dynasty: God Takes Care of the Weakest.

dynasty: God Takes Care of the Weakest.: Morning, and crows start flying into the balcony. Their cries of caw caw awakens us to a new dew filled day. It has become a ritual to sit ...

God Takes Care of the Weakest.

Morning, and crows start flying into the balcony. Their cries of caw caw awakens us to a new dew filled day. It has become a ritual to sit in the balcony with our first cups of cheerful morning tea and biscuits of assorted tastes. All this laced with mild conversation, smiles and affections of our little grandchildren. We see the crows join in , with their speculative gaze and expectant gestures.

It is a time of sharing and mutuality between us and nature, as we savour the music of life: green branches of the amla, neem and coconut trees, bending and swaying in the light breeze of the morning, sending waves of inquiry about our wellbeing. Their intrusion into the family togetgerness is welcome but discretely so. Caw , caw,the crows ask, politely eyeing the box of  biscuits a little appolegetically, drawing near.

One by one they pick up the pieces of biscuits, and fly away to perch on the branches of the trees, and return again for more.Caw, Caw, they callout loudly to their brethern to join in their feasting.

But the weakest among them all, a little grey round the neck,a little gasp in his voice, a little limp in his crow hop,and a little shy about his incompetence, waits with a little more patience on a higher perch unnoticed.

When the morning rituals are over, Roma, my grandaughter softly calls: aaa, aaa,aaa.He comes down on his timid wings and pecks delicately at a piece of cadbury chocolate she saves for him till it is finished, then flies far away. She looks after him for some moments, then turns her back to resume her imaginative game among her Barbies.

dynasty: A Reason To Live

dynasty: A Reason To Live: When we are finished with things that hold us to this world where our life had its maintenance and stay , and we dont know why we continue ...

dynasty: Individualism and cultural crisis

dynasty: Individualism and cultural crisis: Individualism tends to undermine and eventually destroy the fabric of society when a code of behaviour equally valid and binding for all ...

Individualism and cultural crisis

Individualism tends to undermine and eventually destroy the fabric of society when a code of behaviour equally valid and binding  for all is replaced by the individual's demand for self determination. As a penalty for this freedom he has seized, the individual forfeits the security derived from adherence to the group and the eagerly sought privilege of personal decision may well become a burden, a frightening burden.In itsextreme consequences individualism can result in the uncertainty, the moral relativism, the anxious soul searching typicalof the Age of angst.The firm standards and absolute criteria of the past has been replaced by the characteristically vacillitating, evasive attitude: "It all depends...", but on what?

Once the external frame of reference , the concept of a fixed order is abandoned, man is driven to seek a point of certainty within himself.This is the position today when people are seeking for a principle of order established not in terms of the external world and an appeal to reason, but in terms of  the inner world and an appeal to the imagination.

This attitude of the individualists causes them to be rather rebellious to society and makes them perpetrate anarchy and dissension. The harm done to the cultural climate of a nation through indiscriminate individualism is to be seen in the terror driven society in which we now live.