Of all the things in this world that I find most irkesome has to be sitting quietly. Can you imagine your situation when you are forced to sit quietly doing nothing at all, letting your mind go riot on the most irrelavant.
Post the scare casued by the unearthing of the plot to bomb 10 US bound planes over the british skies, the world has seen the western countries and thier security agencies go crazy. Rules and new regulations have been put in place that enforce rigid rules that infringe on the very basic rights that one has come to cherish. Of all the new rules the most absurd according to me would the one that makes you forcefully sit idle when in air by barring people from carrying books! This according to the security agencies is to prevent terrorists from tucking materials that can be used to make bombs or from carrying materials that can facilitate explosion of any kind. Does this in anyway compare better than similar diktats of the erstwhile Taliban in Afganistan banning people from reading books other than the Quran? Does this fare better than the forceful enforcement of silence on the masses of the muslim world by not letting them voice thier opinion through publications of their own?
Look at this in the backdrop of the imperialist West(read USA) demanding more freedom for people including people who are not its own citizens! Do they have the moral right? Do they stand on firm conviction? And come on, being so technologically advanced, if you can develop and install machines that can scan and smell human bodies then why can't you do the same for books!
At the end of it all imagine yourself having to sit 20 hours idling through your journey in the air. How much of gossip can you share with your neighbour? And if the neighbour too has a similar character like mine there would be no chat of even the trivial kind. What boredom! It most probably would feel like being incarcerated in a solitary confinement!
posted by Akhilesh @ 10:47 PM
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