Thursday, March 6, 2008
Back-biting is a habit that we carry with us from our milieu's such as
family, school Church, social spaces, etc. into the public arenas. And vice-versa. If it's becoem a trait with us, then it is so much a part of us that it doesn't kow boundaries. So many people who bitch about their wives are seen doing the same thing in other spaces such as work-spaces, public...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Engaging in doublespeak
Some people habitually engage in doublespeak. They tell their children that they should be honest and straightforward and are themselves glaring examples of doshonesty (stealing from office or public property) or encouraging anything but straightforwardness in practice (as for example rapping their...
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
When I seek help from people who are otherwise vulnerable,
I have to be conscious that I would be putting them in a situation by virtue of their vulnerability on account of which they cannot refuse to help, even if they are not in a position to help. Hence the request has to be placed in a way as to give them a door to refuse. Or else what difference...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
When we say that the ill amongst our near and dear ones should get priority
over others simply because they are our folks, there is the real test. Cos if we really and truly respect democracy. we should accept the queue system and the same should reflect in decisions pertaining to our personal lives. What say?
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
The way we relate to domestic helps in our homes is a lot shaped by how we
perceive work and specially survival and by the financial advantage we have over them. In fact in most households it is mothers/women who do the survival work, which because of its lack of commercial value is tagged as natural and not given value. This then shapes how we treat and perceive people...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
When cares get you down and someone comes to pull u out of those cares...
then that's the time ur integrity can also be under challenge. What if that person holds views that you publicly differ with. Would u still express your differences despite the assistance rendered by this someone? I would. I appreciate the help, but I have my views all right. And the one approach is...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Final solution v/s dialogue mentality
I talk of dialogue between communities but feel that whatever is in my mindis the final solution when I am talking to my own colleagues. So somewhere in the course of the dialogues, I reflect this same final solution-fascist mentality. The personal is political. Our outlooks at the personal level...
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Monday, August 20, 2007
If I am an attention-seeker at home, I begin to seek the same kind
of attention in public life. Unless of course my family recognises this trait and treats it. No, attention-seeking is not an ailment. It's natural for any human being to want attention. What is under discussion here is the undue attention-seeking. If this is not nipped in the bud, it is harmful to...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Compromising on the corruption of the spouse saying one can't expose him
since he's one's spouse after all, would amount to compromising on one's politics of being anti-corruption. The personal is political. What say?
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Monday, July 2, 2007
If I believe that women have the capacity to take decisions, this belief
must translate into my politics at home in how I consider the views of women, and in what I publicly articulate are my views on the role of women in public life. There cannot be a discrepancy between the two, for it won't sound real if I tom-tom that women should have a place in public life and I...
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