About Me
I am a linguist per se of sorts. Am a liberal-rationalist who wants mankind to tread the path of rationalism and scientifism. (The other day man has found a way to turn physical gestures into speech through technology , which only confirms the thesis that what happens inside man in the case of normal language also happens in the case of the speech-challenged, the sign-language people.) Only such a path can take man forward in any meaningful sense. Only such a path can bridge the gap between the poetry of the soul and the prose of reality. Man needs to rid himself of all crap that importunately surrounds him now.
it is clear that names like Hindu, Mussalman, Jew, Sikh, Shinto, etc are labels. The content of which these are labels is subject to the eternal human values of Freedom, Equality and Justice. In case the content is at serious odds with these values, these packages are not worth writing home about. In other words these values are paramount in any human group. Anything in any human group that is at variance with these values is a form of organised hypocrisy . Only this axiological triad is holy. FEJ (Freedom, Equity, justice ) is the only trinity that one should guard, and see that everyone adores and does his liturgy on. Only on this understructure can a structure of a beautiful human ethos be erected. Mysticism is okay. Spirituality is okay. But religion, caste, nationhood and constructs of their ilk are not quite okay because these are identity badges imposed on man from outside. These are socially foisted categories which are outside man's ontology. One could be a HIMU (Hindu-muslim) because of a union between a Hindu and a Muslim. One could be a ChriHi( a cross between a Hindu and a Christian) or a MuChri( from a Muslim-Christain union), a SiShi( Sikh-Shinto) and so on. These are man-made and hence barriers between man and man, unlike spirituality and mysticism. They are schismatic unike spirituality and mysticism. We also need to realise that this deity called FEJ feeds only on life-affirmers like honesty and truth. Human dignity and an exploitation-free ethos are the inevitable consequences of this trinity. Traditional Gods could very well be answering to man's psychological need for security. It is however clear that the wild-goose chase of such constructs hasn't inevitably resulted in an evil-free, exploitation-free human-dignity-upholding human cosmos. The argument that it is NOT God's job to face evil and do away with it is all the more reason not to unduly be concened with god. FEJ will lead per force to such a heartening evil-free state of society. FEJ is the only path forward to mankind's joyous survival and sustained existence on planet earth. Only such a realisation could create the platform of synergy, cooperation and understanding, which is the only way man could make life livable and lovely on mother earth.
Otherwise man will spend a lot of time in avoidable hate, violence and fratricide.
i am intrigued by man's unnatural behavior being hostilelly disposed to fellow humans. In a recent cricket match the opposing team needed a run for victory while the batsman needed a run for a century. Given that they couldn't possibly deny the rival team victory, imagine what the bowler does! The bowler bowls a deliberate no-ball to deny the batsman a hundred!
Nirad Chowdhury has reported that he found a bottle of champagne on his door steps one morning placed there by an admirer of his. We would like this to happen in every human group naturally, as a matter of course. FEJ will bring about such a state of affairs sooner or later. The ONLY way out is within. The only way forward is within.
i spent the best part of my career at an institute called the Central Institute of Indian Languages situated at Mysore in the southern part of a country called India, superannuating as a Professor in Dec 2011.
PhD in Linguistics (Title: A Case Grammar of Kannada)
i have my papers lined up for uploadng.
i will upload them by and by.
it is clear that names like Hindu, Mussalman, Jew, Sikh, Shinto, etc are labels. The content of which these are labels is subject to the eternal human values of Freedom, Equality and Justice. In case the content is at serious odds with these values, these packages are not worth writing home about. In other words these values are paramount in any human group. Anything in any human group that is at variance with these values is a form of organised hypocrisy . Only this axiological triad is holy. FEJ (Freedom, Equity, justice ) is the only trinity that one should guard, and see that everyone adores and does his liturgy on. Only on this understructure can a structure of a beautiful human ethos be erected. Mysticism is okay. Spirituality is okay. But religion, caste, nationhood and constructs of their ilk are not quite okay because these are identity badges imposed on man from outside. These are socially foisted categories which are outside man's ontology. One could be a HIMU (Hindu-muslim) because of a union between a Hindu and a Muslim. One could be a ChriHi( a cross between a Hindu and a Christian) or a MuChri( from a Muslim-Christain union), a SiShi( Sikh-Shinto) and so on. These are man-made and hence barriers between man and man, unlike spirituality and mysticism. They are schismatic unike spirituality and mysticism. We also need to realise that this deity called FEJ feeds only on life-affirmers like honesty and truth. Human dignity and an exploitation-free ethos are the inevitable consequences of this trinity. Traditional Gods could very well be answering to man's psychological need for security. It is however clear that the wild-goose chase of such constructs hasn't inevitably resulted in an evil-free, exploitation-free human-dignity-upholding human cosmos. The argument that it is NOT God's job to face evil and do away with it is all the more reason not to unduly be concened with god. FEJ will lead per force to such a heartening evil-free state of society. FEJ is the only path forward to mankind's joyous survival and sustained existence on planet earth. Only such a realisation could create the platform of synergy, cooperation and understanding, which is the only way man could make life livable and lovely on mother earth.
Otherwise man will spend a lot of time in avoidable hate, violence and fratricide.
i am intrigued by man's unnatural behavior being hostilelly disposed to fellow humans. In a recent cricket match the opposing team needed a run for victory while the batsman needed a run for a century. Given that they couldn't possibly deny the rival team victory, imagine what the bowler does! The bowler bowls a deliberate no-ball to deny the batsman a hundred!
Nirad Chowdhury has reported that he found a bottle of champagne on his door steps one morning placed there by an admirer of his. We would like this to happen in every human group naturally, as a matter of course. FEJ will bring about such a state of affairs sooner or later. The ONLY way out is within. The only way forward is within.
i spent the best part of my career at an institute called the Central Institute of Indian Languages situated at Mysore in the southern part of a country called India, superannuating as a Professor in Dec 2011.
PhD in Linguistics (Title: A Case Grammar of Kannada)
i have my papers lined up for uploadng.
i will upload them by and by.