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Have pity on civilians Bourses in tailspin NAC around Chandigarh |
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International drive against terrorism
Am I clairvoyant?
Devi Lal in the age of globalisation
Lay off: Of arrogance and false sense of
security
Germany offers to take in orphans
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Have pity on civilians AS
war clouds darken over the gloomy Afghan horizon, fear-stricken civilians in the war-ravaged country are abandoning their homes for safety. But safety is a mirage for them. The world outside has shut its doors on them. Every neighbouring country has sealed its borders. There is no way open for them to reach any refugee camp in Pakistan and Iran, the countries they have preferred so far. Thus, they are being denied of an opportunity to live even as refugees. This is in accordance with the wishes of the members of the anti-terrorism coalition formed under the leadership of the USA. It is true that the idea is to punish Osama bin Laden and his Taliban supporters for the September 11 carnage on the soil of America. But how about innocent civilians? Why should they suffer for the crimes of terrorist mastermind Osama and his Taliban followers? It is the moral duty of the world community to come to the rescue of the starving and stranded civilians at this hour of grave crisis. Among these suffering people are lakhs of children and women who are dying of such common diseases as cold and fever. It is a pity that one-fourth of the new-born die before attaining the age of five, and most female casualties are related to childbirth. Widespread hunger has reduced the average age of men to 40 years and women to 44. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been helping over 2.5 million homeless Afghans living in camps in Pakistan and over 1.5 million in Iran. Last year the UN agency had issued an SOS to world capitals asking for at least $ 212 million as aid for the people forced to leave their villages and towns because of the civil war in the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal and the crippling drought that visited their homeland. The UNHCR could, however, get a mere $ 43 million in response to its humanitarian appeal. In the meantime, the Afghan tragedy was compounded with the imposition of US economic sanctions. There is another UN agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), which had been functioning within Afghanistan. But in the wake of the declaration of "war on terrorism", WFP officials and the staff of NGOs have been asked to leave the unfortunate people to fend for themselves. Under the United Nations WFP, there are food stocks enough hardly for three weeks, and even for this there will be no system left to distribute among the needy once the agency's officials depart. There is no economy worth the name. Most of the 25 million Afghans (the total population of the country) are so poor that they cannot think of running away from their homes, come what may. India should rise to the occasion and assert its traditional bonds with the people of that landlocked country, reviving the spirit reflected in Rabindranath's "Kabuliwala". The Indian leadership should immediately take up the cause of the disabled and hungry Afghans, the civilians who have nothing to do with the Taliban, and put pressure on the UN and the world powers to evolve an effective mechanism to ensure that the innocent do not die for want of food and medical care. While those living a miserable life in the refugee camps need to be provided sufficient life-sustaining facilities, more camps should be set up wherever feasible. Whatever the world community does, it should appear to be on the side of the people of Afghanistan in general who have been victimised by the Taliban militia since it came to power in 1996. Any strategy which goes against humanitarian needs will defeat the very purpose for which the US-led coalition has come into being. |
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Bourses in tailspin STOCK
markets across the world are on a long march to the Netherland. After a week-long plunge there was a marginal upswing on Monday but this does not indicate a firm reversal of the deep pessimism gripping the stock markets. The traders and indirectly the big investors are always given to easy and early panic and to generate much speculation. This makes for a deadly concoction and the outcome is extreme volatility. Now a new element has entered the picture, which is an economic slowdown in the USA and consequently in the rest of the world. In the midst of all this came the terrorist strike on September 11 and the circle of fear was complete. A very clear indication has come from the USA itself. The New York Stock Exchange, the heartbeat of the capitalist world, has shed 1370 points last week to touch about 8,700 points from its high pedestal of 10,000 points or more. At one time last year it was close to piercing the 11,000-point mark. Many companies from many countries have listed their shares in this exchange partly for prestige and partly to earn dollars. That is why a sharp slide in the Dow Jones average, the barometer of the New York Stock Exchange price movement, has an instant ripple effect all over the globe. Stock markets also spew out alarming rumours. Both in New York and in Frankfurt (Germany) there are wild stories that there was unusual short selling in the shares of re-insurance companies and airlines. Short selling is a stock market jargon for a speculator offering to sell shares he does not possess and at a price lower than the market rate on the day of the deal. If the share price crashes because of an accident, terrorist strike or management failure, the short seller makes a fortune. The major re-insurance company, Allianz, is a victim of short selling as are others in Europe. American airlines too suffered a similar fate with a leading carrier finding 40 per cent of its shares sold by somebody not owning even one share. The implication of this widely held suspicion is horrendous. If all this is really insider trading (buying and selling by persons who knew what was about to happen), there were people who were privy to the terrorist strike. A top German bank official says it is impossible to establish any link. Inquiries in America too has reached a dead end. It is not surprising. The FBI and the CIA are looking into the political and terrorist links of hundreds of suspects associated with Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda, and the sources of funds and the ways of financing the murderous operations are not in their radar screen. |
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NAC around Chandigarh TWO
important decisions were reportedly taken by the Chandigarh Administration and the Punjab government on Thursday concerning the future of the city and its periphery. Of course, there is no dearth of people whose hearts bleed for Corbusier's masterpiece. Most of them live in huge bungalows in the northern sectors of the city. They create unjustified din whenever any practical decision is taken for coping with the rush of visitors to the city or for meeting the housing shortage. Be that as it may, both decisions deserve to be seen in the light of the population explosion in the region. No one can deny the fact that Chandigarh was designed for a "fixed population". Because of this infirmity it is not able to take care of the "guest" and housing needs of the visitors and the residents. For meeting the shortage of economical accommodation for budget tourists and business visitors the Chandigarh Administration has allowed the running of guest houses in residential areas. It is a practical step, but the concerned officials will have to be vigilant to ensure that the guest houses are not used for any other purposes. It goes without saying that a vigilant neighbourhood should ensure that the guest house owners do not violate the terms of the contract. But the decision that is likely to change the landscape of the region is the one taken by the Punjab government. According to reports, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal announced at a sangat darshan that Naya Gaon, Kansal and other villages on the periphery of Chandigarh would shortly be given the status of a composite notified area committee. In other words the lal dora restriction on the construction of houses on agricultural land adjoining the city would automatically go. The maximum noise is likely to be created by the northern sectors' residents by invoking the vision of the founder of the city. However, they need to be told firmly yet politely that if their heart indeed bleeds for the preservation of the character of Chandigarh, they should volunteer to have their palatial bungalows carved into small marla units for the shelterless population of the city. The decision to convert Naya Gaon and the adjoining villages into an NAC is both wise and practical. True, it would violate the periphery laws of Chandigarh. But the laws were first violated by the governments of Punjab and Haryana when they developed Mohali and Panchkula as satellite townships. The conversion of villages beyond Sukhna Lake into an NAC would at least ensure planned urban development. The absence of a civic authority has already resulted in haphazard growth in the entire belt. The creation of a an NAC may prove to be a timely intervention. |
International drive against terrorism SUCCUMBING on the surface to the USA, President Musharraf of Pakistan has been trying hard to make peace with President Bush and somehow get his way in Kashmir. The new line being sold in Pakistan is that it is India that is a terrorist state in Kashmir. President Musharraf has pleaded with President Bush to keep India and Israel out of the coalition against terrorism. This is to win Arab support and to keep India at an arm’s length from American strategy and friendship. President Musharraf undoubtedly is in a tight corner in balancing himself between the Taliban and the USA with the overall intention of defeating India in Kashmir. It is a difficult fixture in which he has been caught but he has so far kept his cool and played it well. He has done what he could not avoid in assuring the USA that he would try to hand over Osama bin Laden to America. He would be satisfied if in all this he can manage to get the big prize of Kashmir. If this can happen he would justify to the people of his country that he had to sacrifice the Taliban and Bin Laden but in their place he has got them what they had not achieved for the last 50 years: Kashmir. His people would thus be mollified and he himself would be safe in his job. He has to content with the mullahs who consider the Taliban as their sword arm and the political opposition to him while cultivating America, the rest of the West, the Islamic Conference and China. Given this premise, he has not made many mistakes so far. He thinks that the Americans would be happy to get Bin Laden out of Afghanistan and, if this happens, he would soften them into forgetting about the Pakistani brand of terrorism in Kashmir. That is one reason why India must not let the world forget the terrorism indulged in Kashmir. The fight against world terrorism must include what is being done by terrorists in Kashmir. For the first three days after the September 11 shattering of New York and the Pentagon Kashmir did not witness any violence but on the fourth day there was a major blast in Handwara in the valley in which nine Indian policemen were done to death. Those who know that whatever is happening in Kashmir is managed by the ISI want to find out what is it the ISI wants to do in the present context. President Musharraf should have been in a nervous state after the New York carnage to think that it would all get mixed up as world terrorism and combine what happened in America with what has been happening in Kashmir. In the other trouble spot, Palestine, events took a different course as Mr Yasser Arafat decided not to let his people give rise to violence. Israel followed up with the hope of peace talks. India and Pakistan could have done the same at least by deciding to end violence. But Pakistan’s hold on the Kashmir dispute is through violence and it uses terrorism to keep that up. Because of the extensive death and destruction in Manhattan and the Pentagon, terrorism that has been unleashed in Kashmir over the last 11 years is being overlooked. This is the classic Indian story of giving up its gains and getting lost in the advantages the others get. Look at the two-minute nationwide silence in tribute to those who fell on September 11. Since it was meant to pay homage to those who had perished in terrorism, could not Kashmir have been remembered too? It looked strange that in a country which was honouring the martyrs to terrorism, Kashmir was not mentioned. Never before had this kind of a homage been paid to those civilians and security forces in Kashmir. Ironically, only that very day television networks and newspapers had reported the killing of nine Indian policemen in Kashmir. The militant who was killed in the attack was a Pakistani. It is not just the case of numbers. Less than 10,000 have died in the New York and Pentagon carnage, but in the 11 years of terrorism in Kashmir about 50,000 people must have been killed. Kashmir has been all kinds of terrorism. It has seen a tribal invasion. It has been Afghan mercenaries crossing over and getting killed. It has seen suicide squads from Pakistan playing havoc. It has seen attacks on people in uniform. It has seen, worst of all, the killing of innocent civilians, children in schools, women and men standing in the roadways. It has seen hijacking of aircraft. It has seen buses full of passengers suddenly going up in smoke. It has seen well-known educationists, like the Vice-Chancellor of Kashmir University, getting lynched. It has seen ethnic violence as nearly three hundred thousand Kashmiri Pandits were thrown out of Kashmir in the early days of the terrorism when an effort was made by the ISI to convert Kashmir into a totally Muslim area. Kashmir has witnessed every aspect of terrorism. It will be a sad story if Kashmir gets sidelined in the full blast of the campaign against Bin Laden and the sorrow over New York and the Pentagon. The Indian government and the Indian public opinion should not allow this to happen. Not that if the war strikes out in Afghanistan between armies, the same should be done in Kashmir. Nobody should think of another war in Kashmir. Nor would it solve the problem. But while talking of terrorism, Kashmir should not be a forgotten category whereas what happened in America should get all the attention. If that happens we would be doing the victims of terrorism in our country a poor service. Because of what happened in America, terrorism has come to the fore in world forums. New York has shaken the world. So far what happened in Kashmir received scant attention because it was something that did not concern big powers. The toll taken was of a poor subcontinent which could go on. Again, this is not to bring in racial overtones, but the world must explain why terrorism in Kashmir got little attention. In his broadcast General Musharraf has tried to get the support of his people by saying that all that he is doing is for Islam. Whether we like him or not, the Chief Minister of Kashmir, Dr Farooq Abdullah, has spoken the truth. He said that Kashmir could not be traded off in return for Pakistani support to the USA in tracking down Osama bin Laden. “Pakistan is stupid. Neither Kashmir is a commodity for trade-off nor the USA will fall into the trap of Islamabad,” he said. This fight, he said, cannot be limited only to one nation but has to be a joint effort of all civilised countries. He did in a way assert the anguish in India of its having fought alone. He said that India had been quick to respond and condemn the barbaric act of terrorists in America. “We had been highlighting the menace of militancy for the past one decade. When our plane was hijacked and taken to Kandahar, no one came forward. We went ahead alone and braved the fundamentalist groups,” said Dr Farooq Abdullah. If Afghanistan and America hold the prime attention of the world, some day history will blame the people of the world for having ignored Kashmir. We must not make that mistake. Kashmir and Kashmiris will not look kindly at this. This is also an opportunity for India to put the entire world terrorist scourge in one picture. It should not get divided between poverty and prosperity or white and black or the people who can tolerate and the people who can make a louder claim to attention. History is watching us. India has a duty to put all this in perspective. |
Am I clairvoyant? I
must have been no more than ten or twelve. There was much talk of swaraj in the family with Gandhian literature spread all over Father’s large office table and elsewhere. Khadi wear was, of course, de rigueur and we all sang patriotic songs in the evenings, my sisters in their soft voices and my brother considerably off pitch but loudest and most enthusiastic of all. It was summer time and the family slept at night on the spacious terrace of the ancestral house. The mosquitoes and the heat were terrible and sleep was fitful. We exchanged jokes and riddles to while away the tedium and made frequent trips to the surahi of cold water. I must have been overcome by sleep towards the early hours when I had a beauteous dream. I saw King George walking up to Mahatma Gandhi, bowing courteously and with much ceremony, placing his crown on Bapu’s bald pate and departing. Needless to say, when I narrated my dream to my elders at the breakfast table, it was laughed out. I had a somewhat similar experience again yesterday afternoon. In the morning I had read a thought provoking article entitled “Fight to the Finish” about the dilemma facing the authorities in Pakistan these days and was mulling over various views and comments coming from politicians, journalists, religious leaders and lay persons in profusion. A comment from a Pakistani editor in particular had gripped my mind and made me restless: Musharraf does not have a choice between life and death. He has a choice between death and death, he had said. Is this what the simple soldier had bargained for when he seized power and exiled bechara Nawaz Sharif? Is this the dream he had envisioned for taking his country out of a political mess into the 21st century? Thinking these thoughts, I retired into my darkened room for my siesta and fell asleep. It was again a fitful sleep and I clearly saw President Pervez Musharraf arriving in New
Delhi with a retainer or two, all clad in civvies, and making it straight to the Prime Minister’s house. The following conversation took place: “Ayie, ayie, General sahib. We were expecting you. The Neharwali haveli has been freshly whitewashed and is awaiting your arrival”. “Many thanks”, said the honoured guest. “I hope you have ordered some dinner for us”. |
Devi Lal in the age of globalisation IF Chaudhary Devi Lal were alive today, he would have been 87. He was born on September 25, 1914. He would probably be a sad man today not because the world is now gripped with hysteria about the impending ‘global war against terrorism’. Devi Lal was made of a different mettle. Globalised thinking was not to his liking. The era of globalisation has changed the terms of agrarian debate. From protests of ‘urban bias’ in development policies by peasant messiahs like the late Charan Singh and Devi Lal, we now have celebration of WTO regulations by the likes of Sharad Joshi. Assuming that Devi Lal was serious about his politics, it is unlikely that he liked the way the wind was blowing in Delhi’s Krishi Bhawan. Devi Lal could not appreciate the lifting of Quantitative Restrictions (QRs) on the import of a range of agricultural commodities from April 1, 2001. Ironically, his party (Indian National Lok Dal) is supporting the Vajpayee Government that has given the green signal to agricultural imports. The story of Devi Lal (and his illness), however, is older than the QRs. The spread of the Green Revolution was limited in 1960s to Punjab, Haryana and western UP. It was here that a new leadership was born from the Congress. The purpose of this leadership was to give a voice to the hopes and aspirations of rural producers who had made it good and who had with them marketable surpluses of agrarian products. Charan Singh was the more vocal and erudite of these leaders but he had a whole band of followers of whom Devi Lal was probably the tallest one. These leaders were against landlordism and argued, like utilitarians, that since land was a natural resource the claim of the tiller was more significant that of the title-holder over a piece of land. The hostility of such leaders to moneylenders was legion and the word ‘bania’ (the caste to which money lenders traditionally belonged) almost became a swear word in the areas where Green Revolution triumphed. These leaders did not quite sympathise with the rural poor. They were against any form of socialism and this was one of the main reasons for their opposition to the Congress’ resolution regarding cooperative farming (1957). Finally, when there was talk in 1960s about Congress redistributing excess land among poor peasants and agricultural labourers, these leaders walked out of the Congress which was then undergoing some spasms of radicalism. The rhetoric and cant of these leaders was that there was an ‘urban bias’ in policies. This meant to their supporters that Congress persistently manipulated inter-sectoral terms of trade against agriculture. ‘The price of a bag of urea doubles within a few years whereas that of wheat has remained stationary for decades’, they usually complained. Any reduction of subsidy on agricultural inputs, viz. fertilisers, diesel or power, was met with howls of protest throughout north-west India and Parliament. The Government of the day was made to retract such decisions in the interest of ‘poor farmers’. Simultaneously, these leaders and their followers always demanded higher prices for agricultural products and Government protection against imports or depression in prices following over-production. All this had become possible until 1980s when the governments prided in being socially (not just fiscally) responsible and cared to buttress producers (not only the consumers) in society. Devi Lal belonged to that era and was in fact the Chief Minister of Haryana (1987-89) and Deputy Prime Minister in V P Singh/Chandra Shekhar’s Government (1989-91). Only some agrarian populists lament the passing away of that era. The radicals in those days always wanted to know as to how would the agrarian question, meaning vast inequalities in rural assets and income, resolve? Others were in doubt whether there was enough wealth to enrich all ruralites and they questioned the wisdom of redistributing rural poverty. This automatically led to questioning the representation of peasants as the ‘economic other’ for the purposes of socio-economic development. The alternative to this was the projection of peasants as the ‘cultural other’. Politicians like Devi Lal treated peasants not just as their favourite constituency but also as people who were culturally different. In Haryana, during Devi Lal’s chief ministership (1987-89), not only were rural loans up to Rs 5,000 waived but up to 50 per cent posts/seats in educational institutions were reserved for residents of rural areas. As the Union Minister of Tourism (1990-91), Devi Lal actually ordered 50 per cent concession to residents of rural areas visiting five-star hotels run and owned by the Government of India. This last concession best betrayed the class-affiliation of Devi Lal but it also represented the aspirations of the rural elite in India. After availing itself of the best education free under Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya scheme during Rajiv Gandhi’s government (1984-89), the rural elite hungered for exclusive five-star hospitality at subsidised costs. Devi Lal pandered to their desires as any patriarch would to humour his supporters and made the government foot the bill of his profligacy. Representatives of the rural elite made some efforts to look different. Even Devi Lal wore a green turban and Rajasthani jooti (foot-wear) during public appearances. But the sum and substance of his own desires remained similar to that of the Congress elite. He wanted his creation to take place in Delhi (where he mostly lived since 1989) and he is reported to have desired that his mortal remains be immersed into various rivers in the Indian subcontinent a la Jawaharlal Nehru. The similarity, however, does not end here. At rally after rally that he addressed towards his end, he disowned one son (probably Ranjit Singh) and spoke of Om Prakash Chautala, the present (Chief Minister of Haryana) as his chosen ‘successor’. All this helped the reinvention, in Haryanvi
ishtyle, of the Nehru-Gandhi family’s penchant for dynastic succession. There is yet one more similarity-in-the-making with the modernist Nehru-Gandhi family. The chosen successor of Devi Lal has introduced English from Class I in all Government schools and subsidised computer education at the Secondary level in some of the Government schools in Haryana. We don’t know whether by doing this Devi Lal’s successor is answering the prayers of the rural elite? Or is it that he is preparing the Haryanvi human resource to the future needs of globalisation?
Lay off: Of arrogance and false sense of
security LAY Off! What did you say? I have only till now heard in a Hollywood movie this typically loathsome warning being hurled at an uncompromising prowler in utter disgust and anger by damsels in distress. But in the true sense of the word, in an attempt to save their own virtue. And now it seems it is the turn of someone burdened with obligation to arrange a hand over through the uncomfortable and equally uncompromising bully, but a formidable entity, that the usage has been resorted to, that too by none else than an engineer himself in his new avatar of the leader (?), against his ‘perceived adversary’. The switchover from the local lingo to English was no purposeless exercise in making the remark reach the ears of the one who could understand and appreciate this language, and very quickly at that, was eager to give a pat on the back — “Well we are happy. You have learnt to behave at least at the same time appearing to be adhering to the syntax of your body language if not its semantics, while addressing issues not really quite close to your heart but to the flap under your epaulettes.” Is it really so with you that ‘we are too much with you’ when you want to wish us away and exclaim in ingenuine terms (read raise alarm) — lay off? Your pound of flesh will surely bleed white stuff you know but you will have (bargained for) it, come what may, till you falsely realise — a Daniel has come to deliver the judgement — for that is your own resolve but devoid of the popular support even in your own land. Between brothers the flesh cannot be separated from the bones. You cannot rip off the skin and blurt — lay off. If one has anything to lay off, it is arrogance. If one has anything to lay off, it is a false sense of security. If one has to lay off, it is a disposition bordering on barbarism. If one has to lay off, it is opportunism at a human tragedy. If one has to lay off, it is obstinacy in not agreeing to correct the wrongs and be in tune with the times. Said Shakespeare; “There is a tide in the affairs of men....” Well ride the tide of common sense embracing and expressing genuine human emotions otherwise the mighty Sea shall make a thunderous call — lay off. And surely then you will be castaway. Laid off. |
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Germany offers to take in orphans Germany offered on Friday to adopt children orphaned in the attacks on New York and Washington last week. “After updated estimates we must reckon with several thousand fatalities from the attacks on the United States,” Interior Minister Otto Schily said. “Unfortunately that also means there are possibly a multitude of children of various nationalities who have become complete orphans from these terror attacks with no relatives or without relatives in a position to take them in for the long term.” Schily said that Germany would ease its usual regulations to find foster families for such
children. Reuters
Gay singer finds women attractive too
Gay singer Elton John said on Monday he still fancied women but that it was unlikely he would ever sleep with one again. In an interview with Britain’s Sun newspaper the flamboyant star said the last time he had sex with a woman was with his ex-wife Renate Blauel 13 years ago. He has now been in a relationship with film producer David Furnish for eight years and said settling down had been good for him after years of care-free sex. Even though the pop star enthused about gay life he said he was not averse to admiring the female form. “I can be driving along and see a woman walking down the street. If I like the way she walks or dresses I think ‘Phwaoar! She is gorgeous. I don’t just fancy men,” he said. “I’ll do the same with men though. “...But will I sleep with a woman again? Probably not. I’m very happy with David.” John, 54, whose hits include “Candle in the Wind”, which he sang at the funeral of Britain’s Princess Diana in 1997, said he found actresses Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Hurley and Julia Roberts attractive. John and Furnish, a 38-year old film producer, have exchanged gold rings, which they wear on their wedding fingers. “Before I met David, sexually it was fabulous but very dangerous and irresponsible. I am very lucky — I should be dead, if not through the amounts of drugs I’ve taken, then from the amount of unsafe sex I’ve had.”
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Like the blind man at Jericho, and like Mary in the Garden, I would greet Thee, O Thou Lord of all as "my dear Master", nay more, I would add yet a further word, and say, 'My dear loving Master". I thank Thee for all Thy love to me; As Thou hast loved me, so may I love. May I be more than conqueror Over coldnessness, thoughtlessness, selfishness and constraint, through the memory of Thy love. Let me become great in love. — Charlotte Skinner,
The Marks of the Master *** O Lord, I ever remember Thy Name, Better than Bullah is an oven, over which food is prepared, For that food is shared by the Faqirs seated in company. Better than Bullah is the dirt - covered red stone on which the sole of the foot is rubbed to make it clean. Bullah says the Lord can be met by him who prefers to live like the goat of the butcher on whose head hangs the sword. — Bullah Shah, "Tera nam dhiyae da..." *** If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure. Let a wise man leave the small pleasure and look to the great. *** He who by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred. *** But they whose whole watchfulness is always directed to their body, who do not follow what ought not to be done, and who steadfastly do what ought to be done, the sins of such watchful and wise people will come to an end. — From the Buddha's Dhammapada or Path of virtue (F. Max Muller's translation, 290-93, 303-5, 308-9, 311-12 |
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