The answer is blowing in the wind..

I have heard of Bob Dylan before .They say he is a legend.
I have seen him in tshirts of guys in Mumbai. (And Che,Metallica,Madonna,Rock, Skulls,snakes,fire--
you name it, and sure it is in the tshirt of a mumbai guy) .
Today I thought of giving his music a try.
I felt wow! His music is minimalistic and it flows.
When you feel lonely Bob's music wont help you but make it more intense.
You feel happy. Bob's music will file it,remove the bubbly part of it and make it more lucid.
Thats what I felt after hearing Bob
What adds to this, is his lyrics. Infact I feel his lyrics excel his music at times. The lyrics of the song 'blowing in the wind' made me think of the Shelly's  poem 'Ozymandias'.

'How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, n how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before theyre forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, n how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before its washed to the sea?
Yes, n how many years can some people exist
Before theyre allowed to be free?
Yes, n how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesnt see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.'

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Today after stumbling upon sites, found this cartoon. Interesting. With today's internet and technology I dont think the cartoon is in anyway exaggeration.Even a novice can do this I believe. A social site might already have started such services!
Yes it might infringe the privacy.
But then there are privacy settings and you opt in or out. So what is your option? :)

Who's Who

 
Who's Who

Nathuram Godse killed M.K. Gandhi
M.K.Gandhi killed Nathuram Godse
Indira killed Sikhs
Sikhs killed Indira
Indira killed Sikhs
Japan killed America
America killed Japan
Hindu kills Muslim
Muslim kills Hindu
White kills Black
Black kills White
hanif killed people
people will kill hanif
I killed you
You killed Me

----------------I am myself; Am I?--------------------

Birds can fly and Turtles can swim

Birds can fly and Turtles can swim

Innocence.. Does this word has any meaning in our times? I usually wonder..

War Greed Survival and so much more.. Still innocence exists? When I see a child smile in a crowded metro train in Mumbai I think it does exist. But where is my innocence. Did I lose it Or has it faded in the days that I have lived so far. Innocence is still there when I smile at someone in my office thinking he will smile back at me. It is not there when the smiles exchanged doesnt have any meaning more than stamping a corporate affair.

But still children still have the innocence. In the way they hold their hands with their elders. When they chase a dog, when they spill a icecream, or look at white elephants flying in sky.

The movie 'Turtles can fly' says a strong "NO" to this statement. It says it with war.

Children are raped and have children of their own
They collect unexploded mines for their money needs
They kill themselves and their child
They buy bargain sell and practice weapons
They sleep under big iron tanks
They dream a different culture totally different from what they are.

This is how the movie establishes its statement.
Be it kurdistan or sri lanka the statement remains the same.
What are we doing? Killing children (If innocence is killed do you expect a child to be a child anymore?)
War is there not only in Kurdistan. It is there in our living rooms. A kid sees Mumbai terror attacks and it looks like a hollywood movie to him Not only to children;Many of our adults watched it the same way like a cricket match ('Arre yaar.. Why cant the soldier go and attack in the other way.. ')
Yes they remove our innocence.. Innocence is to cry when it pains to someone or atleast to yourself. They are removing it the way salt erodes spoon.

But the movie also says there are traces of it.
When the boy smiles when he standing amidst mines innocence is still there.
With puppy love.
The young guy saves the boy in the mines.
Dreams for red fishes in ponds (But the fishes lose color)

Hope. Still humanity believes in this word. It has and it will. It has to.

No Saddam No America. The Children have nothing left in the land of mines.
They dream of red fishes that lose colors always.

You know?
Children can play.
Turtles can swim and Birds can fly.