I dont think such a word exists in the dictionary . If you find a word that can describe it , please do mention in the comments below
During the great days of 2011 starting in the summer , there was a great amount of public involvement in a movement started by an old man called Anna Hazare . Thousand of people , even lakhs if I may speculate thronged the roads , the empty lawns and parks voicing support for him vociferously . Gandhian caps were the in thing in fashion , and homespun cotton-esque clothes were the highlight of the summer 2011 season . Big stages were made , anti-corruption talks were made , thousands of new laws that should have been incorporated into the constitution over the years were suddenly forced to be passed in the Lok and Rajya Sabha . Out of the blue it seemed that something stirred up the collective consciousness of the millions of Indians both in India and outside to change the nation they call home.
Fast forward 2012 . IPL 5 won by kolkata . Mamata and her antics make Kapil Sibal seem like a child pulling the legs of his toy . A big jig is up in the BJP with each dancer trying to capture the centre stage. 9 hour power cuts in TamilNadu . Chikni Chameli is the rage racking up 5 million views kolaveri style.
WHO or WTF was the ANNA HAZARE MOVEMENT ?
History is a very amusing teacher , filled with sarcasm and a deja-vu attitude. Time and again it tells us that Indians have retrograde amnesia built into their genes . They possess no long term working memory when it comes to politics nor a common-sense . Everytime something big crops up , it is allowed to rage on for a month and is suddenly doused by something bigger , more grandiose and current .
Welcome to the world of Indian politics and how politicians deceive us .
The dawn of internet media , social networking and BREAKING NEWS channels have only fueled this type of politics . Last June / July ( apologize my poor memory , its after all , in my DNA) many anna hazare support forums and groups were started on facebook , twitter streams poured in support for the old Gandhian not to mention cameras constantly focused on him 24x7 ( save for when he is in the lavoratory ) . Tonnes of people were spotted updating their profile pics with Gandhian Caps and sitting with others pretending to listen someone talk about corruption . I remember getting into heated arguments with many on the forums telling them that a laws and judgements can never be like Instant Pop-corn .
"YOU are a disgrace to the nation for NOT supporting anna hazare "
" get out of this country , loser"
were a few comments i got too ....
Fast forward 2012 : this is what i see in the same forum that was once the shining beacon of India
To invite more people into the hip club , the admins invited and joined as many girls as possible into the group ensuring a constant supply of boys , likes and comments for all the nonsense that can be said .
What then happened ??
The Lokpal proposed by the government was so lame that even Katrina Kaif admitted that she lacks acting skills and stuck to just dancing. It was a typical congress move, do something small and let the media ride the wave of so called "sweeping change and dawn of a modern era "dance and talk about it so loudly without a pause that ten days later everyone is just sick of it . Then bring in a new scandal just after the TRP's drop down ( or make Rahul Gandhi buy a chewing gum from a local stall , calling that a commitment to Aam Admi from the UPA government ) distracting people from the previous problem and the lame dick solution presented to it . Indeed right the 2g scam after it was first brought to limelight by Subramanian Swami , this tactic has worked extremely well for congress which has allowed it to ride storm after storm until and will until the elections in 2014. Youngsters dropped pretending to be political afficandos and went back to liking boobs , butts and shiny plastic cars on facebook .
OK . History 101 is over . What else then ?
Well just like the Hindu cycle of karma and rebirth , this just repeats itself. Now another person has taken up the mantle of social revolutionary this time however with more fans : Aamir Khan .
I did watch the first episode of Satyameva Jayate. Aamir Khan seemed sincere in his support for change and to the empowerment of the poor . His coverage of female foeticides in Rajasthan spurred the government to take action , banning ultrasound scanning devices in many a unlicensed lab .
I have a simple question . How long will this last ? Till a new movie is released from Aamirk Khan productions ? Till the next IPL ? Till the TRPs drop ?
I blame the social media for this problem. I also blame the news channels for this problem. They do nothing but blow up small inconsequential happening into big bad nationwide news and ride high on the advertisement revenue . The moment this becomes yesterday's news , it is trashed and thrown into the bin just an old newspaper . Would they atleast cover one story in depth without the mass hysteria and shock effect . Would they atleast stop one day for pretending to be the pillars of truth and instead just report on the happening and stop analyzing and dissecting it with so called "experts" live ??
The problem is with social networking is that , I repeat , gives us a false impression of achievement. This may be cliched , but that is the bitter truth . No amount of liking will save kids in Africa . No number of comments will save AIDS patients nor cure cancer . No amount of blogging will save earth . Except perhaps increase you electric bill. To support something you have to be there with it . Not sit in front of monitor , listening to Justing Bieber in one tab and calling a photo of Aamir Khan as "hawt" .
Rome was not built in one day . Neither are judgments . Nor laws . Nor changes . A population of over a billion is dynamic , big entity that takes thousands of individual man hours to recognize , realize and change .So kindly stop sending me stupid facebook requests on joining some nonsense movement.
if you really want likes then I suggest you do this .
go to https://eff.org and look at their proposals and campaigns
go to the interentdefenseleague.org and do something that actually has purpose .
Stop wasting your time of facebook pretending to be into politics and go on with your flirting / hooking up work.
In short , get a life bozo .
During the great days of 2011 starting in the summer , there was a great amount of public involvement in a movement started by an old man called Anna Hazare . Thousand of people , even lakhs if I may speculate thronged the roads , the empty lawns and parks voicing support for him vociferously . Gandhian caps were the in thing in fashion , and homespun cotton-esque clothes were the highlight of the summer 2011 season . Big stages were made , anti-corruption talks were made , thousands of new laws that should have been incorporated into the constitution over the years were suddenly forced to be passed in the Lok and Rajya Sabha . Out of the blue it seemed that something stirred up the collective consciousness of the millions of Indians both in India and outside to change the nation they call home.
Fast forward 2012 . IPL 5 won by kolkata . Mamata and her antics make Kapil Sibal seem like a child pulling the legs of his toy . A big jig is up in the BJP with each dancer trying to capture the centre stage. 9 hour power cuts in TamilNadu . Chikni Chameli is the rage racking up 5 million views kolaveri style.
WHO or WTF was the ANNA HAZARE MOVEMENT ?
History is a very amusing teacher , filled with sarcasm and a deja-vu attitude. Time and again it tells us that Indians have retrograde amnesia built into their genes . They possess no long term working memory when it comes to politics nor a common-sense . Everytime something big crops up , it is allowed to rage on for a month and is suddenly doused by something bigger , more grandiose and current .
Welcome to the world of Indian politics and how politicians deceive us .
The dawn of internet media , social networking and BREAKING NEWS channels have only fueled this type of politics . Last June / July ( apologize my poor memory , its after all , in my DNA) many anna hazare support forums and groups were started on facebook , twitter streams poured in support for the old Gandhian not to mention cameras constantly focused on him 24x7 ( save for when he is in the lavoratory ) . Tonnes of people were spotted updating their profile pics with Gandhian Caps and sitting with others pretending to listen someone talk about corruption . I remember getting into heated arguments with many on the forums telling them that a laws and judgements can never be like Instant Pop-corn .
"YOU are a disgrace to the nation for NOT supporting anna hazare "
" get out of this country , loser"
were a few comments i got too ....
Fast forward 2012 : this is what i see in the same forum that was once the shining beacon of India
To invite more people into the hip club , the admins invited and joined as many girls as possible into the group ensuring a constant supply of boys , likes and comments for all the nonsense that can be said .
What then happened ??
The Lokpal proposed by the government was so lame that even Katrina Kaif admitted that she lacks acting skills and stuck to just dancing. It was a typical congress move, do something small and let the media ride the wave of so called "sweeping change and dawn of a modern era "dance and talk about it so loudly without a pause that ten days later everyone is just sick of it . Then bring in a new scandal just after the TRP's drop down ( or make Rahul Gandhi buy a chewing gum from a local stall , calling that a commitment to Aam Admi from the UPA government ) distracting people from the previous problem and the lame dick solution presented to it . Indeed right the 2g scam after it was first brought to limelight by Subramanian Swami , this tactic has worked extremely well for congress which has allowed it to ride storm after storm until and will until the elections in 2014. Youngsters dropped pretending to be political afficandos and went back to liking boobs , butts and shiny plastic cars on facebook .
OK . History 101 is over . What else then ?
Well just like the Hindu cycle of karma and rebirth , this just repeats itself. Now another person has taken up the mantle of social revolutionary this time however with more fans : Aamir Khan .
I did watch the first episode of Satyameva Jayate. Aamir Khan seemed sincere in his support for change and to the empowerment of the poor . His coverage of female foeticides in Rajasthan spurred the government to take action , banning ultrasound scanning devices in many a unlicensed lab .
I have a simple question . How long will this last ? Till a new movie is released from Aamirk Khan productions ? Till the next IPL ? Till the TRPs drop ?
I blame the social media for this problem. I also blame the news channels for this problem. They do nothing but blow up small inconsequential happening into big bad nationwide news and ride high on the advertisement revenue . The moment this becomes yesterday's news , it is trashed and thrown into the bin just an old newspaper . Would they atleast cover one story in depth without the mass hysteria and shock effect . Would they atleast stop one day for pretending to be the pillars of truth and instead just report on the happening and stop analyzing and dissecting it with so called "experts" live ??
The problem is with social networking is that , I repeat , gives us a false impression of achievement. This may be cliched , but that is the bitter truth . No amount of liking will save kids in Africa . No number of comments will save AIDS patients nor cure cancer . No amount of blogging will save earth . Except perhaps increase you electric bill. To support something you have to be there with it . Not sit in front of monitor , listening to Justing Bieber in one tab and calling a photo of Aamir Khan as "hawt" .
Rome was not built in one day . Neither are judgments . Nor laws . Nor changes . A population of over a billion is dynamic , big entity that takes thousands of individual man hours to recognize , realize and change .So kindly stop sending me stupid facebook requests on joining some nonsense movement.
if you really want likes then I suggest you do this .
go to https://eff.org and look at their proposals and campaigns
go to the interentdefenseleague.org and do something that actually has purpose .
Stop wasting your time of facebook pretending to be into politics and go on with your flirting / hooking up work.
In short , get a life bozo .
