Wednesday, April 20, 2011

I'm pissed therefore I starve

Anna Hazare has created a trend.
When you want to protest, you fast until death.
Suddenly, everyone is doing it.
Teachers fast until death for salaries.
Farmers fast until death for compensation.
Hell, even car dealers are going hungry.
There are questions that I raise now?
1) If I don't get a good salary hike, will my colleagues and I get something if we decide not to eat for an hour? Hunger fast for an hour? For us, that is a fast until death.
2) When these guys break their fast, will the fast breaking moment be sponsored by 7UP Nimbooz like it was for Anna Hazare or will someone decide to do something desi and sponsor it with Nariyal Paani?
3) What the fuck are these people fasting proving anyway. Just because Hazare succeeded (and now people are laughing at him more), does it mean that they will.
Answer these three questions and if they make sense, I'm sure you'll not bother with a hunger strike anymore

2 comments:

  1. 1) In that case, we should all starve ourselves crazy. But you're right, we would die (and I eat as I write this so I'm not lying)
    2) If they handed me some Old Monk I may consider it. That's desi enough for me. Although Nariyal Paani doesn't sound so bad right now.
    3) You'll have to ask them what they're trying to prove. Chances are, they ruin their health or die anyway and that doesn't really solve anything, does it?
    Hunger strikes don't make sense to me because there are loads of people who go hungry, not out of choice, every year and no one is jumping up and giving them a reward for it.

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