Immortal India: Articles and Speeches by Amish

by Amish Tripathi

You may have noted that when jallikattu (bull-fighting) was banned by the courts, many Tamil Hindus asked, angrily, why the Muslim Bakr Eid was not banned.

It is said that pride comes before a fall. But one cannot fall if one hasn’t risen to begin with, or is weighed down by timidity. There are stages in the acquisition of pride. It begins with confidence and self-respect which help you succeed. Over time, this may transform into pride and regrettably, even arrogance; that’s when you fall.

George Orwell had said, ‘The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.’

Sigmund Freud, who said that the first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone, was the founder of civilisation.