The Great Indian Outrage

We all have seen Pyar ka punchnama and love the rant by Kartik Aryan in it. Most of us were laughing our hearts our while yes few so-called feminists find it sexist also. While I don’t want to get into that topic but do you remember what happens in a very next minute once the rant is over, the guy is with his girlfriend and trying to explain her, calm her down. While of course, it’s a movie but the Indian outrage is no different from this. When anything happens, we jump the gun to show our outrage without even evaluating what we are outraged about.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

Shannon L Alder

India is going through maybe one of the worst times in recent years and the Chinese incursion on LAC is one of the major issue. Our 20 soldiers martyred fighting for the country and we all are angry about it. May be army already avenged them the same day. But what is happening across India in outrage against China., shows how ill-informed we all are. People want a complete ban on Chinese products. Also, some of those broke their TV manufactured by a Chinese company. Even some went ahead to burn an effigy of Xi Jinping and in all these some ended up burning effigy of Kim Jong, the North Korean dictator. This is not just hilarious but a sign that we can just show outrage like pyar ka punchnama, all show no substance. The very minute things are normal we will forget this. Remember it is impossible to ban Chinese products the way we want. To reduce the burden on Chinese products, it needs planning and nothing less than 5-10 years. The hypocrisy is that people are tweeting from Chinese phone, watching it on Chinese TV and media is shouting of banning these products with Chinese sponsored advertisements. The time PM says that Chinese have not taken any of our territory, it is the first sight of govt wants to stop this ‘idiotic outrage’.

Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures

Aysha Taryam

Here’s the thing, by such outrage of war and banning products, you are nowhere showing support to the martyrs or army. Remember that after so many wars, we still trade with Pakistan!! The outrage against China is just an outrage that is senseless and making fools out of everyone.  The way to counter China is a steady decrease in imports and bringing more and more industries in India. Most of the steps to counter can be taken only in line with govt policy and commitment to counter high import. Remember nothing has changed in last decade we continue to import more or less 1800 billion INR worth of products from China. So we better stop this great Indian outrage and start focusing on things which can really bring change.

2020 is a year we all would want to forget as a nightmare. While pandemic and cyclone have made our life comes to standstill, we all heard tragic news of suicide committed by Sushant Singh Rajput. When my dad told me about it after reading on Whatsapp, I told him straight away ‘Please dad, don’t believe anything on whatsapp’ Just to show him that he was wrong, I turned on TV (Thought I don’t believe TV news also these days) and to my shock the news was correct. Suddenly post the news I see people are showing their outrage against Karan Johar, Alia Bhatt and others who come from a family of people associated with movies. In short the word ‘Nepotism’. People are unfollowing them on social media, asking to not watch their movie. These are the same people who would have written about ‘Be kind’ to people while giving their expert opinion on mental health. Remember those posts you see on Instagram and Twitter about “Like this post, if you support this” kind, are just playing with your emotions and outrage, You are being fooled and they are laughing behind their profiles on you.

Terrible events produce outrage, and when people are outraged, they are all the more likely to accept rumors that justify their emotional states, and also to attribute those events to intentional action.

Cass R. Sunstein

There is no doubt that things needs change but who is not going to promote their loved ones. The outrage on some celebrities without knowing facts and almost blaming them for suicide is thoughtless and dumb. This outrage will die down in a few days and you will never go out to watch movies of low budget. Instead, you will download it for free because you feel its waste of money. Most of this outrage doesn’t even bother us or there are far more important topics to show your outrage for. The bollywood industry has become much open in last few years and this is not my opinion but from industry itself but we want to show our expert opinon by jumping the gun band blaming people for no reason. This is what the Great Indian Outrage is – Just noise and no substance.

 

The another outrage and actually it took me sometime to decide if it should be part of this blog or not is about this, CarryMinati video. The reason why I am giving this example is just to show how such outrage are just made to help few people and it has no substance. I had no clue who CarryMinati is and to his credit I realised he is quite a personality in Youtuber. So he made some video about how Tiktok stars are useless. And suddenly entire India is behind this guy. I ended up watching that video in sheer pressure to understand what this outrage is. Even I got trapped. I saw the video and it was just full of nonsense. Just because he is abusing someone, taking case of people who have made career on TikTok people loved it. Personally I have never installed the app nor I am fan of any of the content coming out of TikTok. But entire India created such a outrage when CarryMinati’s video got banned by Youtube. For what I am still not sure? DO we really care about this petty things when India is going through Covid war? Is such outrage even justified. My point here is simple, we feel outrage in anything and everything. Just like some people felt anger in my earlier mention of rant of pyar ka punchnama.

I don’t even want to go in other topics like Media, CAA-NRC, Lynching and more. Otherwise this blog will end up being a book. My limited point is we all need to feel anger towards such incidents and we all must feel outrage but how we channelise this outrage is very important. How do turn outrage into something real is important. In case of Nirbhaya, we actually proved that we can turn our outrage into something real. Though it still took years for culprit to get punishment however making govt act is what we succeeded. The outrage needs to be logical and should have power to make real change. It is important to feel anger towards things which are wrong but it is equally important to have sane response to it. So get outrages by wrong being done in scoiety but don’t be fooled by being part of response which leads to nothing. Till the time we all understand, lets just enjoy and laugh on some of the outrageous outrage by the outraged Indians and please don’t be puppet of outrage