Why all Hindus must unite together?

There has been a fervent appeal in politics always, asking for all the hindus to unite together. Now the appeal is increasingly being heard in Social media too.

The uniting issue is surrounded around "opposition to PK movie". These months there were lot of issues on which hindus were asked to unite--against conversion, bringing back Ram temple and during elections- rallying hindus against the pseudo-secular parties. It is said that via PK movie a muslim actor has insulted hindu religion. Parallels are drawn comparing the unity of other religions against freedom of speech like that of Christians against Davinci code and muslims against vishwaroopam movie.

"It is possible to view the hindu faith as a river with many tributaries, some that feed into a mainstream and others that leave it. Perhaps the image itself is mistaken, for in many respects there is no main river at all. This is a religion which is decentralized as no other. Each district has its own holy shrines, each run by its own locally revered priest".(quoted from India after Gandhi) 

The  RSS chief M.S.Gowalkar tried in vain to unite hindus by trying to make cow-slaughter a national priority. The cow was found all over India and hindus too were all over India. While the Hindus worshipped the cow, other religions butchered it. The main theme of communalism itself is to portray secular interests of religions are not just different but also conflicting to each other and so it was not possible for these religions to co-exist. Appeal against cow slaughter never gained a nation-wide momentum. 

The Ayodhya controversy helped greatly to converge the diversified hindu traditions into a unified movement.The Historian Ramachandra Guha says this hindu consolidation was also helped by the serial Ramayan telecasted on sunday mornings in   doordarshan during 1987-88. With an estimated 80 million viewers streets were empty on sunday mornings with hospitals and factories too reporting large-scale absenteeism. Viewers used to take a ritual bath, garlanding television sets before the show began. Anthropologist Philip Lutgendorf wrote ' never before had such a large percentage of south Asia's population been united in a single activity'. A decentralized religion lacking a single holy book or a unique singular god, the serial in fact introduced a congregational imperative into hinduism and Ram became the most glamorous of all Hindu gods.

We very well know who benefited from this unity. This unity was never used to reform any irrationality. Instead in states like Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, acts of sati were encouraged and worshipped. History was written to portray all muslim rulers as invaders and destroyers of holy shrines. Diversity was throttled. Tribals who have no connection with hindu culture were appended to hinduism. Riots were orchestrated and translated into votes. 

Trying to a forge an unified and uniform culture for hindus is threatening every local traditions. Diwali in north and south India fall on different dates and have differing myths behind its celebration. Farmers celebrate festival of harvest in many states on different days irrespective of their religion. But these harvest festivals are getting hinduized and being termed as hindu festivals. 

People justify this idiotic spirit to unite as 'nationalism'. And this nationalism is measured not by the love you have for your country but by the extent to which you are mainstreamed. And this mainstream culture is what the majority determines.
  
The latest weapon now is now to unite hindus against PK movie.
If hindus are the majority, then how can their pre-eminence be threatened by a movie or by proselytization work of other religions.
Why do we regard every criticism directed towards us as something threatening our very existence? If we still regard everything as sacred, and scriptures written in 2000 B.C as relevant and immutable in A.D 2014 too, I guess that would be the biggest threat to hinduism. 
 Instead of trying to unite hindus for a destructive work, let us unite to do something constructive. I feel the single most dividing factor in hinduism is caste.So, why dont we unite in promoting inter-caste marriages??

Unreasonable demand for Special category status

Eligibility set by  Planning Commission for special category status
1. hilly and difficult terrain,
2. low population density, 
3.sizeable share of the population as tribals,
4. strategic location along borders,
5. economic and infrastructural backwardness,
6. and non-viable nature of state finances.

While the first and third are geographic factors, others are socio-economic factors. 
-Governance failure,corruption, social inequalities etc cant be reasons to claim special category status.
-Granting tax breaks and more funds when the structural problems are not addressed will accentuate these problems instead of solving them.
-Also this will be a blot on federalism as other well performing states will be denied their share of central revenues.
-While there is no doubt that governance is getting better in Bihar since 2006, and the effects of 50 years for mal-governance has to be remedied, Bihar should get help from centre and other well performing states(eg-health sector of tn,PDS of chattisgarh) to reform its administration
-Finally asking people to observe bandh will result in economic loss to the state rather than bettering the economy of the state.

Why we blame only the government and police??

#About the video shared as "delhi police brutaity"

I wish to begin by mentioning that i m n no way justifying the brutality..but lets think a moment..Sex determination and selective abortion of female foetus cannot be done without the connivance of doctors..yet we dont say "doctors brutality", There are lot of teachers who mistreat and misbehave their students, yet we dont say "teachers brutality", There are lot of  corporate companies which evade taxes, follow unethical business practices, compromise the quality of even life saving drugs(pharma company ranbaxy) yet we dont say "corporate brutality".I can add engineers, lawyers and every damn profession in this list. But when it comes to blaming the politicians are bueuracracy we use words like "dirty politics", "corrupt bueraucracy" etc as if every single person in this profession is corrupt...

There are corrupt people in every profession..each one of us is corrupt to a particular extent.Lets remember that we are able to sleep peacefully because there are honest police men who patrol in the streets round the clock sacrificing their sleeps.

I try my best to ignore AAP but couldnt..because the "delhi police brutality" video ended with a small propaganda for AAP.. When I was in delhi during 2011 Delhi high court blast, i received a message from team anna that "bomb blasts happen because of the apathy and connivance of corrupt police officers"..after the delhi december 17 gang rape incident, the AAP poster said "keep voting for the corrupt, women will keep getting raped"..Ending corruption may be a sensible goal but this absurdity has gone to the extent of linking each and every problem to corruption..

The example of height of this absurdity is -to blame only every politicians and government as corrupt as if we are ultra clean..

The brutality done by 2 men in uniform,if true, must be condemned. Further, its serious because the protectors of people themselves have become perpetrators of a crime.
 While blaming them on one side, I wish the same people to also remember hundreds of honest police officers and every men-in-uniform in the armed forces and paramilitary forces on Republic Day...

Please read the link below to know more
http://nitinagokhale.blogspot.in/2014/01/iaf-indian-army-bravehearts-awarded.html

Jai Hind

Police-under State or Centre?

The debate whether the centre should control the police or state should control the police is ridiculous...only if the police force is insulated from the unwarranted influences of the government in power, they can work better. The supreme court has laid down this guideline far back in 2006.

The judgment had said, "Security Commission in every state to ensure that the state government does not exercise unwarranted influence or pressure on the state police and for laying down the broad policy guidelines so that the state police always acts according to the laws of the land and the Constitution of the country."

In total SC laid down 7 guidelines to ensure the effective functioning of police..(the PIL was put by Mr.Prakash Singh a retired IPS officer)

Noone other than a few rallied behing MR.Prakash singh, noone cared for 6 years why SC guidelines were not implemented(which implies contempt of court), even during the december 16 gangrape incident, noone talked abt police reforms, even at that time the Delhi police was under the control of centre..now suddenly everybody has woken up from slumber..

Police can function better only if the governments in power dont use it as their private army..it doesnt matter whether centre controls it or the state..

##if you need a reform demand it holistically and selflessly, not because your lawminister's batman avatar failed miserably. I hope Christopher Nolan forgives you....
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The 7 SC guidelines are as follows
Directive One
Constitute a State Security Commission (SSC) to:
(i) Ensure that the state government does not exercise unwarranted influence or pressure on
the police
(ii) Lay down broad policy guideline and
(iii) Evaluate the performance of the state police

Directive Two
Ensure that the DGP is appointed through merit based transparent process and secure a
minimum tenure of two years

Directive Three
Ensure that other police officers on operational duties (including Superintendents of Police
in-charge of a district and Station House Officers in-charge of a police station) are also
provided a minimum tenure of two years

Directive Four
Separate the investigation and law and order functions of the police..

Directive Five
Set up a Police Establishment Board (PEB) to decide transfers, postings, promotions and other
service related matters of police officers of and below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of
Police and make recommendations on postings and transfers above the rank of Deputy
Superintendent of Police

Directive Six
Set up a Police Complaints Authority (PCA) at  state level to inquire into public complaints
against police officers of and above the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police in cases of
serious misconduct, including custodial death, grievous hurt, or rape in police custody and at
district levels to inquire into public complaints against the police personnel below the rank of
Deputy Superintendent of Police in cases of serious misconduct 

Directive Seven
Set up a National Security Commission (NSC)  at the union level to prepare a panel for
selection and placement of Chiefs of the Central Police Organisations (CPO) with a minimum
tenure of two years.

What Ambedkar would have felt on Lokpal Bill

In his last speech to the Constituent Assembly—delivered on November 25, 1949—Ambedkar issued three warnings that are compellingly relevant to the predicament that the nation finds itself in today. In the First warning, he urged his compatriots to “abandon the bloody methods of revolution”. In the circumstances of colonial rule, there were grounds for taking to the streets to protest, and even perhaps to use violence. But with the coming of a free, sovereign and democratic republic, wrote Ambedkar, “there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us”

‪#‎Lokpal‬ bill was passed today after street protests led by Kisan Baburao Hazare....

Cleansing our Streets

Removing caste names from the streets is not going to remove caste, then why should we remove caste names? the logic sounds good. Rationally nothing is going to remove casteism from our brains unless we remove it. but does it mean we should allow caste to flow in our streets?
I could only remember the CBI director's statement about Rape.." it is like you can't prevent rape, enjoy it. It's better to legalize it and earn revenue" 
There is still a regressive practice in our society where a lower caste person cannot wear slippers while entering the streets of upper caste hindus. by identifying a particular street with a caste name, it is only reinforcing this practice in a modern form.True, even education institutions and marraige halls which are named after persons have their caste name tagged to it.even that should be removed. Cleansing our streets is the first step for that. 

But still Pasumpon muthuramalinga (thevar) street stands out as an exception.Demands to wipe off the caste name unfortunately has taken a caste angle.If every other leader were deprived of their caste name from the streets why should muthuramalinga street given an exception? Is it not the arrogance of this particular caste group which is preventing a positive step? Why do people look at this issue as anti-thevar or pro-dalit issue instead of looking it as anti-caste issue?

Yes, by removing caste name, caste is not going to be removed from society..
by changing your name as monkey wont convert a human to monkey..so why dont we name your child as monkey??any takers??? 

வில்லு தான... போயிட்டு போது...என்னமோ விக்கெட் போன மாதிரி பீல் பண்றீங்க

வறுமை காரணமாக , வில்வித்தை வீராங்கனை நிஷா ராணி தத்தா, உலகத்தரம் வாய்ந்த தனது "வில்லை' விற்ற சம்பவம் அதிர்ச்சியை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது. இது துரதிருஷ்டவசமானது என, விளையாட்டு அமைச்சர் அஜய் மேகன் தெரிவித்தார்.
ஜார்க்கண்டின் ஜாம்ஷெட்பூர் மாவட்டத்தின், பத்மடா கிராமத்தை சேர்ந்தவர் நிஷா ராணி தத்தா, 21. டாடா வில்வித்தை அகாடமியில் பயிற்சி பெற்ற இவர், பாங்காங்க் கிராண்ட் பிரிக்சில் நடந்த சர்வதேச வில்வித்தை போட்டியில், இந்தியா சார்பில் தங்கம் வென்றுள்ளார். வறுமை காரணமாக போதிய பண வசதி இல்லாததால், வில்வித்தையில் இருந்து ஒதுங்கி, இயல்பு வாழ்க்கைக்கு திரும்பினார்.
இதனிடையே, நிஷா ராணியின் வீட்டினை பழுது பார்க்க பணம் தேவைப்பட்டது. இதற்காக, வில்வித்தை போட்டிக்கு பயன்படுத்தப்படும், உலகத்தரம் வாய்ந்த ரூ. 4 லட்சம் மதிப்புள்ள, தனது வில் மற்றும் அம்புகளை இவர் விற்ற செய்தி இப்போது தெரிய வந்துள்ளது.
இதுகுறித்து மத்திய விளையாட்டு அமைச்சர் அஜய் மேகன் கூறியது:
வறுமையால் இப்படி நடந்ததுள்ளது என்பது மிகவும் துரதிருஷ்டவசமானது. இந்திய விளையாட்டு ஆணையம் (எஸ்.ஏ.ஐ.,) மூலமாகத்தான் இந்த செய்தி தெரியவந்தது. அவருக்கு தேவையான அனைத்து உதவிகளையும் செய்யத்தயராக உள்ளோம். மாநில அரசுகள் இவ்விஷயத்தில் அக்கறை எடுத்துக் கொண்டு செயல்பட வேண்டும்.
வீரர், வீராங்கனைக்குத் தேவையான நிதி ஆதாரங்களுக்கு போதிய வேலை வாய்ப்புகள் தரவேண்டும். ஏதோ ஒரு காரணத்துக்காக தேசிய அல்லது சர்வதேச அளவிலான போட்டிகளில் பங்கேற்க முடியவில்லை என்றாலும், வாழ்க்கை நடத்த உத்தரவாதம் கொடுக்க வேண்டும். இவர்களை புறக்கணிக்கக் கூடாது.
இவ்வாறு அஜய் மேகன் கூறினார்.


Succumbing to abject poverty, the Bangkok Grand Prix medallist Dutta sold her archery equipment that costs Rs 4 lakh.

"It's an unfortunate incident. The incident has come to my knowledge through the Sports Authority of India. We would extend all kind of help to the athlete," Maken told reporters on the sidelines of the closing ceremony of the 60th All India Police Games (Wrestling Cluster) in New Delhi.

"The state governments should make efforts to give employment to such athletes who need financial help. The players who, for some reasons, have failed to make it to the national or international level, the state governments should ensure that they also get the employment and don't feel neglected," Maken added.

A world-class bow cost more than Rs one lakh and Rs 20,000 for a quiver of 20 arrows.
The 21-year-old from Pathmada village in the Jamshedpur district of Jharkhand had been trained by Tata Archery Academy and won gold medal at international archery championships, but discontinued the sport because of poverty.

Asked about the two Indian wrestlers qualifying for the London Olympics, Maken said, "I am confident that we would win more medals this time than the Beijing Olympics."

"The way our athletes are qualifying for the Olympics, we are hopeful of performing well in the London Games. It was always our aim to qualify for the London Games in maximum numbers than the Beijing Olympics.

"Last Olympics, around 56 athletes had qualified for the Beijing Games and this time, with our Hockey team already qualifying for the London Games that consists of 16 players, we are confident that at least 80 athletes will qualify for the London Games," he said.