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Re: ARTICLE : The case against Husain
In <ghenDzsJsJ.3C@netcom.com> ntiwari@rs3.esm.vt.edu (N. Tiwari)
writes:
>
>There is a difference between critcism and issuing death warrants.
There certainly is a difference between criticism and burning paintings
and other acts of hooliganism.
>We, the average people always come out strongly when someone insults
>us, or our parents.
That is probably why you remain average.
I find it difficult to understand that a single painting is going to
bring the edifice of Hinduism down. It is laughable that people are so
insecure about their own faith that they react to every single offence.
It is not the painting that diminishes Hinduism, it is the childish
reaction to it that diminishes it.
Two and half centuries ago, Lord Macaulay wrote that the 'Natives'
would become 'Civilized Christians' once they got the benefit of
English education in effect calling Indians and Hindus uncivilized. If
that were true, India would have become Christian long back.
When Winston Churchill called Mahatma Gandhi 'A Half Naked Fakir' it
revealed who Churchill was, not who Gandhi was.
The Upanishads teach us to contemplate the Universal Reality, the
Brahman and not to distracted by temporal objects or as the Gita says,
the Praise as well as the abuse reach the Lord's feet. If that is your
faith, how does a single act of 'Blasphemy' or for that matter multiple
acts going to affect the Truth.
There are millions of people, who react in the
>same way when the same is said is said about their Gods and Goddesses.
>So, each of us, should be careful as to what we speak. And reacting to
>insults is not same as issuing fatwas. So, what is this "Hindu"
version
>of Nazism which you are alluding to.
The Shiv Sena thugs and other hate mongers who incite mobs to commit
hooliganism time and again, for instance.
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>Nachiketa Tiwari
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