Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Secular thoughts !!!

Interesting psychology indeed. When under pressure from all the political parties the PM surrenders to the demands of the terrorists, someone calls him "Soft on terror". At the same time, when every section of the society demands for the execution of a terrorist, the same person defends the terrorist. I believe if you have the guts to say NDA "Soft on terror", then you ought to say the present government "insensitive to terror". 
 
It is said that life imprisonment is better punishment than capital punishment in case of Afzal Guru, may be for Afzal but definitely not for the country. Were you not mentioning about Kandahar just now? What was Kandahar for? Do you want Afzal to be alive so that another Kandahar happens? 

And that too, it is the SC verdict. The clemency process is a democratic right, so it can very well be executed. But putting the case under red files and defending the inexplicable delay in processing the same is betrayal to the nation. When SC can establish fast track court to complete the proceedings, can the government not take some guidance from it? 

In India, we have got a great affinity towards some terms whose meaning I don't know if we understand. One such hallowed term is SECULARISM. This term applies to Hindus only. When a Hindu says something about Hindus, he is termed as fanatic; and someone who blasts Hindus and Hindu culture, he is termed as a secular. I know, I must have been branded as a fanatic by now, but still then I will continue.  

Babri structure demolition has been a talk of politicians since long. There are people in India who say that not a single temple in India was demolished during Mughal rule, and there are many more who believe them. People should visit Kashi (Vishwanath temple) and Mathura (Krishna temple) to see the truth. Half of the temple is demolished and the mosque is built. It was a deliberate attempt of the Mughals so that Hindus surrender to them even to pay a visit to the God. There has been a lot of proof also that Babri structure was built on the ruins of demolished temple. People talk so much about this demolition, but would you accept if someone comes to your home and destroys the "Tulasi Mandap" at your home? 

Now this is height of hypocrisy. There is this government (Rajiv Gandhi, 1988) that opens the gates of Ayodhya temple so that general public can pray at the Ayodhya Ramlala temple. Then again there is this government (current one) that files an affidavit saying that Ram didn't exist so there is no way Ram built the setu. 

Regarding Amarnath jatra, nothing needs to be mentioned as it is still fresh in everyone's mind. People can't be fooled by saying Congress didn't create any impediments. Might be not actively, but did nothing to help the yatris too. 

RSS seems to be the worst understood organization in the country. Rather than commenting from outside, it is better to have a close view and then putting forth your idea. If you talk about Gandhiji, he is considered as pratah-smaraniya (pious, whom we should remember every day) by RSS. RSS never supported the killing of Mahatma nor was it involved with it anyway? 

What resemblance does present day congress have with INC that fought in part for the freedom for the country? The current generation Congress does not have the right to claim credit for Independence. The freedom fighters joined various other political parties and they all must be given due credit. Even it was Gandhiji's vision that INC should be dissolved post-Independence and new political parties by formed to govern the country. 

The founder of RSS, Sri Hedgewar was also a member of INC and he worked with Krantikaris also. His vision was not limited to the independence but to make Bharat strong enough so that such conditions of foreign invasion never happens again. Thousands of Swayamsevaks (RSS men) participated in the various movements through INC too. During time of partition, it was the Swayamsevaks who sacrificed their lives so that lakhs of Hindus have a safe passage to Bharat. 

Whenever there is any opportunity to serve the nation, you will find the swayamsevaks standing in the front line; be it supplying food and medicines to army jawans (1962 China war) or helping flood affected people in remotest areas or protecting the interests of the Vanavasis, RSS men have jumped in to help. Just that these people don't believe in publicity for their work, it does not mean they be branded otherwise. 

Before closing, I would raise one last point. Laxmanandaji and four of his disciples were brutally killed on 23rd August, but there was no news. When the mobs retaliated and one lady was killed, it was national news. Are we dumb not to see anything?

Won't go any further. There is a lot to talk, not enough space here. 

Comments are most welcome.
 
Shubamastu.

Friday, November 07, 2008

Strength of unity - Dasahara

Dasahara is one of the greatest festivals observed in India. Students value it more as it they get an entire fortnight of holiday during this time. And same for the people working in different corporate offices as they get leave to visit their home. Happy time for all :)

Dasahara is a very imporatant day for Hindus; on this day Maa Durga killed Mahishashura as well as Sri Ram killed the demon Ravana. Mahishashura (Buffalo demon) had got boon from Brahma, the Creator and had become unconquerable. No power in this world was any match for him. It was impossible for any individual or group of devas to defeat him. To fight with the demon, all the gods put their powers together. Thus Maa Durga was born and she fought with Mahishashura for nine days and nine nights. On the tenth day, she finally killed the demon.
On Vijaya Dashami, after worshipping goddess Durga, Sri Ram fought with Ravana and killed him. It was a victory of the virtue over devil, a victory of truth over treachery. Sri Ram took the help of the vanaras, who as individuals were no match for the mighty demon kingdom, but when got together destroyed them from the root.

Both of these incidents have certain aspects in common.
- Every individual can contribute towards the fight against evil, no matter how weak he is as an individual and how powerful the evil is.
- When individuals pledge all their power for a single cause, they can do wonders. The power can be physical (tana), intellectual (mana) and financial (dhana) in nature.
- When the cause backed by virtue and truthfulness and is against the evils, there is no way they can fail.

These are all fine. But what do they convey under current situation? We don't have any demons with big horns on head or with ten heads. When we talk about demons, we generally conceive a picture of an ugly looking beast with couple of horns (or may be many more) and so on. Just that in the present day world, we don't come across such creatures doesn't mean that the world has gotten rid of them. It is not the looks that make a demon, it is the character, behaviour that distinguishes a demon from others. In the present day context, the demon has a lot many manifestations. It exists in the society in the form of corruption, dishonesty, separatism, terrorism, greed, lust and many more. It is this demon that can destroy all the value system in our society.

To fight against these demons, we as individuals have to be alert and pledge all our power in defeating them. It is high time that we all Indians pledge our tana-mana-dhana to make Bharat Mata strong to fight against those devils.

Bharat Mata ki Jay.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Respect for others, Peace for all

India is the only country where people from minority communities can stay peacefully and exert all their democratic rights. This is possible only because the majority of Hindus are courteous to people from different faiths.

 

But when their humble character is taken for granted and the outsiders start taking advantage of it in their evangelist works (often by denigrating the local customs, culture, deities and faith), there is bound to be some repercussions. And it resulted in the violence where many people from both the communities suffered.

 

For peace to sustain there has to be effort from both the sides. Just like it is impossible to clap using one hand, it is not possible to maintain peace when one community has the motto of humiliating the faith of the other community.

 

The kind of violence that is happening in India now-a-days cannot be instigated by any organization; it is the feeling of the oppressed people which gets burst under specific situations. The case in Orissa got flared up after the repeated attacks on Swamiji for his curt criticism towards the evangelist missionaries where as the case in Karnataka was the by-product of the hatred mission instigated by the magazine "Satya Darshini", endorsed by some biblical community.

 

The underlying point is that, we need to have respect for others if we want peace for ourselves.

Let us join hands for Orissa flood relief work

For any query, feel free to contact seva-blr@googlegroups.com

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Namaste,

It seems the bad days are going to linger in Orissa. First it was the riots & now floods. It's the worst flood to hit Orissa in past 50 years affecting about 38 lakhs. More or less you are aware about that. These people need our help. With winter ready in the wings, they need to settle down before the end of October.

UBSS:

We have decided to be a part with UBSS who are currently involved in rehabilitation activities. Established in the year 1982, the Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS) made its first valued contribution in the aid of cyclone affected people of the state in the year 1982 itself. Be it flood, cyclone, famine or sunstroke deaths or any form of natural calamity, the dedicated volunteers of UBSS have fought against all odds to reach the people in their hours of crisis. For details please log on to www.ubssseva.org.

1.Artha Dana - Assist financially for rehabilitation work
2.Bastu Dana - Donating old or new blankets/winter wears (which will be done later)
3.Srama Dana - Visit Orissa, be a sevak (volunteer) & work for the people

Artha Dana:

Donations can be made directly to the AXIS bank account of UBSS whose details are as below.

Name- Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti

AXIS Bank: Ac No-024010100043982

Branch- Satya Nagar, Bhubaneswar

Donations (cash/kind) may be send to Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti in the name of "Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti" at the following address.

Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti
PLOT NO.- 41,SECTOR - 'A', ZONE-D,
MANCHESWAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
BHUBANESWAR - 751010,ORISSA
PH - 0674 - 2585708, FAX-0674 - 2586509
EMAIL -
seva_ubss@yahoo.co.in

In case you are not comfortable transferring to AXIS bank please feel free to contact us at seva-blr@googlegroups.com.

Donations given to Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti is exempted U/S80 G of the Income-tax Act, 1961, videLetterNo.-ITO(Tech)/80G/ R-22/2004-2005/67, Dt.-Bhubaneswar theApril 7, 2005 valid for the Assessment years 2005-06 to 2007-08.
Bastu Dana:
We have plans to collect blankets from various parts of Bangalore in near future. We are not able to go ahead with this because of lack of volunteers.
Srama Dana:
Time is the most precious thing expected from you. You are always welcome to visit any seva kendra & guide the work.
Please send a mail to seva-blr@googlegroups.com with the following information.
Name    Contact No   Email Id  Time From  No of Days Seva Place of Interest (if any)

Seva-Blr
Few of the people involved in the group are,
1. Jyotiranjan Nayak,      9880177828 (Philips)
2. Santanu Pradhan,       9845144126 (Tektronix)
3. Ajit Kumar Kar,            9980792497 (Dell)
4. Debashis Prusty,          9449974132 (NXP Semiconductors)
5. Parsuram Panigrahy,   9741265019 (Ocwen)
6. Pravas Kumar Panda,  9480170979 (Sun Microsystems)
7. Debashis Mishra,         9739049002 (Capegemini)

NB: All the donations will go to Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS).

Subhamastu.
~Tushar



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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Hussein for Bharatratna???

As an individual, I fail to understand why the name of Mr M.F. Hussein was included as part of the poll for Bharatratna.

There has been a number of cases registered against him. He takes every opportunity to insult the Hindu deities; even the Bharat Mata is not spared. In the name of liberal outlook, the secularists expect Hindus to praise the paintings and hail Mr Hussein. If he is so liberal and open-minded, then why does his brush fail to depict similar fantasies concerning deities/Gods of his own faith?

The Bharatratnas are the role models for the masses, they are the people whom the common man tries to emulate and they are the best in their field. In case of Mr Hussein, his only qualification for inclusion into the list seems to be the controversy surrounding him, for that would provide more publicity to the poll organized by NDTV.

As such in today's media where anything against Hindus is considered secular and anything for Hindus is communal such incidences are bound to happen.