Like other times but very unlike other times in terms of immensality of impactfulness, these times offer or suffer from conditions of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats; the irony is that people view these selectively, mostly the negatives and hardly the positives, depending on their identity and position. Besides, many trending matters defy these categorisations. In this age, the mass media is genuinely mass and democratic through people's massive participation in discourses on social media, and this media brings forth all the injustices of earlier times and continuing oddities to the fore. This includes many fundamentals and fundamentalisms coming under scrutiny and questioning. The old commanding heights and hierarchies of intellectualism are completely broken. Nobody now trusts those ivory towers, and that is for solid reasons. At the same time, a comprehensive and constructive vision considering every dimension of time is nowhere to be seen, and, more worryingly, nobody seems to care.
Let us pray:
oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
tat savitur vareṇyaṃ
bhargo devasya dhīmahi
dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt
– Ṛgveda 03.062.10
"We meditate on the adorable glory of the radiant sun; may She inspire our intelligence." (S. Radhakrishnan)
Let us get inspired to infuse some wisdom into the times.
Niraj Kumar Jha
कोई टिप्पणी नहीं:
एक टिप्पणी भेजें