Sunday, February 21, 2016

Intellect is a responsibility

Intellectuals must always remember that they are intellectuals and live up to the responsibility it confers. Suicide is wrong and not in the realm of scholarly outlook. Here's my published view on the research scholar's suicide in Hyderabad recently.
 
http://www.indiawest.com/letters_to_editor/sad-truth-behind-hyderabad-student-s-suicide/article_64cd3bae-cb9f-11e5-9aec-87316b989b26.html

VISHNU PENDYALA
SAN JOSE, Calif. — This refers to the leading news in India regarding the Hyderabad Central University research scholar’s suicide. It is indeed sad that the depth of knowledge and thought that is expected of a research scholar could not prevent the shallow thought of ending a life, that too, that of the scholar himself, from taking force.

If one believed that the state ending a terrorist's life is shameful, how shameful is it to end his own life? It’s unfortunate that the right kind of thought process did not prevail. It is even more unfortunate that no one who has been making news out of this mishap is able to realize or project this fundamental truth.

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