Saturday, September 27, 2008

What India needs...

This post is related to an email exchange with a classmate from Engineering College.
The post is here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df2d7wp6_0cz8qhngm

BTW, before anyone gets bright ideas - I have the utmost respect for all our leaders. Especially Mahatma Gandhi. I just think that the current era needs someone like Patel more than Gandhi. I am also skeptical of finding a Gandhi. If our generation creates a Gandhi, I would be surprised, but very pleasently surprised. Waise, आजकल दुनिया में आत्माओं की कमी है, महात्मा कहाँ से मिलेंगे; There is a dearth of souls in this world, from where will we find a "great" soul.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I read your email exchange with your friend from engineering college. It reminds me of what Albert Einstein said..." A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."