I was reading in Thelosthighway, how a winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 2001 and his wife were having identity crisis with a kid who might be in the age bracket of his great-grandson. He was visiting IIT-Delhi for some convocation. I remember one more incident, where the same Nobel Laureate was shouting on a lady, terming her illiterate and demanding an apology from her. And SHE DID APOLOGIZE. I was watching Salman Khan hitting journalists at a news channel. Did nobody have the enough courage to deliver him a punch? Just once? Even in self defence. Do we want a portion of them, even if it is humiliating to the core?
Whatever I read in Thelosthighway, didn’t surprise me. But what surprises me is why people put up with such kind of rotten behaviour? Are we becoming too awed with “15 Minutes Fame Theory”? Is this prompts us to bear with absurd behaviour of celebrities? Why not someone talk back to these people? Does interacting with somebody famous for few minutes or rather whole life make you special? Will some of the greatness (rudeness) rub on us? Have we become so insecure that we don’t even think for a while what a high price we are paying for our Fifteen Minutes fame?
What prompt these types of people to misbehave? Have they never read history? What happened to the high and mighty? Not even the Britain and Her Empire: where the sun never sets? What makes these people so insecure? What kick they derive out of humiliating a student who might not even spent ninteen years on this earth or a non descript Professor? What will they achieve? What sort of spurt in creativity will they get?
