Saturday, March 17, 2007

Indian born confused desi - IBCD

the modern indian youth suffers from the "IBCD syndrome"....globalisation has caught up rapidly with the younger generation ....not only impacting trade and commerce but also sensitizing the youth with the culture and lifestyle of foreigners..... a large part of our personality is nurture and not nature ....reading watching and listening to too many western ideas has an impact on our being.... we become a misfit in our own nation...the change in our behavior is gradually becoming noticeable..."live in relationship; rock music; pop idol- britney; nihilism; western philosophy( camus; kafka; freud); beer substituting lemonade; one night stands; kissing in public; divorce; adultery ;shrinks;fashion tv; atheism ;late marriage; homosexuality....the list is never ending.....people have been practising some of what i stated above since long but giving it " metropolitan acceptability" ( note i havnt said indian acceptability) is new..... the problem we face is stranger than what an american born confused desi would have..why? simply because though the parent child generation gap is evident in them atleast the society around them is westernised...with us we have the parent child gap and we stay in a society which is also expressive of the same gap.... some would call this an evolving society i think otherwise since the change is stronger in small pockets and not in the nation as mass resulting in social oddities.... the reason i probably wrote on this subject is because i see my friends as a case in point.....with excessive influence of foreign media ( russian; british american et all) they/ we end up unknowingly behaving a little like them which is obviously seen as strange/showy/weird/quirky/flashy...depending on which part of india you currently residing( in Patna u will be branded as a flashy showoff half male ; in Mumbai u mite be considered normal).... I myself am still not sure how much water this theory holds so i would like to end this post by asking readers to help me find the answer..

Monday, March 5, 2007

Originality --credit mutations not inheritance !!

India the land of the maharjas; the land of spiritualism; the land of a 1000 gods; the land of vedas ;the land of gandhi...( with passage of time) ....the land of software engineers; (BPO's--> well on its way).....the land of plagiarism!! it depresses me immensely every time i listen to a new song released or a new movie screened by bollywood...a new serial ...a new hindi writer.......Indian art is dying.... originality is esoteric!! the few who look at the ARTS as a commercial enterprise make pots of money by resorting to the aping mantra ( pick a successful song, movie, novel from the west and form a hindi remix) ....
the purest and the strongest form of human expression --THE ARTS are whored and raped.....the biggest cause of worry is that we indians have become so use to this complete defilement that some amongst us patronise it.....we not only accept but encourage such gross defilement of the arts
although we churn out the largest number of graduates every year...the intellectual capital of the country taken on head count is increasing in geometric progression....the depressing part is that the originality quotient is on the decline.... the students are very strong with there facts ...the best in quizzes and following the book by the letter...give them a module of a large software to debugg they will be the quickest to apply predefined rules to find the flaws but give them a page and ask them to write two lines of poetry and they will clueless
I might have overstated the problem here but the truth is that no one gets stirred unless shaken roughly...there are certain directors writers singers and artist who are extremely talented and don’t deserve the calumny above....but with a billion plus population if only a handful turn out to be dexterous i would credit that to mutations and not to cultural inheritance

on rereading this post i realise i have made it a habit to deride Indians in my posts....the reason is simple...the only junta i have interacted with indepth are Indians....had I been born in Europe I would have been cynical to European idiosyncrasies.....as on today its India which unwantingly bears my pessimisim.....