Scene 1 :- Classroom for Ca Ipcc orientation program where our new professor just started his session. There i was utterly bored and seemingly disinterested !
what do you mean by AGREE TO DISAGREE ? woah instantly he had my attention with those last three words, not that i knew what it exactly meant but out of curiosity i started listening.Through the next one &half hour we had a lot of agree ,agreeing,disagreeable and so on. By the end of the session i was exasperated with this crap partly because of hunger and partly because of boredom.
Scene 2:- Home, morning daily in hand, yet again i spot those three words...'agree to disagree' , puts my brain to tick tock ..!!
Somehow we Indians are just as bad practising the above said action if not worse than the Chinese trying to make worthwhile electronic products !
How many times have we ended an argument with note of being able to agree to disagree with each other..rarity *sigh*
Not to forget the recent Salman Rushdie row at the Jaipur literary meet just reinstates my claim. It was a classic case showing our level of intolerance towards others opinion. Come on, what on earth can justify(apart from the upcoming polls) banning a person-both in his physical form and even through video link.
Next our government might even stop people from taking Rushdie's name..eh? And we might have to refer to him as,mmm..maybe 'One-who-must-not-be-named'...sounds ridiculous..?? That's exactly what we make ourselves to be with this attitude, RIDICULOUS..!
Even authors who read out a paragraph(4rm a page) from 'THE SATANIC VERSES' were threatened. What we do best is cover up our intolerance towards others opinion as relative restriction on the freedom of speech..yeah right , bullshit ! One of the headlines today reads 'Youth killed for taking too long in the loo '..yeah you read it just right..haven't we been hearing about a lot of arguments turning leading to someone being killed.
That seems to be the only alternative people can think of when someone doesn't agree with us -" if you don't agree with me , i am going to kill you." Where are we headed with this sort of attitude ??
And if you don't agree with me...well then !!!
what do you mean by AGREE TO DISAGREE ? woah instantly he had my attention with those last three words, not that i knew what it exactly meant but out of curiosity i started listening.Through the next one &half hour we had a lot of agree ,agreeing,disagreeable and so on. By the end of the session i was exasperated with this crap partly because of hunger and partly because of boredom.
Scene 2:- Home, morning daily in hand, yet again i spot those three words...'agree to disagree' , puts my brain to tick tock ..!!
Somehow we Indians are just as bad practising the above said action if not worse than the Chinese trying to make worthwhile electronic products !
How many times have we ended an argument with note of being able to agree to disagree with each other..rarity *sigh*
Not to forget the recent Salman Rushdie row at the Jaipur literary meet just reinstates my claim. It was a classic case showing our level of intolerance towards others opinion. Come on, what on earth can justify(apart from the upcoming polls) banning a person-both in his physical form and even through video link.
Next our government might even stop people from taking Rushdie's name..eh? And we might have to refer to him as,mmm..maybe 'One-who-must-not-be-named'...sounds ridiculous..?? That's exactly what we make ourselves to be with this attitude, RIDICULOUS..!
Even authors who read out a paragraph(4rm a page) from 'THE SATANIC VERSES' were threatened. What we do best is cover up our intolerance towards others opinion as relative restriction on the freedom of speech..yeah right , bullshit ! One of the headlines today reads 'Youth killed for taking too long in the loo '..yeah you read it just right..haven't we been hearing about a lot of arguments turning leading to someone being killed.
That seems to be the only alternative people can think of when someone doesn't agree with us -" if you don't agree with me , i am going to kill you." Where are we headed with this sort of attitude ??
And if you don't agree with me...well then !!!
