Are we left with any personal space

Valentine’s Day: moral policing starts a week ahead of the D-Day. Strategies and warnings to all those love birds who dare to meet in parks and public places. Shops are vandalized and youngsters harassed. There is media all around.

Movies: protests start a week or couple of days ahead of airing the movie. Public is restrained and posters torn! Processions, vandalism, debates and political mud sling fest starts over the dialogues or scenes shot.

Games: Players are machines. Continuous efficiency for the amount of money paid is expected without a consideration that these players are humans and they too have a family. A series lost or a game underplayed evokes emotions and wider criticism than a win. Every one speaks- housewives, attendants, kids who just know how to play copter shot like Dhoni or those who follow his mane style. There are advices from every quarter and the players are analyzed. In fact post mortem done without understanding the mental condition. They are more of gladiators in the arena ready to thrust swords into each other and spill blood for the public viewing and enjoyment than sports persons who play for passion of the game. There is politics ticking into the games- the bigger the game the more political will be the environment surrounding it. Media shutterbugs do not lose a moment to capture the movements- which star has gone where, what they do and how they do are all covered and aired as if it’s a part of the assignment or internship project for which viva would happen.

Be it film stars/players/common man, the only question that comes up is – is there any space left for our own living? There is no zone where in interference is minimum. Every sphere is poked into and every event or matter converted into a debatable issue.

The recent issue of Aarakshan clearly shows that the politicians have no work than to poke nose into every thing that concerns us. Being concerned is good but when that concern grows beyond expected lines it’s time to trim it. No one is given a right to interfere into the personal liberty or zone of any person and today, that is something which happens very often. Too many heads storming over irrelevant trifling issues-formatting required!

The only question that comes up is: are we left with any personal space??