Monday, July 2, 2007
And I put it all in humanity's and nature's hands... and what happened?
Yes, what happened? Nature said you can't put it all in my hands And similarly humanity said so So I began working on myself And I began working with others And I began relating with other human beings And I began relating with nature And together we wove ourselves as humanity In a setting of...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
When the colt bolts away
When the colt bolts away, have you ever been boiling and wishing you were the dark horse?
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
When the pot calls the kettle black...
it's not that bad 'cos anyway the kettle is black, but what happens when the black pot calls a white kettle black and then claims that it is white? How would you respond if you were the kettle?
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Why swing between total belief and total disbelief
The Duke case drew a lot of media attention and began questioning the feminist approach of advocating that the woman be believed wholesale. But my point is that this is a mistaken perception of what constitutes the feminist approach or at best this is one stream of the feminist approach. There is...
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Can any one type of fascism be graded higher or lower than the other?
Is there a difference between technological fascism where we seek to produce a child with particular genes or a boy child only and fascism that requires that India be a Hindu rashtra only? Can any one type of fascism be graded higher or lower than the other?
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
Is people's power about numbers of people who take positions on something?
Or is it about a judicious balance between informed decisions and decisions taken by people placed differently? How does mob majority differ from majority? How does a majority dominated by misinformation differ from an informed majority? Just some questions that I am chewing at....
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
If you have the choice of preventing the imminent death of a child or
his/her mother, and if helping one means neglect of the other and the consequences, who would you support? Isn't that a difficult question? And a difficult choice to make in real life?
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Saturday, December 23, 2006
Why do we wish each other "Merry Christmas"? How did that phrase catch on?
As for me, from whatever I understand, joyous or meaningful Christmas would have been more like it. Is the merriness to do with festivity that somebody with a pprofound message that makes a difference to our lives has come amongst us?
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
A woman is a taxi-driver in Mumbai for the last about fifteen years.
One would have thought she is a feminist. But talk to her and she holds such archaic positions about the role of women! She believes that the role of women is in the home and she hasn't even been catapulted into the profession because she became a widow at an young age or something like that. The...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
What do you have to say about France's decision not to allow school
children to wear a veil?
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