The Tree

You know when come across a tree there are two things you can do with it :

You fruit the tree, then you ask for its branched, and then for its wood after which you move on to another tree .

Secondly you can reap the fruit, nurture it and take a few branches , you want and nurture it more and get a bit of wood nurture it further so it grows , fruits, blooms and is fit to give you more of it all.

but the last one takes patience, compassion and humanity, which is lost.

No wonder these days, the fruit is scarce and the shadows are rare.

The tree has now reduced to a stump, a few nascent branches, too shy to shine in the summer sun are springing out in weird directions. The fear the sound of the axe, a tool essential to prune a tree to grow strong and graceful, because the very tool has always been used to chip this one little tree to a stump so many times that the tree knows the tool would only bring destruction to it and nothing more.

Blood Is Thicker Than Water

Blood is thicker than water, No wonder it refuses to flow, and clots so quickly. I like water better, i flows to take shape of any vessel, any number of times, without showing any resistance, it takes the color of its surroundings it makes the path on which it flows greener. its more beautiful, more lively, more full of energy, more full of life more pure in all its aspects, while the blood is stagnant unless its in your own body, its more still more selfish, indeed much thicker than water.

Develop Zero Social Tolerance to Sexual Violence.

As a usual habit, even today I checked my social network first thing in the morning only to stumble upon a news link which sent a chill through my spine. A 9 year old girl child in Bahawalpur was abducted from right outside her house, beaten up, gang raped and left back in semi unconscious, critically injured state. At the time of filing the report Doctors are struggling to save her precious little life.

The police has filed an FIR and is looking for the culprits, but there is little hope that justice will be served even in this case, as our legal procedures are highly complicated, and a financial challenge, where corruption allows the culprits the convenience to get the medial reports and evidence altered an escape proudly from the grip of the law to free find yet another innocent child or person to victimize.

In any legal system to work properly an integral part of it is the proper implementations of the procedures so as to make it fool proof and convenient for the people. For this a proper people who have proper knowledge of the forensics, the dynamics of crime, the loopholes, the behavior of the society and the routs the culprits take to get rid of the track they leave behind the crime they commit.

Also the society will have to play its part of the role, taking such crimes seriously. Stop blaming the victims of sexual abuse and violence and take stand against the culprit. The trend of shamming the rape survivors labeling them as Impure had to be opposed seriously. Common thoughts and notions which suggest “ the girl has been spoilt” or “has become impure” or “it must be her fault” or “ it’s a shameful thing , keep it under the wraps and not speak of it “ only make the culprits more stronger and makes it easy for them to commit such horrendous crimes and yet move proudly in the society.
Also our mainstream (conventional ) media will have to be more sensitive while reporting and talking over such issues. We have seen a number of times, when cases of sexual violence appear on the news channels there are often suggestions that the women were of “bad character” or were “dressed improperly” or were “acting provocatively ”. It is sad when these multimillion news setups with educated journalists and staff on board fail understand that RAPE is a serious crime and it does not make it any less serious or acceptable if the victim / survivor is a female sex worker or was roaming even naked, nothing justifies such a violent crime.
Performance and visual art can play a strong role in changing the mind sets of the society, artists have been addressing these issues in their art works since a long time but sadly their thought and expressions don’t reach the masses.

Its about time we use every social / public forum to educate people. Write, Blog campaign on internet social networks against such crimes and suggest a Zero tolerance from the social and legal system, There is a need to promote, literature , art and theater so it can reach a larger audience and help change perceptions, and broaden people’s vision and help them realize their fault to bring a positive change and shaping a better society.

Thank God That I Feel And Cry.

Early in the morning, I was yet to dealing with my first cup of coffee for the day when the newspaper made an entry from under the main gate of my house. The news paper was filled with news of a bank being robbed, Action against another KBCA man, Lyari unrest claiming another innocent life, a young lady being killed buy her own father, and three dead bodies found in different parts of the city. Such a newspaper is sure to give you the blues, but it is not in any way the newspaper’s fault, it’s the city, It’s the country, it’s our society we live in.

How can I change it ? What can I fix ? I am tired, baffled, I am sorry they are the people of my society I wish they could see where they are going.

At times I end up questioning my own sanity, why the hell do I care ? Why the hell can I not be like others, plastic devoid of all worries, but that is only possible if I am devoid of my emotions and sentiments too. And I will be a demon then.

It’s better to feel the pain, it’s good that I bleed and suffer, it’s better to be a human, Thank god I cry and feel.

Some Quotations And Thoughts.

He Thought :

“The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.”
(Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881).

But did not knew

“The people are the masters.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher.)

“The voice of the people is the voice of God.”
Alcuin (735?–804), English theologian and scholar.

And

“Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1925), U.S. president. Speech (July 4, 1914).

But he does not understand this so let me quote Lincoln (as he is so fond of him):

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
First inaugural address (March 4, 1861)

“As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes, I cannot see you.”
Reply to the South Carolina commissioners.

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Speech at Bloomington, Illinois (May 19, 1856).

“You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Letter to H. L. Pierce and others (April 6, 1859).

But would he ever understand ?