And then there was One ... The DUMB ONE!!!

Its always weird when you are the last one left standing and its really not that great of a feeling when you know that you are going to be eventually knocked off.

Talking about lost causes, I always happen to be running to the rescue to one of those which contrary to what one may think is not the best habit one should pick up. I live in India, home of the proud, the pious, the unbelievably patriotic, the outrageously dumb and my favorite the spineless rat. In a country like ours "India", just saying again to let it sink in, we are taught not to question authority even when we know that they are rambling their way off a cliff.

The insatiable need to be satisfied with the cards we are dealt is taken to the next level, where being passive is considered good. When the great Mahatma called for Passive Resistance and Hijrat in his teachings of Satyagraha- The Way of Truth, he in no way intended for us to be passive and flee at the first sight of oppression. He never said that one should not question. In fact it is questioning that enlightens. But we have forgotten what it is to be free.

Instead when one questions they are looked upon as rebels, as outcasts and are taken as misfits looking for trouble. This passiveness is the worst possible thing that can happen to one. It is like we are all still stuck under the British Raj, only now the firangi is no longer an English Babu but a superior who we are so afraid to approach or question. All we do is do as the firangi says and be content that we completed the work diligently. When will we come to realise that we are shackling ourselves, when we fail to question we no longer are oppressed by others but we become our own oppressors.

Speak up and speak loud, our voices need to be heard, our questions need to be answered