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Raja had studied Urdu in school in those days before the Partition when students had a choice between Hindi and Urdu. It was a natural enough choice to make for the son of a Delhi family: Urdu had been the court language in the days of the Muslim and Moghul rulers and had persisted as the language of the learned and the cultivated. Hindi was not then considered a language of great pedigree; it had little to show for itself in its modern, clipped, workaday form, and its literature was all in ancient, extinct dialects. Raja, who read much and had a good ear, was aware of such differences.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
Why are people so puritanical about the Puritans? “Very simply,” Robinson writes, “it is a great example of our collective eagerness to disparage without knowledge or information about the thing disparaged, when the reward is the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved.”
These three short phrases—be present, open up, do what matters—pretty much summarize the whole ACT model. The greater our ability to be present and open up, the easier it is to unhook from difficult thoughts and feelings and interrupt our away moves. And the more we do what matters, the better life gets.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
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