Saturday, July 5, 2008

We have been Naught. We shall be all

I was going to have dinner at my regular place in Tambaram today. As usual, it was a crowded place and again as usual, a political party had put up pandals right in the middle of the road. Some white clad men were seated on the dias. The background on the dias had the picture of few men on one side and that of their leader on the other along with something written in Tamil. The audio system was rendering a very harsh output of a person who was already shouting at the top of his voice. With little attention to the speech and more towards sailing through the crowd, I was passing by the dias when the only English words on the dias caught my attention.
"We have been a naught. We be all"
Somehow, this line put me in a thought. What could it mean? why was it put up in that meeting? I could not figure it out at that point in time. Then I came back home and started watching the TV and I thought I would forget that like I always do. But to my amazement, I didnt. In fact, my curiosity was increasing by the second !. So i thought let me go ogle..err i mean Google ;). And i could make out why that statement was put up in that rally.
Extremely captivating words they were. And in a political scenario which is highly volatile now, this does invoke lot of interest in the onlookers. This line has that power in it to grab attention(as it did to me. To be frank, I m a person who gives least interest to details), to convey the intentions of the speaker/party, to bring about a change. It says that all the big things that we can perceive and see today were actually nothing in their initial days. Perseverence pays. I am mesmerised by this line. Just wonderful !

The google result page is here.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811656-1,00.html

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