Sunday, October 2, 2016

Learn To Take Your Stand


Art, Music, Literature don't know boundaries, only hatred, arrogance and anger does. One who has just finished re-reading these lines and still couldn't understand should just stop reading this article, This one is certainly not for you, and my free of cost suggestion to you is "Get Educated" then you can come back and read this.

It's not about whether we should ban Pakistani Actors/ Artists/Serial/Movies or not?
It's about what your conscience says or in simpler words, what you want, your individual opinions/views, or you have nothing of your own. Don't just follow the trend, it's very sad to know that most people don't have their own stand, they are so confused, so they follow the popular opinion, it's easy to hate, it's even easy to say go back, it's our country, someone has just started this trend and almost everyone seems to be part of it, why?
Just because it makes you feel more patriotic, or it seems to satisfy your pride, so you even don't hesitate and going extra mile for whole heartedly supporting those who have given threating to innocent artist's, tell me or better ask yourself an honest question, what is the difference between them and those who announce "Fatwa", leave my country within 48 hours otherwise you shall be off with your head or you shall be killed.

Is it the right track? Is it the solution?

What I have found that, when it comes on taking stand, 99% of Indians are completely clueless and then they found themselves in a random boat whose driver is someone from the rest 1%, and believe me, it's only the drivers enjoying the ride, and the rest as expected don't even know the driver and they don't even care, as long as they could found their closed & loved ones (friends/family/relative/neighbors/people of same caste, community & religion) in the same boat , they even don't care where they are heading, we must understand that the driver could also be an anti-nationalist terrorist, a mad scientist, a selfish businessman, a criminal who has become politician, a corrupt government officer, or someone trying to exploit the situation for his/her selfish motive.

So you must be thinking what the common mass can do, for their stand in all general to sensitive matters they depend on newspaper/ news channels/ political leaders or someone either popular or rich or both, and the reason that they found themselves so helpless is because they never learned to keep themselves distracted from popular influences, history shows that it has always been successfully worked as opium for masses, now no more, my dear ones, it's time to wake up, don't just blindly follow, learn to take your own stand, develop your own conscience.


I like Fawad khan as an actor and Atif Aslam as a singer and let me remind you, there is nothing wrong about it, a person can't be hated based on his/ her nationality, I am not asking you to believe me, if you could put your prejudice aside for a while watch his Bollywood movies Khubsurat, Kapoor & Sons or his TV series Zindagi Gulzar hai, Atif aslam is a great singer, few of my fa-borate songs are sung by him like Aadat, Jeena-Jeena, Meri Kahani , Jalpari & Hamrahi, he has also given so many hit numbers to Bollywood.

I like them and will continue to like them, while most of you can choose to hate them and enjoy their ban, let's take a while to think beyond, what is going to happen will be worst for all of us, a country so far known for it's rich cultural heritage will in the coming future will be known for harassing artists, and becoming barrier in free expression of art/talent, and we shall all share this guilt, and that wouldn't make us feel proud.

Let's end this with this note: Don't just follow a popular trend, try to find what's yours in it and once you found it, learn to stand for it, as I did.

(These are my original views and certainly not written under the influence of any terrorist organizations/Salman khan/ Saif ali khan or karan johar)