Oxymoron

I’m getting increasingly bored now. So in this process of getting bored, I decide to write this blog. I have nothing to write about, so I write and then delete a few things and finally decide to write about oxymorons.

Now why Oxymorons? I don’t know. But I am writing about this particular figure of speech that deals with apparent contradictions in two statements. I thought of the usual lot—a smart sardar, a smart blonde, a hard-working bong, etc. but then I happened to chance upon the best one—an MNC mass producing black T-shirts with a Che Guevara pictures on it.

Now why is that an oxymoron? I mean if Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd can be on T-shirt covers, then why not Che? He isn’t protected under copyright, so why not.

The point is that Che Guevara remains the best example of a successful revolutionary who gave it all away for a better world. He just happened to believe in an ideology that calls for the destruction of these huge profit houses that take endlessly without giving any thing back. Now, these companies turn around and market his image to make a fortune. Isn’t that brilliant?

Here is the second example that I came up with—RSS, VHP, etc., believing in democracy.

The recent events in Nepal have drawn comments from all political parties in India and across the world, but party remains strangely silent. What’s the connection between the RSS, VHP, Hindu Mahasabha, their façade, the BJP and Nepal? Simple. They’re all Hindus. The self-proclaimed protectors of Hinduism are nowhere to be seen as the only Hindu kingdom in the world comes under increasing pressure from the outside world.

The RSS, VHP, etc should all rise to the occasion. It’s the perfect opportunity for them. They can take their private armies of half-pant wearing goons and their half-baked political ideologies and go and save the King Gyanendra. I wonder what’s stopping them? Is it…? No it couldn’t be. But then what is it? Well then it must be democracy. Hooray for the Hindus of India, their guardians have learnt the meaning of the term ‘Democracy’. Now perhaps they will think twice before attacking other people, after all freedoms are an important part of democracy.

Maybe MF Hussain can paint Che pictures in peace (and sell them for huge sums)? Too many questions, too little data. Sad. Every thing said and done, Religion must mean the bullying of others till they submit or they are gone. Crusades for Jerusalem, Crusade against terror, Crusade for terror (jihad). I wonder—am I still writing about oxymorons? Still too little data for a meaningful answer.

Let there be light.