My take

I am sure that by now everyone must have seen the scandalizing video from IIT-Roorkee. Those who haven’t are either not on any networking site or they stay away from such stuff on personal discretion. I saw the video and I really felt amusing for the guy who devised the idea of that competition. I mean hats off to his audacity. FYI, as I heard that the competition asked to put the lipstick in an unconventional way. Considering the cheap acts some lunatics are pulling of through the reality show sham these days, this was pretty innocent and innovative in the most sensual way. And to say the least, it needs guts to pull off such an event.

Those who are condemning the event are oblivious and may be they have chose to ignore the fact that the India of “babri mosque demolition” and the India of “Babri mosque verdict” are on 2 different quantum levels. In the same way we, as a youth think on different levels and well ahead of some saffron cynics. I mean if you don’t like don’t yelp, go to your home and stop your young ones from watching it. At least you will be doing something good. Just don’t put on that this-is-not-our-culture thing. I accept that it may have not appealed to the sensitivities of some percentage of elder population, but then there are many things which are worse but they just don’t come out. It is a proof that the portion of media which was targeted in Peepli Live has evidently remained unchanged. I was very happy with the comments which some of my friends posted in response.

The people who are vociferously claiming to be the keepers of our culture are the same who ensured that Mr. MF Hussain doesn’t ever come back, who ensured that Ms.Tasleema Nasreen is out of the country, who scandalized and beat an art student a year back and who were responsible for the Bangalore pub fiasco.

That’s that. An institution should be a safe haven. And so even if the events of the past may have violated the basic tenets or sanctity the institution proclaims. It should be accepted that violators have become, no matter what, the part of the institution now. Their creativity may have gone wrong somewhere, but it should be acknowledged that they had some creativity and if fostered in right direction it can work wonders. In any case, I am proud of my alma mater. No justification for what is coming up. So, just think of those two words. Carpe Diem. Those who are clueless, please watch a Robin Wiliams’ Dead Poet’s Society.