caught in the bud or success atlast???

I thought people were just ignorant towards everything that's happenig in Pakistan, the mockery of law that's being made so vehemently and blatantly but after our black band move being subjected to taunts and jeers and reduced to a mere fashion statement and shugal by a vast majority of students, I have come to the sad conclusion that most of us have become sooo immune to being treated like animals who are content with merely the presence of basic necessities that we don't consider the absence of that chance to question, to doubt, to think as an anomaly at all and those few who do raise their voices are the lowly outcasts, the "ahl-e safa, mardood-e haram" waiitng in vain for their turn to be seated on the "masnad".

The loud cheers when one bus crosses the other on the Islamabad Highway or the mock "inqilab zindabad" and the "Go musharraf Go" placards that they held just for that one photograph and to make fun of our silent protest are a few of the sorry spectacles that they made of themselves out of sheer ignorance and apathy. But probably calling that ignorance is just an excuse;it's almost a justification for their behavior. It wasn't ignorance, ignorance is an innocous tool of the innocent. It wasn't innocense; the depolitisisation of educational institutions in the Zia era have turned a whole generation into a bunch of expedient, disoriented crowd which demands that right to breath, that right to education, to food, to shelter, to profits and material benefits but leaves its intellectual berth docked.

Anyways, it came to a temporary end with the VC calling us in. We talked and chatted and aughed at any random spill out of emotions but all in all it was a triumph. We talked in the VC'S office on politics. We tried to challenge the depoliticeised environment of the uni and we managed to break through that stiff, military air that hangs around the campus and guess what he booked us in on a discussion on politics. And though many tried to bog us down with their stares directed towards our arms bared off their black bands, we came out happy and jubilant.

We didnt win, the thinking, inspired human being in us did, the silent concience, the wailing intellect won.