The Rise of the new age Intellectual.
First of all ..Where do these creatures exist? They exist mainly in the purportedly
the worlds-biggest-democracy.
What are the credentials of these intellectuals which make them intellectuals?
Well, to be called an intellectual in most parts of the globe you need skills in more then one subject or issue ,but "the new age intellectual" amazingly manages everything with one skill..the ability to speak and write english.Though most of the times the intellectual doesn't know what he is writing about ..it knows how to write or speak in the most proficient manner.
This can be substantied by watching what apparently is one of the most sucessful things India has produced..its films.In our films we generally have a very "heroic" character which studies itself in some city which is not far off from it's ignorant village. With all love it returns back to it's village and confronts the zamindar of the village who is generally acompanied by a big bellied,grunting voiced lawyer.In presence of all the dumb villagers and ignorant zamindar it talks in english with the english-knowing lawyer.Lo!! a new intellectual has just been born..the lawyer is completely taken aback with the multi-linguistic abilities of it and the widow-mama of the character is just too happy.This is where now we have to zoom at the audience..bcoz they are more dumber then the villagers.Suddenly, their faces lighten up on just being shown an intellectualism unparalled in it's fim viewing career.
This half-learnt road to intellectualism somehow impregnates in their bowl of heart or brain..which ever they think with!! :-)
Just learning what it takes to be an intellectual..they start trying this on autowallahs and waiters in restuarants ..and they never do that quietly ,lest many of the unqualified souls won't have a chance to listen to the mantras of enlightnment.This proceeds on to "thinking-alike",modern friends where,though they have the same mother tongue but for the development of each indvidual body and soul they mutually agree to speak in the best language on the world.This next becomes a family development process..where the father,mother,son,daughter all start talking in it..simultaneoulsy feeling the change that is occuring inside them..their intellect is evolving..an unlikely thing when we speak in our mother tongue.
what does it generally do?
Well,it when asked question never replies with "i don't know" if it doesn't know..but proceeds on to give answer for everything under the roof of the sun..with it's grandiloquence.Some really eternal,enlightened new age intellectuals give their free opinions in 24X7 news channels or they are busy writing editiorials for which they have neither the knowledge nor epxertise other then english.Some of them move on to write "english" novels which is normally a very poor brain simulating exercise.The mere mortal new age intellectual ..just later on adopts it for all other circumstances in it's life and proceeds on to show off when ever there is no necessity of any rhetoric.
It's prayer..which is generally addressed to GODs is addressed to THE CIVILIZED people of the world today:
Thanx Queen(is it Victoria?? )!! with all my sentimental heart and logical mind i thank you for what ever you have done..and even till today i remember you and your lovely clan every day by just talking like you,walking like you,dressing like you and acting like you.In what better way can WE show our devotion to you and your lot!! GOD ! mercy on us ,are we aping properly.
Anybody who says against this ..he will not be regarded as an intellectual in this country.
Do u think this english being representation of intellect has reduced in this country after so many years?? ..no way..i recently saw an advertisment for a cell phone..where the husband speaks in normal hindi and he is treated like a sloven..when suddenly the wife lifts her pardha and she starts talking in english..the shopkeepr suddenly realises that now he is talking to a very intelligent creature..and then he deals with them like human beings.. I saw that ad in a movie hall today and the audience recieved it in the same way when the city returned new age intellectual faced the zamindar's lawyer.
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