Cannibals of a Cosmopolis
Bangalore is a safe and peaceful city to live in. At least, that's what any software professional who'd migrated to the city to work would have believed to be true... until the sudden demise of the veteran Kannada actor Rajkumar.
The incident unleashed the real color and nature of the film-fanatics, who, blindfolded by their own insanity, indulged in various felonious activities like pelting stones at the glass panes of buildings and damaging public property, desensitized to the fact that they were causing harm to their own fellow citizens. And all these under the pretext of grief! The damages caused to the government summed up to many crores of rupees, not to mention the loss of a few precious lives! One death causing many deaths! All these acts of savagery would have been justified at least partly, had the death of the actor been a contrived or an unnatural one.
One fact that is proved beyond doubt is that there's a beast within every human, a cannibal within every cosmopolitan, which keeps telling to itself that normal is boring and havoc is fun. Every incident that happens around us triggers off a tussle between the human and the beast. They start to continuously contradict each other and whoever wins, takes control of the mind. The beast wakes up at the slightest hint of a crisis and the first thing it does is to eclipse common-sense. Like every egoistic human being craving for fame and recognition, the beast too craves for notoriety and recognition. It is the same beast which enjoys and encourages every ill-feeling like anger, jealousy, lust, malice etc. It requires a special kind of skill to identify the beast and tame it, before it wakes up and takes control of our senses.
Every one of us like to do things of our own free will. It just has to be decided if the free will is that of the human or the beast!
