"You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that like a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all, part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!"
These lines were spoken by the Joker, in "The dark knight", when he tries to explain how schemes and schemers have brought everyone to where they are. How he has just showed the city that however big plans they make it can be ruined by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Sometimes I really wonder, was he true? Is anarchy the real freedom, where no one, NO ONE has any say on what the other wants to do. read this article by Tarun Vijay today and suddenly the crazy, the maniacal face of heath ledger (joker) trying to convince two-face why he does what he does comes to my mind, where joker it seems has cracked the mystery behind all the wrongs in the world. And joker looks more like a saint than a criminal (well, in the movie he did do miracles. " Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets").
Everytime you think that you have seen the worst of the politicians, you are baffled by the limit one can stoop to. The batla-jamia case is one such example. The politicians are running all around to show sympathy to the kins of the deceased in the batla-jamia shootout. Is the colour of the flag really become so important that no one can see the red.
The Indian flag was explained by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who later became the first vice-president of the country as:
"Bhagwa or the saffron colour denotes renunciation or disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to material gains and dedicate themselves to their work. The white in the centre is light, the path of truth to guide our conduct. The green shows our relation to (the) soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends. The "Ashoka Chakra" in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the controlling principle of those who work under this flag. Again, the wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change. It also represents 24 hours in a day."
Do we need a Joker today? Or maybe a hitler? Do we really need explosions to make the leaders listen, who have gone deaf and blind (dumb they always were). RDB and A wednesday, are these the only ways left? I hope there's still some light left to look forward to.
