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E-mail: arumugakannu@gmail.com
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MEMO FROM NARA
Freedom of speech is our
right today. We are free to question everything and anything happening around
us. There was a time we had no freedom to ask questions. In fact we were afraid
and we were also not allowed to question. We accepted everything and anything
even within our own family. In schools and colleges we just blindly followed
what the teachers and professors said. We thought we have to follow the elders.
But today, in the modern world
education opened our eyes to ask questions to find sensible answers. Both boys
and girls have the courage to question every activity in order to get a
suitable answer. Even the government orders or court judgements are questioned!
In our parliamentary system, we see how the majority party is questioned by the
minority parties.
People today ask questions like: ‘who
says God likes topless men not jeans?’ and ‘why Science Congress is a circus?’
If such questions are not asked there will not be progress in these fields. In
order to make improvements and progress we need to ask constructive questions
which will lead to constructive planning and execution of projects. This is the
positive side. At the same time, people question just t o block a project. Such
protests sometimes lead to violence. We do see such activities everyday in our
towns and cities.
Free speech sometimes offends somebody.
Last year (2015) in the month of January 12 people connected with Charlie Hebdo
were gunned down in Paris because of the free speech phenomenon. Cartoons
supposedly insulting the Prophet Mohammad were published in Charlie Hebdo.
Writers want freedom to write whatever they want. Free speech has to be
curtailed if it calls for violence or criminality. Respect for others has to be
kept in mind when we speech or write.
Questioning is not wrong, but
protesting is wrong. Questioning is to find a solution. Protesting is a severe
method used for finding solution. Freedom of speech has to be used in the
proper way. We cannot speak irrelevant things in the name of freedom of speech.
One has to be responsible to look the good and bad of an event or an idea or an
opinion or a viewpoint. Then only one can find a solution. Preconceived hard
ideas cannot solve a problem!
Most of the politicians and lawyers
employ a technique to achieve their goals. The technique is to simply crate
fear in the minds of people. People with fear cannot be free. So they lose
their freedom and never try to question.
Such things are tried with individuals. At the same time, the fear is
overlooked in a group of individuals. These groups revolt and question
politicians and lawyers. In India, although it is free and democratic,
freedom is somehow denied for a larger section of people
even today. Only the braves stand up and question whereas the weak submit and
keep quite. Probably that
is the way of life – it appears!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Surround yourself with
people who know your worth.
You don’t need too many friends in your life, you just
need a few who can see who you are,
and appreciate your uniqueness and value.
Bad habits are like a
comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
RULES FOR LIVING
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs.
4. Respect for self.
5. Respect for others.
6. Responsibility for all your actions.
7. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
8. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
9. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
10. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
11. Spend some time alone every day.
12. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
13. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
14. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
15. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
16. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
17. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
18. Be gentle with the earth.
19. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
20. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
21. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
- DALAI LAMA
TO QUOTE...
We fail to
see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in
a belief that happiness should take a particular form. – Thich Nhat Hauh
Kindness in
words creates confidence and kindness in thinking creates profoundness. – Lao Tzu
Rising
inequalities is one of the great challenges of our time: - Thomas Piketty.
There is
nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare
JUST TO LAUGH...
A rich
businessman
walks down the street when he spots an old man sitting with a fishing rod next
to a puddle, trying to fish. The businessman takes pity on the old deranged man
and invites him to lunch at the coffee shop close by. After the meal, the
businessman asks him with a smile: “So? Did you catch any fish today?” “Sure
did,” answers the old man “you’re my third one.”
A little girl comes home from school and tells her mom
”Mommy, today I got punished for something I didn’t do!”
“What?. What
do you mean?” Her mother says, angry, “I’m going to call your teacher right
now! What is it you didn’t do?”
“My home
work.”
DEALING WITH REJECTION
First, recognize that not everyone is like you. We have different likes and dislikes, we want different things, and we all see people and the world in different ways. Hence, it is natural that sometimes people will be upset, offended, or react differently from what we expected. It’s not necessarily personal – it’s more a reflection of the fact that we all are different.
2. Try and leave your emotions aside and objective analyse the situation. Ask yourself: “Is this person’s reaction triggering something me?” It could be that you are over-reacting to a perceived rejection because of previous hurts, put downs and rejections. Alternatively, the other person’s reaction could be more related to what is going on in their life at the time (rather than being a personal rejection of you.)
3. Be alert to over-generalizing and over-personalizing. For example, look out for the tendency to think things like that “That means I’m a terrible person, and no-one likes me” or “I never do anything right. I always say and do the wrong thing. I’m always going to get it wrong and be rejected by everyone.”
4. Look for friendships and affirmation in other places. It’s wise to have a wide range of friends and acquaintances so that our self-image and self-esteem aren’t tied into how a few key people treat us, or react towards us.
5. Accept that snubs and rejections are part of life. We can’t please all of the people all of the time – we can only please some of the people some of the time. And while it’s wise to check to see if we display certain habits, traits or behaviours that often annoy others (and it is wise to work on changing those), at the end of the day we just have to be ourselves. We can’t spend our lives walking on egg shells, or trying to be someone we were never meant to be.
LINES I LIKED
Ø
Many good
sayings are found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one
religious.
Ø
Many men
seek to destroy innocent lives in order to promote a cause or gain power over
others.
Ø
Many of our
most baffling problems are pure illusion.
Ø
Many of the
great things in the history of our civilization have been achieved by the
independent will of a determined soul.
No matter where you go, there you are!
Meet you next month – May, 2016
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
E-mail: arumugakannu@gmail.com
Ph : 0422 4393017 Mobile : 098422 42301
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
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MEMO FROM NARA
Sports
and music unite millions of us across our great
nation – India. They brought us together. India is a vast country with many
language speaking States and people following a number of religions, variety of
cultures such as food, dresses, music, dance, caste, colour and what not! They
have added fragrance to Indian culture. Such diversity brought unity among us.
Every State has special festivals, large number of temples, churches, mosques
and many other religious places. For anyone who comes to India from any other
country, India looks as a paradise. Such variety in a single country (India),
cannot be seen anywhere else. But we Indians fail to look at our own beautiful
culture, people and places.
From Himalaya to Kanyakumari we find beautiful ancient
architectural monuments. Taj Mahal, Puri, Charminar, Mysuru Palace, Thanjavur
Big Temple, Guruvayur temple in Kerala, and many more places attract the
attention of Indians nowadays. Appreciating one’s own culture and learn about it
is necessary to understand the historic achievements of our ancestors.
Today everything is modern and technology has transformed
our way of life and life-style. The country has seen skyscrapers in the form of
apartments to provide shelter to millions of Indians. These were not there some
years ago. The apartment culture has crept into India of late. With all these
developments, pollution, life style diseases, isolated life and mental
disorders have affected the Indian population to a great extent.
A free country indeed! Freedom for everyone! So governance
becomes very difficult. There are lots of laws to control the unwanted
activities of people. But still we do find all sorts of illegal activities
happening all over India. We, the people of India tolerate and move on.
Tolerance has become the way of life today. In fact, there is no place for
intolerance.
RULES OF WRITING
1.
Write.
2.
Put one word after another. Find the right
word, put it down.
3.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have
to do to finish it, finish it.
4.
Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never
read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the
kind of thing that this is.
5.
Remember: when people tell you something is
wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell
you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always
wrong.
6.
Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later,
before it ever reaches perfections, you’ll have to let it go and move on and
start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep
moving.
7.
Laugh at your won jokes.
The main rule of writing is that if you do it
with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like
(that may be a rule for life as well as for writing.) So write your story as it
needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can.
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