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rambabu liked the topic Veteran Actor Manorama dies at 78.
Legendary Actress Manorama Passed away on 10th October 2015 and almost the whole industry was shocked . She was kindly called as ” Aachi ” by her fans and the whole tamil industry ! She has acted in more than 1000 films and 1000 stage dramas and also in some TV serials. She is also found be one of the greatest female Comedian !
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Veteran Actor Manorama dies at 78.
Thank you Swetha for this posting. It may be that many from North India may not be knowing about this legendary character Manorama. But in South India Manorama is a household name. She has mastered the art of acting in all genres of Film craft. True she is one of the best comedienne for which she won a great recognition by the Guinness Book of Records.
May her soul rest in peace
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
Swetha Shenoy wrote:
rambabu wrote:
By being honest, one is boundto earn more foes than friends. It's not all, you will be subjected to ridicule. Times are changing. Along with the times the moral values also bound to change. It's here you are bound to exercise discrimination. It's an exercise in futility to stick to worn out sayings and beliefs and repent all along the life.
Dear Ram babu gaaru,
I second your opinion about earning foes than friends. In a way when we reply to our dear one's comments on social media, we are greeted with ridicule rather than appreciation (as already mentioned by you). I think people like to listen or read sugar coated things that falsify facts and satisfy their hearts....
There used to be the good old days of learning, where honesty was considered the top value and liers were caught....
First of all let me express my joy on seeing you here after a long time. Coming to the thread, I fully agree with you that sugar coated and sycophantic talk and oily talks rather than the truth. That's why they say Truth is too bitter to assimilate.
10 years ago
Swetha Shenoy created new topic Veteran Actor Manorama dies at 78.
Legendary Actress Manorama Passed away on 10th October 2015 and almost the whole industry was shocked . She was kindly called as ” Aachi ” by her fans and the whole tamil industry ! She has acted in more than 1000 films and 1000 stage dramas and also in some TV serials. She is also found be one of the greatest female Comedian !
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Politicizing the issues is a tool used by Unscrupulous Politicians. And another favorite tool for these opportunists is adding communal color for their existence and survival. The issue under our discussion is nothing but a political drama only to defame the ruling party. In this connection it is worth hearing the reply of Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement. Here is the link.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/dont-give-political-colour-to-dadri-lynching-incident-rajnath-singh/
10 years ago
Swetha Shenoy replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
rambabu wrote:
By being honest, one is boundto earn more foes than friends. It's not all, you will be subjected to ridicule. Times are changing. Along with the times the moral values also bound to change. It's here you are bound to exercise discrimination. It's an exercise in futility to stick to worn out sayings and beliefs and repent all along the life.
Dear Ram babu gaaru,
I second your opinion about earning foes than friends. In a way when we reply to our dear one's comments on social media, we are greeted with ridicule rather than appreciation (as already mentioned by you). I think people like to listen or read sugar coated things that falsify facts and satisfy their hearts....
There used to be the good old days of learning, where honesty was considered the top value and liers were caught....
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic 4th death anniversary of Jagjit Singh.
He has a silky satin voice, It has a smoothing effect on the listener.. Actually he reminds me of that yesteryear great singer Talat Mehmood. Unlike Jagjit Talat mastered all the genres of light Music. I like Jagjit's " Patta Patta Boota Bota very much
10 years ago
Swetha Shenoy replied to the topic 4th death anniversary of Jagjit Singh.
Ironically, it was the Birthday of the legend, Rekha Ganeshan. I remember her well with Asha Bhosle's songs. We miss the soulful rendering of Jagit Singh, May his soul Rest in Peace!
10 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic 4th death anniversary of Jagjit Singh.
I love ghazals rather it would be appropriate to say that I love ghazals by Jagjit Singh. His rendition is mesmerising. I cannot point out any one of his gazhals to be bad. They are all so good. I pay my tribute to him wholeheartedly.
10 years ago
Sandhya Rani liked an answer to the question The Best Real-Life Love Story Ever Made On Silver Screen.
10 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
@Kalyani Nandurkar See, I am not at all supporting the writers if they have done it with an agenda of demeaning someone or a particular party. I just gave a benefit of doubt and that's it. The logic you gave as well as @usha manohar wrote in her last reply related to Kashmiri Pundits are all very true. I have nothing to object to all these valid points and the writers who have renounced the awards to show their resentment against intolerance is acceptable to me but if they did it to give a political colour to such incidents then it is very much unacceptable.
10 years ago
usha manohar said thank you to Kalyani Nandurkar for his/her reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Shampa Sadhya wrote:
Renouncing an award is a very old practice. As we all know that Tagore did it by returning his Knighthood after Jaliwanwalla Bagh massacre. He was right in doing so. At present the writers have all the right to show their protest in their own way but it should be backed by a strong moral ground. The same writer must act in the same way when a similar situation arises again irrespective of any political bias. If this time the writers renounced the awards only to show support to a certain political party and to demean another then their act lose its sheen but countering a writer by posing a question that why she didn't do it during the Anti-Sikh riot then my simple opinion is maybe she failed to react at that moment but that does not signify her support for the riot. This writer spoke against Emergency so I would like to think that the writer has no hidden agenda. Expression of reaction may vary due to age and many other conditions.
According to your point of view, if she failed to show reaction during the antisikh riots, she failed again and again many times. She failed again when she did react during the 1993 Mumbai riots followed by several blasts time and again which killed people of all caste and creed, she failed again when Hindus were burnt in the Godhra train and Muslims were killed later on in the following riots. There are just too many incidents that can be cited here. But leaving the political turmoil aside, she again failed miserably when Tasleema Tasrin appealed to the WB government seeking asylum but Mamta Banerjee refused to grant her asylum because she is a Bengali Muslim and welcoming her in WB would have affected Mamata's Bengali Muslim votebank. Now Tasleema Nasreen is one TRUE rationalist and a sensitive writer who should have been welcomed with open arms. If she was refused by the government, why didn't Nasrin's counterparts in India, including Nayantara speak out? It is this selective outrage and sensitivity that these writers bloc keep showing, is what is most disgusting./ Only when a Muslim is killed or a Mosque is targetted, these so-called rationalists speak up. I did not hear a single squeak out of these pseudo intellectuals when just very recently, during a large Muslim rally in Mumbai, several lady police constables were cornered and seriously molested and harassed. The ladies were only doing their duty and the large crowd of Muslims behaved horribly with these women such that they are now scarred for life. Not even a squeak from Nayantara, Ganesh Devi and others on that incident. So what freedom of speech or other rights THEY have any rights to talk about?
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Shampa Sadhya wrote:
Renouncing an award is a very old practice. As we all know that Tagore did it by returning his Knighthood after Jaliwanwalla Bagh massacre. He was right in doing so. At present the writers have all the right to show their protest in their own way but it should be backed by a strong moral ground. The same writer must act in the same way when a similar situation arises again irrespective of any political bias. If this time the writers renounced the awards only to show support to a certain political party and to demean another then their act lose its sheen but countering a writer by posing a question that why she didn't do it during the Anti-Sikh riot then my simple opinion is maybe she failed to react at that moment but that does not signify her support for the riot. This writer spoke against Emergency so I would like to think that the writer has no hidden agenda. Expression of reaction may vary due to age and many other conditions.
According to your point of view, if she failed to show reaction during the antisikh riots, she failed again and again many times. She failed again when she did react during the 1993 Mumbai riots followed by several blasts time and again which killed people of all caste and creed, she failed again when Hindus were burnt in the Godhra train and Muslims were killed later on in the following riots. There are just too many incidents that can be cited here. But leaving the political turmoil aside, she again failed miserably when Tasleema Tasrin appealed to the WB government seeking asylum but Mamta Banerjee refused to grant her asylum because she is a Bengali Muslim and welcoming her in WB would have affected Mamata's Bengali Muslim votebank. Now Tasleema Nasreen is one TRUE rationalist and a sensitive writer who should have been welcomed with open arms. If she was refused by the government, why didn't Nasrin's counterparts in India, including Nayantara speak out? It is this selective outrage and sensitivity that these writers bloc keep showing, is what is most disgusting./ Only when a Muslim is killed or a Mosque is targetted, these so-called rationalists speak up. I did not hear a single squeak out of these pseudo intellectuals when just very recently, during a large Muslim rally in Mumbai, several lady police constables were cornered and seriously molested and harassed. The ladies were only doing their duty and the large crowd of Muslims behaved horribly with these women such that they are now scarred for life. Not even a squeak from Nayantara, Ganesh Devi and others on that incident. So what freedom of speech or other rights THEY have any rights to talk about?
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
I doubt if the writers see it that way, they take this step of returning their awards because a certain party is in power...Their grouse is nit against the state government which failed to protect them, but against the central government ! So it is they who are politicising the issue by showing selective outrage !
The state governments are responsible for law and order. To that extent, The U.P. government managed by Samajvadi Party is responsible. But the fact remains that the culprits behind the outrage are none but the saffron block. The promient figures belonging to main ruling party at cente are obstructing arrestof the culprits who are definitely associated with the saffron organization. We cannot equate the watchman with thief. That is to say that the negligence of state government cannot be equated with criminal activities of the saffron organizations whose pivot is RSS- the rallying point as well as real ruling organization at center.
Between the year 1985-1995 more than 600 Kashmir Pandits were butchered by the militant groups in Kashmir and there was a mass exodus of Pandits from Srinagar ...so it was the centers fault then too according to your argument and I don't remember the writers especially Nayan Tara who is also a Kashmiri getting panic stricken nor feeling a twinge of conscience, deciding to return her award. Let us not simply make excuses, everybody knows who is behind this step ...it is the party that calls itself secular but in actuality is the most communal of all parties in this country ..At least the so called Saffron brigade has the guts to show itself in true colors and if they are behind the attack since the opposition wants it to be that way , they will be caught and punished !
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar liked a reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
First of all the government at the center has not sanctioned any of the killings , either of the rationalist writers nor the lynching in UP and all of it should be condemned in the strongest of words and culprits punished suitably ..If at all the UP government should take responsibility for the later attack and the Karnataka government for the attack on Kalburgi. There were always attacks in India , in fact even worse atrocities committed on tribals and Dalits and rational voices were curbed in West Bengal not once but many times , but no one seemed to really care nor did they think of returning their awards.. The largest communal violence took place in 1984 where nearly 3000 sikhs were brutally massacred and of course other than lip sympathy no one really did anything nor did the rationalists go on a protest when the people directly responsible for the violence have been roaming free with the help of the concerned party leaders...The sikh riots are still an issue with sikhs who have lost their families and loved ones if people think it is a one time agenda they should think of the distress that this one time agenda has caused for generation of sikh families .
I see intolerance in these rationalists who do not want to be a part of the mainstream.No one is taking away their right of expression but when you live in a society you have to blend in and any thought you express should not hurt the sentiments of people...I have had the experience of interacting with some of the rational writers who were the office bearer for writers group here and one can see the intolerance at every level , they tend to think they are superior beings , which is more than anything amusing .This is also communalism and many common people find it very insulting. If at all clashes take place, it is because of such attitude more than anything else, and, if they want to truly bring in changes they need to convince rather than confront and insult peoples beliefs . But I seriously doubt if they have any such agenda, it is protest for the sake of protest , indirectly showing their support to a political party ..
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
By being honest, one is boundto earn more foes than friends. It's not all, you will be subjected to ridicule. Times are changing. Along with the times the moral values also bound to change. It's here you are bound to exercise discrimination. It's an exercise in futility to stick to worn out sayings and beliefs and repent all along the life.
10 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Your reputation depends on what kind of people you are working with..
I was reading an interview with an upcoming actress and according to her, instead of acting as a leading lady in a small budget film, if she got a small role in a big budget film she would still take it because she would automatically be recognised as an A grade actress! This is how our society functions now...To a certain extent , may be to start with you may be recognised by the company you keep, but after that it depends entirely on you as to what your reputation would be depending on your work and contribution ..
10 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
Lopamudra wrote:
Unfortunate instances mentioned in the article and posts . Corruption does seem to be a way of life for many.But that can not mean honesty is obsolete or passe. It is one's personal choice and preference. For me, it is better to be side stepped or transferred because of my honesty than reach great heights through dishonesty . I can face the world if I've been wronged but I'll not be able to answer to myself if I have done wrong. Depends on priority. Moreover, I would still like to believe that honesty does pay in most cases if coupled with hard work and being street-smart/worldly wise. An honest person can be worldly wise as well.
I have grown cynical over the years but I tend to agree with you...Personally I would rather be honest and face the consequences rather than be dishonest and feel guilty all my life.I have had to face several blockades due to this stand but at least I can look back without any remorse.
10 years ago
rambabu liked the topic Veteran Actor Manorama dies at 78.
Legendary Actress Manorama Passed away on 10th October 2015 and almost the whole industry was shocked . She was kindly called as ” Aachi ” by her fans and the whole tamil industry ! She has acted in more than 1000 films and 1000 stage dramas and also in some TV serials. She is also found be one of the greatest female Comedian !
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Veteran Actor Manorama dies at 78.
Thank you Swetha for this posting. It may be that many from North India may not be knowing about this legendary character Manorama. But in South India Manorama is a household name. She has mastered the art of acting in all genres of Film craft. True she is one of the best comedienne for which she won a great recognition by the Guinness Book of Records.
May her soul rest in peace
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
Swetha Shenoy wrote:
rambabu wrote:
By being honest, one is boundto earn more foes than friends. It's not all, you will be subjected to ridicule. Times are changing. Along with the times the moral values also bound to change. It's here you are bound to exercise discrimination. It's an exercise in futility to stick to worn out sayings and beliefs and repent all along the life.
Dear Ram babu gaaru,
I second your opinion about earning foes than friends. In a way when we reply to our dear one's comments on social media, we are greeted with ridicule rather than appreciation (as already mentioned by you). I think people like to listen or read sugar coated things that falsify facts and satisfy their hearts....
There used to be the good old days of learning, where honesty was considered the top value and liers were caught....
First of all let me express my joy on seeing you here after a long time. Coming to the thread, I fully agree with you that sugar coated and sycophantic talk and oily talks rather than the truth. That's why they say Truth is too bitter to assimilate.
10 years ago
Swetha Shenoy created new topic Veteran Actor Manorama dies at 78.
Legendary Actress Manorama Passed away on 10th October 2015 and almost the whole industry was shocked . She was kindly called as ” Aachi ” by her fans and the whole tamil industry ! She has acted in more than 1000 films and 1000 stage dramas and also in some TV serials. She is also found be one of the greatest female Comedian !
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Politicizing the issues is a tool used by Unscrupulous Politicians. And another favorite tool for these opportunists is adding communal color for their existence and survival. The issue under our discussion is nothing but a political drama only to defame the ruling party. In this connection it is worth hearing the reply of Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement. Here is the link.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/dont-give-political-colour-to-dadri-lynching-incident-rajnath-singh/
10 years ago
Swetha Shenoy replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
rambabu wrote:
By being honest, one is boundto earn more foes than friends. It's not all, you will be subjected to ridicule. Times are changing. Along with the times the moral values also bound to change. It's here you are bound to exercise discrimination. It's an exercise in futility to stick to worn out sayings and beliefs and repent all along the life.
Dear Ram babu gaaru,
I second your opinion about earning foes than friends. In a way when we reply to our dear one's comments on social media, we are greeted with ridicule rather than appreciation (as already mentioned by you). I think people like to listen or read sugar coated things that falsify facts and satisfy their hearts....
There used to be the good old days of learning, where honesty was considered the top value and liers were caught....
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic 4th death anniversary of Jagjit Singh.
He has a silky satin voice, It has a smoothing effect on the listener.. Actually he reminds me of that yesteryear great singer Talat Mehmood. Unlike Jagjit Talat mastered all the genres of light Music. I like Jagjit's " Patta Patta Boota Bota very much
10 years ago
Swetha Shenoy replied to the topic 4th death anniversary of Jagjit Singh.
Ironically, it was the Birthday of the legend, Rekha Ganeshan. I remember her well with Asha Bhosle's songs. We miss the soulful rendering of Jagit Singh, May his soul Rest in Peace!
10 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic 4th death anniversary of Jagjit Singh.
I love ghazals rather it would be appropriate to say that I love ghazals by Jagjit Singh. His rendition is mesmerising. I cannot point out any one of his gazhals to be bad. They are all so good. I pay my tribute to him wholeheartedly.
10 years ago
Sandhya Rani liked an answer to the question The Best Real-Life Love Story Ever Made On Silver Screen.
10 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
@Kalyani Nandurkar See, I am not at all supporting the writers if they have done it with an agenda of demeaning someone or a particular party. I just gave a benefit of doubt and that's it. The logic you gave as well as @usha manohar wrote in her last reply related to Kashmiri Pundits are all very true. I have nothing to object to all these valid points and the writers who have renounced the awards to show their resentment against intolerance is acceptable to me but if they did it to give a political colour to such incidents then it is very much unacceptable.
10 years ago
usha manohar said thank you to Kalyani Nandurkar for his/her reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Shampa Sadhya wrote:
Renouncing an award is a very old practice. As we all know that Tagore did it by returning his Knighthood after Jaliwanwalla Bagh massacre. He was right in doing so. At present the writers have all the right to show their protest in their own way but it should be backed by a strong moral ground. The same writer must act in the same way when a similar situation arises again irrespective of any political bias. If this time the writers renounced the awards only to show support to a certain political party and to demean another then their act lose its sheen but countering a writer by posing a question that why she didn't do it during the Anti-Sikh riot then my simple opinion is maybe she failed to react at that moment but that does not signify her support for the riot. This writer spoke against Emergency so I would like to think that the writer has no hidden agenda. Expression of reaction may vary due to age and many other conditions.
According to your point of view, if she failed to show reaction during the antisikh riots, she failed again and again many times. She failed again when she did react during the 1993 Mumbai riots followed by several blasts time and again which killed people of all caste and creed, she failed again when Hindus were burnt in the Godhra train and Muslims were killed later on in the following riots. There are just too many incidents that can be cited here. But leaving the political turmoil aside, she again failed miserably when Tasleema Tasrin appealed to the WB government seeking asylum but Mamta Banerjee refused to grant her asylum because she is a Bengali Muslim and welcoming her in WB would have affected Mamata's Bengali Muslim votebank. Now Tasleema Nasreen is one TRUE rationalist and a sensitive writer who should have been welcomed with open arms. If she was refused by the government, why didn't Nasrin's counterparts in India, including Nayantara speak out? It is this selective outrage and sensitivity that these writers bloc keep showing, is what is most disgusting./ Only when a Muslim is killed or a Mosque is targetted, these so-called rationalists speak up. I did not hear a single squeak out of these pseudo intellectuals when just very recently, during a large Muslim rally in Mumbai, several lady police constables were cornered and seriously molested and harassed. The ladies were only doing their duty and the large crowd of Muslims behaved horribly with these women such that they are now scarred for life. Not even a squeak from Nayantara, Ganesh Devi and others on that incident. So what freedom of speech or other rights THEY have any rights to talk about?
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Shampa Sadhya wrote:
Renouncing an award is a very old practice. As we all know that Tagore did it by returning his Knighthood after Jaliwanwalla Bagh massacre. He was right in doing so. At present the writers have all the right to show their protest in their own way but it should be backed by a strong moral ground. The same writer must act in the same way when a similar situation arises again irrespective of any political bias. If this time the writers renounced the awards only to show support to a certain political party and to demean another then their act lose its sheen but countering a writer by posing a question that why she didn't do it during the Anti-Sikh riot then my simple opinion is maybe she failed to react at that moment but that does not signify her support for the riot. This writer spoke against Emergency so I would like to think that the writer has no hidden agenda. Expression of reaction may vary due to age and many other conditions.
According to your point of view, if she failed to show reaction during the antisikh riots, she failed again and again many times. She failed again when she did react during the 1993 Mumbai riots followed by several blasts time and again which killed people of all caste and creed, she failed again when Hindus were burnt in the Godhra train and Muslims were killed later on in the following riots. There are just too many incidents that can be cited here. But leaving the political turmoil aside, she again failed miserably when Tasleema Tasrin appealed to the WB government seeking asylum but Mamta Banerjee refused to grant her asylum because she is a Bengali Muslim and welcoming her in WB would have affected Mamata's Bengali Muslim votebank. Now Tasleema Nasreen is one TRUE rationalist and a sensitive writer who should have been welcomed with open arms. If she was refused by the government, why didn't Nasrin's counterparts in India, including Nayantara speak out? It is this selective outrage and sensitivity that these writers bloc keep showing, is what is most disgusting./ Only when a Muslim is killed or a Mosque is targetted, these so-called rationalists speak up. I did not hear a single squeak out of these pseudo intellectuals when just very recently, during a large Muslim rally in Mumbai, several lady police constables were cornered and seriously molested and harassed. The ladies were only doing their duty and the large crowd of Muslims behaved horribly with these women such that they are now scarred for life. Not even a squeak from Nayantara, Ganesh Devi and others on that incident. So what freedom of speech or other rights THEY have any rights to talk about?
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
I doubt if the writers see it that way, they take this step of returning their awards because a certain party is in power...Their grouse is nit against the state government which failed to protect them, but against the central government ! So it is they who are politicising the issue by showing selective outrage !
The state governments are responsible for law and order. To that extent, The U.P. government managed by Samajvadi Party is responsible. But the fact remains that the culprits behind the outrage are none but the saffron block. The promient figures belonging to main ruling party at cente are obstructing arrestof the culprits who are definitely associated with the saffron organization. We cannot equate the watchman with thief. That is to say that the negligence of state government cannot be equated with criminal activities of the saffron organizations whose pivot is RSS- the rallying point as well as real ruling organization at center.
Between the year 1985-1995 more than 600 Kashmir Pandits were butchered by the militant groups in Kashmir and there was a mass exodus of Pandits from Srinagar ...so it was the centers fault then too according to your argument and I don't remember the writers especially Nayan Tara who is also a Kashmiri getting panic stricken nor feeling a twinge of conscience, deciding to return her award. Let us not simply make excuses, everybody knows who is behind this step ...it is the party that calls itself secular but in actuality is the most communal of all parties in this country ..At least the so called Saffron brigade has the guts to show itself in true colors and if they are behind the attack since the opposition wants it to be that way , they will be caught and punished !
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar liked a reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Writers returning their awards - what do they hope to achieve?.
First of all the government at the center has not sanctioned any of the killings , either of the rationalist writers nor the lynching in UP and all of it should be condemned in the strongest of words and culprits punished suitably ..If at all the UP government should take responsibility for the later attack and the Karnataka government for the attack on Kalburgi. There were always attacks in India , in fact even worse atrocities committed on tribals and Dalits and rational voices were curbed in West Bengal not once but many times , but no one seemed to really care nor did they think of returning their awards.. The largest communal violence took place in 1984 where nearly 3000 sikhs were brutally massacred and of course other than lip sympathy no one really did anything nor did the rationalists go on a protest when the people directly responsible for the violence have been roaming free with the help of the concerned party leaders...The sikh riots are still an issue with sikhs who have lost their families and loved ones if people think it is a one time agenda they should think of the distress that this one time agenda has caused for generation of sikh families .
I see intolerance in these rationalists who do not want to be a part of the mainstream.No one is taking away their right of expression but when you live in a society you have to blend in and any thought you express should not hurt the sentiments of people...I have had the experience of interacting with some of the rational writers who were the office bearer for writers group here and one can see the intolerance at every level , they tend to think they are superior beings , which is more than anything amusing .This is also communalism and many common people find it very insulting. If at all clashes take place, it is because of such attitude more than anything else, and, if they want to truly bring in changes they need to convince rather than confront and insult peoples beliefs . But I seriously doubt if they have any such agenda, it is protest for the sake of protest , indirectly showing their support to a political party ..
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
By being honest, one is boundto earn more foes than friends. It's not all, you will be subjected to ridicule. Times are changing. Along with the times the moral values also bound to change. It's here you are bound to exercise discrimination. It's an exercise in futility to stick to worn out sayings and beliefs and repent all along the life.
10 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Your reputation depends on what kind of people you are working with..
I was reading an interview with an upcoming actress and according to her, instead of acting as a leading lady in a small budget film, if she got a small role in a big budget film she would still take it because she would automatically be recognised as an A grade actress! This is how our society functions now...To a certain extent , may be to start with you may be recognised by the company you keep, but after that it depends entirely on you as to what your reputation would be depending on your work and contribution ..
10 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Honesty is not the Best policy ?.
Lopamudra wrote:
Unfortunate instances mentioned in the article and posts . Corruption does seem to be a way of life for many.But that can not mean honesty is obsolete or passe. It is one's personal choice and preference. For me, it is better to be side stepped or transferred because of my honesty than reach great heights through dishonesty . I can face the world if I've been wronged but I'll not be able to answer to myself if I have done wrong. Depends on priority. Moreover, I would still like to believe that honesty does pay in most cases if coupled with hard work and being street-smart/worldly wise. An honest person can be worldly wise as well.
I have grown cynical over the years but I tend to agree with you...Personally I would rather be honest and face the consequences rather than be dishonest and feel guilty all my life.I have had to face several blockades due to this stand but at least I can look back without any remorse.
10 years ago