tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post4548806412590434386..comments2024-03-29T12:59:00.612+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: An unfathomable fury: on Bhisham Sahni's (and Govind Nihalani's) TamasJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-24272755819327679362016-03-31T05:46:32.244+05:302016-03-31T05:46:32.244+05:30I have been thinking about these questions too, of...I have been thinking about these questions too, of late, and literary attempts to capture life in such dystopian times although the fictional creation I have been repeatedly drawn to is 1984, a book I am now trying to read. My specific motivations are a bit different from yours: being in Canada, I am trying to make sense to the farce playing out in the States in the name of democracy as virtual demagogues with the ego and mindset of 5 year old schoolyard bullies are contesting for a chance to administer the States and the world. Can you imagine such people influencing international conflicts like Iraq, Syria, etc, and problems like the environment and human trafficking? I don't know what type of a fallible human is upto the task of addressing such challenges with finesse with an eye on greater good of the majority, instead of the greater, insatiable greed of a few. But it cannot be these men, surely! I cannot even imagine how we came to such a point, and I am not sure where we are headed, but I do shudder now to envision a time when the freedom (such as it is) that I enjoy to be a person of whims, interests and proclivities, might be forced to be nothing more than an embodiment of a political ideology of some demagogue with a fetish for someone like Gaddafi or Hitler. I imagine the Partition was one such time, as was WWI and WWII. But from what it looks like, at least you folks are further away from such a reality than us in North America. Who would have thought that possible? Nice read, btw!NJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02676333722319085849noreply@blogger.com