A full circle

Watching 'Game of Thrones', you soon realise that we, as a species have gone through a lot. Ever since our primate forefathers landed their feet on the ground for food, their ever insatiable appetite for food, wealth, mate and power just kept on increasing.

In the process of scooping their desires, not everyone got their chance of fair play. The playing field was lopsided skewed in favour of the bold, the strong, the giants amongst us and the perfectly abled bodies. The fairer sex, the lame, the old, the handicapped all lost in the quest. 

Like dwarf Tyrion Lannister who uses wit and deception and Stark's paraplegic son who uses his supernatural powers, the lesser beings always used other ways to survive. 

After seeing so much of devastation and heartaches left by man's actions, the survivors must have thought of another way of going about things. In rolled in the concept of an overseeing superpower that monitors our every move. A power who will assess our actions and inactions to mete out appropriate justice, if not in the present world at least in another better world.

Soon this wave of fire spread like heatwave the world over. When military forces crumpled due to corruption and inefficiencies, the theologians filled the vacuum. With the overwhelming powers and wealth, they did the same thing as the sorcerers, slashing and killing, this time with the self professed blessings and approval of the Divine forces.
Growing lethargic with killing and devastation, the world stayed hopeful by drafting common grounds for truce. At the their minds, the desire to control still ran deep. This time, money was the new power which could bring the world t the knees.
The losers of the economic onslaught, fearing of subordination, decide to withdraw into a cocoon. They decide to coil into an umbrella of the comfort of the old scriptures and try to relive the old times with its out dated justice and carnage. Just as their ancestors did many generations ago, they feel that God is on their side. And they mete out justice and protocols as if they had a direct audience with the the Almighty overseer. They insist that there are certain ways of doing it (each with their own, that is the problem) and there seem to be no comprise and no backtrack!

Holistic holy fun at the Holi?

Freud's suggestion that human beings are irrational creatures was proven true by the turn of events this weekend. The ushering of spring, which was initially celebrated with pomp and splendour by pagan farmers was given a religious perspective by including some event in the scripture. Whereas, some quarters sneer at their behavior for they were referred to as 'April Fools' as they were thought to be oblivious of the creation of the Gregorian calendar and were unaware of fast forwarding of days!

 

Evidence of irrationality came to fore during the recent colorful event of Holi. People who were particular fussy about getting any part of their body wet or soiled, decided to forgo their stance. If normally they would run away from the rain, this time around they decided to hire a container load of water to splash water on them. If appearing neat, fair and presentable was their forte, this time too, they dirtied themselves with stashes of brightly hued colors so much so that they were indistinguishable from one another, colour wise. With an array of mixed colours and water, they all looked in various shades of rust.

 

People who were remotely pious also joined in the festivities. A convoy of tourists were seen beelining in a single file in a near 2km walk from the nearest train station dressed in their typical touristy attire - thin Tshirt, short shorts, Japanese slippers and sling bag, to join in the foray. Looks like the temple celebrations must have made it to list of tourist destinations.

 

After a good 3 hours if immersing themselves in spray of water partially aided by nature's outpouring, colouring themselves pretty dirty, swinging to sounds of Hindi film songs set in Holi festivals and even modern songs to keep with the times (Harlem Shake), everybody went home happy after some free vegetarian snacks, courtesy of some kind soul. The only thing missing in the festival was bhang (hashish laced milk). But who knows what they had before to last 3 hours of non stop dancing!

Pix courtesy of N Lal
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