HITLER; THE ULTIMATE MONSTER OR MAY BE NOT!

Today I came to know a few things about the most dreaded figure in History. A person, whom I used to hate to the core, the person who has been said responsible for the resurrection of Germany but at the same time for the ill-fate of Jews and the person in whose hands was the sole power to determine the occurrence of the Second World War- the infamous Adolf Hitler.


I began taking interest in the once ‘Fuhrer of Germany’ and the reasons to The Second World War as I had to study a whole unit of my History Text Book of Class IX about Hitler and his mass Jew slaughter. But even then I did not get the interest or initiative to search and find a little more about the period. In Class X, I got a copy of the ‘Diary of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank, one of the most well-known victims of Hitler’s cruelty. When I did a little research on Anne Frank, I caught notice of the Wikipedia page about Hitler. Hitler’s biography clearly explains the reason behind his Nazi involvement and Jew-hatred.


Hitler was born as the fourth of the six children of Alois Hitler and Clara Hitler. His father was an Austrian official. When he retired, he tried to settle down with farms and bee-keeping in which he failed and it may have happened that Alois used to unleash his anger due to despair on his family (Please, do note the words ‘may have’, I used).



Hitler used to be a normal, easy going, happy kiddo in his childhood. But with the death of his younger brother due to measles, he underwent a rapid transformation into a reserved, retired, withdrawn and exasperated boy.

Hitler was much dear to his mother but not to his father. There used to be clashes and fights in the house frequently between the father and the son. Hitler was ambitious and artistic and he wanted to study arts and become a painter. All these plans of him for his future were completely turned down by his father. He forcefully admitted Hitler to a technical school where naturally he lagged behind.


At that time, he began to be drawn increasingly into the political organisation of ‘Nationalist Socialism’ which he discovered as a hide-out from his father and an energy diverter. As a student, Hitler became more and more mischievous. Once, while hanging out with his friends, the thoughtless teenager got drunk and intoxicated. He tore his school certificate into four big pieces and used it in place of a toilet paper. These pieces were sent by somebody to the headmaster of the school who gave him bitterly embarrassing and cruel punishment and got him expelled. This in turn proved out to be the most painful experience of his life.

Hitler tried to get admission in The Vienna University of Arts but was rejected twice. Choosing architecture as the right path for him, he applied but he was asked for his school certificates, which he could never produce.

Rumour has it that at the age of 16, Hitler fell in love with a Jew lady called Stephy. He followed her for four years but never proposed to her. He got a chance to speak to her in a flower show but missed it. Later she got married to an Austrian soldier. If she had married Hitler, he had plans to live in Persia as a teacher. Hitler hated Austrians. Not only because his love was married to an Austrian but also because his father used to be an Austrian official and wanted him to be one too.


His father died at around this time and his mother some years later due to breast cancer. In his youth, Hitler joined Army and at the hard time of Germany, led it to prosperity.


Another thing said about Hitler was that he, as he wanted all Germans to be, was not a pure-blood after all. Only God knows if it is true. But people say that Hitler’s father Alois Hitler had been an illegitimate son of a German lady named Maria to a Jew, whose house keeper she had been. The inferiority complex that stirred in his mind because of this might have , along with the disappointment over his Jewish love and the Nazi belief that Jews were responsible for all the miseries, been the exclusive factors behind the development of such a strong feeling of hatred towards the Jews in his mind.


It can be observed through his secret proposal to the British Government in India that he shared the mindset of a serial killer which is a dreadful psychological condition. He proposed that if Gandhi and his followers were continuing to raise their voices for Independence, then they should eliminate Gandhi. If that was not enough, then all the political leaders. Still not enough, then two hundred other activists and then continue it till the Indian people gave up hopes for Independence. It is clear from the statement that Hitler’s ultimate and favourite answer for any question, however minute it may have been, was elimination.


Hitler cannot be called a monster or a malicious, pitiless person. His surroundings, circumstances, history and loneliness made him do all that. If for once, he had been well understood and led, Earth would have been different. The whole history will have been different. The lives of the million persons will have been different. At least, our Class IX History Text Book would have been different.

Ardhraprakash
(wrote in class xi, 2010 )

Autobiography of a candle flame

Life is short like a candle flame
Worthless if you don’t light it
Risk your life
Enlighten others’
Make your days meaningful.

Now that I’m a candle myself
Just a while left for me
Waiting my end
With eyes ajar,
I go on, like I’m lost in dark.

Far apart I see a light
But why am I so terrified?
May be because the blinding light
Will put me out of life.

I dread light
Unusual it is
Absurd it is
But I can’t help it.
An inborn human fright!!

The blinding light may be
The sparkling stars of heaven
Or could be the blazing pits of hell
Roasting hell, like hell.

Stand up now
Wait no more
Waste no more
The precious seconds
Left for me
I plead of thee
“Don’t make me die in vain”

The light is nearing
I can feel the quivering
Spreading across
My delicate body
Terrible thoughts
Attacking me
I plead of thee
“Don’t make me die in vain”

The light has come
Despite my fright
Putting my brief
Being to a halt.

I opened my eyes
And saw things I had
Looked through till then
But, never really saw.
Despite the storm
And the gloom,
I did my thing
I gave you light.
And I’m fulfilled,
And contended
For unlike you
I did my bit.

(wrote in class xi - 2010)

തണല്‍

വെയിലേറ്റു പൊള്ളുന്ന ജീവിതപാതയില്‍
തണലിനായ് ഞാനൊന്നു വെമ്പി.
തളരും മനസ്സും, ഉടലും, ഹൃദയവും
തണലിനായ് ഒരു പോലെ വെമ്പി.

രാത്രിയും പകലും ഒരു പോലെ എന്‍മനം
തണലിനായി കാത്തിരിക്കുന്നു
കാലേ മുതല്‍ കൂരിരുട്ടുവരെയും
എന്‍ ജീവിതം ഞാന്‍ അറിയുന്നു.
തിരയെന്റെ കരയില്‍ വന്നാഞ്ഞടിച്ചപ്പോഴും
കാറ്റെന്റെ ചില്ലയോടിച്ചപ്പോഴും
തണലായി നിന്നൊരു ദൈവിക രൂപത്തെ
കനവെന്നു ചൊല്ലി ചിരിച്ചുതള്ളി.
വെയിലേറ്റു പൊള്ളുന്ന ജീവിതപാതയില്‍
തണലിനായ് ഞാനിന്നു വെമ്പുന്നു.

കാറ്റിന്‍ കുളിര്‍മയും
പൂവിന്റെ ഭംഗിയും
ആയിരുന്നെന്റെ പര്യായം
കാലത്തിന്‍ കളിയുടെ മിച്ചമായ്
ഇന്നെന്റെ ജീവിതം പാഴായിമാറി
കൂട്ടിലടച്ചിട്ട പൈങ്കിളിയെപ്പോലെ
ആകാശം നോക്കി ഞാന്‍ നില്‍കെ
ആരോ ഒരാള്‍ വന്നു മോചിപ്പിക്കും
എന്ന സ്വപ്നം ഞാന്‍ നിത്യവും കണ്ടു.

കാലത്തിന്‍ കൈയോപ്പുവീണ എന്‍ ജീവിതം
കാലക്രമേണ കൊഴിഞ്ഞു
വെയിലേറ്റു പൊള്ളുന്ന ജീവിതപാതയില്‍
തണലിനായ് ഞാനിന്നു വെമ്പുന്നു.

പിറകെ തിരിഞ്ഞുനോക്കാതെ
മനം കണ്ട സ്വപ്നത്തെ തേടി ഞാന്‍ പോകുന്നു
തിരികെ വരാനായി മാത്രം,
തിരികെ വരാനായി മാത്രം.

Ardhraprakash

(wrote in
class ix - 2008)

A Letter To The Distant Future.

Earth
8th April 2010

Dear “Friend from distant future”,

I am also starting to think that the world’s end is finally going to happen at 2012 (today its 9thApril , 2010). At least the Mayans and the movie say so!

The movie! You may not have seen the movie or even heard of it because Ilike to believe that you belong to the distant future. Because thereare a lot of things that I need to apologize for.

The movie I talked about earlier is ‘2012’ showing world’s end as the Mayan Calendar suggests. Even though, we survived many days prophesied earlier as “the day everything will end”, this time it’s different.

The Mayans are geniuses when it comes to Mathematics and Astronomy. They existed nearly 4500 years ago and most of the things they inscribed in their book have been proved true.

Eventhough the movie ends happily, I do not think it’s going to be that way here. Because as in the movie a lot of commoners are going to die and being one myself, I am nervous.

I am not Caesar! I am not Caesar to say that I do not fear death or that I pity people who are scared of death. Death can come all of a sudden and steal you away from this happening world even without your consent. And what if still during my death, I am no one to the world? My identity, my memories, my experiences, my knowledge, my words, my dreams, my desires… and everything is going to be wiped out completely, as if I never existed.

That sort of a death is terrifying. I would never want that. I say, before you die, you must do something like what eminent personalities like Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa did, so that people miss you forever and hence, you stay immortal even after death.

So,what I wanted to tell you my friend from distant future is that “we are getting ready to suicide.” Yes. Even if the Earth won’t kill us by 2012, the world has decided to die. That is why, we are never concerned (any way, not by actions) about global warming, climate change, melting polar ice, rising sea levels, environmental pollution, ozone depletion, green house effect or any such ecological crises.

Through this letter, I want to apologize to you because the place where you now live may be unbearable and inhospitable and it may be slowly killing you all. It’s all because of us. Forgive us! your ancestors, for not handing over the land we inherited from our ancestors, the way it had been given to us.

And because we have decided to die, we are killing and destroying every single thing on our way, for we are jealous. Jealous, because when our reign of tyranny is over, the world will be happier and normal and much more beautiful and we being ‘typical human beings’ hate to even think of someone becoming happier than our self.

May be you won’t know, but in the forests (which I don’t know will survive our tyranny) there used to exist handsome creatures like lions, tigers, peacocks and many others. Creatures, so stunningly beautiful and powerful, that once you see it you won’t take your eyes off it.

But men killed it one by one to make its huge population shrink into isolated nuclear families. Men killed it for its skin, flesh, bones, teeth and every other possible thing.

Same was the fate with marine animals. You won’t know but even now in this 21st century when the whole population of men claim itself to be highly developed, in many countries of the world there still exist ‘coming of age ceremonies’ of men, who kill cute little creatures like Dolphins who do not know how to fight back to mark ‘their manhood’. In these ceremonies not just one or two creatures are killed every year but thousands in number. They, the dolphins, have always helped humans. Shipwrecked sailors, people etc were taken to shore by them. And these mass killings are man’s tribute to them?

Same way, do you know why sharks and whales are killed? For their blubber, skin, oil and flesh. These are used to make cosmetics, detergents etc. I do not know. Once they discover it, how can people use more of them. Terrible!

And when we see men cutting down forests and trees we get a feeling that trees are enemies that need to be eliminated. Else, it may prove fatal. And, what about the rivers and lakes? People dump waste into these as if they are huge waste bins, supplied to them by God along with 'The Bible'.

May be because we are dying in 2012 or in near future, some of the sharks and whales and trees and rivers and some animals might get saved and you may know about them. All I’ve got to say to you is, don’t do anything to them. I shall beg of thee on my knees, “SAVE THEM!” Don’t let your world be like that of us. May your world be an example of how Earth should be and Earthlings should be.

Okay. I am not going to bore you with any more of these. It’s only that my feelings right now are far more than what I can express through these words.


A mortified friend from a horrible past

Ardhraprakash

(wrote in
Class X,2010)