Intellectual……..Disasters
Who is an intellectual? Thinker, scholar, learned… How we distinguish an ordinary human from an intellectual human. To become an intellect one needs to have qualities worth and we respect only dignified intellectuals and not the ones who misuse their intellectual status. You will not become an intellect by writing a column like the one MD of DH supplements that Merlin Manro loved Fyodor Dostoevsky or how dumb she was; it is like adding a few more lines that how an intellect recently married a silk smitha type of woman….. For such writings you need no brain but need only a few friends in pages or in media houses. We know it is very low to compete with such outfits hang around us like satellites. We prefer not to impress such writers but try to follow dignified writers of this world (we see a lot around us in this world and you don’t need to scream aloud that ‘he is not just into you.... kind of dialogues). We can at any point of time think of Tagore and feel that he is just in our brain streams or in our heart. We can understand our thinking level at any point of time is different from those donkey brained men who leave their wives and children in their respective homes and peep through the window doors of neighbors' wives through microscopes and lens. Well known poet of India Kamala Das wrote a poem Sepia for such humans. She had ample vision to foresee that world can turn into place for nameless faceless sepia painted cheats…
Why not we love Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Che Guevara?. Above all Tagore wrote Stray Birds and Gitanjaly to crown Nobel. ..
When we think of Dostoevsky the following lines come to our mind.
But what shall I do if I know for a fact that at the root of all human virtues lies the most intense egoism.
I think you agree with all your politeness…...
Cure for intellctual arrogance.
ReplyDeleteWhen intellectual arrogance distinguish our part of earth with Marlin Manro and Rakhi Sawant we shud distinguish treat and cure that 50year old makeup kit as Disco Shanti/ Silk Smitha. At times we can not cure cure intellectual arrogance with dignity and at that point of time we need to supplement them with their own medicine..
Good... Sepia is written for them... nameles, faceless distinguished intellectual pretends...
Gayatri..
Gayatri
ReplyDeleteDo not embarrass distinguished intellectuals. Only they got the right to embarass others.
Even I agree with you that we can not cure intellectual arrogance with dignity. We need to go a little low to their level to make them understand what treatment they really need to cure them.
Ajay