Deepanjan Das
Never trust China. Yes, if we do not forget Hiroshima-Nagasaki and if we do not forget the 7th Fleet of the US Navy in the Indian Ocean in 1971.
Napoleon in exile in St. Helena called the Britain 'a nation of shopkeepers' and Indira Gandhi said, ''Britain has neither friend nor enemy, only interest.''
, showing the 'Anger' sign here will not suffice. That anger must translate into a radical transformation of character that can exhibit the kshatraani's valour necessary to fire up the polity.
That must be done at all levels from nurturing patriotic feelings at home which is the nursery of life's education to creating congenial college campus conditions free of politics to creating adequate employment facilities. Else, brain drain will remain the stark reality irreversible.
That is true but we need to act now, even if late, so that we may implement his vision.
@TheMe Phobia : Is this a western laugh or an eastern one?
@TheMe Phobia : Yes, of course. Discrimination is taboo. Laugh as much as you like. As they say, laugh it off.
Now this mispronunciation introduced by Bengalee travellers to Hardwar has altered the name itself and the whole of India is saying so likewise. In childhood I have seen the station nameplate bearing the name 'Hardwar' but now the same name has been rewritten there at the station itself as 'Haridwar'. This is linguistic aberration, the way languages like rivers meander from the main course and enter into more arid lands of inevitable cultural decay. Misfortune, indeed !
@TheMe Phobia : I like 'Slice' really, far more than any other fruit juice of the commercial kind.
You have made a material meaning out of a profoundly philosophical post and, so, inadvertently misread its intended import. But in brutal practical terms, of course, you are dead right.
@TheMe Phobia : I don't have to expect it. Everyone is, knowingly or unknowingly, spiritual. The Spirit is the stuff of which men are made.
I do not know. If it does, then surely we can and we ought to. As of now I will furnish you some links whose contents you may peruse.
But mass scale cheating as the British practised and introduced into the colonial system was never so rampant in Indian society as ancient and medieval history also amply testify to. The records of Chinese pilgrims and Muslim historians prove this to be so. Society nowhere and at no point of time is morally perfect but it is a matter of proportion that is the point pertinent here.Forget not that the worst act of this political treachery was the partitioning of our motherland. That was the great act of historical cheating of a people so as to cast them into a state of perpetual mutual feud in order to serve selfish geopolitical interests of the erstwhile political masters post-retirement from direct despoliation.
These are complex issues, I agree, requiring deep scientific and spiritual investigative thought that cannot be thus encapsulated in a brief post. But if it triggers men to think on these pertinent issues, the preliminary task of initiating investigation will have been fulfilled.
Keep writing like this and make people warm up to investigative thinking. You write well.
Let us build up our individual lives along spiritual lines of unselfishness in order to put up resistance to the prevailing, persisting and perpetuating corruption that retards the growth rate of our civilisation. As young individuals of merit and learning, lend yourselves, Lopamudra, to the grand task of national regeneration rather than harbouring cynicism about our people's future in so far as their character in the evolutionary flow is concerned. I understand the frustration of the youth when they behold rampant corruption everywhere but if misdirected men have acquired the critical mass of corruption through persistence in evil, it must be combated by the persistence of the forces of good to build up the balancing critical mass of goodness that will help evolve society. Hope, eternal hope must be harboured amidst the decadence of the times to inspire us unto engagement in fruitful activity whose aggregate and cumulative effect will triumph over the trials and tribulations of the times. Here Swami Vivekananda is a perennial source of inspiration and strength. God bless you !
Thanks for your comment, ever the critic and the editor-in-chief. Your patronising observations I have become used to and, so, I choose to disregard them more often than not. Your conceptions about others' observations are heavily hued by your personal predilections. Thank you, nonetheless, for being vibrant enough in response albeit in your own unique way.
No, no, not hurting at all. Please continue to make your observations. That is the right way to going forward in a democratic polity. I respect you immensely, too.
Amrita Bhattacharjee
Because they are the most patriotic people in the world.
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