Jail of Freedom

The moment I was looking for an apt title for this particular write up, I came across many realities beneath the word ‘freedom’. I actually began to question it in a lucubrate manner and exercise it in the name of responsibility. But it is actually a patron; an individual is, of one’s own self. This is a basic question associated with each one of us under our very own emotional quotient and a penchant for other humanly emotions. So to define it, is really a matter of trouble but to describe it is a way out for the answer.

This is quite democratic in its approach as it is by us, of us and for us; under the supervision of governing rigidity and restrictions which is a great irony attached to it. One can not necessarily get engulfed in this ubiquitous phenomenon being on the other side of sensibility that contexts several naïve and steady dogma to it. The point of view here is not the awareness in terms of harmonization or discrimination but it is the awareness in a more existential and to call it a rational possibility with root based facts which is spiritually inclined but done mundanely to meet some standards of moral. The reflection can be seen in few of the examples I am going to cite.

Tihar jail, more famous for the lady Kiran Bedi who has given restrictions and punishments a new name as protection and learning under the supervision of emotional space, is an enhancing treat for the humanity of its kind. It is the lively example of human zest of fulfillment which sees no boundaries but protection of the human inside us who is not free. The jail is not just under the jus civile but also the foresight into the human law which is more important for the freedom. There is a lady perhaps a social worker whose name I do not know working for the betterment and upliftment of judicial and social stature of the prisoners by giving a new moral life to those accused and the innocents. But for me, she is making them invading their own spaces- the victim of their sufferings under their own circumstances which they knowingly or unknowingly ignored.

I was watching this programme on TV –‘Truly India’ and got some of the insights of their life but what I got most from it is the engulfment of human beings in their dark sublime humiliation and injustice with which none of us would like to be acquainted but the paradox is that they have got a friendly association with them (prisoners). One can find a collage of families forming a family where a mother is giving birth to her child, a mother worried about the future of her child, a father and a son blaming each other for what they have not done but they are still very much together, a wife victimized by her husband but waiting eagerly for her out of jail FREEDOM to meet him who is now repenting for what he has done to his beloved wife. These and many more bounded freedom are unbounded by a collection of activities.

Secondly the movie ‘Teen Deewarein’ reminds me of conscience freedom which is not completely known to me but very keenly observed. The theme of the picture is that of a conscious space shared by our practical illusions very popularly known as normalities but we are true nomads of ancient times who have to learn the things from more philosophical point of view. The movie shows the loss of freedom of each one of us, by each one of us and to each one of us as the victim had not just blocked his area of conscience but also tried to play with the space of others and did the mistakes in the involvement of his cynicism.

The value of immortal freedom is in the direction of refinement which is accepted very nihistically and the freedom which is accepted widely is out of restrictions and impositions. We always keep an eye on what awaits ahead in the world of discovery and invention that can change our views for progress and new viewpoints but our wait for long dues to be imbibed by us is still waiting for us to go ahead toward the free imagination of reality in the world of conventional freedom.