India's comic book equivalent of a Marvel hero is long absent. Earlier there was a contender called Chacha Chaudhury. He and his bosom pal were saviours of the distressed. The duo were extroverts, grinning from ear to ear and did not wear the burdening guilt of hero unlike their contemporaries Phantom and Mandrake,
Marvel comic book heroes wear a masochistic attitude like villains, do not seek help, complicate matters by not explaining anything to anyone, and are engaged in self-gratifying pursuit. Their female consorts are equally tortured, secretive and imprudent.
Not just the Marvel heroes, even Chacha and his friend from Jupiter forgot to say Wow ! for what God bestowed (bountiful Earth, misery of the individual mind and determination to overcome) and what the human society upholds (the enduring achievements that act as beacons for overcoming an individual's misery).
The branding of comic book heroes isolates the individual. Even the exclusivity tagged to cowboy consumer brands of FMCG / Auto MNC s, allows an individual to swagger in public and feel omnipotent. Nature has laid out a journey before us and while we travel, we cannot afford to lose the equanimity of the equilibrium between Nature and ourselves.
Just like air for lungs, the mind has to be fed on information and knowledge to meet challenges. The concepts and theories have to be owned like a precious stones before we collectively understand the true import and validate it as extension of existing knowledge. Then after assimilation obviously we can pass them like cooking recipes into textbooks.
We have to re-organise knowledge based on solving an activity. For example a hands-on study of tools, their materials and their contextual solutions in the first year of an engineering degree course, Another one on adhesives, drills and fasteners. If the students and governments knew how much emissions come from a diesel engine, then the market could have rationed gasoline and priced diesel far higher than gasoline.
Surely one has to invent comic books to create the chilled miasma of research. We need to showcase that many average IQ minds working in sync are better than solo brilliance. It is OK to understand late than never understand at all.
Marvel comic book heroes wear a masochistic attitude like villains, do not seek help, complicate matters by not explaining anything to anyone, and are engaged in self-gratifying pursuit. Their female consorts are equally tortured, secretive and imprudent.
Not just the Marvel heroes, even Chacha and his friend from Jupiter forgot to say Wow ! for what God bestowed (bountiful Earth, misery of the individual mind and determination to overcome) and what the human society upholds (the enduring achievements that act as beacons for overcoming an individual's misery).
The branding of comic book heroes isolates the individual. Even the exclusivity tagged to cowboy consumer brands of FMCG / Auto MNC s, allows an individual to swagger in public and feel omnipotent. Nature has laid out a journey before us and while we travel, we cannot afford to lose the equanimity of the equilibrium between Nature and ourselves.
Just like air for lungs, the mind has to be fed on information and knowledge to meet challenges. The concepts and theories have to be owned like a precious stones before we collectively understand the true import and validate it as extension of existing knowledge. Then after assimilation obviously we can pass them like cooking recipes into textbooks.
We have to re-organise knowledge based on solving an activity. For example a hands-on study of tools, their materials and their contextual solutions in the first year of an engineering degree course, Another one on adhesives, drills and fasteners. If the students and governments knew how much emissions come from a diesel engine, then the market could have rationed gasoline and priced diesel far higher than gasoline.
Surely one has to invent comic books to create the chilled miasma of research. We need to showcase that many average IQ minds working in sync are better than solo brilliance. It is OK to understand late than never understand at all.
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