And it rained today...for no apparent reason! Rainy months in Bangalore are between May and September, but it rained today! It almost felt like the Gods decided to step in and wash away all the mess man piled up here in the last two days. In the pile, you would find remains of burnt buses, cars, bikes, debris and eight dead bodies! Everything else is reversible, but for the families of the eight people who died in the violence, they have just been hit by an irreversible blow!
I read this in the paper today "Death produces a startling and immense absence that is enormously disorienting because of its infiniteness. We understand the meaning of the word 'never' with a sharp stab of pain. We look for things we could have done differently, we rail against the contrary absoluteness, the irreversible finality of this event."
Everyone around including the media seems to be saying 'Huh, what the hell happened in the last 2 days? How do you explain people reacting to their hero dying a natural death'. There are a lot of explanations, mob mentaility, anger against government etc. One theory caught my attention "The violence was probably an expression of frustration by the have nots of the city, left behind by the IT explosion which created a ritzy elite of mostly non-Kannadigas. Rajkumar was known for his passionate espousal of Kannada and his fan club probably shared these strong sentiments". Even if any of these theories are right, was the individual who was pelting a boulder or beating up someone sure that the person at the receiving end was the target he really had in mind? I guess not...and so it rained...!
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IT IT IT ...
This has become a fad... Blame everything that happens on IT and beat up a software engineer... Simple, yes... but effective???
Anyways, Nice post!!!
Thanks!
Someone mentioned how similar this is to what Friedman talks about in his earlier book (The lexus and the olive tree). Any city which grows so fast goes through this kinda growing pains. The gap between the lower class and so called "middle class" is wider here in Bangalore coz of the IT boom and this is a form of showing frustration...of showing that they too have power etc.
Interesting thought...
This was the most bizzare riot ever! I read about it and was shocked to see how baseless and unreasonable this whole thing was (it's true for all riots but this one took the cake!). And all this happening in a moment of grief?! Whatever happened to all the mourning and peace march etc etc. Or is this the latest fad? In which case I pray to grant immortality to all celebraties! World Peace.
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