Future of Peace Writings

Future of Peace Writings

It is very sad that with global arsenal of more than thirty thousand nuclear weapons we have come very close to nuclear war. With intense breadth and vigor, the creative artists should reflect about the steps to avoid it in future. The  nuclear holocaust may be avoided  if we discard political hypocrisies and ardently listen to the message of  Christ, Buddha, Mother Teresa, Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, Leo Tolostoy. What we need most is altered state of mind.  No doubt, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle prove that reason alone is not enough. We should turn again and again to Non-violence. Pop-art, the Beat poets, the poststructural theories of Barthes, Lacan and Derrida, the rejection of rhetoric and ‘grand narrative’-all this cannot alter the truth that a contemporary author’s pen is often dipped in the remembrance of blood of  two World Wars. Despite doubt, death all around, peace writings will continue to be written, and  I am happy they will.

         The creative authors  should warn about he brutal reality of  nuclear war. It is necessary to depict the genuine unadulterated truth about it. This is “an ethical challenge of making art out of violence”. It is not possible for  contemporary peace poets to escape into the ephemeral and hallucinatory shore of their subconsciouness or linger in abstract castles and Kafka’s ‘no-man’s-land’ darkened  by surrealist nightmares. The idea of dismantling every nuclear weapon is attracting an increasing number of artists. Several international organizations are working in this direction. It is evident that the sentiments of universal brotherhood and love are indispensable to avert the nuclear war in future. I hope the contemporary poets will revive nuclear disarmament efforts, and all nuclear stockpiles will be eliminated. The world needs Peace and Security in the postmodern world post-9/11 new terrorism.