Comments on: Kaushlendra – the power of one http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:17:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: abhishek http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/comment-page-1/#comment-54796 abhishek Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:57:33 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/#comment-54796 Amrit hi, I was in Bihar recently( North Bihar to be precise), and I had spent a week. When we talk about designer goods, gadgets, hip hop joints we usually relate that to the refined culture which is sweeping across the country with soory, thnkus and hais. However I found out that in all the aspects people from these places have placed their self good higher than the designer label totting citizens. Their sense of belonging to their immediate surrounding is stronger than what we have in places like Noida or Gurgaon, where the youth of today is supposedly slogging out to get the world class salary, further to be enjoyed spending at swanky bars and cafes , surrounded by squalor( Sector 18 in Noida is a classic case, where most of the drains in front of the cafes are open and filled with muck). Now does self good merely means that we don good clothes, own cool gadgets, go to swanky establishments and do not harm people. Well this is a mere tangible description. What we miss out most of the time is that the innate violence behind the new found face of our youth is trampling the very basic fundamentals of our society which should be compassion and empathy. Kaushlendra and his ilks are not few, but they can never be darlings of media. I guess that with blatant promotion of the new culture we are destroying the age old ethos and pathos which are as much applicable for us as they were ever. Amrit hi,
I was in Bihar recently( North Bihar to be precise), and I had spent a week. When we talk about designer goods, gadgets, hip hop joints we usually relate that to the refined culture which is sweeping across the country with soory, thnkus and hais. However I found out that in all the aspects people from these places have placed their self good higher than the designer label totting citizens.
Their sense of belonging to their immediate surrounding is stronger than what we have in places like Noida or Gurgaon, where the youth of today is supposedly slogging out to get the world class salary, further to be enjoyed spending at swanky bars and cafes , surrounded by squalor( Sector 18 in Noida is a classic case, where most of the drains in front of the cafes are open and filled with muck).
Now does self good merely means that we don good clothes, own cool gadgets, go to swanky establishments and do not harm people. Well this is a mere tangible description. What we miss out most of the time is that the innate violence behind the new found face of our youth is trampling the very basic fundamentals of our society which should be compassion and empathy.
Kaushlendra and his ilks are not few, but they can never be darlings of media. I guess that with blatant promotion of the new culture we are destroying the age old ethos and pathos which are as much applicable for us as they were ever.

]]> By: Alka http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/comment-page-1/#comment-54700 Alka Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:48:39 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/#comment-54700 "Self good has different meanings but I used it in the context of your blog post." You mean I conveyed the meaning that all the designer things, eating joints and discs are for self good? :-) I have never confused self good with these things even when I was ten! :-) “Self good has different meanings but I used it in the context of your blog post.”
You mean I conveyed the meaning that all the designer things, eating joints and discs are for self good? :-) I have never confused self good with these things even when I was ten! :-)

]]> By: Amrit Hallan http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/comment-page-1/#comment-54693 Amrit Hallan Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:08:46 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/#comment-54693 Hmm...I don't mean "self-good" in an abstract manner. Of course I don't have a problem with people purchasing latest gadgets, wearing designer clothes and dancing at hip-hop places and getting mired in all sorts of self-indulgences as long as they don't bother me and cause me some kind of physical, mental or monetary expense. They are the cause of abounding intellectual and artistic mediocrity but such people have been there/here since the time immemorial, it's just that now they get more hype due to media. Self good has different meanings but I used it in the context of your blog post. Hmm…I don’t mean “self-good” in an abstract manner. Of course I don’t have a problem with people purchasing latest gadgets, wearing designer clothes and dancing at hip-hop places and getting mired in all sorts of self-indulgences as long as they don’t bother me and cause me some kind of physical, mental or monetary expense. They are the cause of abounding intellectual and artistic mediocrity but such people have been there/here since the time immemorial, it’s just that now they get more hype due to media.

Self good has different meanings but I used it in the context of your blog post.

]]> By: Alka http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/comment-page-1/#comment-54683 Alka Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:46:23 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/kaushlendra-the-power-of-one/#comment-54683 Amrit you say, "But unlike her I don’t intend to berate people who pursue “other passions” because whether you do something for the self-good... " You mean having latest gadgets, wearing designer clothes,dancing at some hip hop place, drinking and eating in a filthy expensive restaurant are for SELF GOOD? :-) I don't berate these people as long as they don't berate others who is not doing what they are doing. Amrit you say, “But unlike her I don’t intend to berate people who pursue “other passions” because whether you do something for the self-good… ” You mean having latest gadgets, wearing designer clothes,dancing at some hip hop place, drinking and eating in a filthy expensive restaurant are for SELF GOOD? :-) I don’t berate these people as long as they don’t berate others who is not doing what they are doing.

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