“The ‘Right’ to be Left Alone.”

6th and 7th Nov., 2010 will see the US President Obama in Mumbai. I wonder will he ever grasp the fact that throughout the world, the US is perceived as setting less of spiritual standards and more on materialistic ones. Will he realize that the US is seen as a conceited, egocentric, gluttonous country engrossed in Guns and Dollars? Will he ever understand that the US is not seen as a country interested in people, their hopes and aspirations? Or will he be just like those American citizens who never had this opportunity to see the world and thought that the world is America?

Sometimes I wonder, has he as a US representativem come here to gloat over us? Sometimes I even wonder whether the Americans think that they are the only human beings in this world!

Anyway south of Mumbai will be closed to us mortals. The question is : Is it worth to waste so much time, money and energy on one man?

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Like the Right of Privacy - Is there a right called “The Right to be left alone?”

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The struggle to survive, struggle against poverty, hunger & disease – these are basic struggles. There is another struggle. The struggle between the individual and his sacrosanct right to express himself and ‘The Authority’ that looks for compliance, obedience and repress or stifles free thought and free expression that may determine our fate. The Authorities seek to regulate free speech, putting a limit on the range of discussions that one should or can have, censoring or limiting thoughts and subjects that appear to be taboo and reminding us constantly that holocaust is not actually over.

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I guess it simmers down to two things that one should aim in life. One is to go out and get what you want. The other is, after you get what you want in life, to enjoy it. Very few have achieved the second.

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We work our way up to own something. We work hard to own a house. We work hard to pay off the loan. When finally we own it, we don’t find anybody living in it.

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