After SRT200 festival, all brand machines will start gearing up for a new unknown festival, which nobody knows at this moment and for which the GOD is yet to be identified. India is such a beautiful and holy country that I am sure the next re-incarnation of GOD is on its way. It's just the matter of revelation by Media, Politics and Corporate offices. SRT has done his magic, which has enthralled us for over two decades and now 'they' have sensed that it's time to retire this GOD. It could be the intuitive feeling for the GOD itself that he is falling to a position of mere human, which is quite reasonable. But the fact is, SRT has ended his international career finally. A speculation from critics, which had grown into a fierce dragon-like fire spitting creature for past 3-4 years, has come to a reality and GOD has granted them their wish in a magnificent way.
Comparing Sachin with the GOD is not just coincident with his Cricketing abilities. He is an outstanding sportsperson, no doubt about it. But does that only make him GOD? Absolutely not. If you think, far more deep and intriguing notions are associated with this GOD phenomena, specifically to Indian context. In the country of festivals and GODs people are always looking for opportunities of celebrations, with a worthy reason associated to the event. A Savior, an endower is always raised above the human levels and treated as an angel or GOD who will answer the prayers and fulfill the wishes. Sachin has done so many remarkable things to serve our nation in the world of cricket, such a reverence is called for. He acted as the winning king of a religion, language and cast agnostic battlefield of sport. He has always been looked up to as an idol, on and off the field. He has established his legacy on the field by fiercely talking with his bat only, where many other 'humanlike' cricketers of his caliber indulged themselves in abusive game. He has never hurt anybody even off the field. I feel there is a strong connection between the growing middle and upper middle class economic entities and artist-middle-class roots of Sachin's family background. The GOD like behavior is revered by masses because the conduct that SRT has maintained throughout his career is quite dearer to hearts of millions. Since centuries our parents have taught us to behave like this and Sachin perfectly managed to personify the exact lessons of 'middleclass ideology'. Neither he was involved in big controversy nor he tried to end any of such like match fixing. He was never known as an abusive figure on the field as probably he could not use bad words but let the bat do the business. This was not crafted and scripted but was an outcome of the upbringing that he has had in 'Sahitya Sahavas'. The innocence and simplicity are the two virtues that he has kept with him all along and these two have performed major role in having GOD like stature and veneration for an individual. As a testimony, the speech that he has given on his retirement day is one of the class act which touched millions of souls.
There is an observed tendency of Indians to look for a GOD like figure which can be looked up to in hard times. We need somebody as a pacemaker. We need somebody who will act as savior to us. When many of the things go wrong, we tend find one such Sachin, one such Amitabh, one such Bhimsen Joshi who act as an analgesic to our daily bruises life. Does that mean the roots of this GOD making tendency lie in our inabilities to fight with problems? Does that mean we always need a 'Maseha' to get us out of troubles? GODs and festivals are always good. They will give us strength and ability to believe in self. We need not submit ourselves to them.
I am sure there will be a next 'GOD in making' somewhere in some industry with the scripts by Media, politics and corporate, and those will be executed flawlessly with the same euphoria that we have witnessed on SRT200 festival.
Comparing Sachin with the GOD is not just coincident with his Cricketing abilities. He is an outstanding sportsperson, no doubt about it. But does that only make him GOD? Absolutely not. If you think, far more deep and intriguing notions are associated with this GOD phenomena, specifically to Indian context. In the country of festivals and GODs people are always looking for opportunities of celebrations, with a worthy reason associated to the event. A Savior, an endower is always raised above the human levels and treated as an angel or GOD who will answer the prayers and fulfill the wishes. Sachin has done so many remarkable things to serve our nation in the world of cricket, such a reverence is called for. He acted as the winning king of a religion, language and cast agnostic battlefield of sport. He has always been looked up to as an idol, on and off the field. He has established his legacy on the field by fiercely talking with his bat only, where many other 'humanlike' cricketers of his caliber indulged themselves in abusive game. He has never hurt anybody even off the field. I feel there is a strong connection between the growing middle and upper middle class economic entities and artist-middle-class roots of Sachin's family background. The GOD like behavior is revered by masses because the conduct that SRT has maintained throughout his career is quite dearer to hearts of millions. Since centuries our parents have taught us to behave like this and Sachin perfectly managed to personify the exact lessons of 'middleclass ideology'. Neither he was involved in big controversy nor he tried to end any of such like match fixing. He was never known as an abusive figure on the field as probably he could not use bad words but let the bat do the business. This was not crafted and scripted but was an outcome of the upbringing that he has had in 'Sahitya Sahavas'. The innocence and simplicity are the two virtues that he has kept with him all along and these two have performed major role in having GOD like stature and veneration for an individual. As a testimony, the speech that he has given on his retirement day is one of the class act which touched millions of souls.
There is an observed tendency of Indians to look for a GOD like figure which can be looked up to in hard times. We need somebody as a pacemaker. We need somebody who will act as savior to us. When many of the things go wrong, we tend find one such Sachin, one such Amitabh, one such Bhimsen Joshi who act as an analgesic to our daily bruises life. Does that mean the roots of this GOD making tendency lie in our inabilities to fight with problems? Does that mean we always need a 'Maseha' to get us out of troubles? GODs and festivals are always good. They will give us strength and ability to believe in self. We need not submit ourselves to them.
I am sure there will be a next 'GOD in making' somewhere in some industry with the scripts by Media, politics and corporate, and those will be executed flawlessly with the same euphoria that we have witnessed on SRT200 festival.
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