Jatra

I’m sure everyone gets the point of the above image, and the lyrics. This song “Jatra” is by Cryptic Fate, from their 3^rd album Danob.

The song is about those people who get onboard that plane and leave their country forever. This is a subject which I’ve been thinking abt myself for some time now. It’s significant because I’m on the verge of that cliff… the one you jump/leap over to go abroad for higher studies. Every person, all circumstances, everything around us suggests that we leave as soon as possible and never look back. We are repeatedly told that this country has no future, and we have no future in it. Bitter logic tells us to leave, finish our education and settle down anywhere but here.

I keep wondering whether I’ll be one of those people who come back once a year, talk elaborately about high deplorable a situation the country is in and then forget all about it. I don’t know how I’ll turn out, how my life will turn out, but I hope I don’t become one of those people. Logic portends otherwise though.