Chutzpah Monologue Hello? Hello??? Mic tests 1, 2, and 3 Hello…?? Awaz aa rahi hai aap laog ko??

‘Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time ago.

Oh, when will you ever learn?

Oh, when will you ever learn?

It is genuinely annoying and disturbing for me to consider and agree that the times in which we live are obligatory and distorted. People live with a deceptive state of mind and custom-made attitudes and attire. When things go out of our control, we tend to fix things by opting for the effortless option, i.e., submission. Rather, we would have loved to live with panache and conviction by telling things the way they should be told and by creating a space for harsh but true expressions along with appropriate execution.

It was an ailing afternoon. When this stabbed me, I rehabilitated and turned up. It triggered me intensively, it pushed and pulled me, and it initiated me thoroughly to think about what we human beings should be all about: truth, honesty, audacity, aggression, guts, and a whole lot of adventures.

One may actually realise life the authentic way with self-authority by not ignoring reality but rather facing it boldly. With time, we tend to lose the zeal for challenging conventional thoughts and mediocre practices. Redefining the word we call definition We have jubilantly lost ourselves in this mix. This forest is filled with lies and inconsistence. It’s a hoax in the name of compromise. Screwing truth and actuality, human beings satirically skip being bold and courageous… We could have been that creature that painted friendship with valour, determination, and an abundance of truthful self-expression. We beg to transform, though.

Cohen (the priestly) appeared both in my introspection and in real life, with a sack filled with intuitions and insights. It’s a name, a way of life, which we should have adapted, but alas, it’s a name we try not to be. Sadly, an unsubstantial phenomenon with which we love to survive.

Cohen blatantly talks, fights, screams, survives, beats, and reveals the so-called fucked-up conventional mannerisms of our society, which are basically good for nothing and magnificently hypocritical.

He dares to dream of a society filled with determination, courage, and rightness; he would rather knock off the gibberish habits that contemporary society endorses with gusto and zest. He is that spirit who realises the necessity of eradicating the egotistical and submissive imagery portrayed by us, which kills a society.

Cohen is me and you. Cohen may be anyone with progressive thought and outlook who creates positivity and genuineness with a devoted and compelling mind, who things US and not ME, who threatens to disagree, who protests DIVIDE, who counters materialistic mindsets, who possesses dogma grit, conviction, and more. Who bleeds CHUTZPAH without a drop of fear?

Cohen Do we really need you???

Let us all answer together.

Let there be more light!!!

Ayan Mukherjee
Conceptualizer and Curator