one of most common tendencies of human beings is to look for dissimilarities. anywhwere. be it nature, amongst themselves in terms of countries, castes, classes, races etc.
this despite the obvious physical resemblance and feelings human beings have. humans try to find: sometimes desperately look for differences.which is not wrong, very human, but have implications on our world.
we are all the same, whether jew, non-jew, hindu, muslim, black, white, yellow, upper class, lower class..
same feelings, same happiness, same sadness, each one of us wants to contribute , everything almost the same.. mull over it.
would appreciate "unifying" comments,
so lets find a unity in humanity & humaneness
cheers!
23/06/2006
22/06/2006
marginalisation
I see the children abandoned by the society.. some near delhi railway station ( taking smack/brown sugar) , some near malls ( begging for pepsi & then giggling with joy), some sleeping near Ngos offices just outside where the exhaust fan is ( to get some respite from delhi's sweltering heat) .. when I watch them playing or eating with joy. mostli become joyous intheir joy but smtimes guilt pangs emerges...can i do nothing.. reasoning always .. how it CANT be done.. and writing Geogrge bernard's comments for "unreasonable men"...
19/06/2006
sing with me
" Rimjhim Gire Saawan,
Sulag sulag jaye mann,
bheege aaj is mausam mein
lagi kaisi ye agan!
mehfil mein kaise keh de kisi se
dil bandh raha hai kisi ajnabee se!
Sulag sulag jaye mann,
bheege aaj is mausam mein
lagi kaisi ye agan!
mehfil mein kaise keh de kisi se
dil bandh raha hai kisi ajnabee se!
Intolerance and numbness
Hi friends!
These days Im really troubled by the incidences around the world.
We call ourselves civilized and progressive.Look at the state of the world. Lets start from India.
Narmada river valley project has been going on for I dont know since when. not complete.But thousands of villagers have been uprooted from their ancestral land, without compensation. We build dams saying the purpose is irrigation , for power.but if the farmers are uprooted , which irrigation are we talking about. earlier I also derived happiness from the logic that for lacs of people some have to sacrifice.The supposedly lacs of farmers havent got an inch of water for their land.Power, Electricity !!!?? its for the Urban people, specially those who have all the resources to concentrate all the powers in them.
so basically what we trying to is that we take away the resources from the poor people & redistibute it to already rich & powerful & for that another silent victim is our Ecology.
Iraq was bombed, grand plans professed. the result now is that thosands of Iraqis die , not in the battlefield, but their own homes. Their shia & sunnis are behaving like enemies. young soldiers from US, Italy, UK & other supporting countries are fed a s fodder to just take revenge for one man ( mr. president) & against one man ( anoter president). Oil for which they went their is a distant dream. they are actually trying to get out of Iraq ( leaving it to its fate) ASAP.
Back home Da vinci code , a work of fiction and Mf hussain's works, Aamir khan's film are banned for different reasons , but the common thread is INTOLERANCE.
Think about it friends, what we are trying to achieve. where are we going. and is this civilisation??
cheers urs pk
These days Im really troubled by the incidences around the world.
We call ourselves civilized and progressive.Look at the state of the world. Lets start from India.
Narmada river valley project has been going on for I dont know since when. not complete.But thousands of villagers have been uprooted from their ancestral land, without compensation. We build dams saying the purpose is irrigation , for power.but if the farmers are uprooted , which irrigation are we talking about. earlier I also derived happiness from the logic that for lacs of people some have to sacrifice.The supposedly lacs of farmers havent got an inch of water for their land.Power, Electricity !!!?? its for the Urban people, specially those who have all the resources to concentrate all the powers in them.
so basically what we trying to is that we take away the resources from the poor people & redistibute it to already rich & powerful & for that another silent victim is our Ecology.
Iraq was bombed, grand plans professed. the result now is that thosands of Iraqis die , not in the battlefield, but their own homes. Their shia & sunnis are behaving like enemies. young soldiers from US, Italy, UK & other supporting countries are fed a s fodder to just take revenge for one man ( mr. president) & against one man ( anoter president). Oil for which they went their is a distant dream. they are actually trying to get out of Iraq ( leaving it to its fate) ASAP.
Back home Da vinci code , a work of fiction and Mf hussain's works, Aamir khan's film are banned for different reasons , but the common thread is INTOLERANCE.
Think about it friends, what we are trying to achieve. where are we going. and is this civilisation??
cheers urs pk
the unreasonable man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the UNREASONABLE man.
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