Excellent point on the question of caste. We seem to be seeing some synthesis rather than the antithesis that, I for one, was raised on.
In 2019, I've given up on free will. I tried to sustain it as an article of faith but I'm not the faithful type. On Thu, 9 Jan, 2020, 11:24 Alok Prasanna Kumar, <[email protected]> wrote: > In 2019 I finally recognized that the seemingly irreconcilable binary > created between Gandhi's and Ambedkar's views on caste and Indian society > was entirely false thanks to the peerless writing of DR Nagaraj in The > Flaming Feet. One talk in 2017-ish by Dr Mogalli Ganesh had initially put > this idea in my head but Nagaraj's book is such an incredible scholarly > work that it blew my mind with its insights, clarity of thought and > scholarship. TL;DR Nagaraj points out that Ambedkar and Gandhi were far > more influenced by each other than their present adherents would like to > believe, and in his view, both their approaches are needed to be > synthesized to bring about any radical change in Indian society. > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:52 AM Venkatesh H R <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I realised that ‘good journalism’ is often bad as well because of deep > > structural issues in the industry, and that the news as we know it might > > need to die in order for something better to take its place. I also > > realised that it’s time to stop reading the news as I do. Once a week is > > probably fine. And this is coming from a current, practising journalist! > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:20 AM Biju Chacko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I stopped being an optimist. Why? I read the newspapers. > > > > > > -- b > > > > > > PS: I've also stopped reading newspapers > > > PPS. I'm only slightly joking. > > > > > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 09:32, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, > > and > > > > why? > > > > > > > > Udhay > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > > > > > -- > > H R Venkatesh > > John S. Knight Journalism Fellow 2019 > > <https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2019/h-r-venkatesh/>, > Stanford > > University > > Twitter: @hrvenkatesh > > > > > -- > Alok Prasanna Kumar > Advocate > Ph: +919560065577 >
