The first Irony of the political freedom is the very logic of democracy which just seeks a 50% + 1 as the mandatory majority for any democratic resolution to get through. Even though this tyranny of majority on the free will of the minority defies all logic of individual liberty and freedom, it is still hailed as one of the most fair and just political systems which at any time represents will of the majority of its citizens. For instance we may have voted against the present regime of government, but we still honor outcome of a democratic contest and accept its decision as our own. In American context Barak Obama is president of each and every American irrespective of whom they voted in the election. The moment we accept this as a fact and with our free will decides to follow and exercise democracy, we cannot exonerate ourselves thereafter from consequence of any decision our representatives take on our behalf. Continue reading

To out the subject in perspective, human beings have tangible needs but intangible desires. There may be a society which has all the resources in plenty, but there will be still discontent within the society. Many of the readers would be prompted to attribute all the evils and problems that we face to these desires. There is nothing wrong for it is what most of us have been conditioned to think from our very childhood. Truth is we are very instinctively like that, nature has designed us thus to struggle and thrive and leave no stone unturned to get better off than our peers. In the process improve upon our self, each generation as a great iteration filtering out the undeserving and promoting the deserving to inherit the earth. Continue reading

Is it that any action done for the others good is necessarily selfless? More so, is every action done in interest of self, selfish? Our understanding of terms selfishness and altruism are often derived from the general social view that we are carrying about them. Further linguistic limitations make us misinterpret concepts and therefore the completely related idea. What does each word stand for in our mind, and how our idea about a word manipulates our idea and understanding of a concept using that word, is a subject of study itself. My endeavor here is not to point out the linguistic limitations but to put in perspective few terms that are widely used and misinterpreted. Firstly ‘selfishness’, a classical vice which was given a whole new perspective by Author and Philosopher Ayn Rand, and secondly ‘altruism’ the classical virtue which modern philosophies went about challenging to its very existence. Continue reading

We the educated elites of India, no not those who can read and write, not even those who have a degree to flaunt and qualifications that can fetch them good salaries in a job market. It is a severe misnomer that most carry about the term education, it being some structured syllabus taught only in schools. In Indian context one may add ‘Government recognized schools’. Thereafter the individual must pass certain examinations and should hold relevant certificates to as a proof of that. If the above mentioned conditions are met, a person is supposedly educated so to say. I beg to disagree though on this account. Continue reading

Ever wondered how states, societies and so to say civilization came into being. The story behind the marvel in which we live every day, I call it a story deliberately. Story because I don’t have evidences to ratify it as history. History too although is a story, mostly written in hindsight with wisdom of the present almost inevitably modifying the past. Many critiques hold the book ‘Rise and fall of the Third Reich’ as one of the best account of the Second World War era. The reason being, that the book is an excerpt of a war journalist diary, his daily accounting of war. Continue reading

To define and to perhaps bring about Equality among humans has been one of the underlying principles of almost all the major philosophies of our times. It appears as the mystical mistress, so eagerly sought, yet so elusive to be easily defined or attainable in societies so diversified in its ability and social standing. One factor that led many a philosophies so haywire, that they went about creating societies so artificial in its standings that either they perished with the course of time or simply got corrupted to more tangible forms that could survive the test of time. Continue reading

“Freedom is the most-used word of our time. What it is seems obvious to all…Yet there is nothing more obscure, more ambiguous, more abused.”- Karl Jaspers (1883 – 1969) Future of Mankind
If we were to call for a society which ensures absolute freedom to each and every member of the society, it would for sure bring about a lot of excitement, but almost instantaneously an anxiety as to how would we ensure our safety from our fellow men? If we were ever to dream to bring about a society where in our individual freedom are set at tangible limits, one that we can afford to offered to be each of our citizens then we have to first define to start with, what do we mean by these terms, to start with what do we mean by freedom? Continue reading

It would have taken a mad man to ask on the momentous night of 15 Aug 1947 as to what have we gained. We know it as our independence day, the night that we made our tryst with destiny. But if someone was still mad enough to ask, what have we really gained, in unison perhaps the whole nation would have… Continue reading