Kangana's malady: An acute case of a right wing afflicted
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I really feel sad for this lady. But it exposes a critical problem of a right wing mind. Of a life lived comparing.
Since she is in arts field. Let's take music which has distinct classes of
music e.g. Western classic or Hindustani/Carnatic Classical. A virtuoso in any one of these music forms will not seek to denigrate or compare one art against another. Actually, a good classical artiste won't even denigrate folk music. It is equally as hard to compose a great
bhakti poetry as it is to compose a spiritual shloka. One can find something mystical in both.
Art is really about losing oneself - An exploration melting into knowledge and finally into empathy and union. As you grow in an art form, you lose your identity even as humility grows.
You start seeing beauty all around. A great saint in one religion sees greatness in another religion too. Such a person is indeed a virtuoso.
The problem with a right wing mind is that it needs control and a sense of power. They resemble the angry executives who populate our
corporate office hiding their incompetence behind arrogance and anger. That's the cowardice that Mohua Moitra talks about. They compare, compete, denigrate others (Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise) and then create their own competition field (Padma Award) and in the worst case may be