rediff has to interview a lamentor and pessimist for republic day ... it is like arranging wailers before wedding. what more each calls the other an intellectual and rub their posteriors in glee
What else does Guha expect? We live in an age where thought leaders like Chetan Bhagat feel history as a subject is redundant and students need not study it.
So we will also generate leaders who will not think or act with an eye on history. That is the tragedy of our age of instant nirvana.
Is it any wonder that in popular imagination history is a series of wars and invasions, while in fact it is a continuum of human progress interspersed by wars and invasions. If the history of popular imagination was true, mankind would have been annihilated by now.
Re: Our age
by sri on Jan 25, 2011 11:06 PM
This antagonism towards all wars is part and parcel of the liberal discourse. Very few liberals have the courage to admit that wars are sometimes necessary for change and to protect the interests of people and cultures.
But I do agree with your positive view and insight about there being a continuum of human advancement in the midst of all kinds of events.
Re: Our age
by Wanderlust on Jan 25, 2011 01:30 PM
chetan bhagat is a pompuous fat fool who is consumed in his own fame. gullible eediotic youth of the nation reads all thrid grade literature ... marriage of three people, pointless someone, one night in a day ... what cheww,tiyaaa sissiee novels
Re: Re: Our age
by N Karthik on Jan 25, 2011 01:46 PM
Well said :-) Just wanted to add my comment before someone 'Reports Abuse'... Liked the 'Pompuous fat fool' remark especially.
Re: Re: Re: Our age
by Wanderlust on Jan 25, 2011 01:35 PM
if u ask a person why he is angry when he is angry, then he will be as clueless as a buffalo, if you ask it are you buffalo. ..more on that later
Re: Re: Re: IS BREAKING TEMPLES SECULARISM?
by Wanderlust on Jan 25, 2011 01:23 PM
u seem to work reverse swing.. so let me swing you reverse so you come off direct....
i meant that a brave will defend his temples, not break others. a coward will bow down and show off as broadmindedness
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: IS BREAKING TEMPLES SECULARISM?
by Wanderlust on Jan 25, 2011 01:27 PM
silly question ... those who break others places of worship are vandals and those who respect them are believers.
why do our political lamentors or political rudaliis always put gandhi, nehru, patel as benchmark ? ... why does our history stops just at freedom struggle and its great ideals ?
Why don't we talk about brother fighting brother and inviting foreigners into their affairs ... that egoistic and regionalism that had welcomed invaders from time immemorial... from times as far back as alexander.
we have no brotherhood. after years of beating, idealism dawned on us and few people like gandhi came around. we need another beating for next round of idealists. when did a buffalo learned from experience. it always needs a whipping to put it back on course
compulsory voting,ban whole cash , allow mobile,atm,credit to pay whole business transaction, everyone who have business income above 50000, travel more 50 km from radias from home should have proper chip identy card with finger and eyes lid identy,,everyone should be charged for services done no matter in educating,health according to their income and capacity,,,labourer rate, farmer produce should rated according to there labour cost
