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Re: ARTICLE : Amarnath tragedy : Solution in Hindu self-help
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
> Global Hindu Electronic Network wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
> >
> Sorry about that. It is rather difficult to know who is a VHP member and
> who is not. In any case, one does not need to be a VHP member to be part
> of the "VHP crowd", no?
I think that when you attribute the blame on "VHP crowd" (whatever that
means) there has to be a direct linkage between VHP and the person writing
the article.
To my (limited knowledge), no such linkage exists, so accusing VHP or
VHP-crowd for some article by a syndicated author in a non-VHP owned
newspaper is somewhat questionable.
Now if the author was at least active in VHP activities even without being
a member of VHP, and then "VHP crowd" is blamed for his/her statement it
would at least have some basis. Again, I have never seen any newspaper
report in which Swapan Das Gupta is noted as being active in VHP.
> Why blame advaita, of which the Sankaracharyas are the most visible
> representatives, for the supposed apathy of the general Indian
> population towards the Amarnath tragedy? If not for advaita and its
> dasnami sannyasis, there would be no Amarnath yatra in the first place.
Agree completely. And I would add, why blame VHP for what Swapan Das Gupta
writes? Let us assign the blame where it belongs.
My sincere hope is that after such a monumental tragedy, the government
and private organizations will come together and ensure that the
yatra-routes, and yatra-dhams are safer for the yatries.
regards,
ajay shah
ajay@mercury.aichem.arizona.edu
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