In last 6 months, I have read almost 6-7 books on India. Before reading the book, I flipped the pages of preface in curiosity to know what provoked the writers that they put their vital time and energy to write about India. Some referred its growth in last 20 years and its claim of becoming super power in next 20 years, while some mentioned its diverse culture and rich history. While going through the book, I realized that their claim of their books were paeans of Indian achievements and valued culture vanished after every one or two pages. They moved towards the genuine topic they see in our everyday life. For them, one of the hot topics was Ayodhya. They could not resist themselves from discussing about RSS, VHP, BJP, Lord Rama, Babri Masjid and many topics associated to it. Yesterday, Verdict came out after 18 years of long wait that usually happens in Indian court. But this time, It was good for everyone as in last 18 years many would have moved much ahead for some important necessity of life than sticking to it for justice. Many of them, who have firm belief in what should have been the verdict, don't know what their justification is.
I am neither a journalist nor a historian, who can provide you minute details of what happened in last 2000 years, so that I can conclude whom the disputed land belongs to - Hindus or Muslims or both. But, I can say for sure, 1992's Babri Masjid demolition was a sign of pure cowardice to achieve greedy political edge. Whatever happened was a sharp blow on the face of secularism, in which India believed. Many claimed their favors by strongly stating that it was a process of restoration of one of the Hindus' most sacred places by wracking and ruining 550 year old monument. These people did not even know if Lord Ram ever existed on earth or he is just an art of fiction whose legacy was old and strong enough to disguise anyone. Even though, if suppose Ram took avatar, quite long before, what was the point of destruction? A religion never expects us to do something of this kind. A religion never asks us to attack on others' belief or take revenge.
When I was in second year, I was told by one of my seniors about ragging. He told me if I wanted to control our juniors and instill fear inside them then I should find the weakest link. In other words, remedy was to find out a shy, introvert and scared guy and slap him hard in front of his other batch mates. 99% were the chances that I could control them for entire ragging period without any fuss. Those words made me remember how I had been hit first time in front of all. I had to swallow that humiliation without any resistance as I had not had enough confidence and courage to oppose. Though it was just a part of college ritual and it ended after sometime, but when I see this scenario in context of what happened in Ayodhya, I feel the situation of minorities was as good or bad as first year juniors. If Hindus has been in minority in this country, I suspect that anyone would have thought of restoring Ram in this way.
We can't go into the past and change it, but definitely we can change the flow of future by doing good in our present. This is a time of realization that digging old cemeteries will give us rotten dead bodies, nothing else. There are many creative and positive things to do, then why to waste time in such fights. I wish there would not be any more Ayodhya anywhere. It is a wakeup call not only for Indians, but also for every human being.
Well, an austere but precise hit on the note that vindicates false rotten beliefs of dividing man.
ReplyDeleteWell said, but there is a sense of resonance here.
ReplyDeleteThe verdict has not favoured any particular religion this time. You may be correct that the Ram may be just a word of fiction, but this fiction has it's own faith, and keeping faith is all we call religion. The sad part is only Hindus are the one who keeps on criticizing their own religion. I have hardly seen any other else. We need to conserve own identity, this sacred sanatan.
Hi Brajesh,
ReplyDeleteI have many reasons for this. Keeping faith is fine, but it should make you blind. Hinduism has lost its reality and purpose as many people twisted its meaning for their selfish greed. Even, Hindus in India are not same. There is a big difference between Punjabi and Tamil Brahmin. They never get along. Then, problems like caste system, Sati, child marriage and many more. Many people in South India adopted Christianity to get rid of lower caste status. Who is responsible for that? Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism: their founders were once Hindus, but they started a different stream of faith that today outnumbered Hindus. What was the reason?
What happened in Ayodhya was not a religious purpose, but an approach to take advantage in politics.
First of all congratulations for beautifully pouring out your heart. Its a good work.
ReplyDeleteWhat you have written is absolute correct on lines of modern thinking for sake of true civilization.
So,
1. Any personal property's(here the mosque) fate should only be decided thru constitutional methods.
2. Even if there are disputes, parties should go to law which should be sole body to decide based on facts and scientific cum human angles.
3. On human grounds no one should be forced to accept any thing against his or her will which is in turn not trespassing other's personal dominion.
In your blog, you have given a feel for:
1. Raam didn't proved in existence.
2. All forces entangled directly/indirectly in 1992 demolition act, involved for politcal advantages.
3. The act was taken under a false expectations and wrong faith without any acceptance and without any authenticity.
4. Only there are wrongs done by hindus which is a religion very shallow or having more negatives than positives in a perspective of pure civilization.
5. Ignorance is always a bliss.
to be continued.........
What i would like to point you out here , with my own reading about India, cultures, other religions, history, modern philosphy, human rights and essence of human life, is as follows:
ReplyDelete1. As faith is a force leading to self belief and sustainence. Faith like imagination cannot be measured and generalized as true or lie. No one knows what can be the outcome of it when balmed to your mind, heart and soul. Raam may exist or may not, but no modern thinker in glory of his/her intellect can deny that millions have enlightened themselves with His name, with full compliances with highest moral values. Unrealistic capabilties do creep in with faith. Raam has been a naive object of faith for many believers who are secular in all their behaviour and have been away from all human caprices surrounding the socio-economic scenes around.
2. Like you who think of present any time and also of only those who appeared on television, without turning leaves where lots of for and against are written, there are many who got involved with the Ayodhya Ram temple movements without any external factors.
Before giving strong and deeply impacting comments(which may create wrong notions), we must first find well backed truth that everybody involved were only trying for political mileage.
3. One drawback that has always eaten into our indian national intellectual minds is not looking into self-esteem as the essence of all knowledge before going for salvation. This creates disintegration, inequality and uneven-ness in thoughts and opinions. People at same time under-value or deplore one thing but forget to think over other aspects which equaly qualify for similar measurements.
to be continued........
What i am saying here is:
ReplyDelete1. why only you dragged VHP, BJP, hindus in courtroom. They appeared on national television thats why.
2. Why aren't you equivocal in criticism of those from other parties who have undertaken tyranny throughout the history everyday for last hundreds of years behaving very low on moral values, even today they are doing this.
3. Why are you not imploring those acts which are happening in pakistan, bagladesh and kashmir and are against indian 5000 yrs of secular traditions.
4. Why didnot you deplore destruction of temples across subcontinent(including India) when only one mosque has been destroyed in Ayodhya.
5. The said parties didn't exactly do for what you described here as political mileage but more so as reactionary, ego-driven and self-assertion despite secular traditions here.
6. Check first that which is bad, lowly looking politics or well planned destructive ideological undercurrents( which is more political inside despite all innocent showups).
7. India has been a laboratory of deep philosphies, secular traditions and faith. Try to find out why some forces of these traditions have become reactionary.
Try to see other faces of coin(not only mean politics as you say).
8. What if the other ideologies, even if you provide a niche to them, have their highest religious philosophy saying that other religions are meant to be only subjugated or annihilated.
9. When you go through the Indian philosophical texts of centuries and text from religions coming from outside India, only Indian theories will qualify for modern education yet we dont include them in fear of so called secularism and try to settle with something diplomatic kind of secularism.
Coward acts of communalism in India has to be suppressed/punished no denying but who will change the course of cowardice among intellectuals.
Every ignorance is not a bliss. India has been burning more because of this.
Try to see more with your heart,hence forth find and speak the truth.
I am writing from heart and mind. I have so many things to say. Space and time dont permit.
Nice work again Kundan..
ReplyDeleteI personally believe it hardly matters what comes up on Ayodhya to us and so is to every Indian who is not being personally benefited and if a state of anarchy occurs due to this issues that is what makes every Indian suffer may it be a Hindu or a Muslim even a daily life of other religions are affected as well who has nothing to do with this, demolition of Babri Masjid indeed was a wrong act but I either don't suggest to erect another. I personally believe in the Istanbul kind of solution where they have created a Museum of the disputed land and worshiping inside the premises is strictly prohibited by law. The main issues is that our government lacks the will to withstand the opposition of such solutions so Indian judiciary is the best tool for them at-least they can pass half a century in the court proceedings.
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