Sunday, September 27, 2009

To be or not to be?

To be or not to be, that's the eternal question all of us face atleast at one point during each of our lives. Our magazine is no less immune to this haunting question. meeting after a long period, in hopes that a break would lead to reinvigoration proved to be less than fruitful. Three dazed and confused people sat together to decree the fate of a project that was conceptualized four months back with an idealistic vigour that can be paralleled by few. Fast forward to now, it seems as though we have lost track of what constituted our goal, but rather we are all engaged with our personal battles and each of us wallowed in a state of existential angst. A less than perfect situation emerges- President getting affected by his field trip to garib nagar, statesmen and yours truly engaged in a tense situation, which entails not looking at each other and a alarming degree of curtness. Adding to the brilliant team dynamics, there is the fact that we have no funding, all prospective designers have left us in the lurch, a general sense of disillusionment, and perhaps contemplating turning the print version into webzine. So the question remains- To be or not to be?

P.S. Bong bandhu who is more than usually aware of world events, was unaware of a pooja taking place in his own house, and thus was unable to grace us with his divine presence.