The point is, we are writing with a pointless pencil. Instead of engaging ourselves in futile and frustrating debates, we must develop capacities to raise right questions. We must know, for instance, what is it which constitutes the materiality of matter, we must know why at all life should be accompanied by death. Whether we get answers to these questions or not, it is another matter; we will have the satisfaction of having tried. That is reward by itself. You dance though you can’t hear the music—and that is Hope. That is the Reward. We will be else wasting our time in puerile dialogues, keeping ourselves busy with non-essentials, with inconsequential subsidiary issues.

During the World War Two Winston Churchill was asked: “What is your aim in the War?” He simply replied: “Victory.” In that one word is the quintessence of time that shaped history. Some other power had entered into operation and it seized the ready instrument. It is some noble force of that kind which must enter into our reckoning.

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