Righteousness ? ? ?
From the Blog iabhopal Sometimes the more one grows in religious practice, the more he / she grows in self-righteousness and judgment. This is a sign of a problem inside. Growing in religion should only make us grow in compassion, not in judgment. The heart filled with God is softened, not hardened. If it is becoming hardened towards people, perhaps it is not God filling the heart, but rather the self, decorated by false cloak of Piety and religious devotion. pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
P. Sainath – upcoming talks in America
From the Blog beenasarwar [image: Sainath-MIT1a]The eminent journalist P. Sainath, author of the groundbreaking collection of reports *Everybody Loves a Good Drought*, is headed to the USA from his base in India. He will give a series of talks at various campuses about his work and the unique, empowering, online journalistic endeavour he launched last year, the People's Archive of Rural India – PARI . Worth going to hear him speak if you are in the area. See my article about him: Travels though history with a rural archivist. Campus times and dates below. [image: Sainath] 1. *Amherst College*, MA, Oct. 19, 5 pm: Inequality and the rise of rural distress, 2. *Trinity College*, Hartford, CT, October 20, 4:30pm, Rittenberg: When Farmers Die… reporting the rural in the digital age. Contactpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Everyone Needs A Master Shifu
From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman* Tele-surfing earlier and caught a bit of Kung Fu Panda (such a fan). That cartoon is profound. Saw the part where Master Shifu invites Po to sit down to a meal of dumplings after an intense kung fu training session. With each dumpling that Po attempts to put in his mouth, Master Shifu swiftly swipes them away with his chopsticks. One by one, as each dumpling is taken away from him, Master Shifu looks at Po challengingly, stating, 'You're free to eat' – provoking Po to fight for his right, in this case, a dumpling. The dumpling is a metaphor for Po's place in a world where he has consistently second-guessed himself, allowing an external perception of him – a big, goofy panda – to dictate the role he will play for the rest of his life. But Master Shifu knows pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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