It is hard to have no opinion!

                The wisdom of homo-sapiens has taken us to this far in this world of uncertainties. Every uncertain thing around man made him think, react and evolve. To be true it is not only the human race that has evolved so much but the nature too. To be more practical the evolution of mankind can be termed at least a “little bit desirable”, but nature along with man has been forced to adapt to the evolution. Still man is weaker than the nature. One of the many absurdities in this universe – ‘the stronger being bent by the weaker’.

                With every newspaper, news telecast and face-book page trying to give their share of opinion about the “Built” and “Ready to be launched” Koodangulam Nuclear power-plant, I hardly doubt the depth and common sense in those views. We need it or we don’t need it? Before me sharing my opinion I would like to talk about a thing related to this issue that made me write this.

                All people who want the power-plant to be shut down ask this question. Is 14000 Cr INR (supposed to have been spent on the power-plant so far) worth more than the lives of people? Do we really need something that has a potential danger of swallowing thousands of lives in it?

I would ask them back. If people who are smoking are asked to quit smoking citing reasons that they induce cancerous cells in the body of other non-smokers (passive smoking), will they be able to stop. Or if someone who has got a house near a highway wants the Govt. to close the road because there are “chances” of vehicles running into their houses, will that be right?

If everybody who has got a motored vehicle is asked to check the emissions and abandon their vehicles if they don’t meet high emission standards how many will turn up at a nearby center to test their vehicle. Not even to save this world for their future generation. Can we all turn off our mobile phones and their towers because the radiations from them have nearly made “Sparrows Extinct?”

Nobody can deny the intensity of the hazard these things can cause to us. Even if one of these can cost “1” life, you can’t say it is in any way less significant than the thousand lives you are talking about.

            BUT, if they can’t do all this it does not mean we can have the nuclear plant. If at all the power-plant gets damaged by a natural or man-made disaster, to be frank I won’t be able to even imagine the day when everybody in Tamilnadu is asked to evacuate their homes. I can’t imagine a day when my homeland becomes infertile and incapable of nurturing the millions of scholars, leaders and more than all the human beings which it has been producing all these days.

It has become a question of Luxury Versus Survival. But that luxury is close to become a need for survival. What we need to understand now is to bring a change in this life style driven by technology and luxury. We are in one way molding a world which is turning incapable of supporting life. Almost 70% water below and above the ground can’t be consumed without a purification process. Once we had to search dust and smoke in air and now we are searching for air amongst dust and smoke. At least 30% of land which was once cultivatable has turned impotent. I fear if nuclear energy will worsen this condition if not managed properly.  There will be a day when we are in a position to choose between two things in life that are very vital to our mere existence. The horizon of that day isn’t so far.

The worst thing in life is being killed when one is asleep having the best of his dreams, not able to fight for ones life. I’m not sure if we can make this world live forever. But definitely we can make this world wake up and fight for its life. To have no opinion is “just like being dead”. Let us be alive. Have our opinions and act like human beings!

Better Late Than Never!

Once upon a time, man invented different forms of art out of boredom. He found them to fill his timetable. Later these art forms started swallowing man as he developed so much love and passion towards it. He started mastering them. Now we are in a world where these arts are professions. People nowadays have great respect to artists more than the art itself. But it was once the art form that was kept ahead of the artists. Before going into the consequences of this change in mob psychology let us have a study about the reason.

These art forms where practiced by people of different groups/ clans in their own way. For example, we have different styles of dance throughout the world. As years passed by people started developing pride in their own culture and practicing these arts. When the world was being invaded from within and by the west (especially) a mix of culture was inevitable. As a famous Tamil saying goes “இக்கரைக்கு அக்கரை பச்சை” meaning you will always find the other side of the river lush and greenly when looking from yours. People started feeling the other art forms to be more superior to theirs. They developed inferiority complex. When they were not able to master those, they thought those people to be superior as well. There by started respecting the artists more than the art. This is how I perceive it.

Now the impact of this is greatly on people through different social media. One major art form that ruins lives of people is Cinema. People respect actors and actresses more than their brothers, sisters and parents. The influence of cinema is more on children and youngsters. Without discussing how bad or how good it is, Lets jump to how artists exploit the respect they earned and ruin our lives.

Let us be more specific to Indian Society alone. Considering our people these are few facts to be noted.

1.       People of India are widely senseless and mob driven.

2.       Majority of them are educated in schools and colleges but are still illiterates at heart.

3.       They have more interest in glam and color than society and people.

4.       They are basically suffering from fear of beauty (probably due their inferiority complex over their color) especially in south India

Some fun facts about cinema in India.

1.       Censor boards are more interested in banning films that create revolution than those that show women as objects of beauty and instruments of sex.

2.       Even organizations working for women equality don’t raise voice against them

3.       It is widely proven by researchers that “Half nudity is more arousing than full nudity”  but we ban porn movies but still have at least one masala song in movies that features a north Indian actress( preferably) dancing in two piece (unfortunately).

4.       We always prefer heroines with white complexion (at least try to make them appear white) there by indirectly sorry directly supporting racism.

5.       We only support hero based subjects and not heroine based subjects (except ‘dirty picture’).  Even women don’t. The society is still male dominant.

6.       Our government has to make people name movies in regional languages by cancelling taxes on such movies.

7.       We certify movies that explicitly show blood and violence but not liquor and cigarettes.  Most importantly when the former is normally used in movies as a symbol of protest and revolution while the later as a fashion among youngsters.

8.       Heroes are more inclined in forming political parties to increase their popularity while they never bother about youngsters wasting time and money in performing milk abishekam and aarathi to their banners and cut outs.

These are just a few to mention while there are a lot of such facts about Indian cinema. Neither the artists nor the people take interest in solving these absurdities. Most importantly movies take people into a world where reality means non sense. A Youngster whose mind wavers a lot is very easily influenced and drawn into cinema and its own illogical world. I feel cinema is the most important reason to failures in love, marriage and at last life. Having over 50% of audience in adolescent and immature age group I feel Indian cinema has got a responsibility many folds greater than the luxury it enjoys. It is very important for this ‘Cinema revolution’ to take place as quickly as possible in order that we are not in a helpless position to be rescued.

PS : This is the voice of an Indian with all respect to the artists and the art.