I started this bit of incessant rambling when I was sitting jobless in the small speck of a place in Karnataka known as Manipal. I made my first comprehensive trip around manipal since the old days last weekend when I roamed all the way upto kundapur and back to mangalore. The similarities with 2 years back or so were, we still had to count our wallets ( my comrade's more often than not if ever) for the cash we had, we had forgotten to adjust for the inflation anyways...!!
But I guess, its kind of surprising that for a place that has been touted as a place that will never change from its student friendly party zone, there are some worrying changes in the back ground...!! More like the beginning of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings... when the dark clouds are just beginning to gather at Mordor while everyone's happy in the far off and insulated Shire... Everyone knows what happened next... and the turmoil that followed for the hobbits and the shire..!
This worrying trend of communalism was present in India since God knows when... but the present trends are worrying as it seems the Godhra incidents werent a one off.. but a part of the big plan or the bigger picture...
What offends me more is the presumed peace in states like Kerala where there is a worrying lack of acknowledgement of other religions and their beliefs at certain influential levels...We preach bigotry at a lot of levels... which is a very sad trend... possibly the only saving grace for my state is the insane amounts of consumption and the penetration in high literacy throughout the state... but even then.... this is nothing to be relieved about...
At the end of the day, our job is to die ... we can try to control our lives or actions but we can never really control the nature and time of our death except in very small margins... so why do we waste time dividing people, harassing innocents, forcing views etc on the majority of the people....
Why is the Indian government ready to stand by and let these RSS or Bajrang Dal activists get away with these atrocities against mankind? Are they too far away from the Nazis who inculcated hate into their doctrines and managed to ensure the genocide of the Jews? Is being a Christian or a Muslim a direct threat to Hinduism? or Vice Versa? or in any combination depending on the state and the locale?
When the government backs such moments or even a lack of action can be construed as support in the right plaecs... then what hope do we have apart from the educated ones among us? If that last statement is meant to instill hope... its not... its a sadder fact that the educated ones among us are not exactly averse to such ideologies and hence we are in a precarious position with respect to life in India with respect to tolerance to minorities...
All said and done... I am still Indian... and proud to be one...
Lets just hope people get wise and see the futility in creating such divides just to attain power.... We do not want to be labelled as the Germany of the 21st century I guess....
But I guess, its kind of surprising that for a place that has been touted as a place that will never change from its student friendly party zone, there are some worrying changes in the back ground...!! More like the beginning of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings... when the dark clouds are just beginning to gather at Mordor while everyone's happy in the far off and insulated Shire... Everyone knows what happened next... and the turmoil that followed for the hobbits and the shire..!
This worrying trend of communalism was present in India since God knows when... but the present trends are worrying as it seems the Godhra incidents werent a one off.. but a part of the big plan or the bigger picture...
What offends me more is the presumed peace in states like Kerala where there is a worrying lack of acknowledgement of other religions and their beliefs at certain influential levels...We preach bigotry at a lot of levels... which is a very sad trend... possibly the only saving grace for my state is the insane amounts of consumption and the penetration in high literacy throughout the state... but even then.... this is nothing to be relieved about...
At the end of the day, our job is to die ... we can try to control our lives or actions but we can never really control the nature and time of our death except in very small margins... so why do we waste time dividing people, harassing innocents, forcing views etc on the majority of the people....
Why is the Indian government ready to stand by and let these RSS or Bajrang Dal activists get away with these atrocities against mankind? Are they too far away from the Nazis who inculcated hate into their doctrines and managed to ensure the genocide of the Jews? Is being a Christian or a Muslim a direct threat to Hinduism? or Vice Versa? or in any combination depending on the state and the locale?
When the government backs such moments or even a lack of action can be construed as support in the right plaecs... then what hope do we have apart from the educated ones among us? If that last statement is meant to instill hope... its not... its a sadder fact that the educated ones among us are not exactly averse to such ideologies and hence we are in a precarious position with respect to life in India with respect to tolerance to minorities...
All said and done... I am still Indian... and proud to be one...
Lets just hope people get wise and see the futility in creating such divides just to attain power.... We do not want to be labelled as the Germany of the 21st century I guess....
when did u get into this new Avatar?? Didn't we meet around this time?
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