social-psychology

there is no place of politics in education. The moment you let politics invade your education system, you inadvertently welcome chaos into the future of young India. Educational institutions have nothing to do with political propagandas. So, open your eyes, and throw any kind of political agenda out of your institutions.

Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.

You don__ need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It__ the society that needs to see you, through your eyes.

It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.

I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner, I want you to rise against me and throw my work into the fire. Any notion, any book, any institution that weakens the self instead of strengthening it, must be discarded at ones.

I__ rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you.

Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

The conflicts between science and religion still remain in this day and age, because though most people understand what science means, they do not have a clue what religion means _ and they do not even have a clue that they do not have a clue.

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn__ matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.

In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you__l get bad apples.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.