by thebengali
Good Morning World: What is Equality? #equality #genderequality #equalrights #existentialism #fear #society #education #learning #behaviour #conditionedbehaviour #goodmorningworld #thebengali #pune #India #maharashtra #self #individual
Categories: Learning, Philosophy, Pune, Self, Society • Tags: education, Equality, existentialism, India, Law, Learning, Life, Mumbai, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, The Self, thebengali, Writing
by thebengali
Recently one of my young nephews asked a question (to no one in particular) on a social network: can’t we have one law for everyone? As a very common citizen he was angry about people getting away with a crime and others less privileged getting long imprisonment for a similar crime; he was frustrated at his helplessness, that he had no power to influence law makers, and governments into a more peaceful society, a just society. I was struck by […]
Categories: Learning, Self, Society • Tags: Change, Equality, India, Justice, Law, Order, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, thebengali
by thebengali
My memory tells me that as a school-boy in Bombay of the late 1970s and early 1980s, I used to be afraid of Maths, Maths teachers, of a boy in my class, and his elder brother Jacob. Maths teachers because they had a condescending way of correcting the gaps in my understanding, Maths because I grew to hate the subject probably due to the experience of being taught Maths in a condescending way, the boy in my class because he […]
Categories: Learning, Self, Society • Tags: Discrimination, Equality, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, thebengali