My experience with teaching a coursework on Afghanistan has been quite refreshing. I had to venture in those areas which are considered rather unconventional for a geographer. I had took up the issues of ethnicity and conflict in the region and worked out the social system modules in which these relations lie. This has been very informative and learning experience for me. I have also been able to have a good repository of articles database that I find handy while referencing my work.
But, I feel that area studies apart from what they have become as territorial studies de facto, should conisder to venture into those areas or phenomenon, which are trans-boundary in their impact. This not only brings into focus the geographical forces, but also the nations and their polity in the geopolitical environment. Documentation of foreign policy and history of relations is only one part of the story. The real objective of any area studies research shold be to provide across the board analysis of various segments of a part of political landscape, defined as, the nation. In this, one must consider the dynamics of people's moving around the nations and their in carrying these influences to a signficant stage.
Monday, April 24, 2006
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Life and the Estranged Self
It happens that sometimes the whole load of relationship goes off the mind, just a memory wipe out. And, the alienation is a state of inebriation with an estranged self that keeps occluded pressures of daily life. A new taste of same banality that is suddenly transformed in relishing moment. How does the morose things turn into the sticky skin embodying the self? This can only be perhaps seen as the pressures from day to day material life. But, more from the fact the appreciation of the very same matter is different for the two individuals who do not wish to subscribe to each other's understanding. The individualism has nothing to do it, here.
The fact is that value systems that individual inherits from one's social ecumene and cultural traits are the real forces that drive the serious discordants between the two. And, the effort to get something new out of it becomes a herculean task. The only answer left it to detach this self, which is no longer the individual self, but individual identity of social self. And, the tragedy is something similar to the Nutty Professor, inflating beyond proportions before bursting under the stress. One, only hopes to enjoy the thick filthy falbby self that is more personalised more lonesome and more detached to any sense of past personality cults.
The fact is that value systems that individual inherits from one's social ecumene and cultural traits are the real forces that drive the serious discordants between the two. And, the effort to get something new out of it becomes a herculean task. The only answer left it to detach this self, which is no longer the individual self, but individual identity of social self. And, the tragedy is something similar to the Nutty Professor, inflating beyond proportions before bursting under the stress. One, only hopes to enjoy the thick filthy falbby self that is more personalised more lonesome and more detached to any sense of past personality cults.
Resolving Nepal Crisis
The situation in Nepal can only be rendered solvent from the perspective of the parties engaged: the King Gyanendra, Nepali Congress, Maoists and the Nepalese army. At the moment, the king and the army are together against unusual cobbling of seven party alliance (SPA) plus the maoists. The offer made was no newer trick to split the ranks, but the king has failed to recekon this time that the situation has gone far his petty maneuvres.
There is need to have a stable transition process so as the king is assured of his stakes in Nepal nation-society and the people's aspiration are carefully weaned off any militant characteristics that are potentially dangerous for the neighbourhood. The demands a peace process along the lines of BONN AGREEMENT. The Bonn Agreement can serve as model to step by step transition to democracy, in which the king to can be party to constitution formulation. No doubt, avoiding any electoral process cannot be the solution. Hence, people and the king should come to a set up where the constitutional dialogue can be initiated. There is need to carefully condition this process externally. SAARC can be the appropriate platform, where India and Pakistan can take the lead with China and the US as strategic players, which they are in any case.
There is need to have a stable transition process so as the king is assured of his stakes in Nepal nation-society and the people's aspiration are carefully weaned off any militant characteristics that are potentially dangerous for the neighbourhood. The demands a peace process along the lines of BONN AGREEMENT. The Bonn Agreement can serve as model to step by step transition to democracy, in which the king to can be party to constitution formulation. No doubt, avoiding any electoral process cannot be the solution. Hence, people and the king should come to a set up where the constitutional dialogue can be initiated. There is need to carefully condition this process externally. SAARC can be the appropriate platform, where India and Pakistan can take the lead with China and the US as strategic players, which they are in any case.
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