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This is a critique of the idea of Hindu version of feminism. The sample arguments in the article by @gary_1980in are taken for comment, this critique is more about the conceptual bases of what goes by Hindu version of feminism, which is not limited to the phrase Hindu Feminism.
मैं एक बिंदु, परिपूर्ण सिन्धु,
है ये मेरा हिन्दू समाज।
मैं तो समष्टि के लिए व्यष्टि का,
कर सकता बलिदान अभय।
भारत के लोकप्रिय और सर्वमान्य पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री श्री अटल बिहारी जी की ये पंक्तियां डॉ भीमराव अंबेडकर के व्यक्तित्व के लिए एकदम खरी बैठती हैं। अपनी बात रखूं इससे पहले एक प्रसंग जो मुझे याद है वो बताना चाहूँगा –
भीमराव जब अपने बाल्यावस्था में थे तब उन्हें अन्य छात्रों-शिक्षकों के जूतों के पास बैठकर पढ़ने की शर्त पर विद्यालय में दाखिला मिला। तत्कालीन समय में ऐसी शर्तों पर बच्चे को दाखिला मिलना माँ-बाप के लिए कितना कष्टदायी होगा और वेे स्वयं में कितने अपमानित और ग्लानि से भरे होंगे यह आप और हम समझ भी नहीं सकते, लेकिन तब के समय में अपनी माँ के आँखों में आंसू होने के बावजूद छह वर्ष के भीम ने कहा – ‘माँ मेरा दाखिला करा दो, मैं जूतों के पास बैठकर पढ़ लूंगा।’
बच्चे तो बच्चे होते हैं उन्हें क्या पता की समाज की बेड़ियाँ क्या होती हैं, बच्चों में फर्क करने वाले बड़े लोगों के समाज को भीम का यह उत्तर तो था ही लेकिन यह प्रसंग चरितार्थ करता है कि भीम के लिए शिक्षा की महत्ता कितनी अधिक थी।
No Rama Navami puja in the temples down South is complete without Shraddhanjali (homage) to Saint Thyagaraja – the greatest exponent of Carnatic music and an ardent devotee of Bhagwan RAMA.
Saint Thyagaraja was born in Thiruvaiyaaru in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu in a Telugu family. What Krishna was to Meera, Rama was to Thyagaraja. The Vedas say that Moksha or Mukti can be achieved through Karma (good deeds), Bhakti (devotion) and through Jnana (wisdom or knowledge). Saint Thygaraja chose the Bhakti Margam to connect with Bhagwan Rama – his Ishta Devata or cherished deity. C.Rajagopalachari, the last governor general of Bharat, in his introduction to Bhaja Govindam says that knowledge or Jnana when it becomes fully mature transforms itself into Bhakti. If Knowledge does not get transformed into Bhakti, it remains mere tinsel. To think that knowledge and devotion are different from each other is mere ignorance.
A few days ago Acharya Vamadeva Shastri (Dr. David Frawley) had written a very concise and lucid theological view of Christian cosmology, specifically the concept of ‘Salvation’ as professed in Christian theology, as viewed through the dharmic lens. (One may read it here).
As the articles of this nature usually do, the article generated lot of interest and some expected back and forth in the comments section with few comments by followers of the Christian doctrine presenting oft-repeated claims and assertions. Nothing out of the ordinary of what you would usually expect, but what would you do if a follower of the Christian tradition were to tell you that the Church or Institutional Christianity, so to speak, distorted the teachings and doctrines of Jesus
Assam recorded over 82% polling, the highest ever in its electoral history, as per reports after the second and last round of the crucial assembly election in Assam. In what was essentially a battle for Assam’s civilizational survival, have the indigenous people of Assam finally mustered the nous to defeat those who want to sell them out under the garb of ‘secularism’?
Rahul Gandhi thinks he is qualified to give advice to PM Modi. Look at what he has said. He wants Modi to listen to the voice of the people. And what is the Congress’ performance in this aspect? Did his grandmother listen to the people? Was she tolerant of the advice from even her ministers? Was his grandmother amenable to listen to her council of ministers? Does Rahul Gandhi know why Pranab Mukerjee, Shukla, A.K Antony left the Congress? Did she not annihilate all opinions by arresting all the political leaders and banning the media from publishing any news during the Emergency? And her grandson Rahul Gandhi faults PM Modi for not respecting his own ministers – that is the BJP’s internal problem. RG is not politically and ethically qualified to take a call on that.
Life expectancy has increased significantly in this century. Forty is the new 20, and mid-life crises now occur in one’s 50’s, rather than 30’s. In a world where people live well into their 80’s and beyond, people expect you to be around — almost forever. Amidst such expectations, imagine a 37-year old putting his 6-year old daughter to bed at night and then himself go to sleep only to never wake up again.
In yet another example of the deeply entrenched Hinduphobia within Bharat’s English language media, National Security Editor of the leftist ‘The Hindu’ newspaper was found making an offensive tweet over the Puttingal temple fire tragedy which struck Kollam in Kerala on Sunday.
When the Uphaar cinema fire occurred in 1997 killing 59, did journalists’ ask “Which bollywood star are they impressing?”; for the Kumbakonam school fire in 2004 killing 83 children, did any journalist ask “Which education were they seeking?”; for the Hajj stampede in 2015 killing 2236, did anyone dare tweet “Which god are they impressing?”.
After the brutal lynching of Dr. Pankaj Narang, Delhi has been hit with another violent crime involving juveniles. On 6 April, 51 year old Uber cab driver Kuldeep Thakur was shot dead at point blank range by two of his passengers, minor boys aged 16 & 17.
As per new reports, the murder took place on Wednesday evening around 4 pm-
“The two juveniles had booked the Uber cab from southwest Delhi’s Najafgarh area and were going to Hiran Kudna in West Delhi to a friend’s place. Thakur picked them up but the juveniles, in their confession, said they asked him to take another route which they said was a shorter one. They kept taking him here and there after which he got agitated and asked them to let him drive properly .
This instigated the juveniles who began to abuse him and mocked his native place Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, saying it sounded like an abuse in Hindi. Thakur retaliated, which led to a scuffle inside the cab. Following this, one of the juveniles whipped out a pistol and shot him twice from point blank range. They drove to an isolated place, dragged out the body and dumped it in the middle of a paddy field. They then drove the cab to Najafgarh and parked it in an isolated spot. They removed the numberplate and put it in the boot. They went home and confessed their crime before their father.”
The pistol belongs to one of the boys’ father. Lets look carefully at what the TOI news report has to say about the father of the boy who shot dead Kuldeep Thakur –
One can understand the juveniles names being withheld, but why withhold the name of the father? Is this standard protocol by police & media in cases involving juveniles? No, two recent cases show that this is an exception – the norm is to reveal the parent’s identity when a juvenile commits a serious crime.
There was another case this week from Delhi where a minor boy driving a Mercedes crushed to death a 32-year old man. The media and police gave out the name of the father of the boy in that case – Chawri Bazar businessman Manoj Aggarwal. And this is the right thing to do – parents are responsible for not instilling the right values in their children who end up committing crimes –
When Dr. Pankaj Narang was lynched to death, DCP Monika Bhardwaj of Delhi police had even revealed the religion of the juveniles involved in that brutal crime!
So why is police and media tight-lipped in this particular case? Given that the accused boy’s father (a history-sheeter as per media reports) is absconding with the murder weapon, shouldn’t his name be publicized far & wide so that anyone who has information about him can inform the authorities? The answer probably lies in this hint in those same media reports –
The father is a personal security officer to a member of the erstwhile Nizam’s family in Hyderabad. To understand whom the Nizam’s family is likely to employ as a personal security officer, lets take a brief detour in history.
The Nizam was opposed to the integration of his princely state of Hyderabad with the Union of Bharat in 1947, and apart from his formal Army, he funded a private Muslim militia led by one Qasim Razvi – The Razakars – to oppose Hyderabad’s merger with Bharat. The Razakars, as is well documented, triggered a wave of murderous attacks on Hindus, progressive Muslims and Communists. They were finally defeated by the security forces of Bharat in ‘Operation Polo’ initiated by Home minister Sardar Valabhai Patel in September 1948, but not before they had raped and murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
Today, the Razakar ideology lives on in the form of the political party AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) which was led by Qasim Razvi from 1944 to 1957, and is today led by MP Asauddin Owaisi and his MLA brother Akbaruddin Owaisi. Owaisis have close relations with the Nizam’s family, and their rabid hate-mongering towards Hindus is evident from speeches like this where Akbaruddin had abused Sri Rama and threatened to wipe out Hindus from Bharat if police were removed for 15 minutes.
From the above, it is evident that the Nizam’s family is not likely to trust a Hindu with the job of ensuring their personal security – hence the father of the boy who murdered Kuldeep Thakur is in all likelihood a Muslim. And a Muslim who likely nurses the Islamo-supremacist beliefs of the Razakars. Hence it is not surprising that the values he passed on to his children glorified violence, and quite possibly made them think of a kaffir’s (non-Muslim) life as less important.
To deal with crime, it is important to understand the socio-economic factors which drive people to crime. A lot of our left-leaning intellectuals have churned out reams of studies on what drives some living in under-developed areas to join Naxalite terrorists. Males in the north of Bharat are considered more aggressive, and social scientists have linked this to the higher occurrence of crimes against women, road rage etc in this region. Terror apologists have even linked Gujarat 2002 riots to the rise of terror organizations like Indian Mujahideen.
But one topic everyone is silent on is the greater propensity for violence in the Muslim community – especially in localities, villages, towns, regions where they have substantial numbers. Often, juveniles are found to be at the front of violent Muslim protests. From Azad Maidan in Mumbai, to Kashmir, UP, Bihar, Karnataka, West Bengal – we find juveniles involved in acts of pelting stones and clashing with police. Why is no one debating the socio-cultural environment of their upbringing which encourages such behavior? Who is responsible for it? Is it just the individual families, or the local maulvi, or leading Islamic seminaries like Deoband, or the Urdu press who constantly nurse a sense of victim-hood in Muslims, or young educated Muslim role models like Akbaruddin Owaisi who advises Muslim youth, “take law into your own hands, and later come to me – I will protect you.”
Has political correctness in our country reached a stage where it effectively hampers police investigations as police are afraid to ‘communalize’ crimes? Sadly, families like the Thakurs and Narangs know that media, politicians and ‘civil’ society will not shed tears for them the way that these groups empathized with the Akhlaqs. But does the larger Hindu society care?
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At least 102 persons were killed and over 350 injured after a fire broke out at the Paravur Puttingal Devi temple around 3:30 a.m on Sunday. The fire is believed to have been sparked during a fireworks display – sparks reportedly fell in a building which was being used to store all the fireworks. The fireworks ceremony was held as part of the annual festival of the temple, near Kollam. Close to 15,000 people were reportedly present when the fire broke out.
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