Question Authority

Every single day my teachers remind me how lucky I am to be studying in one of the most elite business colleges of the city and how lucky I am that I can afford their fees comfortably (which are the highest in Karachi for Inter Commerce).

By day, I am another supposedly “good” student (but if only she wouldn’t complain about the existing system so much!!”-familiar refrain heard in the faculty room) who studies the workings of the institutions that make up corporate Pakistan and writes incredibly flattering articles about the college in my capacity as Editor of the college news letter. Come 3:30 and I turn into some one else, a head banging child of the rock revolution that has seemingly gripped educational institutions, the “elite” ones, none the less, inspired by not the usual rock figures, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Page, and their ilk, but by the underground rock bands that have blown away many by their realist music that come as such a relief after the multi national sponsored music bands that look like models for their respective brands in their videos. Entity Paradigm, Messiah and Dusk have come as a much needed breather from the run of the mill artistes. Recent proof? Check out the attendance figures for the Entity Paradigm concert (including Aaroh and Noori) held at another local business college. Hundreds of people paid up to five times the original amount of the tickets just to head bang their frustrations away. What I never understood in the past was what makes people react this way? Why does the music affect us to such an extent that we have forgotten our favorite Western singers/bands and become local rock groupies? Is it the inspiring lyrics? Is it the fact that the band members of Entity Paradigm are all from business colleges as well and we can relate to the anguish in the songs? For example check out these lyrics from one of Entity paradigm’s songs:



dil mera roye to kia
waqt iradon ko torey to kia
manzil ko apnee payen gai hum
waqt ko apna banayen gai hum

(So what if my heart cries?
So what if time breaks promises and intentions?
We will fulfill our destiny
We will make time our own)

(For more Entity Paradigm songs check out their website at www.entityparadigm.com)

The new underground rock bands are here to stay.
The number of rock revolutionaries increase day by day as the educational authorities increase their number of restrictions, suppress individualistic thought, indulge in favoritism and fail to grade our papers correctly.(You can see a personal injustice done here).

Question authority. The slogan that has had a Pied Piper-esque effect. Wake up people and see the head bangers revolt against the money oriented society and all that it stands for.