A macro or a micro solution?

It appears to me often that we, as humans, when talking of world problems and its solutions, take it for granted that if our social circumstances can be ingeniously arranged, then we would have brought heaven down on earth. I also wonder whether it could not be that there are no macro problems or solutions, because all the problems are actually those that originate in our own individual heads, reside there, mature there and finally accompany us to the afterlife or wherever. Ergo, if we examine our heads, with or without a shrinker, we might be on the way to the only peace and bliss that’s attainable – that which we create and live by in our own little minds. Maybe I’ve got it thoroughly wrong and I need to head for a shrinker? Any shrinkers out there?

Why we need to be good in English

In we wish to survive in the battleground that today’s world has become, we need to be armed with the most powerful weapon of the day and that is English. But if English is the most powerful weapon we can have at our command, our own mother tongue is the muscle we need to have. Without muscles we would hardly be able to lift any weapon. Yet, even with Arnie’s muscles, we could be shot through the head by a child if we don’t have a gun ourselves.

By saying thus, I hope I have placed in perspective the role of mother tongue and English, each, in our lives today.

Arrest the creeps on Tehalka

Those who went on camera (or hidden camera) and revealed that they participated in the communal riots in Gujarat ought to be immediately arrested. That action and ugly reaction happens in the spur of emotional moments is understandable, but to gloat over one’s participation many years down the line and seek to claim individual ‘credit’ for what was obviously mass spontaneous reaction of the masses at large speaks of a pervert mind. Worse, to use the occasion to settle political scores is despicable. Arrest the fellows; they are creeps with pathetic motives who want to exploit an orgy of violence, the lessons of which would be better learnt if analyzed in dispassion and not made an issue of political controversy.