A regular summer holiday for me would include a lot of music and a lot of sleep. This Aone was no different as I indulged in bliss free from any guilt or compulsion. But in the process of catching up with music, I put my mind in the biggest mess it has been in a very long time. A dilemma is something rather alien to my rationale.

It all started when I picked up this DVD titled "They sold their soul for rock n' roll" by Cross TV. It took me about two days to watch the complete documentary and when I was finished I was disgusted besides being in a fix. My whole belief system was floating in space, ruffled and hindered.

To put it in the most subtly unbiased manner, this documentary was nothing short of being not only "anti-rock" but also "anti-music". Now if you are one of those people who live by music, it will cease to be just a DVD.

This documentary has pointed fingers at numerous Rock, Pop and Hip-Hop acts. Bands such as Ramstein, KMFDM and many more were held responsible for instigation and violence among the youth. Through manipulative editing of
videos and interviews, they have painted a rather dark picture of basically anybody who was popular in the music scene.

Contemporary rock and pop bands were not the only ones to be targeted though. Big names such as Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Deep purple, Black Sabbath and many more have been accused of signing a pact with Satan himself for their gifted musical creations. The price they have to pay for this – their soul. George Harrison of The Beatles, in one of his songs chanted "Hare Krishna" and Cross TV calls Lord Krishna a messenger of Satan.

So, Cross TV, in short, implies that if a person, with average intelligence and mental stability listens to a song asking him to take a shot gun and blow peoples heads off, he would willingly do so. In the world we live, I have a doubt if the socially and morally conditioned human mind, a sane and stable one, is so
easily impressionable. If a dozen of mentally deranged individuals commit something out of ordinary, to negatively affect the society, can music be blamed for it?

But I found my answers soon enough. A month later, the 24 hour concert "Live Earth" was aired on VH1. It showed various giants performing live in various corners of the world to raise awareness about global warming and the harm that we are causing to Mother Earth. Instead of commercial breaks, documentaries
that a esthetically p r omo t e d awareness were aired. Now, suddenly,
power saving or growing trees or public transport was "Cool". What I mean to say is that if a band like Metallica or a certain individual named Enrique Iglesias asks fans to turn the switches off when they leave the room, they will jolly well follow. And this will cease to be a compulsion.

The clouds in my head have surely cleared and my belief system is back on ground. That it is so easy to sway someone out of their wits through a carefully compiled and conspired documentary, never struck my awareness. But then a very obvious idea came to me and it was that there a various ways of looking at
and using something powerful. It's the choices we make that make all the
difference.

Sounds bookish? That doesn't stop it from being true. So before you go ahead and sell your CDs and guitar by the kg, based on a documentary declaring all music to be evil and satanic, please do reconsider…