(The Earth is Still Revolving)
“You will see, in mixed confusion, snatches of cutpurses, wiles of cheats, enterprises of rogues; also delicious repulsiveness, bitter sweets, foolish decisions, mistaken faith and crippled hopes, niggard charities, judges noble and serious for other men’s affairs with little truth in their own; virile women, effeminate men and voices of craft and not of mercy so that he who believes most is most fooled, and everywhere the love of gold.”
Giordano Bruno,Italian philosopher and heretic, who also propagated the heliocentric theory of Copernicus and was early proponent of existence of other inhabited worlds, beyond our Earth, wrote these lines nearly 425 years ago, before he was burned alive at stake in early hours of 17th Feb'1600 at Campo dei Fiori (Field of Flowers), then a large open space in Rome.
It appears, he too, was a time traveler or crystal-gazer as he must have seen our times before he wrote these lines or the saga of universal deceit, religious fanaticism, bigotry, greed and corruption continues...
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Barely seven years after Indian independence, in 1954, Vishnuji wrote a short story, "Dharti ab bhi ghoom rahi hai" (Earth is still revolving), depicting degeneration of human values in our society and corruption in our bureaucracy. It is the plight of two children, brother and sister, who after much suffering and deliberation go to the residence of District Magistrate of the town for requesting release of their father, who worked as a clerk and was imprisoned for taking a bribe of twenty rupees.They, some how, muster courage to offer the DM a sum of Rupees 50, stating that they have heard that he had already released a dacoit after taking three thousand rupees and their father was only a clerk who took only 20 rupees as he could not manage his daily needs due to price rise. They requested but with boldness that if he feels 50 rupees are not enough, he can keep the sister for a day or two...as he was fond of girls and used to favour and do work in exchange...
“You will see, in mixed confusion, snatches of cutpurses, wiles of cheats, enterprises of rogues; also delicious repulsiveness, bitter sweets, foolish decisions, mistaken faith and crippled hopes, niggard charities, judges noble and serious for other men’s affairs with little truth in their own; virile women, effeminate men and voices of craft and not of mercy so that he who believes most is most fooled, and everywhere the love of gold.”
-Giordano Bruno, in The Torch-Bearer
It appears, he too, was a time traveler or crystal-gazer as he must have seen our times before he wrote these lines or the saga of universal deceit, religious fanaticism, bigotry, greed and corruption continues...
...
Barely seven years after Indian independence, in 1954, Vishnuji wrote a short story, "Dharti ab bhi ghoom rahi hai" (Earth is still revolving), depicting degeneration of human values in our society and corruption in our bureaucracy. It is the plight of two children, brother and sister, who after much suffering and deliberation go to the residence of District Magistrate of the town for requesting release of their father, who worked as a clerk and was imprisoned for taking a bribe of twenty rupees.They, some how, muster courage to offer the DM a sum of Rupees 50, stating that they have heard that he had already released a dacoit after taking three thousand rupees and their father was only a clerk who took only 20 rupees as he could not manage his daily needs due to price rise. They requested but with boldness that if he feels 50 rupees are not enough, he can keep the sister for a day or two...as he was fond of girls and used to favour and do work in exchange...
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