In our Toastmasters meeting today, we had a table topic (impromptu speech) titled "A Pen or a Sword - which one would you say?" The speaker started as "Obviously The Pen is Mightier than the Sword. So, I would choose Pen over Sword. That immediately rang a bell in my mind - "Is Pen really mightier than Sword? At least in today's world does it still stay true?"
Today anyone can show a sword and can make her write anything she wants. Isn't this true? What is authenticity of that information - this wrong information spread among masses has the tendency, has the power to take them towards the wrong path. Anyone can plot a fake story in pressure of bullet trigger. Remember the dialogue from the movie 'Rann' - "Bandhun ke nishane pe tum kisise kuch bhi bulwa sakte ho. News to tum aise he bana sakte ho." Now you can make news. How many such journalists are there, who when deliver the news to you, you feel from your heart - that yes, this is a true journalist. There may be 1 in a 1000 such journalists who show you the true picture of the actual news. Otherwise almost all news goes through the makeover. Just a single statement about a religion and you can provoke the entire nation. Don't you think this is an ill-usage of the Pen and the Sword? I do feel. And I do believe now that both Pen and Sword have equal strength. You can use it to bring peace. You can use it to destroy not only the nation but the world and entire human race. Ah... not only the human race but any race, any species in this world.
Well... my mind started wandering in this complicated web of thoughts and I missed the last portion of the table topic speech. However, I felt sometime these small topics drive you into the gigantic waves of the current affairs as well as the history - for you tend to recollect what you have heard, what you have listened to and what you have seen / experienced in yours and others' life.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this topic...
Catch you in my next blog...
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