Thursday, 4 October 2007

Hey Ram!


"Some say there was a person over 17 lakh years ago. His name, they say, was Ram. And we should not touch the bridge he built. Who is this Ram? From which engineering college did he graduate? Is there any proof of this? Ram is a big lie. In fact, if you read the old literature, Ram was a drunkard and worse."

Any human who had watched the incessant telecasts of this crock by Mr.karunanidhi, the octogenarian realpolitik of DMK, Vedanti, the BJP leader who declared a fatwa on the old guy’s head and the ASI which filed an affidavit to say ‘Rama is an illusion’ , he would have screamed ‘Hey Ram!’ / ‘Allah!’/’Jesus’ or whoever is the god of your religion in the secular India.

Being a responsible citizen of India, one of the most powerful democracies in the world,
We should also be aware of the responsible use of the ‘Freedom of speech’ right. ‘Freedom of speech’ does not mean that one can commit the crime of blasphemy, not at least by the persons who are considered as the national leaders by the hoi polloi. Dr.Ambedkar would have included some more clauses to the ‘Freedom of speech’ in the constitution to restrain these crooks from talking so foolishly if he had thought that Indians would have to tolerate such politicians in the future.

No sooner Karunanidhi spoke those profane words which deprive the beliefs of the majority of the population in this secular country, before people could even guess the extent he got demented, may be because of his age, another VHP activist issues a fatwa against him and declared that ‘the person who brings the head of karunanidhi would be weighed against gold’.

BJP, on the other hand accepted the weapon from the old man and started protests all across the country. This is a much expected response from any Hindu who adores ‘Lord Rama’. With these happenings all around, a bemused common man is ignorant of the environmental and social those are the cause of concerns that prevent the sethusamudram project.

India is so secular that Muslims in Bangalore can protest and indulge the public in riots on the execution of the tyrant president of Iraq, Mr.Saddam and albeit the movie ‘The Davinci Code’ was made and screened in the western countries where the Christianity is more prevalent, Christian activists in India can remonstrate on the screening of the same movie.

But are Hindus who are a majority of the population and with whose age old beliefs and traditions have built the building blocks of the culture, which is deeply venerated by any part of the world an easy punching bag for these crooked politicians who does all these in sheer lust for power? Of course, any religion or any community should not be.

Whether it’s a majority or minority, people should not be deprived of their beliefs and their religion. Issuing a fatwa on the head of Mr.Karunanidhi is a bit too extremism, but it reinforced the way our politicians use the religion for politics. They should understand the real sense of secularism than merely adding a bracket and S (S) to form a new political party and to cash the beliefs of the foolish voters.

In light of all of these, if ‘Lord Rama’ is present on the holy land now, I am sure he would have supported the project if it is beneficial to the people and if it is socially, economically and environmentally helpful and if it would be of any assistance to build the ‘Rama rajya’ which is promised by every politician on his campaign for elections.

I lay here reading all the articles discussing same issue..’Hey Ram!’.

--DJ

1 comments:

Dinesh said...

Excellent read. Well written and the title is so apt.
If it was some brainless third grade person craving for fourth grade popularity(a la Rakhi Sawant), I would have ignored. But a person of Karunanidhi's standing cannot be ignored...though I am not one of those extremely religious, court should ask him to provide a public apology for the blasphemy.
Keep up the good work.