विचार और वार्तालाप

व्यक्तियों द्वारा अच्छे विचारों का प्रेषण समाजहित के लिए आवश्यक है। सुधीजन इसे समझते हैं और ऐसा करते भी हैं, लेकिन विचारों से भी अधिक महत्वपूर्ण है उन्हें लेकर किया जाने वाला रचनात्मक वार्तालाप। वार्तालाप ही विचारों के सम्प्रेषण का प्रभावी माध्यम है, पर यह दुष्कर भी है। अधिकतर लोग निश्चित विचारों का उपयोग अपने जीवन की परिस्थितियों से समझौते, अवसरों को भुनाने, महत्वाकांक्षाओं के पोषण या अहं की पुष्टि के लिए करते हैं। ऐसे विचारों पर विश्लेषण या टीका-टिप्पणी उन्हें स्वीकार नहीं होती।

नीरज कुमार झा

उक्ति और युक्ति

सद्जीवन को सुनिश्चित करने के लिए संरचनात्मक निर्माण और पारिस्थितिक अनुकूलन की आवश्यकता होती है। युक्तियों के बिना सूक्तियाँ चरितार्थ नहीं होतीं। भावनाएँ विज्ञान और तकनीकी के माध्यम से ही साकार हो सकती हैं।

नीरज कुमार झा

Heavenism

Some promise 

Heaven after

Some here

Both ask for 

From humans

Their humanity

Niraj Kumar Jha

On Freedom and its Absence

What it means to be slavish, and what it means to be free, are not questions that ordinarily arise—unless they are raised with the intent of mobilisation. Over time, such conditions become normalised, slipping below the threshold of awareness.

At the macro level, historically speaking, it took Indians a couple of generations to even recognise that they were not free—that they lived under slavish conditions. At the micro level, it is even more difficult to perceive such a state. How does one know whether they are truly free? This is a question that demands a long discourse, but I shall attempt to touch upon it briefly.

Freedom rests on shared understandings that leave everyone unobstructed in leading a life of dignity, where the sanctity of one’s person, family, home, and privacy is habitually respected. Even in public spaces, one does not feel anything other than an equal, nor that others are elevated at the cost of one’s own degradation. Freedom means living without fear of being wronged, provided one has not wronged others.

It is the optimisation of security and certainty in life—the right to act and speak as one chooses, without being subject to the whims, fancies, or interests of others against one’s will. All of this culminates in a life free from want and unwarranted interference. Such is the state of freedom.

Slavishness means living with the constant fear of being wronged, even when one has done no wrong. It is the erosion of security and certainty in life, where one’s actions and words are curtailed, or forced to serve the whims, fancies, or interests of others against one’s will. Such a state results in lives marked by want, anxiety, and constant, unwelcome interference. This is the condition of being unfree.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Capital

Capital is not like a mineral deposit; it is a construct of the mind and a devised mechanism. The state of being developed is this understanding and such a drive.

Niraj Kumar Jha  

Postcolonialism Unfolding

The school of postcolonialism sought to expose both the soft and hard infrastructures of imperialist designs that operated at the expense of the decolonised. However, their abstruse works failed to gain traction even in academic circles, let alone among the broader literati. People often speak of the lingering, debilitating effects of colonialism on their faculties and agency, but they have struggled to arrive at a workable idea to overcome the problem. More often than not, they ended up reinforcing precisely what they sought to eliminate, simply because they did not know how to dismantle it. Yet, of late, new technologies and new-age entrepreneurs are achieving exactly that—without any such explicit intention.

Niraj Kumar Jha 

OM

Nations must reunite—for justice, for order, for peace and harmony in the world. An Order Movement (OM) is the urgent necessity of our time. The prevailing chaos exacts a brutal cost—in lives lost and in the depth of human suffering.

Niraj Kumar Jha