Thursday, February 11, 2010
SRK vs Shiv Sena: Collective action totally uncalled for
The recent protests by the Shiv Sena supporters, which have been rocking Bombay for the past few days, show how collective action can be used to quell the basic rights of the citizens. Shah Rukh Khan was perfectly within his rights to favour the inclusion of Pakistani and Australian players in IPL 3, Shiv Sena’s decision of not allowing his new film to be released in Bombay, till he retracts his statement, speaks volumes of highhandedness collectivities, tend to show. This is to the extent of denying a citizen his fundamental right of expression. Collective action sometimes can be totally uncalled for!
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Rather than calling success of collective action on the part of shivsainiks , i would call this a collective failure of the government which is ruling the state for the last decade.
Collective action or collective inaction, by whom we call Indians, by us. Is it not us, who have allowed, through inaction and even sympathising with goondas like thakreys, by not joining together, and fighting together their menace whenever they stop us from buying a card for our loved ones, from watching a movie, for any reason?
The answer is a resounding yes, and a slur on those great men who laid their lives for our freedom if we don't even stand up, COLLECTIVELY, and watch a movie!!
@Reddy:What Shivsainiks are doing is not a collective action towards a positive direction .They exercised their power to humiliate a person's right to speak .And yes,it is quite obvious that the failure of government to act upon this kind of collective (in)action has led into the pseudo-victory of the shivsainiks .But are we not to be blamed for allowing them to carry out their action of ethnic cleansing ?
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