Its high time to change the meaning of secularism. A suitable meaning may be "A RELIGION THAT IS SUPPOSEDLY BEING FOLLOWED IN INDIA". Rajeev, i sincerely thank you for your wonderful articles. Its a pity that, despite reading these articles all our INDIAN secularists( so called) can think only about criticising your articles, and suggesting that our country can develop if we stop thinking abt religions. This idea will be of use only if everyone thinks alike, again a step from hindus alone portrays them as goats in slaughter houses. How long are we going to keep quiet. If shiv sena speaks something abt religion, it becomes anti secular, but if some other religious parties even take processions, distribute pamphlets against other religions, it becomes a fight for minoriy rights. First we should ask our fellow citizens to grow up and then expect the WEST to respect us
muslim should not feel proud of ghazni of his prowess and the rajput should not feel proud of prithviraj as we can guess how he would have treated low caste hindus.we will defenitely be better citizens if we feel sad and ashamed of our past and try to be better humans.there should be a world commitee to write impartial history focussing mainly on the drawbacks of all religions,isms,races,dynasties unlike the curent coked ups where a jew gives a glorious past to himself and barbaric status to others.
dear rajeev the answer to ur greivance is to wrte the ills of other religions too and not make hinduism sound a non discriminatory ideal one.i am of the firm beleif that the world wil be a better place to live if we feel sad about the past and think ways not to repeat the past mistakes instead of creating a false greatness which never existed with any religions.chloroform and pencillin where of far greater use to mankind than all the religions put together but analysis of its sideeffects have helped us move towards far better and advanced medicines.we will call a doctor who prays chloroform and sugests he will use only that as insane.the only thing may remain unchanged is the word change and all other things including the ?great religions have to change/die.the religions practised 100 yrs back was totally opposite to what is being done today except in the name.if a muslim feels sad on seing a mosque which was built after killing and demolishing other religious structures and a brahmin feels sad on seing a slum we will be better ones than in ur way of teaching where the brahmin should be angry on being forced to se a dalit and losing his purity which he had for centuries and a
You got to give it to Rajeev Srinivasan. The guy faced so much discrimination in his native India for being a Hindu. It's a wonder that he still managed to go an IIT. And then to escape all the humiliations and torture he had to flee India! Rajeev, have you applied for amnesty at USA ? Poor thing, you should.
When the son asked the above question, Mother says
Son; You can't, because you are not good enough. God thinks you are untouchable, impure, and even if you memorize all the chants you can never be. it's their job, they are born to do it
But mother in kerala, Ayyapa is so named in Sabarimala because he is Ayyan's-Appan (ayyan means untouchable) and sabari under whose name sabarimala is named is also a so called dalit. So why these descrimination.
Mother: Be quiet son. Let's just live! not question the hypocracy
Of course many history books in the West gloss over contradictions in the Bible, and skip some dark chapters such as slavery. This is a failing of all societies - do Communist historians mention the millions killed by Stalin? Do Pakistani historians mention the barbarism of Mohammed Ghori? What the writer gets worked up about is that a similar whitewashing has not been done about India's history in the text-books of a society into which many of our compatriots have moved for economic reasons.
Our newspapers show that, despite all the efforts of the Indian State, the evils of caste discrimination and dowry murders are undeniably present to an unacceptable degree even today. The low status of women is proved by the Census findings about the male-female sex ratio. So why should it be surprising for foreign historians to reach unflattering conclusions about Indias past?
If the children of our well-to-do compatriots settled in the US get taunted by their American peers, it is a reflection of the state of affairs in their country of origin. The negative portrayal of India overseas will disappear if we put our own house in order.
it is very unfortunate that the westerners discriminate hinduism.. but that does not mean that u can write any shit about christians n muslims in india.. v r equal citizens(as equal as any hindu) of this country.. v r no second grade ciizens.. so please shut up
