THE EXPERTS OF THE WORLD!

When I was young I could make out those things that were beautiful from that were not! I seldom made a mistake. My friends of the same age too had this brilliant capacity to identify any beautiful thing with their naked eyes! In those days there were no complications. I think it was a very simple era. It was a very straight forward, very non intricate & very normal era. In those days when we said the flower was beautiful, without any confusion there stood a beautiful flower with nobody contesting otherwise...If someone said there was a beautiful girl near his house we always found a beautiful girl there....If somebody those days said they went to a beautiful picnic place everybody understood that they went to a beautiful picnic place...yes ...everything was as simple & understandable as that. And, no one in those days said there lived a very beautiful girl next to his house & found out a cinder wench when one really met her.


But all that changed quite some time ago! As some one stated much earlier, the time of the specialists came! And whenever someone wanted to comment on anything he or she always withheld the comment till he or she found an expert and got his or her opinion! Today, nobody dares to utter even a word about anything without consulting an expert & it became a rule that without an expert's advice even a hen can not be called a hen &a bullock a bullock! The time has changed & it is the era of the so called experts without whom the life has become meaningless and utter waste! Hence, this era has got the tag "the expert era” or “the age of the experts!” What is interesting in this era is that without these experts here, the things are not the things they seem & feel to be! Without these experts nothing is what they are taught or presented to be. Its experts all the way...here ....there & everywhere.....!

Now, everything stands changed... A rose is not beautiful & a rose is not a rose at all if the expert says otherwise; a butterfly is not beautiful if the expert says otherwise; a light-tinted cloud & the rainbow are not beautiful if the expert says otherwise! One is forced to become aware of the all powerful existence of the expert in any field & every field. One become owe-struck when there is an expert present. When Dr.Faustus brings back Helen of Troy from the nether world we wonder whether to exclaim her as beautiful, goddess like etc in the all consuming presence of the expert. If he says ok it is wonderful-aloud for all of us common folk! When on sees the mighty Himalayas one looks around cautiously to check whether there is an expert around, before exclaiming in wonderful delight! All it takes to proclaim the pyramids wonderful is an expert's opinion; and, take note you are not entitled to comment without getting the comment of the expert first!


When Susmitha Sen, Aiswarya Rai & others became beauty queens in the bygone era the people understood that they were beautiful; people could see & appreciate their beauty without the expert breathing down one's neck! When Padmini, Vijayanthimala, Hemamalini & others scorched the silver screens we were in a position to understand they were beauties of their time, and, of course, without the interference of the experts! All those things are past now. When the beauty queens-selected of today walk before us we doubt from which angle their beauty is seen or rather FOUND OUT?! What sort of an expert would he be who selected this apparition as beauty queen, we-common people- often pose the question. The expert claims that it is the angle of her jaw & the squint in her eyes & her social inferior standing & a million undecipherable oddities & eccentricities that are the qualities which made her beauty queen! Now the common man understands painfully that the BEAUTY IS NO MORE BEAUTY BUT STATISTICS & EXPERTS! And, statistics can be used to prove anything right or wrong anytime or with statistics one can prove anything!


Hence, one should be prepared to appreciate a handicapped, half-burned faced cinder wench as the beauty queen as the crown is for her deformity & the pathetic state she is in & HER COURAGE TO FIGHT THE ODDITIES IN HER LIFE! That is right according to the expert panel as THE BEST CLIMBER AWARD SHOULD BE GIVEN TO SOME ONE WHO LOST HIS LEGS WHILE CLIMBING A TREE TO RESPECT HIS COURAGE TO MOVE ON IN HIS LIFE. THE BEST SINGER AWARD SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO GET MAXIMUM NUMBER OF Rs 6/- SMSs & SOUND LIKE A BUFFALLO, as the criterion is the fighting spirit & courage they show to sing before an audience, despite having a very low class voice! Hence, we should bear that skinny, anorexic, ghostly looking, scantly-clad calendar girls the experts say beautiful a little more; hence, we should be prepared to eulogise those models that are not better than beggars, as they are highly praised & appreciated as beauties by our dear experts! We should all join courses that teach us how to appreciate beauty even where there is not even an iota of it! Hence, I didn’t find it difficult to understand & awkward when I saw someone staring at a barren rock, in the middle of a desert & exclaim aloud it was the most beautiful thing in the world, as I saw an expert whispering something in his ears!