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Sell that flat in Punjab you once mentioned and buy some little business in Sweden? Should get you a resident permit - and ultimately a passport.Sometimes I feel I made a terrible mistake, staying on, when there were so many opportunities to settle into a dollar- or Euro-dominated job abroad.
Not enough money. Maybe buy a little business in Cambodia.Sell that flat in Punjab you once mentioned and buy some little business in Sweden?
You should still be able to find a job there. In education? Don't let sentimentality cloud your judgement a second time. Bangladesh may not live up to expectations.Not enough money. Maybe buy a little business in Cambodia.
You are amazing.You should still be able to find a job there. In education? Don't let sentimentality cloud your judgement a second time. Bangladesh may not live up to expectations.
When you leave, you may want to say - in baritone - "despising for you the city, thus I turn my back. There is a world elsewhere."
Although I double-checked, I know the monologue, and a few others such, from memory. One of the great joys of my life.You are amazing.
I haven't read it forfortyfifty years, perhaps more.
Spine chilling.Although I double-checked, I know the monologue, and a few others such, from memory. One of the great joys of my life.
There is no grand-narrative or overarching, authorial agenda, I assume. He is too intelligent to be consumed by one. Like everyone else, he is influenced by tradition. There is Homer and Virgil in the background. He also really does hold the mirror up to nature. He is showing what is. At the same time, very subtly, without proselytising, he educates us.Spine chilling.
Why did he even write this play?
If Indians want a Hindu Rashtra... as per democracy they can.
True, but every play had a theme; what was this one? patriotism betrayed, and betrayal betrayed? Coriolanus certainly belongs to the towering tragic figures he has created, perhaps more than any other; can you think of a comparable? A noble soul sickened by treachery and ingratitude.There is no grand-narrative or overarching, authorial agenda, I assume. He is too intelligent to be consumed by one. Like everyone else, he is influenced by tradition. There is Homer and Virgil in the background. He also really does hold the mirror up to nature. He is showing what is. At the same time, very subtly, without proselytising, he educates us.
No, they can't. The majority cannot amend the constitution at will. It cannot tamper with the basic structure.If Indians want a Hindu Rashtra... as per democracy they can.
Sure, those themes work. In the end, the tragic hero is modeled on Aristotle's description. He falls not because of malice but a tragic flaw of character - hubris that often inexorably shadows greatness. But perhaps, you are right. While this archetypal theme, based on Oedipus, is very common in tragedy, Coriolanus is particularly tragic. No wonder Beethoven loved it. It so keenly parallels his life.True, but every play had a theme; what was this one? patriotism betrayed, and betrayal betrayed? Coriolanus certainly belongs to the towering tragic figures he has created, perhaps more than any other; can you think of a comparable? A noble soul sickened by treachery and ingratitude.
I cannot think of Beethoven without two visions coming to mind. One is about the charming way in which his friends would lure him to play in spite of his fixed determination not to play at any and every request - the being left to himself in a room with a pianoforte, from which everyone slipped away in ones and twos, the increasing attention to the instrument, then the first few reluctant notes, then the abandonment and the obsessed drive to make music, while the friends listened with rapt attention from the room beyond. The other is of the old man, totally deaf, escorted to the first playing of the 9th, sitting in blank disappointment at the end, until he was turned gently by his minders to see the audience in a wild frenzy of applause.Sure, those themes work. In the end, the tragic hero is modeled on Aristotle's description. He falls not because of malice but a tragic flaw of character - hubris that often inexorably shadows greatness. But perhaps, you are right. While this archetypal theme, based on Oedipus, is very common in tragedy, Coriolanus is particularly tragic. No wonder Beethoven loved it. It so keenly parallels his life.
Indian Hindus are possibly the most insecure majority who despite being 80% in number are desperate to dominate minority. Feels weird. You wouldn't find a parallel example on the planet now or in the past. The same insecurity gives Indians an itch to "prove themselves bigger" against Pakistan, a country which in comparison is only 15.9% in population and 26% on land size. Pretty pathetic! That's why we call them Indians and they call themselves Indians equally happily. Insane! Isn't it?
A few of my Hindu Indian colleagues are very disappointed ,,, they say we see no alternative to confront BJP.It's all clear now.
The BJP has won Uttar Pradesh. Although I don't think this is a fair victory. But Hindu liberals and Indian Muslims think that hate has prevailed. Lot of sane Indians have no hope left.
It's also clear that BJP is going to win the 2024 National elections by hook or crook. They have islamophobic agendas like the Uniform Civil Code and NRC/CAA to create more polarization. Let's not forget EVMs.
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2024 might be the last National election for India. As many Hindutva intellectuals have expressed their wish to abolish Democracy and Elections.
A civil war seems very likely.
What should we do to prevent catastrophe?
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Indian Muslim rulers genocide fellow Muslims, but always gave special space to Hindus of the sub-continent.Why do Indians hate Muslims so much? Isn’t a lot of the history Indians claim from the Muslims? Isn’t a lot of the wealth Indians claim the British stole of and from the Muslims? Isn’t one of the wonders of the world, that India proudly displays (Taj mahal) from the Muslims.