Last Thursday president George W. Bush, perhaps the most powerful man on earth was here in this part of world. Many organizations planned a protest against his visit. A pantheon of political, social & religious parties marched from Ramlila maidan to Parliament Street. Thousands of individuals marched against him and his destructive policies. The protesters comprise student, social scientist, politicians, activist, teachers, religious leaders, trade unionist, writers and the least, Myself.
All those who got the microphone tried their best to prove him a bigger devil, label him with a better-suited disgust. Flagged him as invader, imperialist, crusader, killer, criminal, ‘Satan’ and what not. I, as a meager specter found it tough to absolve the rabble-rousing notes. Next morning newspaper reported similar outcry in Lucknow, Hyderabad, Srinagar, Mumbai etc. then the other day in Peshawar, Lahore Karachi. Again my thoughts began to swing between Bush and Blair, blasphemous cartoons and partisan media, notorious Guatamano Bay and torturous Abu Gharib, nuclear Iran and destructive Iraq, here and there, you and me.
But once we proved him the devil and wrote QED at the end of the chapter, whats next? Will the Satan die? Thus fission started in my atomic mind. I thought, would my fast breeder reactors will ever be able to transform the immortal Satan to a mortal one. My flux of thoughts began to converge to a simple solution that ‘the Satan never dies’ and will keep on churning the peace and patience in one or the other form, if not as Bush then as Blair, if not as him then as you or me. Because the compatriots of Satan are sleeping safely in some corners of our hearts and when we get the power it awakens and morphs a protester into a predators.
Its bogus to curse the evolution, the disparity between powerful and powerless. Its vague to identify and shout against an apparent devil. He is invincible because we are winsome. Thus, its right time to introspect and re-evolve ourselves, judge the Satan beneath our souls, among ourselves. We will simply begin to feel the venom in our veins. Be it Illiteracy, poverty, incompetence, corruption disintegration, whatever. Thus its time to unite, think, realize and fight the real devil that has made the virtual one ruin us. Empower ourselves to displace him, to throw the invaders out from Iraq and Afghanistan, to dig the roads of imperialism, to challenge the crusaders, to resist the evil. Integrate to combat ourselves before we join hands to throw the BUSH off.
2005
All those who got the microphone tried their best to prove him a bigger devil, label him with a better-suited disgust. Flagged him as invader, imperialist, crusader, killer, criminal, ‘Satan’ and what not. I, as a meager specter found it tough to absolve the rabble-rousing notes. Next morning newspaper reported similar outcry in Lucknow, Hyderabad, Srinagar, Mumbai etc. then the other day in Peshawar, Lahore Karachi. Again my thoughts began to swing between Bush and Blair, blasphemous cartoons and partisan media, notorious Guatamano Bay and torturous Abu Gharib, nuclear Iran and destructive Iraq, here and there, you and me.
But once we proved him the devil and wrote QED at the end of the chapter, whats next? Will the Satan die? Thus fission started in my atomic mind. I thought, would my fast breeder reactors will ever be able to transform the immortal Satan to a mortal one. My flux of thoughts began to converge to a simple solution that ‘the Satan never dies’ and will keep on churning the peace and patience in one or the other form, if not as Bush then as Blair, if not as him then as you or me. Because the compatriots of Satan are sleeping safely in some corners of our hearts and when we get the power it awakens and morphs a protester into a predators.
Its bogus to curse the evolution, the disparity between powerful and powerless. Its vague to identify and shout against an apparent devil. He is invincible because we are winsome. Thus, its right time to introspect and re-evolve ourselves, judge the Satan beneath our souls, among ourselves. We will simply begin to feel the venom in our veins. Be it Illiteracy, poverty, incompetence, corruption disintegration, whatever. Thus its time to unite, think, realize and fight the real devil that has made the virtual one ruin us. Empower ourselves to displace him, to throw the invaders out from Iraq and Afghanistan, to dig the roads of imperialism, to challenge the crusaders, to resist the evil. Integrate to combat ourselves before we join hands to throw the BUSH off.
2005
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