Very good article. I normally skip through your articles. As most of them seem to a bit on the extreme. But in this article I share your thoughts. All other religious organizations in India also convert people by exhorting that the Hindu gods are daemons. I realized after sharing a room from one who has converted recently. I also has an relative who got converted and put the picture of his died father in a trash can saying that they do not believe in respecting died person as the died are equivalent to daemon. I think god can be reached in many ways and different religions have given different ways to reach god. If some one says that Hindu gods are not gods then the same goes with other gods too. As most of the religions were born in last 5000 years where as theory of evolution says that humans were started evolving from apes for more than 60,000 years. This has been dealt very balanced by Kenneth C Davis in "Don't know Much about Mythology".
I would be glad to see if you can write an article on reforming the Hinduism. I think castes are a bane for Hinduism. In Bhagavt Gita itself the lord says that a person cannot become a Brahmin by birth, but only by beliefs and practices.
RE:Descrimination against Hindus
by Thobey Srinivasan on Feb 13, 2006 03:52 PM Permalink
Dear Mr.Kingkong,
By talking about Rajeev's Stanford background, you seem to be implying that if you are educated abroad, you should automatically develop a contempt for anything that is Hindu! It is this sense of shame that forms the pivot of Intelectualism that is stridently anti-majority.
Let me tell you what are the hardships inflicted on Brahmins in Tamil Nadu:
First and foremost, they were targeted as being responsible for all the social ills like untouchability. Analysing caste system from the time of its disintegration is being very unfair to it. It was a vibrant social order suitable to the social conditions prevailing at that time. Again, it did prescribe stingent punishment for Brahmins who swerved from the path of Dharma! It prescribed penury, pursuit of knowledge and austeriry to Brahmins. Holding them responsible for all that went wrong was a part of a carefully crafted conspiracy by the alien rulers, which was passed around as 'self-respect', social justice and such fancy sounding terms.
