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of one's religion and culture puts one in love with that and the resultant
output is a fanatic or a chauvinist - a stone-headed,
single-track homo-sapien. Thus the culture-knowing Indian is often
required to be balanced and corrected by a culture-neutral one. Thank God,
Indian society contains both. As Hindus, we need to be very careful about
falling in love with our greatness.
Secularism
requires that we keep Eyes Wide Shut. Gentlemanliness often demands that we
hold on to the blinkers, lest we see... . Vishwa's assertion that
Tagore's song was composed to our own Mother and not to King George V is a
piece of such gentlemanliness… One respects Rajat Gupta, one respects S Kumar for their contributions to our
discussion even though their observations diverge. This is exactly
the kind of discussion for which this forum exists. We don't
need agreements, we need only cogent, well-informed arguments. Dilip Kumar Roy diliproy@gmail.com [sbicitizen]
Interview with Sudhir Kakar | Asia Society 30 Sep 2002 by
Mandy
I believe it lies in the devout person's need to
idealize someone, somewhere, who is believed to be free of the psychic dangers
that sex brings with it, and then to identify with this "divine"
being. As normal human beings we are all acutely aware of these dangers. The
insatiability of sex, with its waves of violent, consuming hunger, threatens
the loss of those we hold dear. Naked in our desire, we are vulnerable to
disapprobation, mortification, rejection. Challenging the keepers of the social
order and guardians of its taboos, we tremble at the punishment fitting the
crime, emasculation, or more generally an unsexing. Worse still for many is the
specter of relentless self punishment; searing, burdensome guilt. For the
devout, the mystic holds a promise of freedom from these psychic threats.
Indian literature: Volume 15 - Sahitya
Akademi - 1972 – Prema Nandakumar
Himself
a scholar, he enthuses us to take to
a life of scholarship. Having renounced his princely position in the Baroda College
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