Showing posts with label Digital Divide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Divide. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

What say I have on Success, Digital Divide and Proposed ban on Josheph Lelyveld’s book on Mahatma Gandhi …. LibrarianRaj responds : April 6, 2011

What say I have on Success,  Digital Divide and Proposed ban on Josheph  Lelyveld's book on Mahatma Gandhi …. I respond : April 6, 2011
1.      I fully agree with Sukhabodhananda when he says …."irrespective of the best effort one puts in, you have to face both success and failure at different times."  Yes success and failures are part and parcel of our lives. We need to accept failures honestly …. to realize the importance of succeeding. One who has not failed … it is said has never passed.
2.       A new lesson for Librarians on Digital Divide : Digital divide has new avtar now with Russia's next president's advice on keeping abreast on people's aspirations and feelings. A whopping $220 will have to be shelled out for a project that intends to compile all the information that is elicited by common man in Russia by way of blogs and social networking sits. It is indeed a path breaking direction. Every one … every country in this regard will fall in line one day or the other … sooner or later. What do librarians learn out of this?
3.      Joseph Lelyveld's book on Mahatma has created one more furore. When do we become little tolerant of honest and artistic expressions of  creative people?

Illustration : Design by : Ms. C.R.Devarai , a budding designer (SNDT). Included with due acknowledgment.


References :
  1. Swami Sukhbodhananda / Of Success and Failure, Speaking Tree, Times of India, April 6, 2011.
  2. Digital Divide (Centre page)(news item), Times of India, April 5, 2011
  3. Of Books and Bans (Centre page), Times of India, April 5, 2011.


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