The Throng of the Kumbh Mela Festival - Slide Show - NYTimes.com:
The Wonder That Is India. Amazing and Unbelievable
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left”
Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” - Salon.com:
Is the " right not to have a boss" a sensible right? Work is monotonous only for those who don't enjoy their work. Why there is a Marxist fixation with work monotony?
Is the " right not to have a boss" a sensible right? Work is monotonous only for those who don't enjoy their work. Why there is a Marxist fixation with work monotony?
National Interest: Still Mandal, still Mandir - Shekhar Gupta's Subjective Analysis
National Interest: Still Mandal, still Mandir - Indian Express:
We, the students of social science, especially Political Science, know only too well that social & political beliefs colour our attitude and analysis. An honest analyst would declare at the beginning of his analysis his political leanings and beliefs. But to expect this from our highly partisan intellectuals and media is a bit unrealistic. It is not that Shekhar Gupta won't be knowing that the UPA, particularly the Congress, depends upon the support of Bangladeshi immigrants, minorities like Muslims & Christians, separatists and a fairly large number of anti-national elements to come to power. Similarly, the support base of BJP is not only Ram Mandir supporters. In fact India's resurgent nationalists are firmly behind the BJP and the Mandir Movement was nothing but the assertion of Indian nationalism. If India is to survive as a nation and civilization it has to facilitate the emergence and consolidation of Hindu nationalism. Religions like Islam and Christianity have other homelands also, but the Hindus have only India to fall back upon. A Hindu by birth is secular. See how Nepal, a Hindu Kingdom, has declared itself a Secular Republic.Parties, the rationale of whose existence was anti-Congressism, have now joined hands with Congress to stop the emergence resurgent Hindu/Indian resurgence.
We, the students of social science, especially Political Science, know only too well that social & political beliefs colour our attitude and analysis. An honest analyst would declare at the beginning of his analysis his political leanings and beliefs. But to expect this from our highly partisan intellectuals and media is a bit unrealistic. It is not that Shekhar Gupta won't be knowing that the UPA, particularly the Congress, depends upon the support of Bangladeshi immigrants, minorities like Muslims & Christians, separatists and a fairly large number of anti-national elements to come to power. Similarly, the support base of BJP is not only Ram Mandir supporters. In fact India's resurgent nationalists are firmly behind the BJP and the Mandir Movement was nothing but the assertion of Indian nationalism. If India is to survive as a nation and civilization it has to facilitate the emergence and consolidation of Hindu nationalism. Religions like Islam and Christianity have other homelands also, but the Hindus have only India to fall back upon. A Hindu by birth is secular. See how Nepal, a Hindu Kingdom, has declared itself a Secular Republic.Parties, the rationale of whose existence was anti-Congressism, have now joined hands with Congress to stop the emergence resurgent Hindu/Indian resurgence.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
In Bureaucracy Paperwork Against the People
Paperwork Against the People | Dissent Magazine:
How Bureaucracy came to acquire such negative connotation? There is goal displacement and tail wagging the dog in bureaucracy. There is an East European song which says: Satan doesn't have red tails; it has red tape.
How Bureaucracy came to acquire such negative connotation? There is goal displacement and tail wagging the dog in bureaucracy. There is an East European song which says: Satan doesn't have red tails; it has red tape.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Turning Ram Manohar Lohiaji on his head
Turning Lohiaji on his head
In the present day Indian context, a Samajwadi ( Socialist) is one who discards society ( समाज बाद में, पहले स्वयं) and thinks only about him/herself. No wonder, Lohia's ideas of anti-Congressism has been stood on its head.
In the present day Indian context, a Samajwadi ( Socialist) is one who discards society ( समाज बाद में, पहले स्वयं) and thinks only about him/herself. No wonder, Lohia's ideas of anti-Congressism has been stood on its head.
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