I WANNA BE THE MINORITY!!

Music has always taken its inspiration from social and political issues ever since the caveman first sang.. This is inspired by the Gujjar-Meena battle for being designated as the erstwhile condemned and the contemporary privileged..
So ergo es.. This is how they sing the greenday number in India..

I WANNA BE THE MINORITY
I DON'T NEED NO AUTHORITY
DOWN WITH THE IMMORAL MAJORITY
CAUS' I WANNA BE THE MINORITY

I SWEAR
OF HAVING BEEN THROWN
IN THE DUNGEONS IN MY PAST
TO BUY ME A FUTURE THAT IS IN THE FAST
LANE SO THAT I KEEP GETTIN AROUND THE LINE
PUSH 'EM ALL TA LEMME THROUGH, THE ONLY WAY I KNOW

CAUS'.. I WANNA BE THE MINORITY
I DON'T NEED NO AUTHORITY
DOWN WITH THE IMMORAL MAJORITY
CAUS' I WANNA BE THE MINORITY

Greenday - Minority
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Heres a very interesting article on the issue written by a frien of mine.. Checkout shabbirhussain.blogster.com

GREATEST T20 FOR A LONG LONG TIME TO COME!!

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And again, there couldn't have been a better icing on the cake for such a ferociously contested match- bowlouts. Its heartening to see that India actually prepared for this specific tie breaker contest, and came out with a surprise list of bowlout specialists. Its a great feeling to be wittness to such historic matches isn't it...

AN INSPIRING STORY- INDIAN WOMEN TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN LIBERIAI

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TAJ'S STRUGGLE TO MAKE IT TO TOP SEVEN SHOULD BE SEEN AS A REFLECTION OF GLOBAL ATTITUDES RATHER THAN JUST INDIAN ATTITUDE

The struggle faced by the Taj in the race to the top 7 is certainly a shame to Indians as well as a very grim fact for the entire world.. why so? The fact that the Taj is struggling to make it to the top7 needs to be perceived as the general global attitude. Now certainly the global attitude of the world simply cannot be that of indifference towards India. No country has been the subject of such concentrated global attention ever after Germany during the war I suppose. Then why didn't international vote put this monument of love in the top 7 right from the start? I feel its rather the world's indifference towards love.

What makes Taj wonderful? Its much beyond the splendid and most gigantic aggregate of exquisite marble. The Taj is a wonder in every right because of it's very purpose. It's an expression of eternal passion for ones love. An expression of deep sorrow upon the death of someone you love. This love is certainly getting lesser and lesser apparent in the world today.. certainly rendering the inherent splendor of this, 'teardrop on the cheek of time' very difficult to comprehend to by the contemporary world.

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