Wednesday, October 12, 2005

This article is writen by a youth named Ehsan Mallik who happens to be a GED student lives in Bangladesh. He tryed to touch the reality of the youth of Bangladesh in it...so readers might find few colloquial terms in language...but hey once you are through it really will make ya think of doing something very constructive...so don't bother sitting back. If ya wanted to share anthing you can always hit the 'comment' link...thank ya.


No One Else "Rock" Than We Do...!!!

'Mountain Dew' is dearly amongst the youth as a 'Brand' rather than a 'Beverage'. Maybe because of the approach' that it comes up with. It is the approach of 'challenge' and 'toughness'. A move towards which are mixtures of 'aggressiveness' and a ‘behavior’ of facing any dares...any rough and tough challenges. At least hat's the kind of sense its advertisements try to demonstrate on TV. It’s kind of 'Do the Dew' stuff. 'Fire boarding' straight over the pouring Lava or, 'Snowboarding' at its highest risk from the highest peak of the mountain, exemplifies a few.

When you are 'doing the dew' you gatta take that jeopardy even if you are considered the only one to go for it and you survive at the end. As a youth I also liked its attitude of ‘aggressiveness’ and 'roughness’ like many others did. The behavior of facing challenges' is kind of built in us. But recently one report was found in a renowned English newspaper, that our 'Do The Dew' trademark arranged a program of challenges and welcomed all sorts of youth from all sorts of locality of Dhaka. It would absolutely excite any youngster at the first place but the more I was going through the report the more my adolescence felt the humiliation and the embarrassment. Any youth would have felt the same. Just imagine I felt such humiliation and anger in me reading that stuff that I didn't know what to do then. The report said, "around 300 youth gathered at so and so place. They were from different renowned universities and institutions. All day long these educated youth one by one threw 'Plastic Balls' from a distance at the Plastic Bottles' were kept on the heads of other contenders. It sounds easy but it became more 'challenging' because, the plastic balls were thrown, been not at their targets since it was a windy day. Dear readers, by now you must have found what humiliation I was talking about. Its worthy to be a good joke to many but I'm afraid this kind of joke doesn't end there. There this program newly started on 'ZeeTV' (never seen but once) is called some 'Challenges'. It was arranged for a search of talents from the youth. So, a youth contender was about to given the 'green light' and he was emotionally so touched that he literally sat on the ground. Mean while, the host was mocking him with a tone of 'football commentary' in front of all by saying 'So and so already sat on the ground soon be found himself lying."

We neither can avoid such humiliation at our own grounds. Today's youth are called to these so-called programs of challenges (not better than a 'Jatra Show') and are mocked everyday and everywhere. They* mock us as they tell us to do 'bok bok' and 'cow cow' every Friday (hey, I'm not against mobile phone or any kind of technology. A youth can easily afford cell phone any time but he/she doesn't have to do 'bok bok' and 'cow cow' every friday bcoz 'they tell us so'). They indeed make fun of us when they say 'jore gola charo' and 'tomakei to khujse Bangladesh' and it is done so keenly that we never get near to their plans. In one hand, they instigate our human instincts with 'Mantras' such as 'Beauty Kiss' 'Jotil Prem' or 'Kothin Prem' and on the other they label us with the term 'Bokhate Chele' or 'Ut-thi Shontrashi'. Their cleverness has way passed the wit of a 'Jackal'.

We the youth must have a long hard look at ourselves...have we gone so low...that we don't realize we are being play of their Money Making 'Cheap' games!? What on earth happened to us!? How do they dare mocking us like that!? We are the nucleus of the society... a society runs with happiness only when the youth lives in it with leadership and responsibilities. Have they forgotten that every stress and turmoil, such as flood and terrorism in our place always brought by them are fought by the youth at the frontline?? Have they forgotten about worlds major changes are brought by the Generation of youth?? I tell them to look at the 'Berlin wall' was collapsed by the youth, look at 'Gibraltar' spain (Jabal-ut-Tariq or The Mountain of Tariq is the original form) conquered by a 17 years named Tariq ibn Ziad. Youth fought for their mother tongue in 1952. Youth toppled the dictatorial rule of Ershad in the early 90's. Yet youth are to be mocked, bluffed and neglected?!!

How can we sit back and relax when we are chained and spelled by their pathetic programs, filled with disgusting ways to mock youth. The best of boldness is found from them is only to be materialized in the 'Animated version of Advertisements' and in the world of 'Fantasy' (which humiliates our personalities). Youth must realize, the essence of us is the desire of facing 'Real Challenges in the Real world'. Nonetheless, it is constantly being taken away from us. Making this 'Rare Behavior' (which is not found in the blood of Olds) Unknown to our senses.

No. Enough is enough, no room for unrealistic imaginations or the mocking chain of 'illusions' or 'Fairytales'. I guess they have forgotten what we did for them in the past. Now, it’s worth a time showing them the heat of our 'provocation', 'aggressiveness' and power of 'Intellect' (Brains).


*They/Them: Any group of people, or individual…who want to press down the 'free thinking youth' to their useless slavery and don't want them to be 'Liberated'.

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