This question got triggered in me by two things. One was reading the post by my colleague Ashok Malhotra called “the myth of the ‘aam’ admi” and when I was watching a recent hindi movie in which a soon to divorced man in his late thirties falls for a cutesy twenty one year old at his work place and his pathetic attempts of trying to be something (read turning from a thirty something to a twenty something), that he was not.
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Guest speaks – “The Just War” by Raghu Ananthanarayanan
I am watching the BBC news and the airtime is filled with various European and American heads of Nations talking about the ‘just cause’ and how they must stop Qadafi from killing his own people. The performances were polished and crisp. The first though that hit me was “what underlying sense of power and assurance in the demeanor when war is on”. It is almost as though the only time the western leaders come really alive is when they are in a war like situation.
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