Egypt showed to the world what revolution is, making the whole world stand as ‘Egypt’ is something that is civilisation to me.  History is made by these revolutions some still on for becoming one. I hope the lads looting the shops and putting some to flames knew more of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro than just being a popular face in their favourite tees.

It is never like I don’t have solidarity with kids having no work or haven’t ever been on a holiday in their life (which is actually an issue of grave concern in UK, unlike our country where all you need to do is just hop on a train and ‘pohuch gaye dilli’ [and you reach Delhi]). Nevertheless not losing focus like I always do, I will stick to my point. Thousands of foreign students come for the quality British higher education –the Oxford, the Cambridge and the LSE and within the same radius thousands of them deprived of education took on to the streets breaking the glass ceilings. I have a notion of society being ruminating due to certain things we tend to ignore, may be the notion of working early and earning bucks. Too early to even predict something like that...the issue I see here is the idea of the paper news-paper, the bookshops, the debates, the quizzes, and the cultural activities are limited. The stratification of society is huge. I can still find a child working in a local eatery in India with the morning local newspaper; the event looks small but for me it depicts a culture, a positive society. We may be lagging some 10-15 years well behind the developed nations, hurled by corruption and what not but all I want to say is that for a civilisation the true test lays in the generation the country brings out... to make them worthy of hurling an abuse instead of a stone is what civilisation is, as Sigmund Freud rightly puts in.

I hope the water cannons push you back young lads to something that you have left behind, to a society your ancestors have built; to the things you are and should be proud of, to the civilisation and being civil. 
...to traverse the horizon is never impossible neither is traversing back. 

4 comments:

baibhav said...

Nice read! good to see you back in action! get cracking again! lots of love :-)

my space said...

firstly, thank you for writing after so long! i was craving for dat... how much i love ur blogspot! u proved urself again! :)


N dont u STOP here..! XXX

kabandi---a rebel in my own terms said...

thank you my lovie-dovies :)...

Amrita Tripathi said...

Kanadi, a great read this is...well what we saw in England, showed that the youngsters here blindly copied some acts without thinking what they were doing, more importantly, they threatened the much exemplified English civil society.
It raises a big question mark on the civilization of English land, if we get to compare it with that of India where the youth is fighting for a corruption less government and society.
Amidst all the questions arising and chaos around us...I hope and pray for a healthy and prosperous life for all our nations.