TED Community » Prateek Maloo
About Me
- Location:
- India, Mumbai - Andheri (E)
- Current organization:
- Tata Consultancy Services Limited
- Current role:
- IT Analyst
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- Oracle PL/SQL
- I am:
- Atheist, Blogger, Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Engineer, Environmentalist, Explorer, Foodie, Photographer, Technologist
- Languages:
- English
- My website links:
- Her & Me... Conversations..!, Dead Pages
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I'm passionate about
Humor. Liberated living. Technology.
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A reply on Conversation: What can be a good Web Comic as a medium of change?
I am thinking a Muti-frame comic which is not bound to any topic. I want it to be universal and to address all the issues in a funny/sarcastic way.
In the bookstores here, people do not pay much attention to the graphic section. It has a very limited fan base and they generally follow stories. So new volumes of a series. In case of a web-comic on the other hand is difficult to ascertain the fanbase. Multiple genres and multiple narratives. I just want to know what is received well, humor/sarcasm or in the face facts.
A comment on Conversation: What is the most painful lesson you experienced and you wish other people to avoid your experience
I have realized that I can't fight someone else's fight for them. What's painful is that I am not able to give them the hope.
As Brian Cerda here said "Giving up is harder on you than continuing on". I hope this message goes to all of them so they stand up against the wrong.
My personal experience: Injustice in the name of religion/community. For someone's notion of a closed knit community and religious tenets, I'm in a state of dispair.
A reply on Conversation: The mythical truths.
A reply on Conversation: Are women emancipated yet? If not, what more needs to be done for equality?
They should have a 50% or higher say in everything. There should be no rules against women or only for women. Equality should be imposed in today's world. People are more susceptible to rules and laws than to changing their behavior and mentality by themselves.
And major culprit in women's underdevelopment are other women.
A comment on Conversation: Indroduce a concept of flexible religion in schools. Let people choose to follow a faith they want to.
I don't want to start a new religion. We already have too many to handle. There's no point starting another one. I am suggesting introduction of religion as a suject in school. This incorporates all the major religions in the world. I think I should rephrase "Teaching religion" to "Make them understand religion".
The framework of most of the religions revolves around someone who leads people to a better life. Good wins over evil. There are teachings on how to lead a good lifestyle. Thats the chassis.
The beliefs I hold are mine. I don't want to impose or preach. I want people to understad what different religions are all about, let them find their own faith and above all, lead a life free of prejudice. This doesn't really need another religion. Just a little shift in the way we think.
A comment on Conversation: Indroduce a concept of flexible religion in schools. Let people choose to follow a faith they want to.
The age criteria is debatable. I chose to be an apathetist at an age of 16. Of course I didn't know the state of belief I was in was or will be called so. Moreover, Teaching religion not as we know it, might help better than otherwise. If you observe closely, you'll see that every religion has a common framework. Extract the chassis, polish it, and present it to the children. Then give them religion.
Schooling them doesn't mean making them learn facts and theories, but to make them think for themselves, become rational and observe morality. You can't stop someone from growing up to be a serial killer or a rapist or a swindler but you sure can put a moral wall between the sane and insane. Its always a prerogative of a person to take the plunge to the darker side. All I am trying to say is good schooling will make the plunge harder.
Teaching religion to effect of reducing the differences and promote mingling is the aim. This may help in curbing religious hate to some extent.
A comment on Conversation: Are women emancipated yet? If not, what more needs to be done for equality?
A lot of other countries are in the same sad soup. If you want to know how low we are on gender equality and right. Go through the following link..
http://www.frashogard.com/jame-jamshed-betrays-the-communitys-trust-once-again/comment-page-1#comment-51437
read through the comments. Read the smugness shown to comment of Freek Magin.
Thats how religion and patriarchy run hand in hand to ruin the smooth lives of people.
A comment on Conversation: Indroduce a concept of flexible religion in schools. Let people choose to follow a faith they want to.
Its a personal choice. I don't care about God or religion. I care about how people can live with each others without any boundaries or inhibitions. To erase differences based on who you worship and to be with each other because of who you are. Morals are yours to follow. God has nothing to do with it. :)
A comment on Conversation: Indroduce a concept of flexible religion in schools. Let people choose to follow a faith they want to.
My idea is to move beyond religion, towards a better life as humans. The morals we are teaching in schools are moot on the children. Blame the way of teaching or the social psyche. Religion is an easy way to combine concept of "following" and "moral living", hence the idea.
I am an apathetist. I don't think this, by any means, frees me of moral obligations and being humane. People these days are more involved in forming a sect and forgetting that things that divide them from the others are skin color, language spoken and God followed. All are cosmetic.
I vote for a broader mind over a cult religion.