THE "EVERYDAYNESS"
Shiv Viswanathan is one of my favorite column writers
in The Hindu. Each and every day I read the editorial page with a self-imposed
compulsion. When Shiv comes, the day is made. Today, the editorial editorial
page carried a brilliant article by the columnist. He says that “everydayness”
is revolutionary. Normally, we believe that war time as revolutionay time. In
the case of Irom Sharmila her sixteen years fasting hasn’t given any solution.
Stepping her foot on the “everydayness” is a great threat. Now she has decided
end the fast. She now goes to the normal life of “everydayness”. This “everydayness”
is a powerful tool to bring something new. He concludes that a great book like
Tolstoy’s War and Peace does not end life
with war. It ends with the “everydayness” of the hero - Pierre. Everyday life
after the protest and war is not mundane, rather it is revolutionary.
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