What’s wrong with us?

Just the past Sunday I was watching one of my all time favorite movie kannathil muthamittal directed by Mani Ratnam, I marveled at the director’s skill of portraying characters with its own genuinely unique behavior and the thematic visualization of the songs is another great aspect in the movie. Why didn’t such a movie make it to the Oscar’s? Is it only the Hindi movies that have the right to be nominated i.e., sent to the Oscar’s as an Indian representation. This is something totally unfair protocols followed by whatever board that is out there doing this work.

In all aspects this movie is simply great, novel and unique. I would bet kannathil muthamittal had a better chance to get an Oscar than the famed Amir Khan’s Lagaan , I’m not saying anything against lagaan but did the board sitting out there apply the same parameters for judging both the movie’s(though they were released in different years). The answer will be a bold NO, if u have an ear for truth and a heart for justice. Linguistic partialities and religious biases do exist even in the upper most echelons of society leave alone the illiterates.

Another fact that struck me was the cleanliness of the tiny war-torn nation that is just across the straight from our country. What’s it that they have but we don’t ?. One clear indicator that many argue over is the literacy rate, Yes Sri Lanka is 95% literate but does that guarantee a more disciplined state? If any one reading this would go for an yes, I humbly regret, Just look at one of our country’s well educated states Kerala, its literacy rate is even higher than Sri Lanka but does it in anyway match the island nations zeal for cleanliness? Not at all.

Now what’s that we are lacking? The answer is shocking; People don’t even know how their country is ruled or have a false perception of how it’s being done. They don’t understand democracy. They see Government as something that they have no part to play with, Just count how many time’s you would have people spitting on road’s or for that case doing anything that damages the government property, What’s the reason or justification they give for such an act? Simple, “oh! it’s just a government property! Who cares?” How sad? None, not many living in this country understand that the government is nothing but themselves, the property they ruin and the money they waste is theirs. The entire blame cannot be put on the people for not knowing what their country is. How many would understand the law school English, the constitution is written in? not many. It should have been the duty of the elected elite to at least include the preamble and the basics of constitution in simple vernacular terms, with the ration card that mostly every citizen of our country possesses.

One task should certainly be done, if we are to get a more disciplined cleaner India and responsible citizens in the near future, Tell the people who they are?, what their country is? And how its run?.