Just A Play

Everything is just in a play. What we do is just a play. It influences people, impacts their mind for few moments. The next day they wake up, all impacts are lost. We try to make people aware by posters, dramas, street plays, etc. People take it as entertainment. Do we, the participants, ensure that something fruitful happened, do we ensure that somebody really changed or not? No, we just perform our duties and leave the place and so do others. We just know how to raise our voice and words. The participants need to do something that puts a deep impact on everyone’s mind and they do really change.

If one is participating in any type of play for a social cause then one needs to be perfect first or rather ‘tending towards perfectness’(as people say nobody is perfect in this world). Here, by perfect, I do not mean a perfect actor but a perfect believer of that cause. One needs to think deeply of the social cause and think about its cure. What most of the plays show is the cause. Everyone knows the cause but what the world needs is a cure, ‘a permanent cure’, to that cause.

Participants of play (here street play) do see the poor kids around them while performing. The situation is such that those poor kids who don’t even know their national anthem just enjoy the play and once when the play is about to get over, they see a good opportunity to ask for money and food from the gathered crowd. Participants of the play too see those kids asking for food. What participants seek is the opportunity to ask for a party, for performing well, from their head. The moment the head starts praising participants, they ask for a party. So here the real participants of the play shouldn’t ask for a party for spreading awareness of a social cause and if they are asking for a party then it should not be for themselves but for those poor hungry kids, then it would be so good. Even people around would be assured that the participants are not just actors but they do really feel for it.

If one participates in such plays then one must have the real feelings so people who see the participants after the play gets over do feel that they are not just actors but real believers. Then the people around would also get inspired to change. Just remember if you are doing something for a social cause just don’t ask for a return, just don’t think about profit. If you are a seeker of profit then just think that whatever you do for a social cause adds up to your karmic account.

The Great Indian Chamcha

“An entry to The Great Indian Blogging Contest as part of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2015."  

                      The Great Indian Chamcha

  ‘Chamchagiri’ is the fascinating art that Indians seem to have perfected with years of tireless practice. Just look around and you will find many fake people, praising you to the skies just for gaining few favours. For such chamchas, flattery is the cheapest ticket to the haut monde. They see perks offered by their boss, they want increment without doing any productive work and always follow the “haanji pose( of TOI )”; students want marks without studying and gaining knowledge so they start flattering their teachers and often bribe them. Boss pays more to the person who flatters the most. Bribing works both ends. People at both ends think that they are benefitting but in reality they are losing. ‘Chamchagiri’ inevitably leads to corruption, something which is happening in India.

   The employees and students provide a micro model for the greater political scenario of chamchagiri in India. Its just a micro model trying to explain the macro model-The Indian Politics. Chamchas think of short term only and in the long run they are sure to lose. Foolish Boss gets lured by the flattery of employees(chamchas) which leads to his own downfall which in turn affects chamchas and this is what happened in Indian Politics. “Sonia Gandhi  has subverted the constitution without resorting to Emergency measures but simply putting chamchas into top positions.”-(Source:1) The result of keeping chamchas at top postion is in front of us.

  ‘Chamchagiri’ affects all walks of life. A junior might flatter his senior to get all his notes. Basically instead of putting 100% of his energy in creating his own notes, the junior would put more than 100% of his energy in flattering the senior and would dream of getting readymade notes. Here senior is a leader and will remain a leader and the chamcha will remain a chamcha. So do you want to be a Chamcha? Chamchas come up with brand new ways of flattery. They are witty but they use their wit in doing foolish things.

     We are chamchas to our politicians and they are our chamchas. Here's the vicious circle of chamchagiri. Volume of chamchagiri increases at every point of time. Politicians go around the country to flatter people to get maximum votes and people flatter their favourite politician to get maximum benefits, one of them being getting admission in a top college through political power. Chamchagiri is now a normal thing for us and has become part of our daily life. We are forgetting that because of chamchagiri we are losing our moral values and self respect.

  Actual chamchagiri in Indian politics starts from election time and completes the round at an interval of every five years. Practice makes a man perfect. Similarly Chamchagiri makes a perfect chamcha.

  Well all this was a part of my chamchigiri! I wrote this article just to please the readers. But why to please unknown people? Well this is one way to become famous. So I might be The Great Indian Chamchi!

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NEW YEAR CONFUSION

 NEW YEAR CONFUSION
New Year is no more a new year once a year.Confused? Well, New Year comes after every few days.Sometimes its English New Year,sometimes its Bengali New Year,sometimes its Tamil,Parsi,Gujarati New Year.There is excess supply of New Year in India.So, if someone says that they would start off with a fresh begining from new year,then i would like to ask them "Please be specific-which New Year?".Today, too, it might be a new year for someone.If its a birthday then also its a start of a New Year for someone.Every day is a begining of a new year if one probably thinks so. So, which is the exact new year?

 We have one life composed of many new years,many new months,many new days,many new hours,minutes and seconds.But life is not new.There is no fixed period for life after which someone would wish you a new happy life.Life means life-let it be one.People have started making parts in life too by distinguishing life in parts like-married life and many more.I wish you a happy life-life which you are living-life consisered as a whole and life not distributed in parts.If life is distributed in parts then You and I would get an option after every part,like if one part of life is happy then waiting for someone to wish happy life for another part.Let us wish ourselves, 'a happy'- no, "the happiest" life-the real life.