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(ambedkar) realised this much: no individual, no caste or community, no religious group could flourish in india without constructing some kind of relationship to tradition, some narrative of selfhood compatible with india's quest for its proper self, some foothold in the past to stabilise its presence in the future
— Aug 04, 2024 06:49AM
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altough (many people) do not follow (jp) in striving towards utopia they use his utopian vision to look upon the functioning reality of everyday indian politics with scorn and despair. the paradoxical consequence of the idealist is furtherance of cynicism.
— Aug 04, 2024 07:37AM
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rabindranath:
• experience...has led me to dread not so much evil itself as tyrannical attempts to create goodness
• tagore, almost alone in his time, insisted...that the greatest obstacle to be found on each of them was the slave mentality that characterised nationalism. that was his contribution to the indian idea of freedom.
— Aug 02, 2024 12:36PM
• experience...has led me to dread not so much evil itself as tyrannical attempts to create goodness
• tagore, almost alone in his time, insisted...that the greatest obstacle to be found on each of them was the slave mentality that characterised nationalism. that was his contribution to the indian idea of freedom.
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rabindranath: whatever weakness we cherish in our society will become the source of danger in politics
— Aug 02, 2024 12:32PM
