tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252194804004703712.post468544272349667483..comments2024-03-07T08:57:28.204-08:00Comments on luit-pariya: A world which seems to have missed the point altogethermeenaxihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06578319015232856141noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252194804004703712.post-90083428761008827652015-11-08T01:05:11.578-08:002015-11-08T01:05:11.578-08:00Thanks, Sanjay, for putting it even more forcibly ...Thanks, Sanjay, for putting it even more forcibly than I would have ever dared to...anyway, I guess talking about it is the first step towards doing something about it... and I am glad that there are at least a couple of you who agree with me on this point...meenaxihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06578319015232856141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252194804004703712.post-14433514139855539162015-11-03T23:29:37.705-08:002015-11-03T23:29:37.705-08:00Do we really miss the point? Hell no! We escape fr...Do we really miss the point? Hell no! We escape from the point due to extreme cynicism. We keep our mouth shut and look the other way when it is the time of standing up for a cause and take the bull by the horn because the apple-cart of the comfort zone where we live may be upset.Sanjay Duttahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16477081800804211454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252194804004703712.post-82942205465735512882015-10-26T21:38:34.050-07:002015-10-26T21:38:34.050-07:00Well said, Bhaskar, 'thrashing the periphery l...Well said, Bhaskar, 'thrashing the periphery leaving the core untouched' -- and I think for this, the media is in large part to blame. Everyone wants to be an expert seen on TV giving an opinion at a talk show without taking the trouble to read up and think at length over the issues over which they deliberate... is there some way to stop this? Is there some way to make people value real meenaxihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06578319015232856141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252194804004703712.post-64177150910206047722015-10-26T19:40:28.807-07:002015-10-26T19:40:28.807-07:00You are right about most of us missing the point a...You are right about most of us missing the point altogether on most issues that concern us .Probably this comes from a society which is information surplus but knowledge deficit . The saddest thing about this is not missing the point by the ambulance driver or even your friend on the VIP convoy but rather those intellectuals who pontificate on so many vital issues without having a grip on the Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07468291440649433471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252194804004703712.post-51388984198531938372015-10-26T06:12:37.663-07:002015-10-26T06:12:37.663-07:00Thanks for this Nazrul. Yes, some amount of humili...Thanks for this Nazrul. Yes, some amount of humility would do us all a world of good, I think. And to learn to not take ourselves too seriously -- that is why I object to all this self-laudatory but empty exhibitionism.meenaxihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06578319015232856141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252194804004703712.post-51324880756277513192015-10-25T21:32:01.729-07:002015-10-25T21:32:01.729-07:00I am not sure whether these are specific to 'a...I am not sure whether these are specific to 'asomiya' issues? We have (after the advent of industrial civilization primarily and that is, compared to human history in earth, relatively momentary...only for last 200 years) created a system where we educate our children to be violently competitive, learn things which won't make them 'better' human beings but would rather fit Nazrulnoreply@blogger.com