Extremists

"Anything to the extreme is bad." This is one rule that is valid at all times in all circumstances.

And India is a country that is blessed with samples from all the extremes possible. Not just any random samples, we have the most extreme variety of all samples. Although, this has always been cleverly portrayed as "Unity in Diversity", my personal belief is that there is unity only within each of the diverse groups (sometimes even this is doubtful), not amongst the various groups. Given a chance this country would split up into a billion-odd pieces. Think of it, corruption could be brought down to zero. (Afterall, what is the point of stealing from your own home.) And even I could dream of becoming President one day. But let me not get into that debate now.

We have extremist thinkers who don't want adulteration based on region. Best example would be Shiv Sainiks, who want all non-Maharashtrians to leave Mumbai. Then we have the extremists who go attack girls because they went to a pub and this is against our culture. (Did anyone check if the girls were really Hindus or Muslims?? They could just as well have been Christians and drinking might be allowed in their culture.)

(As revenge) another set of extremists (I think it was Renuka Choudhury) wanted all girls to go and enjoy Valentine's Day in pubs/parties. The Bangalore act of Shri Ram Sena inspired more extremists who declared they would roam around with garlands and rakhis on 14th Feb. According to them, "Friendship" doesn't exist between a boy and girl (atleast for that one day). So if you were caught roaming around with a girl, you had to be either her lover or her brother. This is something like Sigmund Freud's theory, only he went one step further still.

And, I guess, with the "Dostana" effect catching on, we won't even see two guys together from next Valentine's Day.

Amidst all this extremism are the biggest extremists of all - US (not America, but you and me). We have our hands folded and minds closed. We are so sure that we will be able to do nothing against these extremists that our attitude borders around being called "indifference".

But why doesn't anyone realise that there is a lot that we can do. We can rape Renuka's daughter next time we find her in a pub, drown Ram Sainiks in boiling oil if we find any of them drinking or smoking or kick the shit out of Shiv Sainiks if we find any of them out of Maharashtra or watching any Bollywood movie of some Delhi-born actor. NO! How can we do this? We would rather carry our "indifference" attitude to the extreme than turn towards violence.

I believe this is the ONLY reason we have stayed united - our "indifference" towards everything. And as if to mock at us, the extremists have always given us shit and we have gladly accepted it. Obviously we couldn't revolt against them.

And guess what next after taking all this shit? Its Pee. Now, this may sound like a really bad PJ to you but, its true. This time, they are conspiring to make us take Pee... literally. Read this article on Reuters.