Liberalism

Liberalism is a word so variously used and so often ruthlessly abused that it has turned amorphous as a conceptual category. Its essence,  a human being centres the phenomenal, is lost in the din of noble-sounding ideas that many people articulate and champion to further their vested interests.  Humanism was both an epistemological and political revolution. The idea can be dismissed theologically and even philosophically, but, the fact remains that the idea emerged at a historical juncture and caught the imagination of certain people. With this idea over time, human beings could claim their humanity. Those who lack civic morality and desire to lord over their fellow human beings often seek to extinguish the liberal spirit by invoking very liberalism.   

Niraj Kumar Jha 

Systemic Knowledge

Well-integrated knowledge systems must replace ideologies. People must not subject themselves to the fancies of out-of-the-world thinking mavericks. Collaborative philosophizing and research projects must go into piecemeal calibrating of the working systems. A functional system results in people living free of want, fear, and indignities. Any good system or improvisation begins showing results from day one.

 
Multiple and multifaceted claims of what constitutes good often mislead people. For that people must be aware of this, one's personal and public good are intertwined. Social good is the ecology which alone can ensure personal excellence and, on the other end, individual people's endeavour for excellence betters the ecology. By excellence, I do not mean extraordinariness. The pursuit of extraordinariness is pathological.

 

Niraj Kumar Jha

होना

जो कहता है,
वह स्वयं के होने का अहसास करता है। 
जो सुनता है,
वह दूसरों के होने का ज्ञान रखता है। 

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आदमी ही रह गया

वह आदमी, आदमी ही रह गया

पढ़-लिख लेता तो कुछ बन जाता

 

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आदतों की नैतिकता

जो सही लगे, जरूरी नहीं सही हो 

अपनी आदतों की भी नैतिकता है

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A Present History of Education

A time came when imperial orders competing with each other made imperialism global. At one point, imperialism was the world, its flora and fauna, and everyone. It was a planetary hierarchical placing of people and grabbing of resources. The system globally coopted education and made it an instrument of order rather than letting it remain a passage to the humanization of human beings. A degree was meant to be a passport to a higher sphere.  It was a process of the denial of humanity to human beings. The story ends here. Is it history? 

Niraj Kumar Jha 

बड़ी और छोटी बातें

बातें कुछ बड़ी
बातें छोटी बहुत सारी
दोनों के मुद्दे अलग
करने के तरीके अलग
दोनों में कुछ एक सा नहीं
बड़ी की अहमियत बहुत
छोटी की उतनी तो बिलकुल नहीं
मुझे एक दुःस्वप्न आता है
सभी लोग छोटी बातें कर रहे हैं
उन्हीं को अहमियत दे रहे हैं
संगोष्ठियों और सम्मेलनों में
टेलिविज़न और सोशल मीडिया पर
सभी छोटी-छोटी बातें कर रहे हैं
छोटे-छोटे अप्रासंगिक मुद्दे ही चर्चा में है
बड़े-बड़े प्रासंगिक मुद्दे गायब हो रहे हैं
मैं बहुत विचलित हो रहा हूँ
मेरी नींद खुल जाती है
राहत की साँस ले पाता हूँ

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