Really especially liked this podcast for the part about being boxed in. I think that is one of the major difficulties of life, figuring out what one is good at parlaying into a sustainable existence. Easily sustains you and your partner in life or your family should you choose or a commitments free existence like the fictional Jack Reacher. Boxed in means boxed in by rigidity rather than fluidity. Often if feels so much better to be out on the sea encountering the fluidity of ever-changing sea state. It's calm, it's light breeze, strong breeze, ragingly strong winds, high seas and huge waves, like one's emotions. The land is more fixed especially when there is too much concrete and steel. To be progressive often means to label and categorize so that diverse human individual potential is ignored or sacrificed to being grouped by secular Western pseudo castes of wealth or poverty, light or dark skin, favored versus unfavored identities, religions, countries and cultures. Traditionally Indian culture is more fluid in some ways and more rigid in others. But spiritually it embraces more life force, more sheer energy than Western formalism or complicated classification allows. If you have a lot of energy it hard to box it all in, rigidify it, as the British found out so the scoundrels othered everyone in India and pitted they all against one another. But in Hindu theology, that is a debt that is continually being exacted out from them as shrinking economy and opportunity shows. So thanks for this enlightening podcast.
I hope your wife's leg break is not where she is in a full plaster cast and not able to move around. Hope she is healing and able to move around on crutches or a wheelchair and it is a shorter rather than longer healing or recovery time. Then physical therapy to get back to full mobility.
The message I sent is this which I think you saw:
Raj,
I liked your last podcast and have restacked it. I recently had a three hour Substack Live interview with Raj Menon wherein we promoted his Substack "The Marinade," my book, "Myself Lost," and my Substack, "India Street." We also talked about India. And when it gets to India, you know a whole more than I ever will and Raj suggested he, you and I pick out something to talk about India. And then schedule a Substack Live to do it and coordinating the time might be a little challenging (he's Central Standard Time an hour behind me in Eastern Standard Time and I think you are in IST India Standard Time, which is 12 1/2 hours ahead of Central Standard). But you could pick out what's best time for you and what day and time and we could work around it. You could mention and promote Dusty Mic Chronicles and Tramping in India and promote your pictures and show your pictures if you wanted. It would be like an informal India meet and greet and hopefully you would get more subscribers. And we could rinse and repeat it on other India topics. Let me know your thoughts. You are, in the meantime, putting together a great portfolio of podcasts, posts and pictures. It would be great to add on some marketing video to bring you more visibility. Let me know your thoughts when you have time.
Best regards,
Larry
So Friday night IST India Standard Time and Raj and I would each individually work out our time to match up with what's best for you.
A question. What would you like to talk about so we can know what to research in preparation? Then we can plan further.
India seems to be turning more Western in some ways so a lot of the older cultural that was and is fluid has run into fixity or rigidity like when India get top executive posts in multinational companies. They sort of seem to mute their Indianess so they meld more or blend better with a sort of international blandness. Sort of how Hindi films descend into a blandness like films of upper tier urban wealth. You might have a better view of whether that is the case.
But it is great to read your thoughts because they comprise a good mix of old school and the new school that eventually will become old school to the newer generations.
Rajiv,
Really especially liked this podcast for the part about being boxed in. I think that is one of the major difficulties of life, figuring out what one is good at parlaying into a sustainable existence. Easily sustains you and your partner in life or your family should you choose or a commitments free existence like the fictional Jack Reacher. Boxed in means boxed in by rigidity rather than fluidity. Often if feels so much better to be out on the sea encountering the fluidity of ever-changing sea state. It's calm, it's light breeze, strong breeze, ragingly strong winds, high seas and huge waves, like one's emotions. The land is more fixed especially when there is too much concrete and steel. To be progressive often means to label and categorize so that diverse human individual potential is ignored or sacrificed to being grouped by secular Western pseudo castes of wealth or poverty, light or dark skin, favored versus unfavored identities, religions, countries and cultures. Traditionally Indian culture is more fluid in some ways and more rigid in others. But spiritually it embraces more life force, more sheer energy than Western formalism or complicated classification allows. If you have a lot of energy it hard to box it all in, rigidify it, as the British found out so the scoundrels othered everyone in India and pitted they all against one another. But in Hindu theology, that is a debt that is continually being exacted out from them as shrinking economy and opportunity shows. So thanks for this enlightening podcast.
you had sent me a message but i don’t know where to find it!
the idea of doing a substack live is appealing. we have to plan it, of course, but it can be done!
thanks… yes, indian culture has traditionally been more fluid but i think we are losing some of that fluidity
Rajiv,
I hope your wife's leg break is not where she is in a full plaster cast and not able to move around. Hope she is healing and able to move around on crutches or a wheelchair and it is a shorter rather than longer healing or recovery time. Then physical therapy to get back to full mobility.
The message I sent is this which I think you saw:
Raj,
I liked your last podcast and have restacked it. I recently had a three hour Substack Live interview with Raj Menon wherein we promoted his Substack "The Marinade," my book, "Myself Lost," and my Substack, "India Street." We also talked about India. And when it gets to India, you know a whole more than I ever will and Raj suggested he, you and I pick out something to talk about India. And then schedule a Substack Live to do it and coordinating the time might be a little challenging (he's Central Standard Time an hour behind me in Eastern Standard Time and I think you are in IST India Standard Time, which is 12 1/2 hours ahead of Central Standard). But you could pick out what's best time for you and what day and time and we could work around it. You could mention and promote Dusty Mic Chronicles and Tramping in India and promote your pictures and show your pictures if you wanted. It would be like an informal India meet and greet and hopefully you would get more subscribers. And we could rinse and repeat it on other India topics. Let me know your thoughts. You are, in the meantime, putting together a great portfolio of podcasts, posts and pictures. It would be great to add on some marketing video to bring you more visibility. Let me know your thoughts when you have time.
Best regards,
Larry
So Friday night IST India Standard Time and Raj and I would each individually work out our time to match up with what's best for you.
A question. What would you like to talk about so we can know what to research in preparation? Then we can plan further.
India seems to be turning more Western in some ways so a lot of the older cultural that was and is fluid has run into fixity or rigidity like when India get top executive posts in multinational companies. They sort of seem to mute their Indianess so they meld more or blend better with a sort of international blandness. Sort of how Hindi films descend into a blandness like films of upper tier urban wealth. You might have a better view of whether that is the case.
But it is great to read your thoughts because they comprise a good mix of old school and the new school that eventually will become old school to the newer generations.