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...Culture announced plans for a National Heritage Sites Commission with judicial powers to take charge of monument preservation. And Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhury has vowed to clean up India's 26 World Heritage Sites and exploit their business potential so that they pay for themselves. Tourism Joint Secretary Amitabh Kant is perhaps the only person in India more outspoken than Thakur about heritage. "Encroachments have been terrible," he says. "Upkeep is awful." To a great extent, he blames Indian officials for what he calls a "total lack of civic governance and discipline." In a plan that delights Thakur, Kant says...
...playwright spoke for just over an hour, answering questions first from the event’s host, Gideon Lester of the ART, and then from the audience. The questions ranged from politics (one of Kushner’s latest theatrical inventions is a conversation with Laura Bush) to books (Kant, Benjamin and Dostoyevsky are indispensable to him) to playwriting...
...programs that are the best for me bring together the various disciplines. You would hear what the scientist has to argue with the philosopher and the poet about the place of modern science against philosophy, against religion. These would be the places where the physicists have to think about Kant and Hegel, not just Einstein; where the social scientists consider what is a good society as well as polls and survey results; where a political scientist asks whether he can justify giving advice to tyrants as well as democrats...
Fine then. So let me bitch. To do so I will use the aforementioned moral framework. In this situation, my friends and I opted for pragmatic utilitarianism, avoiding conflict to maximize safety and minimize pain. But looking back on it, I wish that I could have mustered a little Kant in me and called the man out on his ridiculousness...
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