Rishikesh

My speech at the recent symposium on "Deepening Moral Crisis and Solutions ’’ at Bangalore. -Media and Morality - Dignitaries, organizers and friends I see that in this group there are some who fit into all these three groups. So I address them. If there is anyone who feels I have not addressed him, I hereby I address him. When I was invited to talk about media and morality, I wondered why I was asked to talk about these two unrelated things? Everyone else has been given a subject that has interrelated themes. Then why I was being victimized? I expressed this doubt to one of my friends who is an engineer and he corrected me. ``You are wrong’’, he said. ``What is you need to discuss is that there is a direct but inverse relation between the two themes of media and morality!’’ Well then, let us examine the various dimensions of this apparently non existent relationship. But before I do so, I will tell you a famous joke about media persons. The presence of Swamijis, pious men and jud...

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:09:10 -0800 http://rishiscribe.blogspot.com/2007/03/ambedkar-and-buddha.html Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Ambedkar and Buddha Dr Ambedkar And The Evolution Of Religion: From Animism To Agnosticism By Rishikesh Bahadur Desai A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is enlightenment?" The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." This shows how simple ideas are confused for complex issues. We will keep coming back and forth to the title of this paper, 'Evolution of religion from Animism to Agnosticism'. Simply put, Animism is believing that anything and everything is God. Agnosticism is to stop worrying about God and carrying on with our work. Stages of evolution: 'Change of the concept of God to an idol to an idea' ANIMISM Primitive man feared natural phenomena like lightning, rain, and floods. He called them God as they seemed to control his life. Any weird performance that was believed to control these was magic. T...

JLR to launch blackbuck resort in Bidar on March 1 It is in the Khanapur forest range Quiet retreat: A cottage on offer at the blackbuck resort of Jungle Lodges and Resorts near Vilaspur lake in Khanapur forest range in Bidar. Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR) will inaugurate a property in the Khanapur forest range in Bidar on March 1. “Online bookings for the blackbuck resort will start from Wednesday,” Deputy Commissioner Sameer Shukla said here on Tuesday. It will be formally inaugurated later. JLR officials will take a decision on who will inaugurate the resort and when, Mr. Shukla said. He was speaking to journalists after inspecting work on the lakeside property. According to him, the property on the banks of the Vilaspur lake will have 18 cottages of three categories and one royal suite. The blackbuck resort is the first JLR property to have a royal suite. The resort is situated on seven acres of revenue land gifted to JLR by the district administration. The tariff ranges from Rs....