tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428981200757860664.post2808822175691406745..comments2024-03-05T00:18:42.083+05:30Comments on Misplaced Emphasis: In search of a paradigmSrijit Mishrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06974705063587890292noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428981200757860664.post-30978886389406637792012-02-28T08:23:33.850+05:302012-02-28T08:23:33.850+05:30Thank you Sir. I did not want to put the names of...Thank you Sir. I did not want to put the names of Indian politician, but then though of Dr Singh and maybe one or two others, but to maintain a balance I put names spread across party lines (which does not mean that I agree with all their plans, policies and approaches). The distinction between centre, right of the centre or left of centre and so on and so forth would be useful, but I have so far not thought much on those lines. In any case, I wanted to get back to a people-centric approach, which would implicitly include all such possibilities.Srijit Mishrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974705063587890292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428981200757860664.post-87229454222669097362012-02-28T08:16:43.723+05:302012-02-28T08:16:43.723+05:30Sharing comments sent by Prof VM Rao.
Change in hu...Sharing comments sent by Prof VM Rao.<br />Change in human societies is only partially under the control of its members. the other source is the numerous factors beyond our control. <br />Consiuder, for example, the crisis which hit japan recently! <br />Secondly, given the plurality of views, priorities and goals among the people in a society, the status of the society at any given time would be a mix of what we like and hate. We can neither accept fully the society as it is nor reject it totally.<br />Third, a society to function needs a minimum of hierarchy and inequality to manage the variations in endowments, aspirations and capabilities across its members. Hence, neither the right nor the left would prevail in their pure form in any real world society. Right and left provide conceptual tools to discover the paradigm suitable for a particular society at a particular point in its evolution. Suitable paradigms differ cross-sectionally and over time. <br />Each society has to discover the paradigm appropriate to it using concepts and past experiences. only in regimented societies a stable paradigm will emerge and endure. free societies will be continually changing. the trajectory will be zig-zag, backward-forward, cyclical. unidirectional growth and development are concepts helpful for orientation but unattainable. <br />This applies to human development which has many dimensions and eludes consensus on the concrete policies and measures to achieve them. The search for paradigms would never end though there could be improvements over time.Srijit Mishrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974705063587890292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428981200757860664.post-19911737391863942872012-02-27T23:22:05.194+05:302012-02-27T23:22:05.194+05:30Srijit,
It is a good summary of ideas on being ri...Srijit,<br /><br />It is a good summary of ideas on being right or left. Perhaps you know more about the public figures mentioned in your writeup than I do. But your writing may be discounted by the reader if in their view those figures are to the right or left of the center. I would avoid explicit mention of names. <br /><br />The omission seems to be what is the center and what are the right of the center and the left of the center, and if right of one's center can be left of anotehr's center. The discussion could perhaps be broadened to discuss what thereligions say about what is just, such as Thomas Aquinas on what is a just price, and what Indian scriptures say about what is just, what the quoran says on investment and drawing inetrest, etc,<br /><br />Krishna T. Kumar<br />2, Trail House Court<br />Rockville, MD. 20850<br />tkkumar@gmail.comT. Krishna Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278722884840237985noreply@blogger.com