A day before valentine's i attended the Kala Ghoda art festival in VT. It felt ethereal to see the crowd of thousands blending in with the glow of neon bulbs all around me. There were people soaking in the atmosphere of creativity. Artists had put up their pieces of work for sale and the stuff they made was amazing. Charcoal sketches, watercolour,oil paintings, photography, and a million other things portrayed in a zillion different ways. It was beautiful....the beauty of a city at the zenith of vitality. All i could see was a crowd united in the quest of art and all i could feel was excitement and passion for the spirit of humanity....
A day after valentine's....i try my hardest best to see love around me but all i can see is hatred. Cold, dark, poisonous hatred. I feel like i've lost something. Its not about the fact that ive been to Koregaon Park a couple of times...its not about the fact that ive wanted to step inside German Bakery but procrastinated it every time...its about the fact that life is so bloody short, but people manage to fill it up with shit like the same hatred that surrounds us....
Its always like this....it happens everytime there's a terror attack....we have protests and peace marches and every damn thing but then we go off to sleep again and wake up with the next fuckin' bomb...its not about security measures...its not about the answers that we, as civilians, deserve....its about the questions that are always postponed halfway...
The people who died in these attacks.....its true that we are nobody to say if they deserved death or not...but what about the people who killed them.....what do they deserve??? Its not about divine judgement, or judgement of any sort, for that matter....its about the fact that justice is never given to those who need it...not when they need it...
People say that these terrorists are just misled and emotionally blackmailed youth....its probably true....its the older generation of religious (and they could be from any religion) fanatics who pass on their dogmatic beliefs to the next one but when is this going to end??? Coz the survivors from our generation are only going to pollute the ones after....and the cycle never ends. And we sit complacently in the middle of it....trying to patiently calculate who all should be convicted of making a joke out of humanity when the punchline is starting at us from the mirror....
Its not about waking up...its about not going back to sleep......