tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10951659.post4793776153001588022..comments2023-05-11T15:54:46.183+05:30Comments on Little Shop of Random Thoughts: The Lobotomy of TheatreKrishna Kumar. Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10562252516411763929noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10951659.post-1753509318432372892006-12-22T14:56:00.000+05:302006-12-22T14:56:00.000+05:30I would squarely bring it down to the liberalisati...I would squarely bring it down to the liberalisation of India in the mid-80s thanks to Late Rajiv. That opened the sluice gates for the West to churn our brains to pulp so that we blindly get wool-eyed by the glamourous packaging of things at the expense of indigenous.Krishna Kumar. Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10562252516411763929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10951659.post-44302053379143231822006-12-22T14:54:00.000+05:302006-12-22T14:54:00.000+05:30Dear Srini:
I know ppl will say it is easy to poi...Dear Srini:<br /><br />I know ppl will say it is easy to point out mistakes... what were you when you were in that age group, etc etc. But I can tell you one think, I only diagnose like a general practitioner, I cannot offer panacea. Surely, these are the fall outs of the so-called advancement to our material world, our rising standard of life and the availability of all and sundry resources at the cheapest offers on display. When I and my ilk were adols. and teens, I can tell you, we had not much in terms of technological or materialistically complicated toys (for lack of another better term) on offer. We delighted in the simple joys of life, playing street cricket, ghilli, marbles, flying kites, chasing balls and kites than other things in skirts. Neither our parents spoiled us by dispensing us with money when they needed relief. I blame it on today's parents some of whom were and are too ambitious, much like your generation, sometimes too unnecessarily. These parents expose their kids unwittingly to a lot of unnecessary things (for their age) - among which the need for that luxurious total freedom - in order to have their relief and now are reaping the fruits in the form of damnation. Everybody - as another friend of mine scrapped in Orkut the other day - wants to live to impress others. Not only the theatre circle, in general, ppl should realise by themselves and act upon the same, that achievements and ambitions and degrees and sophisticated environment and wealthy luxurius living is nothing if there is no line of contentment drawn at the beginning. There's no point saying I shall stop at this point after having begun to amass wealth or position. It should be drawn at the beginning. I think this was precisely the point Kaavya was trying to convey in her book. However bad the writing may have turned out!!! Poor kid, was unnecessarily hounded in the Harvard Witch Trials. Same way Shanti at Doha. There's a whole network in operation to lure ppl of your generation away from contentment and leave in the lurch when you really need them. So the best thing would be to work for oneself from within.Krishna Kumar. Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10562252516411763929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10951659.post-11993848219042613752006-12-21T13:01:00.000+05:302006-12-21T13:01:00.000+05:30Thanks, few people realise the importance of hones...Thanks, few people realise the importance of honesty and the need to standardise.Krishna Kumar. Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10562252516411763929noreply@blogger.com