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Land of Parallel Walkers

Chandra Mohan Bhandari — 2012-10-31T15:18:17Z

Parallel Walkers
Here's a unique land with its unparalleled traditions: its inhabitants are great talkers, everybody talks, and everybody listens only to his (her) own voice, as there is no other choice; tongues are internally linked to their own auditory glands.
They are great walkers too, walking together almost in parallel, and make sure that their paths do not meet, as with parallel lines. Parallel walkers and parallel self-talkers, culminating in a unique cultural blend; long (…)

- 2012

Dynamics of Democracy and Corruption

Chandra Mohan Bhandari — 2011-08-10T11:18:17Z

One of the features of a modern democratic set-up is its inherent contradiction. Like the necessity of thesis and antithesis acting simul-taneously it relies upon opposing trends to propel it. To keep a vast social network together, in a meaningful co-existence and in a more-or-less harmonious mode of existence, is a challenging but manageable task, if that kind of challenge is understood and acknowledged by the people at the helm of affairs supposedly responsible for managing the show. The (…)

- 2011

Changing Weather and Shifting Glaciers: Deeper Ecological Concerns

Chandra Mohan Bhandari — 2009-12-26T16:59:02Z

Intellect, will and emotion, the powers of head, chest and heart with whom man as a conscious being has been endowed, will prove his undoing if, caught in the net of his concepts, in the brilliance of his achievements and in the web of his entanglements he forgets his anchorage in the weaving and working of the greater life.
—Karlfried Graf von Durkheim
Deeper ecological concerns and possible remedial measures need more than patchwork solutions. The thesis that it would be futile to (…)

- December 2009