We all have a Ravan within us, either infesting us individually or pervasively proliferating within the system. Justin Rowlett, a BBC correspondent based in Delhi is a sane man trying insane things at the spur of the moment, without any thought to the consequences of this glorified insanity.
The Story refers to a reporter, Justin Rowlett’s narrative on BBC blaming the street tattooer. Justin, a married man with a two kids, went for burning the effigy of Ravan, a demon depicting the evil within – society and individually within us. While at the Dusshera celebration, he tattooed himself from a street vendor. I would never excuse an educated, married man with two daughters, trying this vernacular pleasure.
Rowlett should blame the Ravan within him, that exactly is the concept behind the ritual of Dusshera celebration. So what if he was offered an assurance on tattoo? He has to own his decision to get the tattoo on the street side, exposing himself to all those diseases plus the unblemished permanent mark. Ravan, nor India or its custom can be blamed. Of course not the poor man who put that tattoo.
It is not about Rowlett, it is about we all, going through this Ravan phase during some pervert ill defined moments. It is exactly such insanity that sometimes defines and significantly influences the course of the future.
A permanent reminder of my own stupidity
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-41510293
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