A century ago, T S Eliot wrote about the hollowness of his countrymen in a poem titled The Hollow Men . The World War I had led to a lot of disillusionment with the collapse of powerful empires and the savagery of the war itself which unleashed barbaric slaughter. The generation that survived was known as the “Lost Generation.” Before the war, Western civilisation was sustained by certain values and principles given by religion, the Enlightenment, and Victorian morality. The war showed that science and technology, which could improve life, had actually produced machine guns, gas warfare, and mass death. Religion became hollow. People became hollow. “We are the hollow men,” Eliot’s poem began. The civilisation looked sophisticated from outside, but it was empty inside. There is a lot of religion today in the world. My country has allegedly become so religious that it decides what you will eat, wear, which god you will pray to, and even the language for communication. The ultimat...
[ Laughs ] That is an interesting way of looking at it!
ReplyDeleteThe post was an interior monologue, Renard. I put it up here on an impulse.
Delete:) Cool.....still laughing...
ReplyDeleteGlad I could make you laugh, Prasad. But our pollsters must be making you laugh more.
Delete:D
ReplyDeleteGlad for you, Anil.
DeleteMake it look like promising the paradise.....amazing way of looking at it. Statistics,media and politics go hand in hand. What is revealed to us is the adulterated version of the actual statistics and then we have to put up with debates about those statistics and then also how great a leader Mr. Rahul Gandhi is.
ReplyDeleteMost statistics are manipulated in one way or another, it seems, Athena. Each pollster must be supporting one party or another, and make convenient predictions.
Delete:-D :-D..
ReplyDeleteHappy to have entertained you, Maniparna. In fact, much of Indian politics is a good entertainer.
DeleteNow that's an interesting way to look at it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I second your perception. :)
We can console ourselves when we learn to see the funny side, isn't it, Nikhil?
DeleteTrue that Sir!
DeleteThat's the best we can do at times.
Good to know you have a raunchy side as well! :)
ReplyDelete... kept under control, Sid. :)
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ReplyDeleteThat's interesting and funny...And yes as you mentioned...Indian Politics is quite an entertainer...
ReplyDeleteAren't we lucky to have such free entertainment? :)
Deleteha ha :-))
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing my joy.
DeleteI love the Naya Chanakya's take - promising paradise :D
ReplyDelete... false paradises, Sangeeta.
DeleteWell the way we use statistics is like a drunken man using a lamp post, for support rather than illumination. With so many opinion polls sprouting up, with unknown backers, I guess it is a case of politicians using these statistics for support. Hence the wild variation.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Sabyasachi
Loved your comparison to the lamp post and drunkard.
DeleteBrilliant Naya Chanakya..hehe
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bushra
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