☀️ JOIN SPN MOBILE
Forums
New posts
Guru Granth Sahib
Composition, Arrangement & Layout
ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New resources
Latest activity
Videos
New media
New comments
Library
Latest reviews
Donate
Log in
Register
What's new
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Welcome to all New Sikh Philosophy Network Forums!
Explore Sikh Sikhi Sikhism...
Sign up
Log in
Discussions
Hard Talk
Interviews
Nineteen Eighty-four
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="drkhalsa" data-source="post: 6235" data-attributes="member: 384"><p><strong>Nineteen eighty-four</strong></p><p> By: <a href="mailto:mayank@mid-day.com">Mayank Shekhar</a> </p><p> January 12, 2005 <img src="http://ww1.mid-day.com/columns/mayank_shekhar/2005/january/%5Ccolumns%5Cimages%5Cmayank-big.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">One place on the planet where clearly all wasn’t well in George Orwell’s prophetic 1984 has to be India. Just take a quick pause, and recall — a burning Punjab, Operation Blue Star in Amritsar, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Indira Gandhi’s assassination…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">However the one event that I feel should have shaken us up for centuries to come had to be the apparently spontaneous anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. Not because riots are uncommon in India. Not because it took place in the nation’s capital. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">But because, perhaps for the first time in post-Independence India, the myth of a maternal welfare state was eternally shattered. Because, like the bodyguards of Gandhi who pumped bullets on the person they were meant to protect, the slaughterers of Sikhs were none else, but their own state. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I was relatively young then. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">But it must have been a shocking reality-check for some to realise that if an elected Central government — or more likely its cronies — with all the powers we vest on their strong batons, decided to set out and destroy a community, there is nothing anyone, anywhere could do about it. There was no one you could turn to. And there is nowhere that you could go.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">It’s uncanny that 20 years later, it takes Shonali Bose’s film Amu to make us relive and fear again that reality. My quick commentary on the supremely well-intentioned film, playing in the cinemas, must now remain restricted to its two wonderful lead actors: Konkona Sen-Sharma, whose near-perfect portrayal of a yuppie, post-collegiate NRI definitely harked me back to her well-researched rendition of a Tam-Bram wife in Mr And Mrs Iyer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">And activist Brinda Karat, whose charming presence reminded me of a similarly amiable Nafisa Ali.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The two aesthetics apart, one needs to overlook dollops of dispensable digressions and distractions as Bose’s film sets up the plot. For it is only in the final 45 minutes when she gets to the point, when she absolutely hits the nail on the head. And to understate, does an incredible job of it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The prime point of the picture of course is, as the female protagonist (Sen-Sharma) explains, “Within three days, over 5,000 people were killed in the Delhi riots.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px">The death toll in 9/11 was about 3,000. And that changed the course of contemporary world history. The deaths in Pearl Harbour were about 2,400. And that changed the course of how nations revenge their sorrows. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Is it a mere, frighteningly thick-skinned Indian indifference that over 25,000 people who perished in Delhi alone in the ’84 massacre (as writer Amitav Ghosh reports) were so soon suppressed and repressed to public memory? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Ghosh, in his brilliant, post-dated personal piece on the subject (The Imam And The Indian), recounts, “The Citizen’s Unity Front had formed a team to investigate the riots. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">A document produced by this team of activists — a slim pamphlet called ‘Who Are The Guilty?’ — has become a classic, searing indictment of the politicians and the police who allowed the rioters to have their way.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Yet, not one human being has been charged for instigating that heinous genocide after two decades! Is that really true? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The last I saw, the ‘kale chashme wallah’ (black-spectacled one) referred to in Amu was taking flighty walks at Delhi’s plush-green Nehru Park with black-cat commandoes in tow. Another one of his ilk was this week in Mumbai as the nation’s ‘Pravasi’ minister… </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The necessary repercussion of this callousness, of unpunished gruesome political offenders, as auteur Bose argues, is a cycle of violence. She does this through the last shot in Amu that shows an erupting riot in Gujarat in 2002, while her movie’s audience has just recalled the horrors of ’84. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Her point is valid. In one sense you could liken the Gujarat carnage to the Delhi riots — both were allegedly state-sponsored, and in both cases the supposed perpetrators came back to power. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">But I think there’s a key difference. One, I believe is that the muted and mutilated minority of the nation’s capital 20 years ago — given their sheer numbers as a voters’ block — did not matter in the larger scheme of national politics. Hence, they were much easily stamped out, and forgotten. That cannot be said of the victims of Vadodara or Ahemdabad. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Not sure if that explains fast-track courts to charge those guilty in Gujarat, and none such for Delhi’s riots.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">But more significant than that is the post-2000 explosion of Indian television news and digital-video camera machinated media that unabashedly beamed live the gruesome images from Gujarat. It makes it far tougher for us now to forget what happened there, so easily, so soon. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">On a positive note, that, I think, has been this democracy’s greatest achievements in the past decades. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Unless I speak too soon, that tremendous development alone, would make Delhi ‘84 impossible to disregard, haunting us for several generations, were it to occur today, in the same magnitude.</span>[/font]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drkhalsa, post: 6235, member: 384"] [b]Nineteen eighty-four[/b] By: [email="mayank@mid-day.com"]Mayank Shekhar[/email] January 12, 2005 [img]http://ww1.mid-day.com/columns/mayank_shekhar/2005/january/%5Ccolumns%5Cimages%5Cmayank-big.jpg[/img] [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]One place on the planet where clearly all wasn’t well in George Orwell’s prophetic 1984 has to be India. Just take a quick pause, and recall — a burning Punjab, Operation Blue Star in Amritsar, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Indira Gandhi’s assassination… However the one event that I feel should have shaken us up for centuries to come had to be the apparently spontaneous anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. Not because riots are uncommon in India. Not because it took place in the nation’s capital. But because, perhaps for the first time in post-Independence India, the myth of a maternal welfare state was eternally shattered. Because, like the bodyguards of Gandhi who pumped bullets on the person they were meant to protect, the slaughterers of Sikhs were none else, but their own state. I was relatively young then. But it must have been a shocking reality-check for some to realise that if an elected Central government — or more likely its cronies — with all the powers we vest on their strong batons, decided to set out and destroy a community, there is nothing anyone, anywhere could do about it. There was no one you could turn to. And there is nowhere that you could go. It’s uncanny that 20 years later, it takes Shonali Bose’s film Amu to make us relive and fear again that reality. My quick commentary on the supremely well-intentioned film, playing in the cinemas, must now remain restricted to its two wonderful lead actors: Konkona Sen-Sharma, whose near-perfect portrayal of a yuppie, post-collegiate NRI definitely harked me back to her well-researched rendition of a Tam-Bram wife in Mr And Mrs Iyer. And activist Brinda Karat, whose charming presence reminded me of a similarly amiable Nafisa Ali. The two aesthetics apart, one needs to overlook dollops of dispensable digressions and distractions as Bose’s film sets up the plot. For it is only in the final 45 minutes when she gets to the point, when she absolutely hits the nail on the head. And to understate, does an incredible job of it. The prime point of the picture of course is, as the female protagonist (Sen-Sharma) explains, “Within three days, over 5,000 people were killed in the Delhi riots.” The death toll in 9/11 was about 3,000. And that changed the course of contemporary world history. The deaths in Pearl Harbour were about 2,400. And that changed the course of how nations revenge their sorrows. Is it a mere, frighteningly thick-skinned Indian indifference that over 25,000 people who perished in Delhi alone in the ’84 massacre (as writer Amitav Ghosh reports) were so soon suppressed and repressed to public memory? Ghosh, in his brilliant, post-dated personal piece on the subject (The Imam And The Indian), recounts, “The Citizen’s Unity Front had formed a team to investigate the riots. A document produced by this team of activists — a slim pamphlet called ‘Who Are The Guilty?’ — has become a classic, searing indictment of the politicians and the police who allowed the rioters to have their way.” Yet, not one human being has been charged for instigating that heinous genocide after two decades! Is that really true? The last I saw, the ‘kale chashme wallah’ (black-spectacled one) referred to in Amu was taking flighty walks at Delhi’s plush-green Nehru Park with black-cat commandoes in tow. Another one of his ilk was this week in Mumbai as the nation’s ‘Pravasi’ minister… The necessary repercussion of this callousness, of unpunished gruesome political offenders, as auteur Bose argues, is a cycle of violence. She does this through the last shot in Amu that shows an erupting riot in Gujarat in 2002, while her movie’s audience has just recalled the horrors of ’84. Her point is valid. In one sense you could liken the Gujarat carnage to the Delhi riots — both were allegedly state-sponsored, and in both cases the supposed perpetrators came back to power. But I think there’s a key difference. One, I believe is that the muted and mutilated minority of the nation’s capital 20 years ago — given their sheer numbers as a voters’ block — did not matter in the larger scheme of national politics. Hence, they were much easily stamped out, and forgotten. That cannot be said of the victims of Vadodara or Ahemdabad. Not sure if that explains fast-track courts to charge those guilty in Gujarat, and none such for Delhi’s riots. But more significant than that is the post-2000 explosion of Indian television news and digital-video camera machinated media that unabashedly beamed live the gruesome images from Gujarat. It makes it far tougher for us now to forget what happened there, so easily, so soon. On a positive note, that, I think, has been this democracy’s greatest achievements in the past decades. Unless I speak too soon, that tremendous development alone, would make Delhi ‘84 impossible to disregard, haunting us for several generations, were it to occur today, in the same magnitude.[/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Discussions
Hard Talk
Interviews
Nineteen Eighty-four
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
Accept
Learn more…
Top