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By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Talk on Entrepreneurship at XIMB

Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Talk on Entrepreneurship at XIMB — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:27:56 +0000

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By: jala

jala — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:11:07 +0000

If Shiv will agree,
What Atanu simply meant was the Age-old Rigveda thought…..
Let good-thoughts come to us from all sides.
Apologies are intended, as I do not know the Sanskrit verse in question.

Language is Breeze, Thought is the fragrence.
It’s enought to get the thought.

Thanks for bearing my poetry.

By: SloganMurugan

SloganMurugan — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:08:15 +0000

Fickr not, there’s a whole new generation here to make some wealth for ourselves

By: SloganMurugan

SloganMurugan — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:03:11 +0000

The white sands on coral islands are made in the guts of a certain fish species that eat up coral.

By: India » Blog Archive » Bangalore to Bollywood for Brown

India » Blog Archive » Bangalore to Bollywood for Brown — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:50:11 +0000

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By: Guru

Guru — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:08:02 +0000

Atanu, would being an atheist make it difficult to comprehend and comment on the economy? I ask this not as a rhetorical question but a genuine one.

By: shiv

shiv — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:47:44 +0000

They took away more than the minerals and pelts. They even took away your ‘rich heritage’. That is why atanu dey writes in english and quotes tennyson and shiv comments back in english…

Atanu’s response: Tut, tut, Shiv, you are focusing on the wrong bits. First, I deliberately chose to quote Shakespeare and Tennyson. Englishmen no doubt but the thoughts they expressed is what I am concerned with. I belong to the human family and therefore I have every right to claim kinship to all the greats of every land and of any time. It is the thought that matters to me, and I don’t really care where a person was born, what the color of his skin was, what language he spoke, etc. Language is just the superficial container. The content, and not the container, matters to me.

We must realize that the deep insights that Indians of the past had are not the sole property of Indians; all humans have a rightful claim to them. In fact, one of the most important thoughts is in the Rig Veda which in effect proclaims “Let noble thoughts come to us from all universe.” Compare that to the narrow minded bigoted viewpoint of the world expressed by some others (also from the same illustrious human family, though) which says that only a chosen few have the “Absolute Truth” (TM) and if you refuse to believe that, they will kill you.

I write in English merely because it is the language I know best. If I had a different personal history, I no doubt would have written in Bengali (my mother tongue) or whatever. Ultimately it does not matter–as long as I have some command of at least one language in which to express my thoughts and feelings. Someone who cares enough but doesn’t know English, can read me in translation. So also, as long as I have the English translation of any worthwhile thought expressed in any other language, I have access to that thought.

Since we are on this topic, let me also state why I like English. It uses the Roman script. The Roman script makes a lot more sense to me than the Devanagari script or any other Indian scripts. This is just a pragmatic matter. Just like I believe that the Indian system of representing numbers (decimal system) is superior to the Roman number system. It would be silly for an Italian to insist on using the Roman system and to reject the Indian system on the grounds that the latter was “not invented here.”