Sep 10 2006
Gandhigiri rulz!!
Finally shifted to a new house, spacious and warm, thanks to my little angels who helped me with shifting….Shreyas, Tarang, Aniket, Nikira, Kavita, Vishal, Jiten, Neha and many more….(yes snaps will be uploaded soon!!) Feels great to be surrounded by caring friends in an alien land.
Something within made me write today’s post, call it a eureka moment or just a thought always at the back of my mind and today finding an outlet. Tomorrow is the date which even after five years down the line still gives us goose bumps; the black day of the year 9/11. Apparantely this is the day when my family was rejoicing 23 years back as they had just experienced a bundle of joy in their hands, no points for guessing!!! I was born on the day. People ask me to remove my birthdate even from orkut, they warned me to not to tell visa officer my birthdate, cause US visa would have got rejected. Now isn’t that the stupidest thing you have ever heard.
I think of it as this way: the day now symbolizes terror was also the day Satyagraha was born. Truth(satya) implies love, and firmness (agraha) engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for a force. 100 years back on 11th September 1906, Gandhiji introduced Satyagraha to people which made few people to relate the date with nonviolence.
Here comes the logical question : Would Gandhian methods work today against Bin Laden’s terrorism or George Bush’s influence. Al-Qaida operates from a distant, isolationist position making it impossible to counter it through satyagraha whereas Gandhiji worked from the centre of political action. Though Osama is followed by his fellowmates, he neither had the skill nor the moral potential to mobilise people as a political force to fight a non-violent struggle against US imperialism.
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Last weekend just to kill some time I went for this new released movie, Lage raho munnabhai, thinking it would be just an entertaining story of a goon-with a golden heart. But as the movie started progressing all these vigorating thoughts kept coming in my mind and near the end I was totally mesmerized by the whole impact of the movie and the only thought loomed in mind was, satyagraha still has the power to move people!!
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Dear Reshma,
Many happy returns of the day. Enjoy on ur birthday.
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U write very well. keep it up ..
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Congratulations and celebrations
noojes
Vivek dada and Noojes, thank you, thank you
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Vivek dada,
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Hey nice blog,…even me went thru some similar thoughts durin the movie…the movie rocks…non violence presented in a different way…awesome topic
Good to see you had fun
And I have my update on my Blog.. but it is not New York, atleast not this time
Abhishek, welcome to the World of bloggers, read your blog about Gandhigiri too, it’s good
will drop a comment there too!!
Mithra, great to see you back in action !!