Educatedness

If not educated well, people listen to fears first, next to expectations, and then comes spectacle to them. They follow the herd, practice superstitions, and celebrate ignorance. They are mostly deaf to reason and oblivious to substance. Education makes folks human.

I have devised here a test to know people who are educated.

Niraj Kumar Jha 

Preserving Talent

A time and space only generate a few, rather exceptionally, naturally talented people. Any civilization can count their number in its history. The modern age provides a relatively fertile ground for talents to grow but they are still scarce. A community or nation should nurture those talents with utmost care. Poor countries either waste or lose them to the benefit of rich countries. A rich country is rich as it pools talents from all over the world. If such talented people remain unrecognised, it would be only a competitive loss to the nation, but an absolute loss to humanity.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Ease of Living

People talk about the ease of doing business but what they almost ignore talking about is the ease of living. 

Ease of doing business leads to general prosperity and the creation of employment. In fact, there is no other way to let everyone willing to work have a job. It also gives a competitive advantage to the country in the international market. In addition, the economic strength feeds the military muscle on the one hand, and surpluses nourish cultural efflorescence on the other. Certainly, people should talk about the ease of doing business more.

Though incomparable, the ease of living is rather more fundamental in nature. It is generally believed that people living through tough times are heroic ones, and they are bringers of good times. Truth is rather the opposite.

Bad times mostly lead to worse times and worse to the worst, and this is an endless spiral. If one studies history, one can see a declining phase lasts for centuries and often a rise is brought about by not the decaying stuff but by something new emerging mostly unrelated to the rot. And, it is only good that leads to better.

To live with ease is about optimising certainties and thus ensuring general stability. People certain of things spend more, donate more and care more for each other. Insecure people do just the opposite. Secure people can think clearly and find better mechanisms to meet the challenges. Such a scenario leads to peace and prosperity for optimum numbers. Even the worst off have adequate support as charities abound. The basic fact is that the ease of living is the raison d'etre of politics. Otherwise, it is chaos.

The rise of capitalism is associated with the advance from adventure to calculation in carrying out businesses. It happens when the rules of the games are fixed and uncertainties are reduced to a minimum. You can understand the importance of trains running on time.

At the mundane level of governance, it means policy stability and predictability. Frequent changes in the rules of games and rude shocks are undoings of the policy of policy-making.

Niraj Kumar Jha

गहरी बातें

कहना आया नहीं बातें बड़ी करता हूँ
हताशाएँ छिपाने बातें गहरी करता हूँ

नीरज कुमार झा

अनकहा जीवन

कहना है कुछ
कह जाता कुछ और
अपने लिए भाषा ही नहीं बनी
​भाषा उतनी ही है
जिससे चलती विचारधाराएँ 
जीवनियाँ तो लिख जाती हैं
जीवन अनकहा रह जाता है

नीरज कुमार झा

Publicising Personal

Privacy, it seems, is a dated idea. People flash their very personal indulgences and intimate moments on 'social' media.

 
As I see it, the latent story is different. They are, in fact, celebrating their newly-gotten selfhood. Barely a generation ago, selfhood was an elitist possession only.

 
They should thank economic liberalisation, post-1991, for that.

 
Niraj Kumar Jha

Guinea-pigism

Mostly, ideologies including such great philosophical works, as Plato's Republic, base themselves on the assumption that human beings are guinea pigs. Their lives and feelings are immaterial. Ideologues think without compunction that they can subject people to their fancies.

Strangely, human psychology is such that they fall for these ideologies and take it absolutely normal to be treated as guinea pigs.

 
Anything that matches the madness of ideological enterprises is the holification (sanctification) of the acts of predation.

Niraj Kumar Jha