"Travel is dreaming, is improvisation, a poverty of reason." ~ My friend Jared.

"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it" Che Guevara

When Jared sent his poem, inspired after watching "The Motorcycle Diaries". I told myself to save it and read it after I'd seen the film myself.

I remember seeing posters of "Che" Guevara, reminding lme of Bob Marley with his dreadlocks cut short all over Cochin city [my favourite city in Kerala]. Kerala is the world's first democratically elected Communist State. Every child I met from my family is politically aware. Every single person, from whatever background reads the daily news and is politically clued in. As a state, Kerala is one of the many states thats very vocal in resisting globalisation.

When I was in Mumbai, MacDonalds couldn't have felt more wrong to have existed. One kilo of potatoes cost Rs7 (< US$0.04) and a pack of fries from MacDonalds cost you Rs45 (almost US$1). Thats oppresive.

I am not one-dimentionally anti-globalisation. I am for a global society and the global village and being a part of the global citizen...being without boundaries and embracing humanity, its culture, differences, its heritage. I love it when mehndi is globalised, when the Indians go Chinese when something new happens to their llives, when pizza is the worlds fast food...you  get my point. What makes me mad is global oppression, monopoly, imperialism and everything that pissed the hell out of Carl Marx.

Marx was anti-religion. He is famously known for his belief that religion is the opium of man. That didnt agree with many religionists of course and this became a cause and reason for the countless war that happened during the cold war. This in turn backed with the reasoning that the communists were a ruthless, heartless bunch of barbarians trying to create a Uthopia. This, a response of one statement, one sentiment by a philosopher who also strongly believed and stood for many ideals all the prophets in the relgious history of mankind tried to convey. Appreciate the irony.

Maybe there were ruthless communist leaders, but communism or the concept of socialism is not one thats against the nature of man. Every man desires justice and wants to be treated with justice.

When machines came along in the earlier part of the 19th century, the labourers*Luddites* werent wrong in protesting and even getting violent,smashing the new machines of the Industrial revolution. Their violence is a result of rational insight as opposed to an irrational displacement of human workforce, thereby rendering many jobless and left in the lurch to fend for themselves. But I digress.

"The Motorcylce Diaries" is a film of an intimate record of a revolutionary leader of our time. It was made with such sensitivity, such devotion to the honesty of expressing medical student,Ernesto Guevara's emotions,beliefs and his uncompromising honesty.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love. ~ Che Guevara

I admire the spirit of "Che". He was original. He never believed in copying anyone. He acted from his gut. He acted honest, true to his soul, to his predisposed nature, of desiring justice and truth.