Coronavirus Part 47, Few Derivatives and Equality
Let me resume the blogging after some finite pause. I don’t know what it is but something prevented me from laying out my thoughts in front of you. There can be many reasons and factors at play but I ended up in some waning spirits forcing me out of this activity. Since I am once again able to compile something, let me quickly put forth some of the puzzling aspects of my personality. Since many years I used to see two common sign boards around any place – ‘You are responsible for your own luggage’, ‘Parking at your own risk’. These are very commonplace sign boards at all common places but I am intrigued recently at the abstractness in these common words.
If you attempt to decipher the first one – to repeat - You are responsible for your own baggage which means the actions you perform and their consequences are owned alone by you. No one will bear responsibility for your luggage. No one will make sure that your luggage is undamaged and without spilling out. But here I am where everyone is responsible for my luggage. Everyone needs to make sure that the consequences arising out of my actions don’t hurt many or any. To rephrase the signboard for me - ‘Everyone is responsible for my luggage’. Even I felt the second one – ‘Parking at your own risk’ is also an abstract sentence with a lot of hidden inner meaning. You are risking your vehicle when you are parking at open places bearing this signboard. You are playing with risk due to parking at unknown places. To read between the lines, you are risking everyone when you do some dangerous actions. It just doesn’t put my vehicle at risk but spill out and put everyone at risk as well. To rephrase it – ‘Parking at everyone’s risk’.
I recently watched an amazing movie on Amazon – ‘Pushpa’ which is like the above signboards to me. The movie is abstract and a lot can be derived from it. First of all, the movie is based on smuggling a rare red sanders wood. It immediately made me to recollect my own smuggling days when I used to rotate between the two countries for three straight years. I used to distribute the baggage in both the countries interchangeably which has changed my life ever since. The movie is spot-on for me since it is based on this very premise.
Next, the name is ‘Pushpa’, which along with the name of the person is also an expletive in my native language meaning ‘unpredictable person’. Whenever some character is calling the hero as Pushpa, I immediately felt if he is calling ‘me’ from the screen. The abstractness is once again spot-on and I felt uneasy whenever the name is sounded. I felt very much connected to the hero’s job as smuggler and his name as ‘Pushpa’. What more, everything else is secondary.
To derive from the abstractness of this film, our country oozes so many of these unpredictable persons which need to be shifted to more predictable actions and persons. Any great country in history or contemporary has great people in the nation who are very much predictable and complete in every sense. As a kid you can get through with these shortcomings but when you are an adult, you can’t afford to be unpredictable and immature. A mature India needs complete men with everything who can lead the nation from immaturity to a more mature entity. How can you take care of yourself, take on the world and lead the world when the country is brimming with unpredictable and immature citizens. The people across the length and breadth of the country should fall in a single line with more matured, predictable and proper actions which can propel us to become a top nation.
Sorry, I am a bit late to the party as the movie released almost two months back and seeing all the good reviews is a great feeling, which makes the movie very much relevant to the present times. Films are a great platform to prepare a person and take on the world. Deep down, I had a urge to act in a movie as a hero , get complete control of my body, utter dialogues with diction and work on my infinite shortcomings to make me a better person. How many great leaders have been churned out by Telugu film industry is beyond imagination and appreciation.
This single film with the title of an unpredictable person, has predicted it very well to release the film in the midst of pandemic and pull audiences to the theatres. The theatres are back with a lot of energy when the pandemic struck hard and the mood is low across the nation. In fact, I had never seen so many people flock the theatres across the country in the last two years. Thus, it has become the biggest blockbuster of the last year. It’s an uplifting movie in the middle of second and third waves. No one will understand the severity of this release timing unless you watch very closely. This is all about the derivation from this recently watched movie.
Digressing onto another topic, there are many staunch proponents of Equality which was started by Bhagavan Ramanujacharya who is an 11th century saint. The country has always suffered from inequality and partiality from the institutions, leaders at the grass root level to the topmost position in hierarchy. Everyone does work which benefits only a certain group of people, leaving others in a limbo. This should change course and all the divisions in the society in the name of caste, creed, race, religion, state should pave for equality; leaving behind none and benefitting everyone. In the same spirit, the Statue of Equality has been inaugurated a week back which is a landmark moment in the history of the nation.
The ‘Statue of Equality’ is a 216 feet tall huge monument of Bhagavad Sri Ramajunjacharya on this 1000th birth anniversary. He is an icon of equality who preached Equality of Religions and Equality of castes. Everyone is a born equal and it is the society which has differentiated based on these divisions. To look at the derivatives, the placeholders for caste, religion should be removed from all the forms and applications; no seeds of these divisions should be sown in the young minds. That is why, the aspiration of every good thinking individual took form in form of this Statue of Equality. Let the Statue reverberate within you, echoes of Equality. Let these echoes become a yearning for Equality. Let this yearning get translated into actions leading to Equality.
We are living in a great times, which have given us two great statues in the form of Statue of Unity and Statue of Equality. Let Unity, Equality be etched in the preamble of constitution, and the country embrace these two great values which will augur extremely well for the nation as it look ahead to the challenges of future. There should be many derivatives of many orders from the essence behind these two statues which should slowly percolate into the society, leaving a equal and unified land behind.
Let me wade into the known territory of covid-19 and even I had also suffered from this infection few weeks back. When I am infected with the virus, I realised the importance of every sane advice I heard before – Mask up, sanitise your hand, make social distancing a habit, test yourself frequently and isolate when infected. In my case, the virus didn’t show its drastic form and I was able to recover after mild symptoms. In fact, I recovered by medicating with fever tablets. I might have been saved because of the vaccine I took few months back. In this context, one cannot tell the importance of getting vaccinated.
The cases in the country per day have decreased to 44 thousand and on the downward slope of the triangle. The second and third waves in the country are following a similar pattern of triangular waves. The seven day average cases are around 63 thousand. As of today, 94% of eligible population is vaccinated with at least one dose and 74% of eligible population is vaccinated with both the doses. 1.72 crore vaccination doses are given till date. This is a great feet going into the future few months when the precautionary/booster dose needs to be given to this entire population once again. In the mean time, it is hoped that the pandemic comes to an end and our lives are restored back to normality.
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