Congratulations Pakistan!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
On this 27th day of September 2009, Pakistan has won a cricket match against India. We're happy, very happy indeed. But here lies our collective national character. Our media is replete with comments like 'Pakistan won against its rivaayeti hareef (traditional rival)'. We aren't happy because we've won a match, we're happy because we've won against INDIA - the enemy. Is this euphoria rooted somewhere in our subconscious latent sense of inferiority? We can't beat India in arts, culture, media, science, technology, intellectual input to the philosophy, etc. The cricket is the easiest way out. Let's won against India and vent out all our frustration of inferiority!The most lamentable fact is that maturer, older generation joins youngsters in this celebration of hatred and complexes.
Now, by doing this, we're not only undermining our own potential as a nation but also doing a disservice to sports. A sports person spirit does not only teach the ethics of failure, but also, the ethics of success. Do we want to learn? Or should we continue with our hatred? Do we really think that this choice of loath is going to win us a national prestige and be a healer to our collective ego? Can this win us a victory stand of knowledge and wisdom among the comity of nation?
Please comment. Let's generate a debate here.
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Spreading hatred is the best way to earn votes, blood is that we use as furniture polish to shine our chair and religion we use as stairways to climb rules and laws. It has been going on since we've earn "independence" -- if thats what you want to call it. We've been hearing all that blah blah over and over again -- as we've been growing up -- thru our media, from our politicians and even from our teachers in school.
So do you think is that easy as snapping fingers to erase all that data from our hard-drives in just a command of "delete"......our young generation is in that crap upto the knees without the paddles -- Just burning the flags of other nations and chant outside the press clubs or in city centers is not the solution neither the rant we do about it because lot of stuff has been written in the papers or telecast on air.
Here I have a question with all the intellectuals and forwarded brains.......
Does anybody has Aladdin's lamp in your hands? do you
Junaid Khan
Junaid sahib, you are absolutely right. No one of us has any such lamp,nor I'm expecting such a lamp to work.
You see, there was an adage in old times: If you want a lie to become a truth, keep uttering it. It will sound as if it is the truth!
This is the essence. If "they" have been uttering this lie for decades to fill the spreadsheet and electronic media, to make it sound like a truth, why can't we keep uttering the truth so that it might at least keep breathing?
Voices like this are very important I think. And these should not be silenced on the ground that nobody is going to listen. Even if no one listens, even if no one gets impacted, these voices should keep on being raised.
Am I making any sense?
Dear Marvi, the media is selling hate on both sides of the border. If you watch Indian movies on love (I am talking about a Hindu or Sikh India boy in love with a Muslim girl from Pakistan) those are all one sided. I am surprised that not a single movie can't find a love story with other side of the picture. They know that hatered sells, so they are cashing the trend. If the journalists and the intellectuals want they can change this behaviour to curse each other.
I appreciate your thoughts.
Thank you so much Tariq sahib. I agree with you that the hatred on both sides is mutual. And in many cases, more pronounced on the other side of the border. But this is the high time that we at both sides learn to live, let live and love! Thanks a lot for commenting.
Spectator sports are meant to play this role. I would point you towards these two wonderful essays by Umberto Eco on spectator sports and the role they have to play in disciplining citizens in bourgeois democracies. He argues that spectator sports are not about sports but about politics and their use for discernable political ends. He is looking at the Western world but that arguement is easily and convincingly transferred to our blighted cricket relation too.
I did try to make some use of his argument more than two years ago in the context of India Pakistan cricket. Do have a look here http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/the-discipline-of-spectator-sports/
Sahi kaha Marvi ji
ye nafrat ka zehar jo dono mulkon ke rebaron ney hamari ragon mein bhar diya hai ye usi najija hai;
hum ehal e shahar ki khwahish ke mil jul kar rahein lekin.AMEER E SHEHAR KI DILCHASPIAN KUCHH AUR KEHTI HAIN.
yeh bhole bhaaley aur masoom log cricket ka match jeet kar sochtey hain ke mulk jeet liya
khushbir singh shaad
I'm really flabbergasted by Ms. Marvi's opinion and some of the comments highlighting "hate" in Pakistani jubiliations. This is simple sporting competitiveness, oh come on! This competitiveness creates interest all over the world.
Pakistan and India are "rivayati harif" in sports, particularly in hockey and cricket, as much as England and Austrelia are in "Ashes". Why any objection in that?
The 'inferiority complex' is not in ignoring India's superiority in all the fields other than cricket. The inferiority complex, actually, is in blindly accepting India's superiority in all spheres, feeling frail before India, and avoiding any words that may 'hurt' India's feelings, at least in the thinking of those who think the pride is in waggling tails before India's perceived superiority.
Those who hate Pakistanis' 'hate' for India, should also preach to Indians to show atleast some pretence of respect to Pakistanis, and others of its neighbours. Because, at least for the time being Pakistan has come to stay with all its difficulties.
HAIL PAKISTANI 'INFERIORITY'!!
i endorse your thought.
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