I agree completely. My parents generation had youngsters working and helping support younger siblings while studying and getting through with flying colours!
Difficult to feel sympathy for 28 year olds studying for PhD???? and getting into politics.If you are truly troubled, you will worry about your own family and not about a dead and gone issue like Afzal Guru and Kashmir. Pampered students making merry on taxpayer money.
I agree completely. My parents generation had youngsters working and helping support younger siblings while studying and getting through with flying colours!
Difficult to feel sympathy for 28 year olds studying for PhD???? and getting into politics.If you are truly troubled, you will worry about your own family and not about a dead and gone issue like Afzal Guru and Kashmir. Pampered students making merry on taxpayer money.
To, Respected Pai Mam with great ideologies in u r mind & more. I am sure One day U will be the PM of India.Like our present Namo Modiji, & will lead from the front to take theNation reach greater heights From KAMATH MAM, Mangalore-575006
Re: Re: Mickey Mouse
by gururaj upadhyaya on May 12, 2016 09:17 AM
Chota Bheem is a recent development just like vegetarian Pizza or Burger. Multinationals had that something like that to survive in Indian market. Chota Bheem is reasonable. But most of the other 'indianized' comic characters are filled with cliches simelar to that of a 'Bollywood' movies. That is where the problem is according to me. The problem is that kids end up watching either mouse/ cockroaches irritating a cat or unrealistic 'Bollywood like' cartoons. I hardly see cartoons based on 'panchtantra', Indian mythology, 'Mulla Nasruddin' aired on TV channels. As many fathers with young children, I also end up watching these animations on T.V with my son. Hence, this is my personal opinion.
The idea of absolute freedom of the individual should be promoted in Indian children. They are unlikely to come across it in their grown up life in India. Hardly any Indians think about freedom or are familiar with it. It is the basic requirement without which human societies cannot make much progress. India is dependent on other societies because its people have never been free to think.
Exposure to Western culture could partly meet this requirement. Nothing should be done to make people avoid foreign thought or culture. It like a prisoner getting some news of the world outside the prison. It should not be denied even if there is no way to immediately free the imprisoned persons.
Mr. T V Mohandas Pai is wrong to promote Indian culture or traditions among Indians. Instead of promoting it in an unconditional manner, one ought first of all to ask whether it is morally right to promote Indian culture among Indians.
One view is that India is an ancient concentration camp that is still functioning in undiminished strength. It is a place where a large quantity of human life is tortured. For lower Indians, over 80 percent of population, being born Indian is a severe life term punishment.
There is no nonviolent means of ending their punishment, destroying the concentration camp, or liberating the inmates. For a variety of historical reasons, the social and managerial skills required for the population to put a violent end to the concentration camp, are not available in India. Civil war, communist revolution, etc., are not feasible in India. No human population has ever liberated its oppressive society by nonviolent means.
There is therefore no practical means of bringing the torture of lower Indians to an end. However that helplessness does not imply that it is alright to promote the culture. Promoting Indian culture among Indians amounts to promoting continued slavery among inmates of the concentration camp named India. It is better not to do so unconditionally.
Looks like too extreme a stance by a level headed person like Mr Pai. Maybe he's doing it for effect. Is he aware how the Amar Chitra Katha and such publications have helped in spreading awareness of our mythology and culture ? It is not as if parents focus solely on Mickey Mouse for their kids' entertainment.Mickey and Donald have become global cartoon characters and it is churlish to denigrate them.Let our kids enjoy them as well.
