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The Indian Patriarch || Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant
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4/29/2025
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00:00
Amitabh Bachchan spewing continuous nonsense in some family blockbuster.
00:04
That's the dream figure every North Indian patriarch wants to be.
00:09
Somebody whose authority is unquestionable.
00:12
He just gets up from the inherited family chair, five centuries old,
00:17
and declares the heavenly truth.
00:19
And the wife and the kids and the daughter-in-laws especially,
00:22
they roll at his feet because the oracle has spoken.
00:25
Don't you get impressed?
00:26
We have characters in the movies uttering absolutely stupid dialogues with great conviction.
00:32
And you get impressed by the sheer baritone and the gravitas.
00:36
A lot of nonsense just passes in the name of very beautiful words.
00:41
Respect, love, sacredness, understanding.
00:44
And just because somebody is saying something with great conviction
00:48
does not mean that the fellow knows what he is talking of.
00:56
So this is and that is, thank you for letting me know's going away.
01:05
And to look for the information, I want to give away from theinguemato school.
01:10
I want to give away from there, because I know I'm saying something with great conviction and truth.
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