Centre Cannot Hold

Not long back, the five-year-old Prince of Kurukshetra fall into a pit, stayed there for over forty hours, making it a sort of national tragedy, apparently with the involvement both the Indian Armed Force and an army of news channels all-through the night. As the toddler was monitored by CCTV time to time and was finally rescued, even as people like me were glued to TV sets anticipating any change in the headline for the late-night edition, the entire nation heaved a sigh of relief.
It was a repetition of something similar last night. Many were pitching in with their sms-es for the India Has Got Talent (courtesy Colors TV) -fame Prince Dance Group of Orissa's Berhampur district. No regional barriers like the erstwhile Indian Idol or any other sms-based reality shows orchestrated on prime-time TV. For the group had to prove that India indeed has got talent and the India they were representing was not the Centre of a few, but it was rather the Periphery belonging to the most, including a bunch of daily-wage workers like them.
No professional training, but pure hard work. No guidance, but sheer discipline. No desire to reach the Maximum City, but a collective imagination to come out of the distress. It was indeed a Front Page story. But how many of them look beyond the Centre as long as it does not offer the guarranty of viewership/readership like either sex or sensex!!