The time to do so, seems to have dawned yet again, this time to quote a band that I keep liking more and more with each awesome song of theirs that I inadvertently manage to discover because my lovely ipod does such a wonderful job of shuffling songs.
This song is from their album Quadrophenia, and is titled “I’ve Had Enough”, some of whose pertinent lyrics are as follows:
That when you were walking forward
You’d end up further onward
But things ain’t quite that simple.
You got altered information
You were told to not take chances
You missed out on new dances
Now you’re losing all your dimples.
I’ve taken all the high roads
I’ve squandered and I’ve saved
I’ve had enough of childhood
I’ve had enough of graves…
As an aside, to seemingly offset the somewhat negative tone that this particular post might’ve harboured, here is a wonderful speech by Mahasweta Devi, about our country, aptly titled The Republic of Dreams. Moving and inspiring, unlike speeches full of manure that I have seen some ‘leaders’ spew out.
More LJ-ing in the offing, specially about the two fraud near death experiences that I had over the past fortnight. Watch the space above this space.
She is indeed quite a humble lady. Happen to listen to her when she came to our institute. She will find humor in little things and explain most serious of her thoughts in simplest of words.
The acclaimed movie – ‘Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma’ was based on her Bengali novel. I can’t recollect I had read a story of hers in our CBSE hindi course (which is one of the best in India)
Respect man, she came to your college and all! That speech of hers gave me goosebumps, I swear.
She had fought a long and hard battle of one of the most inhuman injustice done. It is worst than caste based system. It is the fate of ‘denotified tribes’. http://www.indiatogether.org/bhasha/budhan/birth1871.htm
Britisher’s had created a Criminal Tribes Act way back in 1871 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotified_tribes_of_India) under which some of the tribes where notified as habitual offenders (yes the entire tribe)
Our own bhoora saahib made Habitual Offenders Act post independence!
There are lot of such tribes in Gujrat who are still ostracized, abused by people and police and are not allowed to get a gainful employment.
I remember a prof of mine Shree Ganesh Devy has worked a lot with them and a group of them are working as theatre artist to went out their feelings and voice their opinion of dehumanization of our society and oppression of any kind. And believe me their performance is great not only content wise but presentation too.