Just as rivers and streams bypass the rocks that stand between them so does this going around the brickwall.
Need to read your Mao!
Shiv, Everyone is rigid about the core issues and flexible about the peripheral issues. The key to remember is that what is flexible now is core sometime before and those who are rigid now have not moved on yet. And some people rigid now were flexible before.
Case in point AB.
In the mid 90s he refused to light Diwali lamp at a public functionaas a sign of his accpetance of all faiths. However in case of his son's wedding, a private event with public awareness, he is quite orthodox and a stickler to protocol and tradition.
Need to read your Mao!
Shiv, Everyone is rigid about the core issues and flexible about the peripheral issues. The key to remember is that what is flexible now is core sometime before and those who are rigid now have not moved on yet. And some people rigid now were flexible before.
Case in point AB.
In the mid 90s he refused to light Diwali lamp at a public functionaas a sign of his accpetance of all faiths. However in case of his son's wedding, a private event with public awareness, he is quite orthodox and a stickler to protocol and tradition.