LEARNING FOR TODAY

If we had elections for the most popular words used by people , then certainly 'Nepotism' would come out all guns blazing as the front runner for the last few months. Nepotism literally means favoritism i.e when the personal preference overpowers merit in positions of public influence. Today I put forward a general theory based on the writings of Karl Marx , Max Weber and Andre Beteille to explain - 1. Why does nepotism exist? 2.  How does it develop and what are the various stages through which it grows? 3. How nepotism transformed the varna system into a caste system.. 4. Nepotism today and the beginning of a new caste system. Analysis In this blog , I will initially state a theory in abstract and then take the examples of Politics , Bollywood and Professions to substantiate the theory.  The Theory of Nepotism The most visible form of Nepotism can be seen in public life. Also our public life is invariably linked to the economic activities that we participate in. Hence the

Today the world order is characterised by logic and rational thinking. All our decisions are based on our own choice after assessing competing theories given by experts.Even on simplest of issues like what are the most fashionable clothes to what are the best moral values we get numerable choices to choose from based on varying logics.  However , it is interesting to note that even in this world driven by logic , religion has stood like a solid  rock withstanding all attacks from science. Hence, one must wonder that with the arrival of democracies when the intellectuals had written off religion as a thing of the past we see the influence of religion in the most modern societies. In USA , abortion is an issue , in Europe the Pope still has authority while in middle east the 'modern' Israel calls itself a Jewish state. Communism as a political system challenged religion and we all know what happened to USSR. The following blog is based on the writings of Anthony Giddens from UK w