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Instagram revolutionaries and King Kaka - A fairy tale of yesteryear

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Sometimes we need the help of vibrations to feel sleepy. Drama is essential for human existence. We must all shun the straight bat attitude if we want to attain salvation in life. At first say hi and then cry: This can create a ripple effect in the audience's memory. Our communication with intangibles must be tangible. Being jubilant on the tap is the essence of life.

 

No one better understands and applies this postulate in reality than King Kaka. So he agreed to meet the Instagram revolutionaries halfway on the border. The gesture was well received  and reciprocated by the revolutionaries. We could not have imagined this kind of bonhomie between two sworn enemies even 6 months back. But no one can stop an idea whose time has come. Educated ignorance without dedication will define the future of success. So they met in the evening and the rest is history.

 

So what happened in that meeting? When King Kaka arrived at the illuminated concrete jungle, he was shocked. The buildings looked dilapidated, and fountains burst from late night showers. The library had torn-books and coloured-magazines he had never heard of—including the one for which I used to write. But who cares about pink papers when one has a smart-phone in one's pocket? Exactly at 6-19 PM he switched on the smart-phone and as promised the first picture of the diamond popped up. Golden globe with a silver robe emerged next. Dancing moon started to make its presence felt by the time our chief revolutionary appeared on the screen. Glass domes became ecstatic with the arrival of the albino-tigress. Hour hand of the watch reached 8. Gradually the excitement was building up. Theatrics-unfolding as predicted by the monolithic algorithms. All became anxiously euphoric. 

 

What next? All of a sudden there was a noise. Boom boom boom boom! There was a director's cut. The photographic-soundtrack was taken over by a friendly banter from an adjacent device where we could see a lion-couple sitting with a small cub sipping coffee. Abruptly the lion grabbed the child and walked out of the cafeteria. The lioness screamed in joy and affection as she tried to encourage the lion. She ran towards her production manager, fumbled in her cloud-purse and came running back to the exit. She opened the door, a small aroma-camera in her hand, and shot the lion. A disorderly exuberance followed for the next one hour resulted in a deafening silence. Moments captured in frames were lost in ritualistic wilderness. King Kaka became somber. Mood is like a cloud and we mortals can do nothing but to accept that fact.

 

From different angles King Kaka explored ideas of instant-love, of canceled relationships between men and women, of marriage and cohabitation, of man animal conflict, all in the context of a deeply alienating environment, with the ongoing war with in our mind and with the environment as one inescapable backdrop, with dynamics of race and color as another, with the atomizing, dehumanizing nature of technology as a third.

 

He reflected, when an Instagram character said to another, “In the near future, each unruly citizen could well be wearing an electronic apparatus designed to stimulate pleasure and mutual gratification for the people in power,” or ``give us this day, a smartphone and an electric vehicle, but rob us from freedom”. King Kaka realized that he had been watching one of the earliest allusions to realities and ways of thinking that will be commonplace tomorrow.

 

The meeting ended at 5.37 AM and by then the wrath of time flattened and quietened his responsive curves.


Author

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