Re:Twilight of the Taj Mahal
by yumraj on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:07AM
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I think where I'm disagreeing with you is I believe passion is a luxury due to economic constraints rather than an artifact of societal setup, at least in the modern times.
In historic times, and to a lesser extent even now, careers were decided based on family, so there yes societal setup led to suppression of passion. However, even then how much of that was due to economic reasons and how much societal if a difficult question to answer, at least for me.
But, OTOH, I do agree that India has all the ingredients to become much greater - how do we get there is a much more complicated topic.
In historic times, and to a lesser extent even now, careers were decided based on family, so there yes societal setup led to suppression of passion. However, even then how much of that was due to economic reasons and how much societal if a difficult question to answer, at least for me.
But, OTOH, I do agree that India has all the ingredients to become much greater - how do we get there is a much more complicated topic.