@ Kunwar Arindam Singh Chauhan & @ Barun Barnwal, thanks a lot for remembering and liking my sentences -- "Key to any knowledge is questioning; questioning anything and everything beginning with one's own mind set constructed by acquired values independent of the conscious will, i.e. by acquired moralities. The acquired moralities must be questioned and replaced by the rational moralities. But the unceasing process of questioning involves the risk of turning into atheist, as nothing is beyond the cause-effect paradigm. Knowledge does not come from what is taught but from questioning what is taught".
These were the introductory sentences of a book review (Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels)submitted for a course, 'Socialism: Theory' taught by famous Political Scientist, Sudipta Kavuraj (then a young Associate Professor at JNU) I wish I had preserved them. I have atrociously bad sense of preservation and also had the acquired lack of self-belief of being a writer. ever since I repeat these sentences in my classes, whenever I got the opportunity to teach.
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