The Eternal Silence of Infinite Crowds Naira C Coauthor's essay "The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Clouds" is one of the very good one's written on Indian social behavior. My friend sent referred that essay to me to read, I liked it very much . In of the Para he write: "In the buses of Delhi all of us make use of one another for bodily comfort.
In northern India people have very great difficulty in keeping steady in moving vehicles, and therefore they lean against one another or put their arms around a fellow- passenger.Nobody is so ill-natured as to mind being used as a cushion, and if anyone with a wholly alien notion of private ownership in respect of his body objects, he is asked in offended tones. What harm is there in it, you are not a woman? ' Again, if anyone wants to know the time and has not got a watch he simply takes up the left hand of another passenger and looks at his wrist-watch. I wear mine on the underside, and therefore I have my wrist twisted.
"(I have added this). One will enjoy reading this essay.In this he spoke of silence on the streets of British, here being calm is a social behavior expressive of kindness in public discourse. He contrasts the same with respect to India, writing "In India heartiness is found more in the public intercourse of men what in private social relations. Moreover, for us noise is as essential a condition of cheerfulness as is the warmth of the sun. " It would be very difficult to tell whose social behavior he praised.
But the essay will surely make u laugh. Naira C Chuddar is a highly acclaimed Indian author in English literature; we know him for his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.He wrote his last book at the age of Anyway, that was what he wrote on silence. When I am reading this I felt an uncanny resemblance to what Lord Krishna has to say in Backchat Goethe Silence is a condition where our listening senses, ears, do not pick any signal. Can we apply it to other senses? Ears..
. Silence, lack of sound, one who goes on a trip to developed countries can feel this. The nights will be so calm that we people will not get even sleep. Tongue.
.. Tasteless, An awkward situation where u neither like, not dislike what is in our mouth.Taste is something which will tempt one to eat with pleasure.
Without any taste the mouth tends to chew what is can, and swallow as fast it can, as brain continuously tell that please finish it off as what is being fed is good for the organized body. Touch...
Nothing to feel, A situation u have nothing to feel by your hands, no warmth of anybody or anything. It is as if you are alone, devoid of any real thing to feel. A very dangerous situation where you know, that you are alive, but no one to love, or no one to be loved by. Eyes..
. Blind.Well blind do not necessarily mean lack of vision, but even those who have vision can also feel so. Say when one person is put in white clothes, enclosed in white walls, everything his eyes can catch is white. The space has no corners, and no features of any sort. Don't imagine, it is blindness only.
Well don't associate white color with Physiotherapists or peace, or goodness. That might convey wrong message. Stare at a very beautiful sky, for a moment, for few minutes, for every moment for about few days. One will die of blindness. Nose Odorless. Devoid of good or bad odors.
You only imagine. Silence also meaner 'not to talk'. Well this is a great choice, which many people actively choose, though, for a variety of purposes. Some don't have anything to say, some don't want to say anything, some have something to say, want to say but don't have guts, some have many things to say but fear that their thoughts will be exposed, some feel what they say will not impact anyone, so better remain silent. In Krishna words- genitourinary. If we also include the shutdown of this sense also, imagine, that would be no less than death.
The brain functions only to control limbs, coordinate senses, eat, and that's it. Where is life, where is the organism living of the 'ability to think' is surrendered. What is the use of brain when it Judges the real world from what is visible to its eyes only. From what is spread or planted in front of eyes? How much does it matter whether he has a mouth or not, when he cannot shout when in pain. What use are those limbs of when it can't kick (as the asses do) when in discomfort and fear. Probably this was what Naira meant by 'eternal silence of infinite crowds'.
The spineless individuals who are alive only to bear more and more of the pain caused to them, in order not to disturb an 'equilibrium' that has been set for, by, the few who rule the minds. When the tallest Babyish had to fall, when it becomes inevitable, how come a five feet average Indian bear. Well, the 'infinite crowds' have been doing since centuries, and the world order has become habituated to it- when British came, or when other political invaders rode over us. Some of the quotes of Naira C Chuddar you can find more quotes at: http://www- stats. Stanford. Du/?nards/NC/quotes.
HTML, some more which I liked are as below: Do we live at all? This would seem an absurd question, for none of us commit suicide, though to be honest, I would confess that I have come to feel that a large majority of the persons I know should do so, because I cannot see any point in their remaining alive. Salvation is never the object of religious observances and worship of the Hindus. The main object is worldly prosperity, and this absorption in the world has made the citrine of rebirth in it the most appealing and strongly held belief among all notions put forward by them about existence of life after death.They so loved the world that they made the possibility of leaving it for good even after many cycles of rebirth as remote and difficult as possible. When I write in English I am not writing as an Indian or an Englishman.
I am Just a writer. Writers know no nationality. I am often asked: 'We hear so many stories about you. Are they true? ' I reply, 'If they are for me, you should discount 95 per cent, but if against, the whole of 100 per cent.
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