There has been a recent uproar about the protests at The Presidency College in Kolkata where the CM was shown the black flag and the VC was 'gheraoed'. Uproar, cause the venue is the Presidency college ( a museum ?) and at the receiving end was the VC and the CM, uproar over the 'quality' of protest and the degradation of everything under the sun especially the youth. Well nothing could be farther from the truth. While the grown ups are busy with waging war, indulging in corruption, lying on national television, selling false dreams, creating authoritarian society, misleading the mass, it is the youth who refuse to be short-sold. It is the youth who fight for independence, stop wars, rise up against a society which has been hollowed by corruption and epic lies and money laundering. It is always the youth who rise up against authoritarianism. It is the birth right of the youth to disagree and show dissent, to protest and clamour for change.
Often a lot is said about how a protest is to be registered. I believe that to draw peoples attention whispering into their ears never works, one has to hit out with a sledge hammer and then and only then can you expect undivided attention. So what does one mean when one says that the methodology of protest has changed. Of course it has changed and it will continue to change. To register your protest if one chooses to resort to violence, anarchy, Molotov cocktails, or stand in front of an approaching tank in Tienanmen square or wave black flags or hold candle light vigil, its all OK.
So go ahead and register yours in your own capacity or as a collective union... stand up for what you think is right and reject all that you dont agree with. Its a great time that we live in, one of great opportunities and possibility and one need not agree with what is laid out in front of us. So sorry CM, VC we dont agree with you and we shall and will register our protest whichever way we think fit.
For if the youth doesnt scream, shout and wave their clenched fists then who will?
Often a lot is said about how a protest is to be registered. I believe that to draw peoples attention whispering into their ears never works, one has to hit out with a sledge hammer and then and only then can you expect undivided attention. So what does one mean when one says that the methodology of protest has changed. Of course it has changed and it will continue to change. To register your protest if one chooses to resort to violence, anarchy, Molotov cocktails, or stand in front of an approaching tank in Tienanmen square or wave black flags or hold candle light vigil, its all OK.
So go ahead and register yours in your own capacity or as a collective union... stand up for what you think is right and reject all that you dont agree with. Its a great time that we live in, one of great opportunities and possibility and one need not agree with what is laid out in front of us. So sorry CM, VC we dont agree with you and we shall and will register our protest whichever way we think fit.
For if the youth doesnt scream, shout and wave their clenched fists then who will?
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