Should we have asked this question? Are we inviting trouble by asking this question? Well, we don’t think so. We are genuinely worried. Because the medium, as they, is the message. Here’s Dr Bhaskar Das in the October 27 edition of Das ka Dum.
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Q. Would the world take umbrage if I wish people ‘Happy Diwali’ and not ‘Shubh Deepawali’?
A. It’s an age of bewilderment for me. What communication would evoke what response has been increasingly unpredictable. Worldwide, there is an intellectual climate change, as opined by Christopher Bollas. I find in your question a soliloquy about a significant transformation of how we define ourselves, how emphasis on instant connectedness is increasingly replacing reflectiveness and introspection. Does your question reflect our living in a time of intellectual vacuity or a psycho-phobia of rejection of everything that deserves a pause to reflect. I have no answer beyond the need for balanced concept of self within society.