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( Dr Raghuvira , Polyglot, scholar extraordinary and highly respected intellectual across cultures ..Father of Dr Lokesh Chandra )
READERS, AUTHORS , COPY PASTE WRITERS , HALF-BAKED INTELLECTUALS AND GENUINE SCHOLARS .
Reader's And Writers
The calibre of readers can directly influence the type of content that gets created and consumed. When readers prioritise sensationalism or simplistic content, writers feel pressured to cater to those demands. However, a few exceptional writers can elevate their audience's expectations and tastes, inspiring readers to engage with more complex and thought-provoking ideas.It's a dynamic interplay between the two, where each can influence and elevate the other.
Copy Paste Writers
The traditional role of writers was to move the “pursuit of knowledge” forward so that more and more people join in separating the chaff from the grain. Unfortunately, Information Technology has brought us to a point where enormous information and knowledge are openly available . Many people , skilled in the art of copy paste methodology curate it and provide us with a bite sized understanding of issues and subjects. Quite often , the information so curated may not be authentic and reliable creating a lack of credibility of the writer .
Half-baked Intellectuals
The greatest threat and disservice to history , literature and opinion formation comes from the breed of half-baked intellectuals . They demonstrate lack depth, pretension of expertise, lack rigorous research , lack intellectual honesty, surface level jargon, oversimplification of complex issues , a style of making simple issues complex, tendency to use knowledge as weapon,refusal to accept ignorance, lack genuine understanding , lack of conceptual clarity , lack of critical thinking, superficial knowledge, arrogance , dogmatic thinking, selective reading, using abstractness as shield, lack of self-awareness, lack of serious study , a mind with preset notions , total reliance on translations of others, appropriation, balancing of information, being politically correct, lack of courage of conviction and out of context projection of issues .Half baked intellectuals often fail to recognise their own limitations or biases, leading to a lack of personal growth or intellectual humility. Reading Half- baked intellectuals gives one nothing more than a surface understanding of life.
For historians, knowing the language of their source materials is highly beneficial to them for expanding their horizon and also for their conceptual clarity . It allows them to interpret accurately, contextualise and analyse critically . Dr Lokesh Chandra interpreted Korean, Mongolian and Tibetan texts / manuscripts only after he mastered all the three language. And when he tried to interpret some Persian, Arabic and Latin texts, he again mastered all the three languages. This earned him respect, credibility and global readers. Similar is the story of his father , Dr Raghu Vira
( Avtar Mota )
Dr. Raghu Vira father of Dr Lokesh Chandra was regarded as perhaps the most erudite figure in the Constituent Assembly of India. He was a great Sanskrit scholar plus a polyglot who could not just speak and write in nine Indian and seven European languages, but also deliver learned oration and conduct debates in them. He went on a study tour of China and came back convinced that the ‘Hindi- Chini bhai bhai’ policy was based on an illusion and that China was going to emerge as India’s biggest problem as it has hegemonic intentions. Nehru strongly disagreed which ultimately lead to him to parting Nehru's company in 1961, a year before the Chinese attack.
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