Musings Own Thoughts

 Time is a healer and even as we feel that the associations of the moment are very important and vital, it is indeed surprising how memories fade with time. Yet all religious traditions have a fascination bordering on obsession to preserve the memory of past associations especially the immediate family who have left us. We all imagine that these persons are existing in some other world in the nearly same state as we imagine them to be. The physical form, the emotional tug and their inbuilt presence in me as a person makes this a fertile ground for imagination. As I personally reach an age of 64, I am increasingly conscious of old age and the memories of much of my life are rewinding like an old movie. As we go through this week before the Parsi new year prayers are on in the fire temples. The sentiment and faith rooted in belief that our ancestors somehow come back to visit us on earth in this week and we need to use some rituals and prayers which can be recited only by part time p...

 Recently I heard a Hindi podcast called Pulliyabaazi hosted by public policy experts from Takshashila Institute of Public Policy Pranay Kothasthane, Saurabh and Khyati. A framework of discussing issues was taken up to decide which ones were overrated or underrated in terms of importance and which ones were too complicated to slot into either of the above two categories. There are so many points of debate and the argumentative Indian revels in these debates with often extreme views? Sometimes there is a over hype to these questions and at other times there is a feeling that issues which are important are underrated. And sometimes they are too complicated to be categorized.  I will try and make this blog interactive and long and take few words or topics and try and give my opinion on whether the issue at hand is overrated by which I mean we give it more importance than it warrants or it is underrated in that it is not getting the importance it deserves or finally since both sid...