Saturday, April 19, 2008

I was reading the editorial of the newest India today where he talks of how shallow the word ‘great’ has become. How often and lightly we throw it around; and I completely agree. ‘Great is a highly overused term in today’s inflationary India. It could be a victory against Australia. A speech at a political rally, or even a movie at a multiplex. In this cacophony, perhaps it is time to pause on the nature of greatness.’ I think we all agree. The measurement system for human intelligence, talent and work has deviated- it’s a whole new scale- maybe there is a need to redefine today.


I simply love Anju atya. I don’t know why, but I told her that she has been ‘wasting’ her skill all these years- what with family issues and all. I keep thinking that she could have been something; she could have made a big impact with that kind of talent. But when I saw monalisa smile (again) today, I realized I must not be so quick to access- “I know exactly what I am doing, and it does not make me any less smart! You stand in class and ask us to look beyond the image, but you don’t. To you, a housewife is someone who has sold her soul; someone who has no depth, no intellect, no interests-”. Hmm...


With what we call ‘advancement in technology’, arrive newer problems- let’s take the case of cameras. Earlier, we had film roll cameras- the number was finite, and the process of converting them to something we can see was tedious. Now, we all have digital cameras; each image can be viewed almost immediately, and there is no limit. But we have a new problem. The battery. These are very expensive, and recharging them is a tedious process. The battery life lowers over the years, and they simply give way sometimes. With development, come developed problems- it’s almost as if they must co-exist; and I think that the problems have become more and more unexplainable over the years. Is sweating of the hand while you ink a more understandable problem than a virus erasing your entire drawing? Yes. More unexplainable, more irritating- more irritating, more unusable. Does that mean we have to get back to drafting?


To the times we never make an effort to remember, and to those very times, that we cannot get ourselves to forget- cheers!

2 comments:

Poorna said...

Great comments about the great word being used too much.See I m calling this great, just an example of how much I overuse it!! haha

I mean we ve associated great with personalities like Maha(great)atma Gandhi,so I agree with you when you say that it has to be used more carefully!!

MC said...

Id like to add to the point you made on technology and its maladies with a bit of info about NASA...

When NASA sent man to space they discovered that a conventional pen wouldnt work in space due to the lesser gravitational pull... to solve the problem they invented a pen that would work without gravity... ingenious.

But then dont you wonder what the Cosmonauts where doing without a pen that worked in Space...

They used pencils.