The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Friday 21 August 2015

LATE NIGHT POLICE ACTION ON FTII‬ STUDENTS: REALLY DISGUSTING

The agitation, a relatively peaceful one, so far, now for over 70 days, was again mishandled by the administration – in a series of insensitive steps taken by the government (Ministry of Information & Broadcasting) that began with appointment of Gajendra Chauhan.

In a late night crackdown on August 17, police arrested some protesting students from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) campus after the institute’s director complained of harassment, that the next day became ‘mental torture’.

Well, the drama that began with the government appointing a questionable man to run an esteemed institution like FTII, the day to day developments and protests, the stubbornness shown by Gajendra Chauhan and the government and the helplessness of students – it is the real torture that we all have been subjected to – and are being subjected to daily – the mental agony that we are forced to go through day after day.

Chauhan ji - is there a limit? Is there something called 'enough is enough' for you? Is there something called 'morality' in you?

An action like the midnight crackdown by the police, this is where this government is again fundamentally wrong – after appointing Gajendra Chauhan.

Human beings are mostly political and they have this or that sort of political affiliation and the political regime of the day plays it accordingly. Nothing wrong in that. Right or wrong, but we call this political pragmatism in the prevailing political scenario.

Anyway, there are many well known right wing academicians - and certainly Gajendra Chauhan does not fit the bill.

FTII students have been protesting since 70 days and we do not need any proof than this that the protests have been peaceful.

Ideally, in the prevailing circumstances, as a symbol of protest, even no new students should take admission in the institute this year. New administration of FTII and the government are wrong here - yes, they will say all bad things about students.

But we should not forget that FTII, with all its routine administrative and academic problems, is still a premier institute in its field because of tenacity and no present and prospective students would like to compromise there.

In terms of student strength and societal representation, FTII may not be that big to matter politically (if the government thinks so), but the way the present row has been handled by the government, it has not gone down well with the masses.  

And so far, the government has failed to read into the symbolic implications of this spiral. 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/