Perfect Ideas

I don't know how, but I drifted, and started thinking about doing things in life and related insecurities.........

We should talk about our imperfect ideas every now and then and get corrected. It is totally pointless to wait for a perfect idea and find out that we have no time left to act upon. We could be dead, you know!! Getting old is not the only outcome of the aging process.

And, secondly, what is the guarantee that perfect idea would really be the perfect idea?

(... If I remember correctly, something similar I read (long time back) in "Faith In Fakes: Travels In Hyperreality" by Italian semiotician Umberto Eco. I do not remember the name of the essay.)

Worth of a Life

How does someone evaluate the worth of a life?

Prof. Dworkin has got two models to evaluate the worth of a life -

1. Model of Impact - where an indiviadual life form brings a change to the objective values of the world and
2. Model of Challenge - where a life is appreciated as if it is an art form and living the life (not just life) takes the centerstage.

I guess in a real world, as and when needed, we apply both the models. On the other hand, in a geo-political sense, worth of a life depends on the value a nation/society places on its citizen. Otherwise how do you explain some countries declaring zero tolerance on terrorism and countries like India still not sure on how to treat the terrorism.

Adapt or Die

Madhu Koda incident is not about politics-mafia nexus but it is a sordid tale of a culture of lawless and injustice rooted deeply in India’s 60 years of post-independence history and political culture. A more important issue that emerges from this whole episode is that why have politicians in India grown rich and powerful and not the NATION as a whole?

What motivates somebody to accumulate wealth worth thousands of crores using illegal means? The hope that they could getaway with the cache. I guess in Indian politics, becoming Koda (or Mayawati or Mulayam or Lalu or anybody else) is all about survival.... adapt or die.... be corrupt and share the booty.... with other fellow politicians (irrespective of their party), Naxal leaders, beurocrates etc... or get ready to be sidelined and die as an unknown individual somewhere in the rural India where eighty percent of Indians are still living.