The next time we think of messing with another life or feel that we are all that, lets keep this clip in mind. As the media brings us sound bites, the stories that resonate with us cannot be contained, and have more than navigable depth. Unlike sound bites, it is the documentaries, the rare movies, essays, poetry, as do video clips--every second or minute of which force us to unwittingly parallel our existence against what we encounter in those textual and visual spaces.
Our angers, bitterness's, patriotism's are evanesced when met with genuine determination and joy (a word that promises to soon become an anachronism). Often, our depths are plumbed, our shallows are known--we are revealed for the lack of being truly dimensional. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsxpGTVAgI0 The judges are Terence Lewis, Geeta Kapur and Remo D'Souza. But let us also not remember that the nation state (with its fawning media apparatus), and the India of today will also use and manipulate our lives and our patriotism, in ways we can and may barely imagine. The bureaucrats are on the job; but the others can at least dance. venantius j pinto
