Tete-a-tete with the Maoist friend

It was usual afternoon, clustered with writings to be made, calls to be answered and with all those elements sufficient to make me a day older. I took break from the hustle-bustle and started to chat with the friend on the net. We were friends known for couple of years and yet he was new to me as I was more to know about him than what I knew. The same old tricks of saying long-time-no-see, what's up? Baisakh is coming no plans to get married were the agenda of our talk As routine I came up with the question, which brought the whole talk to new dimension, simple enough it was-'where are you?'. Pat came the answer, somewhere in the corner of the world. Oh yes, technical empowerment has brought us to the stage that we'll be fooling ourselves questioning whereabouts. It was the question meant not for getting genuine answer but more obliged to give chat a exhilarating start.

'It does not, make sense where you are but you should be going for the real goal', was the sentence to follow from him. The dude has started chirping old cliche of the Bhagwat Geeta, I thought for the moment till he came with 'U' turning declaration, 'I'm in Jungle'. Though the amplitude of seriousness was nicking me, it knelt before my sense of humor.'To fetch wood, Exceeding fuel price has brought this to you?'

'You learned people have the same problem. Why don't you go towards the ultimate goal which will make our future secure'. 'Does that mean you should be hibernating in the forest?' was me to follow. 'Look it’s a metamorphosis, outer world does not know what is running inside and you come up being butterfly out of caterpillar'. 'Have you ever tried to know that whether we loved being caterpillar to butterfly?' It was not the conversation with one party putting question and the other coming up with answer. Both of us were questioning knowing our limitations and short knowledge for the answer. It was the dialogue to fuel the flow of words, rather than coming to a point.

The world is behind them. Top guns of media houses made stories with the interview of their numero uno. It was more to me cause my dear friend was denying to reveal his global position. At a point he said I'm destined towards realistic goal, which to me was not justifiable.

'I need to go.' 'You are looser in the battle, who looses even when he is a single being on the battle', my hands were hitting keyboard double the pace than at normal times and I was getting more harsher. 'You are winner, who wins nothing than consolation and that’s the world you live in'. He signed out excusing for the work at hand. Politically the vision may be worthier and may encapsulate people's soft corner, but the medium of reaching there is futile. At the end of the day there may be nobody to reach anywhere, if the series of killing and being killed goes on. This must be brought to an end, if not tomorrow than today. Now it is the question before me, whether I've failed to explain him or he was not trying to be convinced.

1 comments:

At Friday, February 15, 2008 12:29:00 AM soodhan said...

sounds gr8 n gives da msg of dat time keep it goin

 

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