Genius Speaketh! Listen up, all ye mortals!

aug 1, 2006

reasons for the unusual silence: i have been experiencing trouble posting things on this blog, and also i got very very busy. sorry about that.

strange weather, eh? nice and cool in india, and blazingly hot in california.

aug 1, 2006

more from the inimitable and profound sir amartya sen.

my correspondent was not impressed. nor am i. amartya sen appears to be much like the 'eminent donkeys' -- prone to making up dubious theories: witness his theory of the 'kerala model'.

why so many people in india are such apologists for mohammedanism is quite mysterious. numbered swiss accounts may of course have something to do with it, as it probably did for the esteemed former foreign minister natwar singh, who was involved in the volckergate scandal.

contrary to what sen says, the iraq war, and now the lebanese invasion by israel, and possibly an attack on iran, are necessary skirmishes that keep the bloody-minded desert semitic types in the west and in the arabian desert preoccupied with each other so that civilized people elsewhere can carry on with their business.

interestingly, i am told marxists in kerala are collecting money "for the palestinian people" (although i suspect said money is likely to be utilized for the 'vijay mallya fund' -- ie. for consuming indian-made foreign liquor. yeah, it's a dirty job, but someone has to sustain the booze manufacturers of india, right?)

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All very baffling, but are lesser mortals capable of comprehending such profundities? Sen alone has risen above it all and rejected the idea that the separatist demand stems from Muslims themselves who bitterly denounce the licentious West and the ignoble Kafir. Two days ago he also spoke at Asia House of the huge contribution of Islam to the world, both Asia and the West and the spread of Buddhism in Asia too. On Hindu influences beyond India he kept mum and then went off to a gathering of the carefully screened in the execrable Asia House that seeks to equate India with Pakistan and Bangladesh and Hinduism with dirt. But of course Indians throng there to rub shoulders with every form of low life seeking to injure Hinduism. My own first and last visit!

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Britain splitting society on basis of religious identity: Sen

London, July 27. (PTI): Challenging the view that people of the world could be partitioned into little boxes in terms of civilizational categories, Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen has said Britain was splitting the society on the basis of religious identity.

"After enormous success in building an integral society, the British government is now splitting the society by dividing people on the basis of religious identity," Prof Sen said during a discussion at the Nehru Centre here last night.

"Miniaturization of human beings and putting them into one identity will not work," he asserted.

Speaking on 'Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny,' Sen also observed that invasion of Iraq itself was a "grave mistake."

In this sweeping philosophical work, Sen proposed that the brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred.

Challenging the reductionist view that people of the world could be partitioned into little boxes in terms of civilizational categories, he drew on history, economics, science, literature and his own memories of difficult as well as easy times on three continents to present an inspiring vision of a world that could be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward violence and war.