Why CND as a Tattoo?

 

Why CND as a Tattoo?

Let me start with what CND is – Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Its symbol is given below that will anchor this very short post.

This represents, as I read,   the semaphore signals for N and D (railway engineers must be able to make sense of the above).

I see this symbol somewhere in the body parts of two cricket players in the Indian Professional League (IPL). I would not name them.

If these two players have seriously thought about what the symbol stands for, I bow down to them in total surrender and respect. Yet, I might make a case for how they could take the campaign for it ever so slightly forward, even as you and I know that nothing will come of it. IPL players do so many things that bring no tangible benefits in the here and now. Then, putting in a word for CND in the myriad interviews they give prior to (at the toss, if nowhere else), during and after the game would be appreciated.

Raghuram Ekambaram