Today January 26 2014 is India's 65th Republic Day
Thomas Meaney:
"..."You have been infected by the virus of European imperialism!” he (Rabindranath Tagore) told his Japanese contact, Toyama Mitsuru. For Tagore, the nation-state was a tragedy in the making for Asian peoples. “Now after [the Great War],” he told a Japanese audience, “do you not hear everywhere the denunciation of this spirit of the Nation, this collective egoism of the people, which is universally hardening their hearts?”..."
(The Nation, May 15 2013)
विनोबा भावे:
"…स्वातंत्र्यप्राप्तीनंतर आता पुढे काय? आता कोणते युग येईल? आता जागतिक युग येईल. त्या भावी युगाकडे दृष्टी ठेवून आपणांस क्षुद्र अभिमान सोडावे लागतील. भाषेचा अभिमान, देशाचा अभिमान वगैरे सर्वच अभिमान सोडावे लागतील. भारताचा अभिमान देखील सोडवा लागेल. आजच्या युगाला जरुरी आहे जय-जगतची. सर्व जगताचा जय असो!…"
('ज्ञान ते सांगतो पुन्हा', 2004/2006)
Don Barzini in 'The Godfather', 1972:
"Times have changed. It's not like the old days when we could do anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly, he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not Communists."
Trilochan Sastry, EPW, January 4 2014:
"Based on publicly available data of over 62,800 candidates, who contested national and state assembly elections from 2004 to 2013, it shows that both crime and money play an important role in winning elections."
The way nationalism works in a modern democracy...two examples...
1. A turkey tries to survive Thanksgiving Day ...
Artist: Mike Twohy, The New Yorker
2. And gangsters go to work...
Artist: Tom Cheney, The New Yorker
Thomas Meaney:
"..."You have been infected by the virus of European imperialism!” he (Rabindranath Tagore) told his Japanese contact, Toyama Mitsuru. For Tagore, the nation-state was a tragedy in the making for Asian peoples. “Now after [the Great War],” he told a Japanese audience, “do you not hear everywhere the denunciation of this spirit of the Nation, this collective egoism of the people, which is universally hardening their hearts?”..."
(The Nation, May 15 2013)
विनोबा भावे:
"…स्वातंत्र्यप्राप्तीनंतर आता पुढे काय? आता कोणते युग येईल? आता जागतिक युग येईल. त्या भावी युगाकडे दृष्टी ठेवून आपणांस क्षुद्र अभिमान सोडावे लागतील. भाषेचा अभिमान, देशाचा अभिमान वगैरे सर्वच अभिमान सोडावे लागतील. भारताचा अभिमान देखील सोडवा लागेल. आजच्या युगाला जरुरी आहे जय-जगतची. सर्व जगताचा जय असो!…"
('ज्ञान ते सांगतो पुन्हा', 2004/2006)
Don Barzini in 'The Godfather', 1972:
"Times have changed. It's not like the old days when we could do anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly, he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not Communists."
Trilochan Sastry, EPW, January 4 2014:
"Based on publicly available data of over 62,800 candidates, who contested national and state assembly elections from 2004 to 2013, it shows that both crime and money play an important role in winning elections."
The way nationalism works in a modern democracy...two examples...
1. A turkey tries to survive Thanksgiving Day ...
2. And gangsters go to work...
