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From the Blog iabhopal Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Repenting at that stage will be to no avail. pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Badri Raina's marvelous Professor Higgins poem (But the 'Equality idea' ain't dead)
From the Blog beenasarwar *Prof. Higgins haranguing Eliza in My Fair Lady* *Another marvelous poem by Badri Raina in Delhi, published in ZNet, referencing Prof. Henry Higgins' famous line in the musical My Fair Lady based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. I will differ from Badri ji only to humbly offer that far from being dead, the 'Equality idea' is alive and kicking. It is in fact the growing prevalence of this idea that so threatens the beneficiaries of oppressive systems that they feel compelled to churn up fascism and bigotry, that get amplified in the news and social media. Am I wrong? * Remembering Professor Higgins *By Badri Raina* We raised eyebrows when Higgins asked "why can't a woman be more like a man?" Look how whole nations now build upon That thought in the Professor's brain. In the pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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