tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13754213593842788502024-03-17T09:47:54.349+05:30मेरा पक्षनीरज कुमार झाNiraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.comBlogger696125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-35007716162048361542024-03-17T09:40:00.003+05:302024-03-17T09:40:42.610+05:30 बड़ा आदमी <span style="font-size: x-large;">बड़ा आदमी वह है जिससे मिलने पर किसी को स्वयं के बड़प्पन का अहसास हो, तुच्छता का नहीं। <br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">नीरज कुमार झा</span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-81009529309731448742024-03-17T09:21:00.009+05:302024-03-17T09:47:23.543+05:30 सामाजिकता <span style="font-size: large;">सामाजिकता का ह्रास आज की कटु सच्चाई है। सामान्य समझ यह है कि इसका कारण मोबाईल और इंटरनेट है। लोग ऐसा मानते हैं कि सामाजिकता की जगह ऑनलाइन संलिप्तता ने ले ली है। यह प्रगट कारण है लेकिन मूलभूत नहीं। यह मेरी सोच है और एक परिकल्पना है। इसपर गंभीर चिंतन और शोध की आवश्यकता है।</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />स्कैन्डिनेव़िअन देशों में सामाजिकता अत्यंत न्यून है। वहाँ व्यक्ति हेतु सुरक्षा और सुविधाएँ बहुत ही अच्छी हैं। वहाँ लोगों को एक-दूसरे की जरूरत ही नहीं है जैसा कि सार्वजनिक अभिकरण उनकी हर जरूरत को बखूबी पूरा करते हैं। इन देशों में लोग सम्पन्न हैं और उनका जीवन निरापद है। लेकिन मेरा मानना है कि सामाजिकता का अभाव इस स्थिति में भी आदर्श नहीं है। व्यक्ति एकाकीपन में जीवन की सार्थकता प्राप्त करे, अस्वाभाविक प्रतीत होता है। <br /><br />भारत के वर्तमान दौर में सामाजिकता को सघन, स्वस्थ और सुखद बनाने की आवश्यकता है। इसकी कमी के कारणों और इसमें विस्तार हेतु उपायों को लेकर व्यापक विमर्श होना चाहिए। मैं इस विषय (स्थिति, कारण, और समाधान) पर अपने विचारों को क्रमशः लिखता रहूँगा। मित्रों से आग्रह है कि इस विषय पर विचार करें और उन्हें साझा करें। <br /><br />नीरज कुमार झा</span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-5802785256677854512024-03-14T23:13:00.006+05:302024-03-15T08:06:12.991+05:30धार्मिक, रीलिजस नहीं<span style="font-size: large;">दो बड़े बौद्धिक नेता यूट्यूब पर अंग्रेजी भाषा में प्रदर्शन वार्तालाप कर रहे हैं। दोनों इस जानकारी को साझा कर रहे हैं कि एक सर्वे में भारत के अधिकतर लोगों ने बताया कि वे रीलिजस हैं। असल में, भारत के बहुसंख्यक जन धार्मिक हैं। दोनों यह समझ नहीं रख रहे हैं कि धार्मिक और रीलिजस होना सर्वथा भिन्न है। <br /><br />इस विषय पर अधिकतर लोग भ्रमित रहते हैं। इसका कारण है कि एक बात धर्म और रीलिजन में दोनों में केंद्रीय महत्व का है, वह आस्था है।हालाँकि धार्मिक होने के लिए आस्थावान होना अनिवार्य नहीं है। <br /><br />जिसको लेकर अंतर है वह मानव मस्तिष्क का एक दूसरा आयाम, विवेक, है। धर्म में विवेक और आस्था सहचर हैं और रीलिजन मे विवेक आस्था का अनुचर है। विवेक की स्थिति दोनों को विपरीत बनाता है। <br /><br />नीरज कुमार झा </span>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-19260296853549191002024-03-10T12:29:00.002+05:302024-03-10T12:29:15.990+05:30Democratisation of Knowledge<span style="font-size: large;">The availability of and access to knowledge has never been so widespread. Most of the things one needs to know are online, always ready to be accessed and even curated with the help of AI. At the same time, now again with the help of the internet and AI, one can articulate better and always be present before an audience. <br /><br />This vital aspect of existence so democratised along with others strengthens democracy in a manner, which we cannot make out right now. We may be in a transformational phase little realising it. We can see right now a definitiveness in the political cultures in the world. This may be an age of denial of old consensus or its lack wherein the fresh consensus remains elusive. The world lacks a common set of values leading to any collective idea of good. The age has yet to give birth to its philosophers. We will have to wait. <br /><br />Niraj Kumar Jha</span>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-3024831184054458352024-03-08T09:18:00.004+05:302024-03-08T10:08:02.775+05:30दार्शनिक <p><span style="font-size: large;">जन अथवा समाज मंगल गंभीर और जनहितैषी दार्शनिकों की उपस्थिति की मांग करता है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">हालाँकि दर्शन के साथ गंभीर और जनहितैषी विशेषण अनावश्यक हैं, लेकिन दर्शन के नाम से जो चलन में रहता है, उसको लेकर सचेत करने के लिए यहाँ इन विशेषणों का प्रयोग किया गया है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">गंभीर इसलिए कि एक तथाकथित दार्शनिक हवाई किले बनाने वाला हो सकता है; बिना इतिहास बोध, समाज और मानवीय प्रकृति की समझ के वह निरर्थक स्वप्नों का द्रष्टा और प्रसारक हो सकता है। ऐसे दार्शनिक बड़ी-बड़ी बातें करते हैं और समाज अपनी तमाम विसंगतियों के साथ यथास्थिति में रहता है। किसी भी साधन-संपन्न संप्रभु देश में विपन्नता की विद्यमानता इस तरह की कुबुद्धि के आधिक्य का ही प्रमाण है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">दूसरा कि अनेक आधिकारिक विद्वान द्वारा बाह्य संस्कृति से उत्पन्न विचारधाराओं को स्वयं के परिवेश में अनुकूलन की क्षमता की बिना परख किए उसके आरोपण की पैरोकारी करते हैं। यहाँ तक कि जहाँ से उनका आयात किया गया है, वहाँ भी उसे स्वीकार नहीं किया गया हो। ऐसे विद्वानों को भी दार्शनिक की श्रेणी में रखा जाता है। विदेशीकृत विद्वान अपनी गठरी में संग्रहीत सामग्रियों को लेकर उलझन का प्रदर्शन कर भी इस श्रेणी में स्थान पा लेते हैं। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">जनहितैषी इसलिए कि दर्शन संज्ञा का दुरुपयोग होता है। कोई व्यक्ति अस्तित्व के अज्ञेय पक्षों को लेकर भय और मानवीय मानसिकता में अंतर्निहित दुर्बलताओं को आधार बनाकार शब्दाडंबर अथवा भाषाई जाल के माध्यम से लोगों को भ्रमित कर सकता है। मानव इतिहास में मानव निर्मित त्रासदियों की भरमार ऐसे ही विकृत बुद्धिप्रयोगों का दुष्परिणाम रहा है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>दर्शन और विज्ञान में अंतर है। दर्शन की प्रकृति समग्रता मूलक अथवा व्यापक दृष्टि है। इस दृष्टि की व्यापकता अज्ञेय और ज्ञेय का भी मेल कराती है। इसका बिन्दु संकेन्द्रण भी व्यापक दृष्टि का ही सघन संकुचन है। </span><span>यह जीवन को अर्थयुक्त बनाती है।</span><span> </span><span>विज्ञान प्रधानतया एकलता से व्यापकता की ओर जाता है और इसकी मूल प्रकृति संकेन्द्रण की है। </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">दर्शन मानव जीवन का विज्ञान की तुलना में अधिक सशक्त मार्गदर्शक है। दर्शन विज्ञान को अधिगृहीत रखता है। विज्ञान की स्थिति दर्शन सेवी की है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>यह दर्शन ही है जो मानव को बर्बर से सभ्य बनाता है, और दर्शन के अभाव में भौतिक तथा वैज्ञानिक साधनों से युक्त होते हुए भी </span><span>समुदाय </span><span>प्रवृत्ति और आचरण से असभ्य ही बने रहते हैं। ऐसा नहीं लगता है कि मानव बिना दर्शन के हो। वास्तव में बर्बरता प्रवृत्ति होती है, जो दर्शन की जगह काम करती है। यही प्रवृत्ति दर्शन विकृति का स्रोत और दर्शन की चुनौती है। </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">भारत ने दर्शन में महती योगदान दिया है। वसुधैव कुटुंबकम, सर्वमंगल, जीवन की विविध शैलियों का अभिनंदन, शांति और सुबुद्धि हेतु सतत प्रार्थना इस दर्शन की अनन्य सीखें हैं। आज भारत अपनी मौलिक मेधा को जागृत कर पुनः इस नए युग में मानवहित के पोषण में भूमिका निभाए, यह अभीष्ट है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">नीरज कुमार झा </span></p>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-7501589219700687702024-03-03T11:36:00.012+05:302024-03-03T11:45:05.692+05:30 Business Leadership<span style="font-size: large;">A new kind of business leadership is in the offing. Generally, business leadership may mean leading a business enterprise, but what can be seen in a very embryonic stage is that businesspeople speak for the public good. In the most likelihood, they would be in the public leadership role like elites in other walks of life. This is the rise of the new India, which is moving away from the slavish mentality instilled by a very prolonged period of subjugation. During the alien regimes, the Indian society lost much of its vitality and positivity, and now India is on the path of redeeming itself. The redeeming process however needs a lot of vetting, institution building and structuration. The intellectual leadership must reinvent their role to the spirit of the new era of India being itself and in ascendance. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Niraj Kumar Jha </span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-83014832675809921322024-02-20T09:21:00.003+05:302024-02-20T09:26:44.041+05:30 Democratising Epistemology <span style="font-size: large;">Epistemology is the key. The prevailing epistemology anytime is an outcome of the play of multiple factors, ideas, and designs of organisations. It shapes people's imagination and in turn fashions people's lives. For the substantialization of democracy, the democratization of epistemology is a critical urgency. Education institutions must equip learners with the skills for identifying the sources, purposes, functioning, effects, and aftereffects of the prevailing pieces of knowledge and their working. They must be made to rise above being the passive subjects of knowledge.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Niraj Kumar Jha </span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-15613698443179851782024-02-13T08:56:00.007+05:302024-02-13T09:50:18.728+05:30Functional Universities<span style="font-size: large;">Being the most populous in the comity of nations, India needs the highest number of functional universities. Functional here means functioning to the collective good. It is about holding on to whatever sustains the good and building upon that.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />For skill-oriented education, India's top-notch institutions have done well; in particular, they have served as great preparatory schools for gaining entry into the finest Western universities. And by graduating from there, many Indians now occupy high positions in the global corporate world.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />But for pure sciences and liberal arts, Indian universities have yet to attain functionality. Globally, such national attainments are reflected in the number of Nobel awardees or by the prestige universities of a nation command across continents.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />In fact, functional universities create enabling ecology and improvise mechanisms for enterprises and agencies to make life livable and facilitate betterment.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Nations failing to ensure a dignified life for their constituents speak of their universities if they have any.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />Niraj Kumar Jha</span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-8969766731953907892024-02-11T09:11:00.000+05:302024-02-11T09:11:17.787+05:30 Arun Yogiraj<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shri Yogiraj is a blessed human being. He sculpted the Divine to life. The eyes are more alive than those of any living human being. What he did appears pure inspiration. It is ethereal; no work of art of any earthling can match in beauty or grace. </span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Arun Ji got everything by his sheer Chosen Role, which a person can aspire to get in their life. But, the grateful nation can do the least is to confer Bharat Ratna on him and offer membership in the Rajya Sabha by nomination. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Niraj Kumar Jha</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-84556133944930607612024-02-10T09:11:00.003+05:302024-02-10T09:14:27.473+05:30 Of Personas: Natural and Positioned<p><span style="font-size: large;">People commanding some socially recognised position or seeing themselves on a mission invariably have a lot of artificiality in their persona. They cannot be called abnormal, but they are not normal either. Their demeanour is overbearing, and they expect people to be submissive. A person who has normal mental makeup, is self-respecting, and does not suffer from any want, actual or notional, would feel uncomfortable by their presence around and sometimes even find them unbearable.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Why do we have positions and missions occupied by such overbearing people? The basic fact is that people err in imagining and working on their coexistence. Why does such an error prevail everywhere on the populated parts of the planet though in proportion to the state of development? This may be because of the genetic coding of human beings. We have lived for a far longer duration of our existence in jungles where bare survival was an act of extreme heroism. Extraordinariness which was once a survival need remains a human goal. People devise extraordinary positions and roles for themselves, which in turn necessitate extraordinariness in human beings to play those roles. Precarious conditions and human consciousness together disconcert human agency. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Niraj Kumar Jha </span></p>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-19999169142167078092024-02-04T13:03:00.006+05:302024-02-04T13:05:54.119+05:30Morality: Manifest and Latent<span style="font-size: large;">I get this: while the conclusion part of a write-up states the manifest morality of the author, it is the statement of fact that betrays the latent morality of the writer, which is a more authentic thing to know about. Knowing the morality of an author in the fullness of its manifest and latent forms is a crucial part of reading any text. An author might have tried for objectivity with honesty, but the relativity of morality, by and large, remains unavoidable. For instance, the colonial era colonisers' writings can be decoded thus. It may have also happened that in its manifest form, an author might have concluded otherwise what they would have put in the statement of fact, They might have found ways to speak the unspeakable. Take the same context as mentioned above, for instance, the colonial era native literary forms often take this form.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Niraj Kumar Jha</span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-72964499780966719952024-02-04T10:16:00.002+05:302024-02-04T10:16:51.702+05:30Mutuality in Order <p><span style="font-size: large;"> More mutual goodwill and respect are highly desirable. What causes the hugeness of desirability? The reason is that a person does not value themselves. Many would not accept this as a fact. They would see people highly valuing themselves, but these people value their assumed positions, real or make-believe, not their persons. Arrogance and self-respect look similar but are essentially different. A self-respecting person would be unfailingly respectful to fellow people. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This desirability does not emanate from something natural. Most of it is rooted in history where enslaver regimes through ruthless coercion denied any dignity to their subjects. Such people are now DNAed to hate each other and always love some high office to dictate their lives. Mandating collectivism has a history in the background. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Niraj Kumar Jha </span></p><p><br /></p>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-25932043219349627092024-02-04T09:47:00.004+05:302024-02-04T09:47:44.478+05:30 Freedom of Expression and Progress <p><span style="font-size: large;">Generally known and accepted fact is that the single factor most critical for progress is the freedom of expression. What gave the West an edge over the rest of the world and enabled them to colonise a large part of the globe was that they had this freedom, at least in the elite circles. They had clarity of vision and thereby winning strategy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Freedom of expression is not a commodity given or taken, held or snatched. Its abuses may erode it, and good uses may enhance it. One must choose to speak and care to speak with clarity, knowledge, logic, honesty and tact. The elements of honesty and tact may sound incongruent, but honest purposes sometimes need, on occasion, some tact to make it work. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Having a right to freedom of expression bestows on one the duty to promote this freedom. Speaking honestly, truthfully, politely and with civility helps, At the same time, one must strive to improve how they speak by enriching their knowledge and, thereby, cultivating open-mindedness. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Niraj Kumar Jha </span></p>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-49824753771735228772024-02-04T01:15:00.003+05:302024-02-04T01:21:39.751+05:30A Community University <span style="font-size: large;">I visualise a more rooted and functional alternative university system as a communitarian and cooperative one, wherein a whole township is fused into teaching, researching and learning while dwellers would carry out their usual businesses as town-dwellers do, sweeping the streets, running a shop or a factory. Roles such as ordinary citizens, administrators, learners and teachers would be flexible and changeable. A practising doctor may also teach in a classroom and undertake some research work at a lab. A businessperson would teach management, and a management professor would own some business. A sanitary worker would be taking classes on hygiene or folk music. A homemaker would be tutoring on childcare and cooking and discussing the literary merits of Kalidas or the mysteries of the universe at some public fora. Here, education would be a lived experience and nourish life instead of dictating and dominating people. Classrooms, labs, and institutional centres would be scattered over the whole geography, and things would be coordinated by those willing to do so and capable of doing so. In the traditional system of India, communities used to patronise the education of their young and even outsiders in the case of larger townships. Hermitages were small communities of teachers and learners. Till very late, many settlements within some larger townships served as such communities. Even now, if a township evolves into a community and cooperative university or a university fuses itself into a township, it would make education really democratic, and such a setup would end the self-arrogated rights of scholasticism over folks. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Niraj Kumar Jha </span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-58594081030927663072024-01-31T09:21:00.001+05:302024-01-31T09:24:07.487+05:30वशिष्ठ विश्व विद्यापीठ,अयोध्या धाम <span style="font-size: x-large;">भारतीय परंपरा के अनुसार मंदिर अध्यात्म और उपासना के स्थल होने के साथ शिक्षा और कला साधना के केंद्र हुआ करते थे। मुझे ज्ञात नहीं है लेकिन ऐसा ध्येय अयोध्या धाम पुनर्निर्माण योजना का भाग अवश्य होगा। यह अभीष्ट है कि मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम श्रीराम के गुरु वशिष्ठ के नाम से अयोध्या में एक शोध और शिक्षा केंद्र स्थित हो । अयोध्या धाम की मर्यादा और माहात्म्य के अनुरूप 'वशिष्ठ विश्व विद्यापीठ' विश्व में प्रत्येक दृष्टि से अद्वितीय हो लेकिन विशिष्टता हेतु इसका संकेन्द्रण वेद, आयुर्वेद, योग तथा अन्य अपेक्षित ज्ञान की विधाओं पर हो सकता है। इसके अंतर्गत विभिन्न पीठों के नामकरण भारत के महान आचार्यों और मनिषियों के नाम पर हो, जैसे कि आर्यभट्ट खगोल विज्ञान शोध एवं अध्ययन केंद्र। साथ ही श्रेष्ठता के लिए यह भी अपरिहार्य है कि यह पीठ पूर्णरूपेण स्वायत्त, स्वशासी और स्वपोषी हो। यह संस्थान सम्पूर्ण मानवता के लिए रामराज्य के मानक और माध्यम निर्धारित करेगा जिससे उपलब्धि संभव होगी : ''दैहिक, दैविक, भौतिक तापा, रामराज काहु नहीं व्यापा।" वास्तव में अभी भी विश्व में एक भी शिक्षा केंद्र ऐसा नहीं है जो वैश्विक स्तर पर अखंडित मानवीयता और नैतिकता के प्रति लोगों को आस्थावान बनाएँ। यह ध्येय मर्यादा के अनन्य प्रतिमान रामचरित की प्रेरणा से संभव होगा। </span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">नीरज कुमार झा </span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-8333251384191241132024-01-29T10:27:00.001+05:302024-01-29T10:27:37.189+05:30 What to Value<span style="font-size: medium;">What we value has value. See diamond: it is only aged compressed coal. We may value things without them having any intrinsic worth. There are several factors which play on our minds. For instance, people, who manage a lofty niche for themselves with their larger-than-life images getting flashed too often, attract the adoring attention of people despite their having no meaningful role in our lives. One may value, for instance, a film actress more than their mother. Unusuality is another factor; we don't value normal walking which sustains our lives but value dancing movements of legs like nothing. <br /><br />What we value becomes valuable by taking something out of us. Sometimes, we are amply compensated for valuing something like if we value education. In many cases, the diminishing of self is irreparable when we value worthless persons, occasions, and things, particularly stage-managed ones with a purpose. One needs to be discerning what they value. <br /><br />One of the paramount phenomena which deserves high value on the part of an individual is their person and persona. One must keep this in their mind. Anything that deprecates your value must be discarded if having a choice. One must value only things which enhance their value in return. There may be some exceptions to the rule; among others are our nation, parents, and teachers. We owe to them greatly for what we are. We must also value our fellow travellers. The mutuality makes us human. <br /><br />Niraj Kumar Jha </span>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-69652588718010294482024-01-28T11:44:00.003+05:302024-01-28T11:50:34.496+05:30Being a Developed Nation<span style="font-size: large;">Being a developed nation depends on the ease and cost-effectiveness of doing things within the borders. In this world, the fact of the matter is that nations compete ruthlessly with each other for the resources the planet offers, which also include other human beings. A country with its residents at their best alone is best enabled for the competition. <br /><br />The cruel reality of the world is that rich nations and people use other human beings as resources. This is the unavoidable reality. The wise thing to do for one is to use others and get used by others judiciously in a balance favouring self. The good thing is that in the modern capitalist age, one can demand and get user charges. The fairness of charges is best ensured by the capitalist system itself. A nation or person needs more of a capitalist order for fairness in everything one may legitimately desire. Other systems extract forced labour and even sacrifices of lives without any compensation. <br /><br />Being a most developed nation, the nation would facilitate its every member with the easiest way to do things worth doing and bearing the least cost for doing those worthy things. Such a nation would also be capable of getting a fair share of global resources and defending itself from rogue forces. <br /><br />Entrepreneurship is the prime of all engagements human beings undertake. Entrepreneurs serve the people and communities by offering them goods and services they need and in the process they generate surpluses which feed the agencies of order, art, sciences, and literature. Moreover, it ensures an ambience in which one can attain spiritual bliss. It is unrestricted entrepreneurship which translates into high culture. The decay and the resultant wretchedness are directly proportionate to the restrictions put on people and their enterprises.<br /><br />A poor nation is poor because of its habit of making things complicated for its constituents and imposing costs, fair and unfair, disproportionately to the value of services public agencies provide to the people. A poor nation also sees its government as an agency sui generis and fails to scrutinise and mend the mechanism based on cost-benefit analysis. <br /><br />The issue I have raised above is the most obvious thing to say but the irony is that the nation's operative epistemology and system work mostly in contradistinction. We need to decolonise our minds from pathogenic leftist ideologies. <br /><br />Niraj Kumar Jha </span>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-83874582010023758852024-01-27T00:02:00.003+05:302024-01-27T00:06:02.623+05:30 The Western Lenses and the Desi Visuals <span style="font-size: large;">The Western lenses often get distorted visions of the desi visuals. Sporting such spectacles, one sees things from the bifocal of religious and earthly. Desis have things which cannot be captured with this binary. India always had a secularised faith. Worshipping the incarnation of the omnipresent in human forms and roles is itself the secularisation of faith as Indians have always been aware of the infiniteness and incomprehensibility of the Supreme Being. Dharma implies myriad things in their desirable forms and among them one induces the public functionaries to be moralistic and just. One can be Dharmik even without being a believer.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />In the Indic traditions, we have an integrated perspective of life where reason and beliefs do not exist in separation or opposition. If we see them separated, we find them only indistinguishably blended in Dharma. If there is anything incongruent or unpleasant in prevalent ideas and practices, Dharma does not stop one from doing away with the unsavoury. The Dharma Dhwaja diffusion over the whole land and beyond augers well not only for all human beings but for all beings and things.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Niraj Kumar Jha</span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-47992890391489066172024-01-24T09:18:00.002+05:302024-01-24T09:26:17.391+05:30Good Education<span style="font-size: large;">If the education imparted is not good enough, it is not worthy of being disseminated. The bad education is counterproductive. It only produces hardened idiots and rogues. People are better left without any formal education if it is not good enough.<br /><br />Here, it should be made clear that the goodness of education is barely tied to either metropolitan locality or the grandeur of architecture. <br /><br />Let me illustrate it with the big picture of a piece of human history. <br /><br />The modernizing West, while having the best educational institutions of the times, could only perpetrate manslaughters, banditry, human trafficking, drug peddling and devastation of flora and fauna around the globe. And, finally, it fell to the all-devastating two world wars, bringing untellable miseries to itself. <br /><br />After the great war, nay, the most devilish enterprise of modern education, the two superpowers sporting the so-called most glorious institutions of learning, stunted generations of people worldwide in their Cold War campaigns. <br /><br />The core value of education is Dharma as how Goswami Tulsidas defines it: <br />'परहित सरिस धर्म नहीं भाई, परपीड़ा सम नहीं अधमाई'<br />(Doing good to others is only worth doing, nothing is unbecoming like causing pain to others)</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Kabir also brings much clarity to the objective of education : <br />पोथी पढ़ि-पढ़ि जग मुआ, पंडित भया न कोय, ढाई आखर प्रेम का, पढ़े सो पंडित होय। <br />(Despite exhausting themselves by reading books, none could become learned; those who study four letters of love become learned.)<br /><br />The fact is that true education leads one to overcome hatred and fear and equips one to engage with the realities for the betterment of one and all. There should not be confusion while it is about promoting the good, it is also about fighting the evil. <br /><br />But, knowing what is good and evil is again very tricky. And that is the challenge of education. <br /><br />Niraj Kumar Jha </span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-495652709763329072024-01-22T13:52:00.003+05:302024-01-22T13:52:27.676+05:30साधुवाद आपको <span style="font-size: x-large;">नमन <br />श्रद्धासुमन अर्पित <br />साधुवाद <br />धर्मप्राण<br />संत <br />महाकवि <br />आपको</span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <br />अपनी वाणी से <br />अपने सुकृत्यों से <br />वराहवातार की तरह <br />डूबते धर्म को उबारा <br />रामधुन ऐसी जगायी <br />हम हम ही रहे और <br />और आज यह <br />शुभ दिन आया।</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <br />पौष शुक्ल पक्ष १२, २०८०</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <br />नीरज कुमार झा</span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-53488375297403604362024-01-22T13:25:00.000+05:302024-01-22T13:25:01.466+05:30 प्रार्थना अयोध्या काया <br />मन मंदिर है <br />विराजे प्रभु राम <br />माता सीता हैं <br />हृदय बसे हनुमान <br />श्रद्धा से भीगी आँखें हैं <br />सुबुद्धि की प्रार्थना <br />हाथ हमारे जुड़े हैं<div> <br />नीरज कुमार झा</div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-69063911698144264422024-01-22T11:17:00.001+05:302024-01-22T11:19:28.180+05:30 पुनरागमन <p><span style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">पौष शुक्ल पक्ष १२, २०८० </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">अयोध्या में आज कालातीत एवं कालिक के संगम का सत्यम, शिवम, सुंदरम के मूर्त रूप में जीवंत होना </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">पौष शुक्ल पक्ष - १२, २०८० को विलक्षण दिवस बनाता है। यह सम्पूर्ण मानवता के अपूर्व मंगल का युगारंभ है। प्रभु और भारत के चिरंतन सम्राट श्रीराम के प्रति समर्पण और निष्ठा की अनुभूति आज हर भक्त की पूर्णता है। </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">यह दिवस भक्ति और धर्म, अलौकिक प्रज्ञा और लौकिक विवेक, आस्था और सौहार्द, सौन्दर्य और सुगमता, एवं ऐश्वर्य और कल्याण की एकरूपता के उत्सव तथा तदनुरूप नवजीवन के उद्गम का कालखंड है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">यह दिवस भारतीयों को भ्रम और भटकाव से दूर होने की प्रेरणा देता है। भारतीय अपने विवेक, उद्यम और शौर्य से संस्कारयुक्त संपन्नता के नए-नए कीर्तिमान रचेंगे, यही आज से भविष्य है। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">सियावर रामचन्द्र जी की जय। </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">नीरज कुमार झा </span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-64009060404601594002024-01-21T11:10:00.001+05:302024-01-21T14:26:59.659+05:30Soulfulness<p> <span style="font-size: large;">It is rare to see a person who is totally free of egoism. Those who are so are mostly indifferent. But we know and sometimes come to see people who do not impose themselves on others, create an ambience of bonhomie and walk with their companions with the spirit of collective well-being. What makes them the finest of human beings and makes them shine and light up others without being either egoist or indifferent. This is soulfulness, which survives among some despite our education and social milieu. Our education basically instils egoism in us and divides us between those who are arrogant and those who are frustrated. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Niraj Kumar Jha</span></p>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-21846455694523928052024-01-21T10:29:00.010+05:302024-01-22T14:29:59.675+05:30 Who is theorising? <span style="font-size: large;">And for that matter, who is defining? Apparently, a theory is a statement and tool of comprehension. What remains unseen, by design, is that theories are mechanisms for appropriation.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />Among nations and within people, the crafty theory providers fashion the realities of their targetted area to suit the interests of their patrons.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />A person, people, and nation, therefore, must enable themselves to theorise themselves and retain the capacity to do so. Every person may not be capable of theorising, but they must have enough education to read beyond what is writ large. <br /><br />Niraj Kumar Jha </span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375421359384278850.post-9395314540785826352024-01-21T09:53:00.005+05:302024-01-21T09:59:23.356+05:30 The Millennial Statement <span style="font-size: large;">This is the civilization's millennial statement. The civilization discards the lingering millennium and inaugurates a new one. The imposed epistemologies are finally evaporating out of the collective consciousness. The nation makes a declaration of becoming authentically itself. Over time, but steadily, it has been scraping away the vestiges of defeats and subjugation. It renews the unity and resolve of all the people and consolidates their collective determination to see their nation as the leading light for humanity.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Niraj Kumar Jha </span></div>Niraj Kumar Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394878135426982858noreply@blogger.com0