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Sohail;
Your article on 'Human
Psych" is interesting. I admire your courage in attempting to
synthesize these very broad, very complicated ideas into something the
average lay reader can understand. My approach to writing is a little
different. I am an unabashed Marxist/Socialist (thus my admiration for Azeem's writings) though far enough along in my life to
understand and accept that my views and ideas apply wholly to myself alone.
However, I do find any view point that stresses the 'individual' over the
'social/collective' a little incomplete. Of course, as Azeem
pointed out in one of the chapters in "Samaaji
tabdeeli", EVERY point of view is incomplete
since life itself is incomplete (a very authentic appreciation of the
Marxist Dialectical method, I must say).
I also am somewhat
reluctant to write overarching syntheses about political, social or
psychological themes unless I feel I have a firm grasp on all their
complexities (but that probably goes back to my relationship with my father
(see below).
The 'Sufi/dreamer' in
me also, of course, firmly believes in 'wahdat-ul-wajood'.
We are all one, part of the cosmos and will forever remain so even though
in the span of our brief lives in this world, we fancy ourselves as
'someone/something'.
It would take a long
essay to describe my loving yet complicated relationship with my
authoritarian, affectionate, marxist, learned
psychologist father who continues to tower over me even though I ran away
as far as I could to get away from his shadow and before him, that of my illustrious
grandfather. I feel a little hesitation as I type this since I don't know
how much or what to disclose. I will, instead, attach an essay published on
chowk several years ago that provides a glimpse.
http://www.chowk.com/articles/9966
More later. We should
save this correspondence. Maybe put it on Family of the heart or somewhere
similar?
Ali
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