People don't want to open up any more, don't want to listen if anybody opens up. People don't do any useful, meaningful conversation any more. Just to pass time, just to talk for the sake of talking. No arguments, no affection, no attachment, no sympathy, no interest. In Facebook, in whatsapp, no real conversation, only forwards. we have forgotten original thinking, original talking, we have nothing more to say or listen. There is a new technique so that nobody can confide anything to anyone- everybody makes everything public. No privacy, no honour, no value of any given word, no confidentiality. So you cannot confide. You tell anything to anybody and it will instantly be public. So you don't or rather can't tell anything to anybody. Its a wonderful situation in a wonderful world. People live lives and die, without being able to talk to their satisfaction. Its free to smile, to listen, to understand, to support, but we have made it so difficult, in fact impossible. Congratulations, our developed civilization!
An article on poila boisakh
Poila Boisakh - a perspective In this day of detachment, with the phantom menace of secessionist anarchy looming large over every horizon, one really hesitates to pen thoughts about any particular race- it might well be branded as sectarianism! Our sacred duty today seems to become global at any cost, to embrace and be engulfed in a globality which means the World Trade Centre terminators wear American jeans and Japanese watches, illiterate Malaysian grandmothers from interior villages become soft drink addicts and curry from the Indian subcontinent subsists as the national dish of Great Britain. Still, amid this sponsored onslaught of an epicurean consumerism branded as globality, one single day, that of the New Year, may be reserved for introspection, appraisal, orientation and reactivation of a unique culture- which still has the potential to contribute a lot to the nation and the world,not by submitting itself to misplaced globality but through an ardent preservation of its special...
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