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My notes: DIPY:What is the idea behind Hussain's painting of Goddess Saravathi without ALANKAR. Would your sensibilities be offended if Virgin Mary, Prophet Muhammad , the consorts are painted by Husain without clothes.
The lady here is very persuasive in her arguments
Since you are very much against VHP, RSS, Bajrang Dal, you must read this and answer the questions to our satisfaction
The point is no one is ever hundred percent correct: Not I, not the Pope,
not Atalji, not Rajjubhaiya, not Mao, not Bukhari -- and certainly not the
media. Which brought me to a shattering realisation: NO ONE is ever
hundred percent dispensable: Not the pinkos, not the secularists, not the
minorities commission, not the human rights activists -- and certainly not
the media. All these arms of socio-political life are *essential* to act as
checks and balances on the others: If I, a fundie, want Hussain's Saraswati
to be exhibited, I should be able to enlist Communalism Combat to wage
such a war... A strong opposition is required to keep a democracy healthy.
And Hinduism is democratic -- which is why there always will be
dissension among Hindutvawadi entities. We're very unlike Communists
and Congresswallahs, you see.
Which brought me to another realisation: Right from the dawn of free India
to date, the Congress and the Left have systematically tried everything to
snuffle out ALL opposition to their schemes. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh, falsely accused of instigating and abetting the execution of Gandhiji
-- banned. The Hindu Mahasabha -- banned. The VHP -- banned. The
BJP -- untouchable. The "secular" establishment's hunger for
power-brokering has reached such a stage that Sikhism is touted as a
swayambhu religion, as are Buddhism and Jainism; tribals are being
persuaded that they are "animists"; and Dalits are told that unless they form
a common platform with Muslims, Brahmins will keep them enslaved... All
in all: Hinduism is evil, and the rest of you must dissociate yourselves from
it.
The story of post-Independence India is the story of Propaganda -- set to
serve the "secular" establishment -- and this is the numero uno reason why
there is religious and caste strife in this country. However, any group that is
repressed, springs up with a vengeance, and the voice of the disgruntled
Hindu had always been stifled. Which now explains the rising graph of the
BJP's fortunes...
With that, I come to the atrocities against Christians and the rape of nuns
and the murders of foreign missionaries and the Pope's visit and the VHP's
agitation against evangelists and their conversion activities... There is a part
of me that ridicules our silly obsession with religion. But, a larger part is
occupied by the Hindu vigilante, one who FULLY supports the VHP and
the Bajrang Dal in their aversion -- yes, forget the euphemisms, I detest
anybody who seeks to make less powerful my community -- to Christian
propagandists.
Look at it this way: If past governments had heeded the fears of
reactionary Hindus and implemented measures to safeguard the
Constitution -- which forbids conversion through allurement and force --
would there have been a Graham Staines? Why wasn't the Orissa
Freedom of Religions Act, 1967, under which missionaries have to inform
the authorities of their conversion efforts, strictly enforced? Orissa's
Director General of Police, Dilip Mahapatra, has said that he had received
a "number of complaints and evidence" that Arul Doss was involved in
"illegal conversions." What was the Congress state government doing...?
Today, because there is a VHP, the media, even if to mock and criticise it,
publicises its demands and thus propagates its line of thought. The VHP is
a foil, a check, a balance to all those for whom it is profitable to make
Hindus an impotent political group. The Sangh Parivar -- until such a time
that another national Hindu organisation emerges -- is just as cardinal for
Hindus' future in this country as is the Supreme Court for litigants. It would
be extremely asinine, arrogant and self-defeating of me to deny the VHP
its plaudits just because I do not accept some of their madcap schemes. I
solve my duvidha in mixed metaphors: I will fight the madcap battle when
I get to that bridge. But as of now: Rah, rah, VHP!
We're witnessing the results of the changes in the demography of the
Northeast, in Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur... Like Raj says: "The
meek don't inherit the earth, they get sent to concentration camps. Hindus
need to learn to push back and fuss." So sue me, but when the end is the
preservation of Hinduism in its homeland, ALL means stand justified.
Bajrang Dal, rah, rah! |
