Violence and you
What can be more disturbing than the sight of a graphic violence? How can the picture of a 14-year old chubby kid munching chocolate disturb me? Believe me, it disturbed me and it would disturb you. The kid was killed a few minutes later, shot point blank. The information that the boy was killed and picture of him nonchalantly eating a piece of chocolate troubled me like anything. I can't name the feeling, for naming it would be to run away from facing it. The feeling stays there, like a bad food troubling your stomach. Let it linger for a few minutes; this is real. This feeling is real. The information is just information, it is not my experience. I can make believe that it my experience, I can feel like a boy facing guns. I'd be as helpless as I'm right now. Like the boy facing the gun, like the girl teased by a bunch of goons in a Delhi bus, I'm helpless. You are helpless. Let us not run away from this feeli...