Why this blog ?
The modern Western way of making a society fulfill its goals and becoming happy was to increase the amount of economic activity as measured by a figure called the Gross Domestic Product. This is not working - these societies are neither happy nor are they able to increase their GDP ( without resorting to accounting sleight of hand).
Their modes of living also leave much to be desired. Children and elders have a very difficult time. The institution of family is weakened substantially by the social trends since World War 2. The natural resources for India and China to emulate the West and be "happy" are simply not existent on this planet.
We should undoubtedly take what is useful from them but we cannot follow their model blindly. The world does not have enough resources for countries with out population to aspire for such goals. The environmental and societal damage, we have caused trying to emulate the West is already becoming very difficult to bear. While, as a society, we have endured much difficulties in the past millenium, I sincerely doubt if our current one has the patience and endurance to go another 50 years in this direction and put up with the difficulties it will entail. It requires a fortitude and a belief in karma and rebirth which is rapidly becoming alien to a society which wants to live in the now.
We need our own model of living - which will blend the best of the East with the best of the West. At the same time there is no point in getting bogged down in negativity.
Undoubtedly, there is too much negativity in speech, though and action in our country today. We need to find ways to convert our negativity into a form of fuel for positive change. So the more negativity in society, the more fuel we can find for change.
Many times I have been discussing many ideas connected with this topic with people. One of them, Tarun Malaviya , has been telling me for many years to write a blog to release these ideas into the blogosphere so that these ideas may spread and if found useful ones by others may find its rightful owners and come to life. Today I met another person Amit Paranjpe who managed to convinced to blog within 5 minutes.
So with many thanks to Tarun and Amit, I begin my blog.
The topics I like to blog are related to Virtue/Truth/Honour, Success, Pleasure and Liberation (Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha respectively) - the four aims of life in the Hindu traditional thought. I guess pretty much most topics are covered.
The geographic layout of cities have changed. Your neighbours may have very little common with you except a wall ! I am hoping that this blog will help me to reach out to more people and develop these ideas.
About me
I am an alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad. I have been a professional working in field of finance and investment for two decades. I was born and brought up in Chennai and now reside in Pune.
I have various interests in topics such as Indian music, Ayurveda, Astrology, Design, Business, Investing etc.
The modern Western way of making a society fulfill its goals and becoming happy was to increase the amount of economic activity as measured by a figure called the Gross Domestic Product. This is not working - these societies are neither happy nor are they able to increase their GDP ( without resorting to accounting sleight of hand).
Their modes of living also leave much to be desired. Children and elders have a very difficult time. The institution of family is weakened substantially by the social trends since World War 2. The natural resources for India and China to emulate the West and be "happy" are simply not existent on this planet.
We should undoubtedly take what is useful from them but we cannot follow their model blindly. The world does not have enough resources for countries with out population to aspire for such goals. The environmental and societal damage, we have caused trying to emulate the West is already becoming very difficult to bear. While, as a society, we have endured much difficulties in the past millenium, I sincerely doubt if our current one has the patience and endurance to go another 50 years in this direction and put up with the difficulties it will entail. It requires a fortitude and a belief in karma and rebirth which is rapidly becoming alien to a society which wants to live in the now.
We need our own model of living - which will blend the best of the East with the best of the West. At the same time there is no point in getting bogged down in negativity.
Undoubtedly, there is too much negativity in speech, though and action in our country today. We need to find ways to convert our negativity into a form of fuel for positive change. So the more negativity in society, the more fuel we can find for change.
Many times I have been discussing many ideas connected with this topic with people. One of them, Tarun Malaviya , has been telling me for many years to write a blog to release these ideas into the blogosphere so that these ideas may spread and if found useful ones by others may find its rightful owners and come to life. Today I met another person Amit Paranjpe who managed to convinced to blog within 5 minutes.
So with many thanks to Tarun and Amit, I begin my blog.
The topics I like to blog are related to Virtue/Truth/Honour, Success, Pleasure and Liberation (Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha respectively) - the four aims of life in the Hindu traditional thought. I guess pretty much most topics are covered.
The geographic layout of cities have changed. Your neighbours may have very little common with you except a wall ! I am hoping that this blog will help me to reach out to more people and develop these ideas.
About me
I am an alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad. I have been a professional working in field of finance and investment for two decades. I was born and brought up in Chennai and now reside in Pune.
I have various interests in topics such as Indian music, Ayurveda, Astrology, Design, Business, Investing etc.
I wish you all the very best. You need to build a readership by visiting other blogs and commenting and where possible linking their posts to your posts. It is a long term process and you should also invite all your family and friends to visit and comment. It would help if you could add a plug in that will enable readers to get your posts by email. You can try http://thatsblogging.blogspot.in/2013/03/add-email-subscription-form-to-blogger.html
ReplyDeleteYou might also like to add a page about yourself. Often your posts will be read by people searching for the subject that you have written about by search engines giving links to your posts and such strangers would like to know about you. In the same page you could give a contact detail so that people could send messages to you on other subjects. Blog spot tutorial will help you in installing this too. I use word press and have my own domain so I am unable to help there.