New York,the latest John Abraham starrer,tats how I spent my weekend,drooling over Abs.I love those dimples and am sure a million more gals do!(sorry Bips!).Well,at first I was skeptical about the idea of a movie,with my jam packed schedules ( reason for the long intervals in my darling blog ) I really didn't want to waste the one Saturday night I was free.I assumed,I would be drowned in another hopeless Bollywood love triangle!!Love is not my speciality and love triangles make no more sense to me than those calculus laws my math teacher gave her life trying to teach me.[ I still sympathize her! ]
In spite,of my deep rooted hatred for triangles,( courtesy : the countless nights I spent mugging math theorems! ),I decided,what the heck,I am holding my seat for this one!For reasons obvious ;) . Once in theatre,I must say,I was in for a big surprise!The movie did have a triangle,but thankfully not complicated enough to revive my long forgotten emotions associated with math class torture.It was about a much more formidable and grave issue - TERRORISM.
Director,Kabir Khan has poignantly told the tale of how the lives of many innocent people changed after 9/11.Hundreds of innocent people,a particular sect especially,were detained post 9/11 ,tortured and stripped of their humanity under the pretext of investigation and interrogation,with no proof at all!!They were later released on the basis of lack of evidence,but did they get back their stripped dignity,is a question everyone associated would like to overlook.The movie was an eye-opener and served as a window to show the other side of this despicable terrorism.It showed me the profound ways in which all the different laws all over the world have in so many instances failed us with impunity,and at great cost of enormous human suffering of innocent people!
To read about the survivors of the post 9/11 carnage,as also the families of those men,detained for long years under terror laws,I can't,but cry at the stories of bleak suffering!Jail is no fun amusement park to visit,and to be there for no reason at all is appalling!I would be lying if I said,I did not hold my very own biased opinions on terrorism,though not an expert in the field. [ Thanks to the trend of vulturous journalism! ] After the movie,any terrorist attack I read/hear of,I think of the terrorist.What horrendous suffering did the poor chap undergo in his life.What pushed him over the abyss.
The fight against terrorism,both illegal and legal,[ I regard being terrorised in jails an equally horrible form of terrorism] is not someone else's agenda.It's about us and our children,we each carry a responsibility on our shoulders.Let us stop this growing violence!![ My 5 year old nephew knows more about guns than any of my colleagues for chrissake! ]Why can't we revive the Gandhian laws?
Yes,I agree,you can't change anything about this morbid scenario at one shot,but you can try,by being part of the solution,or at the very least by actively ensuring you are not part of the problem!Give up violence in every form,yup,verbal violence is equally dangerous.Polls show that most college shoot-outs happen because of constant discouragement from peers.
I'd like to quote my grandfather here,a person I have great respect and regard for.[ He is no more.] "Each of us does not like something.The important thing is to not act on that dislike.Or you will have given in to evil,and evil only reaps more evil,which is meaningless."
I conclude by saying,"The world is not incapable of humanitarian compassion and empathy,its capacity to trample human rights and to pretend nothing disconcerting happened is equally immense!''Let us be aware.Let us be the solution.For,after all,we make up the world!
For those interested,you can read,"The Guantanamo files'' by Andy Worthington.
http://www.amazon.com/Guantanamo-Files-Stories-Detainees-Americas/dp/0745326641
For not the bookish ones,you can simply just watch the movie.
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