FIGHTERTAINMENT

Amartya Sen’s Argumentative Indians have finally graduated to the next level. Arguments are for weak. We are at the cusp of a resurgent India which is strong and can express itself in better ways than just a difference of opinion. While our infatuation with disagreement is legendary, it is our new found love for giving it a fight, quite literally ,which is bringing the next wave of laurels. We might not see eye to eye but can surely match a punch to punch. With utter indifference to the reasoning, our daggers are never at rest. Scripted or real; amongst the groups and within the groups, the fight goes on unabated. From Hallowed parliament hall to the ‘famous’ road rages, we are putting up a show-down at any place that lends itself to the profound act We are becoming a nation of rowdies that are not just constantly at fight with itself, buoyed by false sense of pride in it’s unbridled individualism and might but also the one that revels in the spectacle of belligerence. Television channels seem to have quickly picked up the spirit of the times and are dishing out a healthy dose of content to whet our appetite for belligerence through their version of fightertainment . Full of Verbal acrobats, fightertainment is exhibited with a clinical deftness in our news channels and reality shows. So called debates break into an incredible clash of vocal chords with the first sound of bugle rung by a hapless moderator. Participants turn into warriors, wielding their lethal lexicon storm into each other throwing choicest of innuendos like stinger missiles resulting in nothing but an incomprehensible concoction of squeals and screams. Reality shows are no less martial, where an oral contest, albeit of a different sort is played out amongst the judges relegating the contest of ragas to its befitting insignificance Considering the TRPs this pandemonium production generates, din seems to be the ‘order’ of the day and you better agree with me else…..