THE SELECTIVE PORTAYAL OF FACTS AND THE CLEVER ANALYSES

THE SELECTIVE PORTAYAL OF FACTS AND THE CLEVER ANALYSES

These days few are neutral in their views. Most take up a political stand on issues, forgetting that truth demands neutrality and impartiality of observation, the statement of fact and inferences thereof.

Realisation of the absolute unity which underlies the manifoldness of phenomena is a far cry for most but being non-partisan in views is not that difficult, provided the necessary education is there to arrive at correct conclusions in the light of historical happenings and untrammelled by articulated theological and ideological principles. But even here polarisations are huge as Samuel P. Huntington has so well illustrated in his book, 'The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order'.

The point that I wish to make is this that truth must be stated freely and fairly. Otherwise, it is not truth. But in social living fractional representations are always the case even as truth suffers its sorry fate at the hands of menacing fanatics who wish to suppress it. Thus, liberals, seculars, communists, fascists, religious bigots - all of these carry with them their individual agendas in portraying truth after their fashion which deflects more than it depicts, conceals more than it reveals, and deludes more than it illumines, as the misled masses are led into lines of observation which evolution allows them access to.

Fanatics are called liberals and liberals fanatics nowadays. This is a queer state of affairs as hypocrisy and harakiri have become siblings in the Hindu's destruction. Would it were that more studied Vivekananda and Aurobindo in depth ! Alas, when will such a state of affairs be when enlightenment will follow real education and not random guesses, misconceptions thereof and pronouncements pernicious about one's heritage and culture?

Written by Sugata Bose