(Pune Edition, August 30, 2008, - Happy Birthday, Prince Arora)
I must admit to all readers of this blog, a new found ability to quote from books that I haven’t read – this surely is the grace of all elders I have interacted with and some residual purva-janma-punya. My dharma therefore prods me to continue writing in this blog, what I reckon is the summary of the day’s newspaper for the benefit of posterity.
The future is a certainty, the past is unknown and the present vacillates in search of a suitable choice – Psychologists have termed such a condition as Tripolar Mood Disorder. Yesterday night, while conducting an experiment with truth alongside Uma, the following Vichiism occurred – Reinforcement of Denial is the cause for violent (physical and verbal) outbursts – Therefore, mind control is to be practiced so that collateral damage is limited by letting out excess steam into known vessels of purity. (Similar to doing Sandhya Vandanam) This in short is the alpha and omega of my affliction.
Back to the newspaper, it is easy to see that scientists, politicians, philosophers of the past have suffered from this disease. The columnists like me, invest the venture capital of their intellectual violence, by writing on Sundays. An excellent excerpt from a book called ‘A moment for the mind’ matches an equally wonderful questions’ column to the new age spiritual guru Deepak Chopra.
As for me, I am still enthralled by one of Umashankar’s quotes on the pages of a spiritual book – “Mauna Vyakhya Prakatitaha” – Simple, direct, error-free. It gives me direction, solace and balm.
Our respect for the dead should be truthful, honest and from our heart. The easiest way, practised even now world over, is to cry. However, when memory fails we resort to words, so that future generations may connect to their own environs and weep for the past in one cleansing ablution of the soul. Obama on Ted Kennedy is one such reportage.
Gulpa Athan, to sum up all the rest of today’s newspaper, including Shourie’s not knowing of the Left, Right, and Center of RSS politics, Shashi Tharoor’s 31 years of international diplomacy within a tender political age of 53, India’s maiden mission to moon – a brief cost-benefit analysis, and other trivia, I feel compelled to answer Madhuri on how to grow the Gen-Next.
I paraphrase Amartya Sen – The way to build a just society is to model our children on lives of great personages we have seen in our life times. However, since our bias or ego, prevents us from doing so, we can take as models a suitable combination of persons who died just before our births and about whom we have both read and heard from the elders that we have seen – My choice is for myself has been Albert Einstein, Mohandas K Gandhi, and J. Krishnamurthi. The Gen-Next in India may choose as it wants!
Tailpiece – The practise of editorials in the Sunday edition of the Times of India has long ended as the whole paper is considered one big editorial. This is because it was probably reasoned that the competent do not have time to summarise the content and those who have time, have become gods and are enjoying their designated day of rest.Perhaps, they don’t make the likes of P.R.Shrinivas anymore in God’s Own Factory.
The future is a certainty, the past is unknown and the present vacillates in search of a suitable choice – Psychologists have termed such a condition as Tripolar Mood Disorder. Yesterday night, while conducting an experiment with truth alongside Uma, the following Vichiism occurred – Reinforcement of Denial is the cause for violent (physical and verbal) outbursts – Therefore, mind control is to be practiced so that collateral damage is limited by letting out excess steam into known vessels of purity. (Similar to doing Sandhya Vandanam) This in short is the alpha and omega of my affliction.
Back to the newspaper, it is easy to see that scientists, politicians, philosophers of the past have suffered from this disease. The columnists like me, invest the venture capital of their intellectual violence, by writing on Sundays. An excellent excerpt from a book called ‘A moment for the mind’ matches an equally wonderful questions’ column to the new age spiritual guru Deepak Chopra.
As for me, I am still enthralled by one of Umashankar’s quotes on the pages of a spiritual book – “Mauna Vyakhya Prakatitaha” – Simple, direct, error-free. It gives me direction, solace and balm.
Our respect for the dead should be truthful, honest and from our heart. The easiest way, practised even now world over, is to cry. However, when memory fails we resort to words, so that future generations may connect to their own environs and weep for the past in one cleansing ablution of the soul. Obama on Ted Kennedy is one such reportage.
Gulpa Athan, to sum up all the rest of today’s newspaper, including Shourie’s not knowing of the Left, Right, and Center of RSS politics, Shashi Tharoor’s 31 years of international diplomacy within a tender political age of 53, India’s maiden mission to moon – a brief cost-benefit analysis, and other trivia, I feel compelled to answer Madhuri on how to grow the Gen-Next.
I paraphrase Amartya Sen – The way to build a just society is to model our children on lives of great personages we have seen in our life times. However, since our bias or ego, prevents us from doing so, we can take as models a suitable combination of persons who died just before our births and about whom we have both read and heard from the elders that we have seen – My choice is for myself has been Albert Einstein, Mohandas K Gandhi, and J. Krishnamurthi. The Gen-Next in India may choose as it wants!
Tailpiece – The practise of editorials in the Sunday edition of the Times of India has long ended as the whole paper is considered one big editorial. This is because it was probably reasoned that the competent do not have time to summarise the content and those who have time, have become gods and are enjoying their designated day of rest.Perhaps, they don’t make the likes of P.R.Shrinivas anymore in God’s Own Factory.
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