Tag: sociology
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Taslima Nasreen needs to introspect.
Taslima Nasreen is just being hypocritical. She is saying Indian writers protesting against Hindu Chauvinism are just pro-muslim and anti-hindu. In other words they are not intellectuals just whimsical activists. In the same breath she is saying they did not protest when her book was banned. If they did support Taslima, only then they are…
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The problem of eating beef.
Is eating beef an act which is so morally repugnant that it can take lives? We wouldn’t imagine such with an ideally and intellectually sensitive human society. But we don’t, we live in communities which does not care so much about what it can infer as “other’s” ways. Lets not get ourselves embroiled, to believe…
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Digital India
FB had already made us all, the hawkers, that we are today. Everyone is feeding their statuses with news news news, that Mother Ganga knows who reads or not. Right now I have opened 7 feeds to read and 3 that are pending from yesterday. But I am afraid if #digitalindia plans work well, we…
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ALL the violence is male generated.
Violence is nothing but an act that you commit or pose yourself to commit because its negative effects do not impact your narrowly defined choices but anyone beyond that narrow definition is affected and that’s none of your concern. Hence dishonesty is a very malevolent form of violence. “ALL the violence is male generated” and…
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Are younger generations opposed to Capitalism?
Are younger generations opposed to Capitalism? This is a guest post by Sabuj, who writes with much clarity on Quora and I thought this is interesting enough to be shared on this website. He also writes voluminously about various issues of his interest. Since he is very young, it throws a particularly refreshing view into…