Reach to the unreached: A fashion table talk. by santikumar ghosh on Jan 25, 2007 11:25 PM | Hide replies
Starting from my childhood as a school student to today as a senior Professor of mathematics at the age of 62 years in every evening prior to republic day I have been listening the same old recorded tape of fashion table talks:x cannot be tolerated , where x is a random varible, for some president's speach x = poverty, for some one x = illiteracy,for the other x = economic disparity,.......this time x = cruelty and so on may be next time x will be equal to vulgarity. But if you do the micro-analysis, you will observe that every thing hon'ble presidents mentioned 'cannot be tolerated' is 'getting tolerated' by our Indian people smoothly , systematically and consistently.Here is also we have unity in diversities. I remember, when I was a research scholar in IIT Bombay in 1970, one the then Lecturer ,now he is alive as a retired Professor who commented as I quote here 'India is great country where all sorts inconsistent things are going on consistently'. Why and how we people are tolerating these? In this regard also I remember one statement of one Professor of NCERT when we were in Iraq in foreign teaching assignments in Iraqi University of Sulaimaniyah. There then two events occurred simultaneously:(i)One Iraqi administrative staff misbehaved with an American lecturer of English, he immediately slapped the administrative staff, and(ii)Two young indian cyclists were on world tour by bi-cycles were severely beaten(they got unconcious and got back sense after hospital treatment) by one iraqi truck driver in Basrah(Iraqi Town), when they approached to our Indian Consulate and complained , our great Indian officers there blamed our indian cyclists rather than complaining to the iraqi authority. I asked our Indian NCERT Professor,'Why it is so?' What was his then reply, you know. This is the cult of tolerance!You don't know ,'We are the herbingers of Non-violence'! We have the great river ganges,every day we take bath in the holy water of it and cool down our mind and develop tolerance and pratice it. 'So how long we tolerate this type of untolerable speach', I ask myself and get the answer 'Don't worry the holy water also slowly and steadily getting impured by surrounding pollutions'. Then what? I have got the answer!!! Now the value of x defined above will be taken as'impurity' i.e. x = impurity cannot be tolerated'in President's speach of that time or this message will be treated as an 'abuse' by the message editor of rediff!!!!!!!Ha!HA!.....HA'..... 'TOLERANCE',the greatest word of English vocabulory!Enjoy it.
