When Gods Loved Loudspeakers...

The Gods of today are noise lovers.. more like a cult of Slayer or Megadeth. They love the deafening sounds which dozens multi-thousand watt speakers can jarr out.. Noise seems to be the sine qua non of any prayer or a festival nowadays.

Come the Ganesh festival and a whole fortnight of brain numbing noises, called devotional songs, penetrate the already polluted aura around you. Come Divali and you have unrestrained use of fireworks in public places. Come Holi and hooligans take to the streets with drums, trumpeting their way through each and every street, creating a mess wherever they go. As if the human race had not had enough, there is the usual howling each day in a mosque and the chants in temples.

Lets take the example of the Maharashtra govt. Earlier, it has passed a rule to ban the use of loud-speakers from 10 p.m to 6 a.m. in the morning. What it essentially meant was that between 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. you have no right to demand sanity and peace. If you are sick, unwell or trying to enjoy a peaceful moment while the festivities are going on.. let me welcome to the real world. You are not allowed that priviledge. Those 8 hours of peace were apparently the time when the Gods slept and if they were disturbed then, all hell could break lose.

The final nail in the coffin is just about to come for all peace lovers in Maharashtra when the goverment seeks to relax the "loud-speaker timings" (as they are called) during festivals. Even though this noise makes an ailing person die, the gods must be pleased. Though humanity suffers, spiritualism must prosper.

Waiting for the day when prayers go like this...

If I start to lose my mind, please pry it open...
If my face become sincere, beware..
If I start to come undone, stich me together...
If you see me strut.. remind me of.. what left this outlaw torn.
( The Outlaw Torn, Metallica )

~Dead Pep