Fate and Free Will
I was in Bangladesh last few days. What a country! Makes you reflect about many things. I was not at all in reflecting mood and was quite busy chasing government officials to get my file moving but still the newspaper headlines, the appalling disparity and general life style of people made me think about fate. One gentleman in Dhaka described fate to me in the following manner; if you are born as a bull in the upper part of Ganges then you are worshipped and if you are born as a bull in lower part of Ganges then you are killed and eaten and that's fate for you. How true! Am I not lucky to be born in India and not in a country where one third of the females are married before the age of 15? I have been given education and freedom to choose my work and yet I get pissed when my parents object to my wearing some dress which is not conforming to social standards of "their" (I have stopped considering myself as part of that one) society. If you can detect the paradox in my p