To me, there are many broad categories of freedom like personal freedom, social freedom, economic freedom, political freedom, etc. Some of these categories are inherently linked to each other. Personal freedom enables a person to do something positive in his personal interest, family interest, organizational interest or national interest. Rural and illiterate women in many [...]
Nearly forty years ago, Janis Joplin screamed in song that “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” A few years before her, an impassioned Martin Luther King called out his dreams of freedom, amplifying the determined footfall of Gandhi’s earlier satyagraha, or non violent protest for freedom. Their messages replay everywhere: echoes, chants, [...]
What do I know about freedom today? My life is full of doing doing doing talking talking thinking thinking push push push in a world too noisy, too hellbent, too rushing by on important business as if it mattered who gets there first – a baby step past destruction and up against a wall, suddenly [...]
