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Vivek Singh It boils my blood when you sneerMake faces and whisper ‘reservation’. What exactly is your frustration, your critique, what is the devastationThat it brings in your life that you hate it so? Or is it the idea of me sitting next to youThat makes you say no? What is it that your frail …
ଦେବନୁରୁ ମହାଦେବ (Devanuru Mahadeva) ‘ସହିଷ୍ଣୁତା’ ଓ ‘ଅସହିଷ୍ଣୁତା’ ଆଜିର ‘ମୋତେ ଛୁଅଁ ନାହିଁ’ ଶବ୍ଦ ହେଇଯାଇଛି। ଶୁଦ୍ଧତା କୁ ଅସ୍ପୃଶ୍ୟତା ସହିତ ଯୋଡିକରି,ଭାରତ ଏକ ଅର୍ଧ-ମୃତ ଏବଂ ଅର୍ଧ-ଜିଅନ୍ତା ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦେଶରେ ପରିଣତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି । ସେଥୀପାଇଁ ଯେତେ କମ କହିବେ, ସେତେ ସୁରକ୍ଷୀତ । ମୁ ଭି ବୁଝିବାକୁ ଚେଷ୍ଟା କରୁଛି । ଆଜିର ପ୍ରଚଳିତ ଅସହିଷ୍ଣୁତାକୁ ନବୁଝି,ସହିଷ୍ଣୁତାକୁ ବୁଝିହେବନି। ଉଦାହରଣତଃ: ଜୁନ ୮,୨୦୧୬ ‘ପ୍ରଜାବାଣୀ’ ରେ ଖବର ଛପିଲା ଯେ ମୟସୁରୁ …
Devanuru Mahadeva The ‘touch me not’ words of today are ‘tolerance’ and ‘intolerance’. By connecting purity with untouchability, India became a land of the half living and the half dead. So it may be safer to speak less. I too am trying to understand. Without understanding the existing intolerant behaviour, tolerance also can’t be …
Jason Keith Fernandes While a number of litterateurs across India were making a symbolic protest against the rising intolerance in India under the Modi regime by returning their awards from the Sahitya Akademi, a bunch of Sahitya Akademi award winners from Goa, along with two Padmashri awardees, made a very odd statement. On the …