External Inequalities, Internal Shifts
The hunger banquet run at TS14 –
North was not to discriminate between participants. It was to create
a simulation of dynamics in the real world and how we choose to
interact with it. The 9 hours were challenging, unfamiliar and
thought provoking. If we could capture the energy and agitation in
that room and carry it into our daily lives, weekly shakhas and
aspirations for the future; there is no doubt that we would tap
our latent potential to make a significant change in the Hindu samaj.
During the debrief, words like
disbelief, sense of injustice were used to describe how participants
felt through the experience. Recognising those emotions in oneself is
evidence that the activity stirred something deeper in each person.
Our 'real life,' day to day routines buffer us from experiencing such
feelings. We get busy in our own lives and over time we learn to
block out the realities of the wider world which may disrupt our
flow.
