Apocalypse

20.5x28.5 inches; Pen drawing on handmade paper with watercolour wash (Click on image to enlarge)

Apocalypse (Greek: "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used to refer to Armageddon, also referred to as the end of the world, which may be a shortening of the phrase ‘apokalupsis eschaton’ which literally means "revelation at the end of the æon, or age". In the Christian tradition, 'The Apocalypse' refers in particular to the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

Apocalypse (noun)

– Very serious event resulting in great destruction and change

Source: http://dictionary.cambridge.org

Hinduism teaches us that nothing ever ends! It is an unending cycle! When something ends, it does so with the sole purpose to pave the way for a new beginning!

Heavy stuff I know! Yet it is very simple. I looked this word up (It was like a freaky premonition!) while tripping at the state of everything ‘Global’, which our world is supposed to be evolving into, and worked myself up into a state of frenzy, alarmed! Alarmed, at the increasing menace of ‘Global Warming’ and more at the rate at which the so called ‘Globalization’ is eating into independent minded nations like ours, dissolving our value systems while injecting their own, erasing our cultural footprints while imprinting theirs, utilizing our cheap labor and fueling our consumerist greed! That’s not Globalization, that’s getting mind fucked! It is misinterpreting Globalization and making it into a villainous plot for world domination! We are not becoming members of the global village, we are becoming irresponsible zombies, or even better third rate clones! Our Identities are at stake. We are molding ourselves and our needs to ape certain human specimens whom we have ordained as benchmarks of evolved beings, and making ourselves believe in the need to buy a Ferrari which has no real utility on our roads, because either the roads have a hundred potholes and clogged with flood water or eternal traffic jams! Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against evolving or adopting practices from other cultures which can make us better human beings, but I have a problem aping other cultures and trying to prove to the world that, we were born with it! I have a problem compromising our Identity just to fit in! I have a problem with the reckless rape of human values at the hands of demand and supply! Globalization for me is all about living in harmony, helping each other better our living, so that the world becomes a better place for everyone and everything on it and still accepting and respecting each other’s differences! And I don’t see that happening! Is this what apocalypse looks like?