Hola!! I am so happy to have got the opportunity to check in to my Whatever after a long time! Well, things and ideas keep climbing up the mind's staircase every now and then but this one thought was pestering me since a long time now. At last, I am here.
In today's world of accelerating awareness, many of us keep cribbing for issues around us, be it social, personal or national. We know how to curse government for bad roads and facilities, we know how to curse the nation for corruption, population and we very well know how to curse the entire system for any small problem we might face. But how many of us actually take a step to tackle it? How many of us actually strive to eradicate what discomforts us? How many of us take it on ourselves and realize the fact that its no one's but our own duty to confront the problem, to clean our society, our system and our nation? In reality, the ratio of those who crib and those who actually think of bringing a revolution is like 1 in a million. And then, for that one in a million who actually think and start with something, it is so assumed that the path wouldn't come out easy for him. Take for example case of Satyameva Jayate, Aamir Khan's perhaps most talked about television show on social issues residing in Indian System, if a layman like me would have taken an initiative like that and thought of airing a show, I doubt on the amount of audience I would have been able to gather and above that I doubt even a channel would have actually allowed me to air it. But it makes me feel so proud and patriotic of Aamir, who with his place in society and with that name of fame, have actually thought, started and executed that project so well. If it wouldn't have been for him, I again doubt on the popularity and impact of a show of this kind. The stats presented, the stories elaborated compelled me to think about the impact on those victims and future shape of India if they continue to reside in our social system. Every episode made me wonder what will be the next issue, and and every next episode left me all the more petrified. The content, stats, audience and Aamir's scripts, everything throw a clear picture of the intense research the team has gone through. For issues like problems in medical facilities, and khaap panchayats, despite knowing the probable consequences, its commendable not to have felt frightened and present everything audaciously.
Every time I saw his episode, I felt so touched and felt that despite knowing the issue already, I never knew it was that severe and its victims are so intense and large in number. When the question was asked in the episode of Child Sexual Abuse for the percentage of children facing it today, my mind's reflex answered me somewhat around 3-4%% but I was horrified to know the figure to be above 50%. The Dowry problem, the untouchability or human scavenging, the water pollution problem or female foeticide, every problem was so known and so much heard but I would applaud for an initiative and thought this man has put into it and came up with such a huge wave of impact.
I am writing this not because I liked watching the show or I appreciate every social initiative that comes up, I am writing this because I am also a part of those 1 million people who can only sit back and watch the show. I am a part of that 1 million who are happy till they haven't fallen prey to any issues of these kind and think that they never will be affected by them. But I am one in that million too who is moved so much that I feel like contributing to my society and nation now. Don't know how far this feeling of mine will go with me, but for now, I do pledge that a day will come soon...
For now, I salute you Mr. Aamir Khan, Hats off to You!!