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कर्नाटक की भाजपा सरकार के निर्णय से हम सब को हैरानी नही होनी चाहिये जिसमे उन्होने गीता की पढाई स्कूलो में अनिवार्य कर दी है. राज्य के शिक्षा मंत्री ने यह भी कहा है कि जो लोग गीता नही पढ़ना चाहते उन्हें भारत मे रहने का हक नही है. हम सब जानते है कि हिन्दुत्व का मुख्य एजेण्डा देश में ब्राहम्णवादी वर्चस्व को मजबूत करना है और यह कार्य उसे भारतीय संस्कृति के नाम पर काम करना है. वह जानते हैं कि ऐसा करने से उन्हें देश के मध्य वर्ग का समर्थन तो मिलेगा ही, नैतिकता के दूसरे ठकेदारों का भी अन्दरूनी तौर पर समर्थन मिलेगा. भारत के कुछ सेक्युलरिस्टों ने  एक बार विश्व हिन्दू परिषद का मुकाबला करने के लिये कई स्थानों पर गीता बंटवायी. क्या हम हिन्दुत्व की घ्रणा का मुकाबला गीता या कुरान से कर पायेंगे? ये वर्चस्व की लडाई है जिसे वह राजनैतिक तरीके से पहले ही हार चुके हैं इसीलिए ये शक्तियां अब चोर दरवाजे से प्रयास कर  अपने एकाधिकारवाद को जमाए रखना चाहते हैं.

भाजपा की हर सरकार के एजेण्डा में हिन्दुत्व है जो उसका मूल बिन्दु है. भ्रष्टाचार और राष्ट्रवाद उसमें बीच बीच मे तड़के के तौर पर आते हैं. हमेशा दूसरों के भ्रष्टाचार पर बात करने वाला यह दल अपने मुख्यमंत्रियों के भ्रष्टाचार पर चुप है. अभी छत्तीसगढ़ के मुख्यमंत्री के बेटे के विवाह में जिस बेशर्मी से खर्चा किया गया उससे ज्यादा शर्मनाक यह है कि इस प्रसंग पर हमारा मीडिया चुप रहा और देश भर में भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ बात करने वाले भी संदिग्ध रूप से चुप है. कुछ दिनों पहले इस मुख्यमंत्री की बेटी की शादी बिना किसी शोर शराबे के हो गयी क्योंकि उसने प्रेम विवाह किया था जिसे मुख्यमंत्री और उन्के परिवार ने स्वीकार नही किया और इसलिये यह विवाह चुपचाप सम्पन्न करा दिया गया जबकि बेटे के विवाह को राजशाही तरीके से मनाया गया.

हमें समझना होगा कि संघ और उसके आका भारत की संस्कृति के ठेकेदार बनकर ब्राहम्ण्वादी वर्चस्व को भारत मे कायम रखना चाहते हैं ताकि हमारे लोकतन्त्र के फ़लस्वरूप जो परिवर्तन आ रहे हैं उसको रोका जा सके. ऐसे परिवर्तन शिक्षा और सूचना के तन्त्रों और मनोरंजन के साधनों पर नियंत्रण करने से ही संभव है. आज कर्नाटक मे जो हुआ उसे कल्याण सिह ने उत्तर प्रदेश मे बहुत पहले कर दिखाया था जब उन्होंने वहाँ की पाठ्यपुस्तकों से कबीर को हटाने के आदेश दिये थे. आप सभी जानते हैं कबीर और रविदास के राम, तुलसी के दशरथ पुत्र नही हैं और हिन्दुत्व के लोगों के एजेण्डे में नही आ सकते.

कर्नातक के शिक्षामंत्री का कहना है कि जो गीता नही पढ़ सकते वो देश से निकल जायें क्योंकि वे भारत में पैदा हुए धर्म और विचारधारा की बात कर रहे हैं. उन्हें यह नही पता कि यह गीता का ज्ञान आततायी आर्यों की देन है और असुरो को हराने के वास्ते कृष्ण ने साम दाम दण्ड भेद की नीति अपनाने की बात कही. गीता ने भारत में वर्ण व्यवस्था को मजबूत किया और जाति के नाम पर पूर्वाग्रहो को आगे बढाया. यह एक ऐसी पुस्तक है जिसने हिंसा को सही ठहराया और उसे सामाजिक स्वीकार्यता के कारण दिये.

यदि गीता का ज्ञान हमारे बच्चो को दिया जायेगा तो देश मे कोई न्यायपालिका काम नही कर पायेगी क्योंकि किसी भी अपराधी के अपराध को सिद्ध नही किया जा सकता. क्योंकि गीता में कहा गया है " नैनम च्ह्हिदन्ति शस्त्रानि नैन्म दहति पावकह, नैनम क्लेदियन्तअप न शोशयति मारुतह". इसका अभिप्राय यह कि आत्म अमर है, इसको न कोई मार सकता और न ही कोई आग इसको जला सकती और न ही कोई हवा इसको सुखा सकती है. साफ़ तौर पर यदि कोई अपराधी हत्या के अभियोग में किसी न्यायालय में यह बात गीता पर हाथ रखकर कह सकता है कि "जज साहेब, मैंने कोई हत्या नही की, मैंने तो केवल शरीर को मारा है, आत्मा तो अमर है वह तो मरती नहीं और ऐसा श्री कृष्ण ने गीता में अर्जुन को उपदेश देते समय स्वंय कहा है कि " हे अर्जुन तुम ये रिश्ते नातो को भूल जाओ क्योंकि तुम तो युद्ध मे इनके शरीर का नाश करोगे, इनकी आत्मा तो अमर और अज़र है.. तुम किसी की हत्या थोडे ही कर रहे हो. शरीर तो एक प्रकार से नये कपड़े की तरह है और अत्मा उसमें प्रवेश करती है".

ये बात समझना जरुरी है कि गीता के जरिये संघ परिवार फिर से देश मे सम्प्रदायिक द्वेष फैलाना चाहता है. वे जानते हैं कि मुसलमानों और इसाईयों के अलावा इसका विरोध नहीं होने वाला क्योंकि दलित और शूद्र  संगठनों के लिये ये कोई मुद्दा नही है और विशेषकर शूद्रों की ताकतवर जाति के हीरो कृष्ण है इसीलिये उसके कृत्यों को सही ठहराने वालों की एक बढी फ़ौज़ है. भाजपा के मंत्री ने साफ़ किया है कि गीता हमारे देश का मूल धर्मग्रन्थ है और इसीलिये  इसे हर नागरिक को पढना होगा.

संघ के चरित्र और चाल को समझने की आवश्यकता है क्योंकि वह बौद्ध, जैन और सिखों को ब्राहमण धर्म का हिस्सा मानते हैं और इसीलिये इनसे उन्हें कोई बहुत चनौती नही है. उनका मक्सद साफ़ है कि देशी विदेशी की बहस को हिन्दु-मुस्लमान और हिन्दु इसाई बहस मे बदल दो ताकि वो इन्हे दोयम दर्जे का नागरिक बनाकर खुद बहुमत का दावा करे. दूसरी बात, दलित या पिछडा वर्ग धर्म परिवर्तन कर इसाई या मुसलमान न बने ताकी भारत की आबादी हिन्दु रहे और ब्राहमणद का वर्चस्व कायम रहे. इस साजिश को ध्यान से समझने की आज आवश्यकता है.

यह भी जरुरी है के शिक्षा के नाम पर देश मे कैसा माहौल खडा करने की कोशिश हो रही है. क्या एक धर्मनिर्पेक्ष देश के लिये जहाँ भिन्न भिन्न प्रकार की बोलियाँ, जु़बानें और मज़हब हों वहाँ एक विशेश प्रकार की पुस्तक पढायी जाये ताकि बच्चे ज़्यादा जातिवादी और हिसंक बन सके ? आज भारत को ऐसी शिक्षा व्यवस्था की जरुरत है जहाँ से हमारे बच्चे मानववादी ,तर्कवादी बनें और देश की प्रगति मे अपना योगदान दे सकें. गीता पढ़कर हम कभी एक सभ्य समाज नहीं बना पायेंगे.यह केवल ब्राह्मण्वादी व्यवस्था को ही आगे बढायेगा.

भारत सरकार से अनुरोध है कि यदि भारत को एकजुट रखना है तो धर्म को बिल्कुल व्यक्तिगत जीवन तक सीमित रखे और सरकारी स्कूलों से धर्म की पढायी तत्काल बन्द कर दी जानी चाहिये. आज भारत के बच्चों को जरुरत है हमारी सदियो पुरानी कुरीतियो को छोड़कर नये लोकतांत्रिक दृष्टिकोण को अपनाने की ताकि हमारा लोकतंत्र मजबूत हो और संस्कृति के नाम पर हमारे दिमागो और खान पान को नियंत्रित करने का प्रयास करने वाले लोग नेस्तेनाबूद हों. आज के भारत में दलित, आदिवासी, पिछड़ा और पसमान्दा अपनी भूमिका चाहते हैं, यह तबका इतिहास की पुनर्व्याख्या कर रहा है. मुसलमानों से पहले भारत के कामगार और आजीवक समाज हिन्दुत्व के इस एजेण्डे को नकारता है. आज धर्मग्रन्थों की आरती उतारनी की जरुरत नहीं अपितु उनको दफ़न करने की जरुरत है ताकि एक प्रबुद्ध भारत का निर्माण हो सके और ब्राहमणवादी साजिशों को खत्म किया जा सके.

Bid to communalise education must be resisted

Karnataka govt’s plan to impose Gita on students must be resisted

Understanding  Hindutva’s brahmanical agenda

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

If India has the biggest problem today, it is Brahmanism and its attempt to dominate all forms of our social-political and cultural life. It comes through various patterns in India. Its main agenda is to inculcate brahmanical values so that it could retain its hegemony in political life which is fast changing because of the growing assertion of the marginalized communities and their participation in political power through democratic means.

It is interesting that when we talk about India and Indian state, very few of our friends realize the fact that Indian state is nothing but a complete tool of the brahmanical mindset. Most importantly, even the opposition space, the so called revolutionary forces in India is brahmanical in their jargons and deeds. Therefore, you can not fight against the brahmanical oppression unless we understand the nature of its working and how it is expert in creating distortions, rumors and character assassinations.

When Karnataka’s education minister asked all the educational institutions to teach Bhagwad Gita in the schools, he was not only violating the secular principals of the state but also creating disharmony among different sections of our population. It is easier to term what is wrong in Gita that many of secular friends too subscribe that it is a very secular book. One does not know what is secular in Gita which boast of caste identity, support varna system and perpetuate violence. Secondly, if Gita is being taught in the school then what is wrong with students from other religion and jaatis asking to be taught their religious books?  And we can think of what kind of students would we be creating in schools once they read all these religious scriptures which do not have any place in modern world. These religious books created so many thousands years back remain unchanged and perpetrated caste and gender discrimination. Do we want our children to study these books of racial and gender discrimination?

The Sangh Parivar has its long agenda. They know it well that political power today is nothing in front of the enormous power that media wields and equally important to target the minds of the young children through school curriculum. Once you change the naïve mind and fill it with dirt about Muslims and Christians terming them as foreign origin, the impact would be great. For Gita gyan, we will need Brahmins who would talk about great Indian values and traditions. That is why they started their Saraswati Shishu Mandirs and Eklvaya Vidayala at the villages. These school preach brahmanical values, justify caste system as scientific and based on merit while perpetrate gender differences, Children are asked to celebrate all the festivals who are mostly gender biased and promote caste system.

The aim of putting Gita is to bring the Brahmins top at every level so that they remain at the helm of power which political they have lost due to democracy. So, brahmanical system is more dangerous than Islamic jehadis that way as this system work crookedly and in the name of culture and merit. When a priest justify caste system or varna vyavstha as scientific and based on merit, then you can understand their mind. One can ask there are hundreds of Brahmin poor but none of these poor are engaged in manual scavenging. What is the merit of one particular community in doing this work? There are brilliant shudras and Dalits, many of them Sanskrit scholars but can they become priest at Tirupathi and Badrinath or Varanasi or Jagganathpuri. Have we not seen how the Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes was not allowed to enter temple in Puri, in Orrisa.

There are two important factors related to Karnataka government’s order. The first one is that it violates the rights of the non Hindus who are not interested in Gita. Will the government allow the other religious books such as Quran, Bible, Guru Granth Saheb and other texts to be taught in the schools? Will the Hindus study all these text? Why do we want our student to study so many religious books which are ultimately not going to help them? To become a good human being one need not to read all these texts which violates principles of humanity and human rights. So, from the point of India’s diverse population, the idea of Karnataka’s education department create differences among various sects of India. It clearly demarcates the people who do not believe in Islam and Christianity as ‘Indians. It is a dangerous connotation. Can our government allow this discrimination between its children?

Our educational system is corrupted with brahmanical biases. At the time when we should seriously think of secularizing our education by inculcating the spirit of diverse Indian values and at the same time allowing our children to question the wrongs in these religious texts, we are making them new fundamentalists who are educated, wearing tie, speaking wonderful English but deep in their contempt towards minorities and Dalits.

Even if we do not take the issue of minority’s right, the Gita Darshan is dangerous for social justice and equality. Where would you found book that justify discrimination. That whatever you are today is because of your karma in the previous birth. It means that a person who is poor, physically challenged or born in untouchable community does not have any right to complain since it is the outcome of his ‘misdeeds’ in the previous birth.  None can ask question for constitutional changes and new laws as everything is related to your previous birth.

Secondly, Gita is a book that justifies violence and claim that it is not violence. One can only explain how Krishna guide Arjuna in the battlefield when the latter does not want to fight against his own relatives, saying that how would he kill his own uncles and cousins. He says ‘Nainam chhidanti shastrani, nainam dahati pavakah, nachainam cladinayti aapah, na shoshiyati marutaha’, which literally means that this soul is immortal, no fire can burn it, no arms can pierce it, no air can dry it.. No water can wet it.. it is immortal. It means if a person has committed a murder, he can easily go the court and swear putting his hand on Gita saying ‘Judge Saheb, I never murdered any one. How can I do that ? I can only murder the body. the soul is always there. Please judge sahib, there is no conspiracy, I am not lying. I swear by Gita’. And he may be right.

How Krishna justify Kshatriya dharma saying it is the duty of Kshatriyas to fight and one should not worry about who is in front of him whether Guru or uncles or cousins. It is the duty and every body has to work according to their dharma. Dharma means doing your duty according to their varna.

A book which justifies all that which is constitutionally prohibited in India can not be taught in the schools. It is important to break the myth built around these religious text books which are nothing but creating mental slavery among our youths. These books have no place in modern society. If India has to progress, it need to put these books into the dustbins and allow the children to study human relationship, diversity and explore nature, understand science and not become slave to the defunct ideas that has no basis in the modern world.

In the greater interest of modern education, we need to make our children free from these dogmas which can have more damaging effect on their mind. Of course, there will be forces who want to take India back. India is under assault from various sides. Frankly speaking who ever is killing people, bombing our cities is not a friend of our society. Whether they are Islamic or non Islamic, at the end, they are helping the brahmanical nationalists of India who want to control our mind and action as they are afraid of our political democracy which is fast slipping out their hand and these are the ways they want to control. The very aim of control the vast majority of shudras and ati-shudras and indirectly threatening them of dire consequences if they embrace any ‘religion’ which is ‘unIndian’ as being described by the Minister for education in Karnataka. He must answer the question as where have the Aryan come from. It is now important that we restart this debate of Aryan Invasion theory and we must seek apology from the Indian leaders or Hindu leaders of all the political parties for destroying the beautiful art work during Buddhist and Jain period. We must seek apology from them as what have they given to Shudra and Atishudra and they need to apologize for their misdeeds.

Question is just by opening up a debate with Muslims and Christians, the Sangh Parivar want to ensure that it lead the debate and become the custodian of Indian culture and Indian nationhood. It must be rejected wholeheartedly. The various offshoots of Sangh Parivar that have emerged through various actions in India must be challenged. Corruption and nepotism are big issues but not bigger than the unity and integrity of India. Let us be clear on this front. Let the youths of this country rise and reject all those champions of our morality who have tons of gold in their mutths and temples. It is indeed the greatest demand of the hour to look the agenda of such forces which are hell bent to have a ‘united’ India where Muslims, Christians suffer and Dalits and shudras are told to believe in Karma and work according to their varna dharma so that they could get birth in a better ‘jaati’ next time. The time is ripe to hit at the bottom and reject all those offers of bringing Gita and Ramayana in our personal and national life. All these dharmgranthas need rereading and reanalysis so that our children know how stories were cooked and why they were degraded for no faults of there. Let this debate be not confined to Muslims and non Muslims or Christian verses Hindus. It is basically a debate between Aryans and Non Aryans. Muslims and Christians are soft target but the real agenda is to control the Dalits and OBCs. Unless they debrahmanise themselves, such forces will always remain active and play havoc with our national life. A rainbow coalition based on strong ideological ground of equality, fraternity and respecting diverse view points and cultural values is the need of the hour. A new India can not be built with religious thugs taking main stage and dictating our personal choices and influencing the young mid with their perverted thought of we verses them. Can such an India ever claim to be a nation which respect human rights of individuals irrespective their caste, religion or linguistic affiliations. By continuously keeping these issues to debate, the Sangh and its offshoot organizations want to be creating suspicion among people from different communities and create an agenda helpful to their caste forces whether they remain in BJP or their friendly circle. The aim is not to help the Hindutva parties but all those who can enhance Hindutva and provide it credibility. That is why, it need to be emphasized so many time, the real danger to Indian polity is emerging from such forces which want to convert India into a theocratic state though at the moment it would be through parliamentary democratic system and by controlling our culture and media. In the name of freedom of expression, we will witness all those trials and titillating news which suits the brahmanical interest and any body opposing it would be termed as anti national. Such situations are worst than the government imposed emergency as today the extra constitutional forces of Hindutva have power to spread lies and rumors through these means. The only answer to this is challenge their cultural values, challenge their religious text and reject them one and for all. We do not need Gita is nothing but manuwad which is antithesis of our modern constitution which  we need to protect at all cost so that this country can remain united and each one of can enjoy fruits of its progress irrespective of our religious and caste identities.

Government schools are not meant for religious education. There should be secular education there. If Sangh want to educate its children, it can do the Gita path in the Saraswati Shishu Mandir in a very similar faishon as Muslims have Madarasas and Christian can have their theological colleges. There is no conflict here except the fact that any victim can challenge them. The national schools, government institutions must reflect secular nature of our constitution and should have no place for such religious books or other thing of a particular religion which hurt others. Let these schools prepare our children to understand science, nature, rivers and society so that they can be better citizens of the country and understand the dangers of religious fanaticism.

 

धार्मिक पाखण्ड के खिलाफ़ बोलने की जरुरत

 

 

विद्या भूषण रावत

 

 

अगर हम भारत मे गरीबी का विश्लेषण करें तो एक बात साफ़ है के यहा के राजा महाराज़ाओ ने जनता में शिक्षा के प्रसार के वास्ते कुछ नही किया. उनकी अय्याशी और नाकामी के किस्से जग जहिर है. अत: भारत में विशाल महल और किले तो है और हम सभी वहाँ जाकर उनकी सुन्दरता को निहारते है और उस पर बहुत लिखते भी  हैं. उदाहरण के लिये राजस्थान, जहाँ के राज़ाओ के महल आज बडे होटलों मे तब्दील हो गये है लेकिन वहीं पर सामंतशाही बरकरार है और अंधविश्वास भी व्याप्त है. लोग कहते हैं कि राजस्थान शांत है और अक्सर उत्तर प्रदेश और बिहार को अशान्त कह कर तुलना करते हैं. वह ये भूल जाते हैं कि दलितों के ऊपर होने वाली हिन्सा का सीधा ताल्लुक उनकी अस्मिता के प्रश्न से है. मतलब यह के जब भी किसी सामन्ती को उसकी भाषा में जबाब मिल जायेगा तो वह अपनी ताकत का अहसास हिंसा से करवाता है. जहाँ पर भी तर्क समाप्त हो जाते हैं वहा ताकतवर हिंसा पर उतर आते हैं.

 

भारत में राजाओं के पास इतनी दौलत थी कि दुनिया के दूसरे मुल्को के धनी लोगो को शर्म आ जाये. युरोप और अमेरिका से हम गरीबी में पीछे हैं, अमीरी मे नही. दुनिया मे कहीं पर भी मन्दिरों मे इतनी सम्पत्ति और सोना नही मिलेगा जितना हमारे देश में है. अभी केरल में पद्म्नाभन मन्दिर मे जो सोने का भण्डार मिला है वो हमारे देश की सम्पति नही है और मन्दिर के लोग उस पर अपना नियंत्रण चाहते हैं. अखिर मन्दिर को सोने की क्या जरुरत? आज हमारे लेखक त्रावणकोर के रियासात की महानता के गुन गा रहे हैं. सब ये भूल जाते हैं कि इस रियासत के वाइकुम मन्दिर में दलितो के प्रवेश के लिये पेरियार ने वहुत बडा आन्दोलन किया था जिसे गाँधी ने पहले समर्थन दिया था और बाद मे हिन्दुओ के दबाब में वो झुक गये और पेरियार ने इसे मुद्दे पर अपना रास्ता बदल दिया और मठों और मन्दिरो के खिलाफ अपना अभियान शुरु कर दिया.

 

आज हमे यह समझने की जरुरत है कि मन्दिरों मे इतना धन क्यों आ रहा है और क्यों हमारे राजाओं ने उसको आगे बढाया. इन राजाओं ने प्रजा पर अपना नियंत्रण रखने के लिये और किसी भी प्रकार के विद्रोह को कुचलने के लिये ब्राहमणों का सहारा लिया और उन्हें कामायाबी मिली क्योंकि कौन राजा अच्छा है इसका मापदण्ड हमारे इतिहासकारों ने उसके महलों की शान और उसके द्वारा बनाये गये मन्दिरों से लगाया. इन इतिहासकारों ने कभी भी ये जानने की कोशिश नहीं की कि इनके समय में जाति व्यवस्था का क्या हाल था? ये इसलिये कि इतिहासकारो ने अक्सर अपने जातिगत हितों का ज्यादा ख्याल रखा. जितना पैसा और सोना इन रजवाडों और मन्दिरों की शान शौकत में खर्च किया गया उसका १०% भी शिक्षा और स्वासथ्य पर खर्च नही किया गया. मन्दिरों के द्वारा गरीबों के हितों पर तथाकथित खर्च असल में कभी भी जाति के शिकार लोगों के हितो पर नही लगाया. राजाओं ने यह धन मन्दिरों में इसलिये लगाया ताकि उनकी सारी आलोचनाओ को नियंत्रित किया जा सके क्योंकि मन्दिरों पर खर्च का मतलब वर्ण व्यवस्था को कायम रखने का षणयंत्र था.

 

आजादी के बाद भी मन्दिरो के द्वारा हमारी राजनीति और सामाजिक व्यवस्था को नियंत्रित किया जाता रहा है. लेकिन १९९० के बाद, जैसे -जैसे दलित पिछडों की राजनीति ने कदम बढाये, मन्दिरों की राजनीति पर खतरा मण्डराने लगा और उनके द्वारा फिर से अपनी व्यवस्था को वापस लाने की कोशिशें होने लगी. हिन्दुत्व की मुख्य परेशानी असल में शिक्षा पर व्यापक प्रसार से होने वाले बदलाव से है. आज जाति का शिकार हुए लोग, बाहर निकलकर नयी व्यवस्था में जा रहे हैं और उन्हें किसी भगवान की जरुरत नहीं है.

 

इस क्रान्ति को जो बाबा साहिब आम्बेडकर के रास्ते पर चलकर आयी है इसे खत्म करने के प्रयास जारी है. इसलिये आज जरुरत है कि हम भारत के मन्दिरों, और अन्य धार्मिक स्थलों का राष्ट्रीयकरण की बात करें और उसके धन पर कर लगाया जाये. इन मन्दिरों में अपार सम्पत्ति है जिस पर सिलिंग लगनी चाहिये. क्या ये दुखद नहीं के जहाँ देश का किसान साधारण्तय १८ एकड़ से अधिक भूमि नहीं  रख सकता लेकिन मन्दिरों को हज़ारों एकड़ जमीन रखने की इजाजत है. जब इस देश में आम आदमी कर देता है तो मन्दिरो को इससे मुक्ति क्यों? असल में धार्मिक ताकतें देश की प्रगति और लोकतन्त्र में सबसे बडी बाधक हैं क्योकि वो राज्य और सरकार को नियंत्रित करने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं और देश में राजनैतिक परिवर्तन को सामाजिक बनाने से रोकते हैं. य़ह समझना जरुरी है कि आखिर हमारे कद्दावर नेता इन बाबाओं और उनके मठों के इतने गुलाम क्यों है? क्या कारण है कि ये बाबा लोग जब बीमार होते हैं तब उनका इलाज़ सबसे बेहरीन अस्पतालों में होता है और उनके लिये सबसे अच्छे चिकित्सक उप्लब्ध है जबकि ये बाबा, साधु और सन्यासी हमें आधुनिकता से दूर रखना चाहते हैं. अपने भक्तों को बाबा भौतिकवाद से दूर रहने को कहते हैं और खुद महलों मे रहकर दुनिया के सबसे आलिशान तरीके से जीवनयापन करते हैं.

 

आश्चर्य है कि हमारे लोग इन बातों को जानते हुए भी अंजान बने हैं. आज जरुरत है एक लोकपाल की जो हमारे धर्मिक स्थलों की आय -व्यय और राजनैतिक गतिविधियों पर नियंत्रण रख सकें. केवल गेरुआ वस्त्र पहनने से लोग अच्छे नहीं हो जाते. धर्म के पाखण्ड पर आज हमकों खुलकर बोलने की जरुरत है, हमारी समस्याओ का मुख्य कारण हमारे मठ और मंदिर है..इनको कानून से ऊपर ना माने.

Ayodhya or Saket : The Politics of Ram Temple

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I am sharing with you my Film Ayodhya or Saket : The Politics of Ram Temple

It is made be my personal efforts without any support hence I would like to get excused if there are problems in its editing etc, but your support and review would be welcomed. It is an honest attempt to bring out truth about Ayodhya and its Buddhist Dalit heritage.

I was unable to screen film. Except for some support, I did not get any hence even sending and providing CDs/DVDs costed me much. I have been making these documentaries for past 10 years and without any financial support from anywhere. Not that I do not want it but  I do not have the capacity to follow people for the same. Hope you will spread the word about film and the aim is at least this film should reflect the side of Ayodhya so far not reflected.

I would request you to review it possible so that people could know about it. Those who want CDs or DVDs can contact me but definitely contributions are welcome.

Ayodhya or Saket : The Politics of Ram Temple

Duration : 40 minutes

English and Hindi with English subtitles

A film on Ayodhya's politics and Buddhist history.

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I am sharing with you my Film Ayodhya or Saket : The Politics of Ram Temple

It is made be my personal efforts without any support hence I would like to get excused if there are problems in its editing etc, but your support and review would be welcomed. It is an honest attempt to bring out truth about Ayodhya and its Buddhist Dalit heritage.

I was unable to screen film. Except for some support, I did not get any hence even sending and providing CDs/DVDs costed me much. I have been making these documentaries for past 10 years and without any financial support from anywhere. Not that I do not want it but  I do not have the capacity to follow people for the same. Hope you will spread the word about film and the aim is at least this film should reflect the side of Ayodhya so far not reflected.

I would request you to review it possible so that people could know about it. Those who want CDs or DVDs can contact me but definitely contributions are welcome.

Ayodhya or Saket : The Politics of Ram Temple

Duration : 40 minutes

English and Hindi with English subtitles

A film on Ayodhya's politics and Buddhist history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT0cTnfwCgc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRCsFWNVhk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdfZ7ExsPqo&feature=related

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Do we need to civilize our language ?

Mind your Language

 By Vidya Bhushan Rawat 

The feudal caste values of our subcontinent often reflect in our expressions. One of the reasons for the usage of these terminologies is the ‘feeling’ of ‘empowerment’ in our heart. How can a ‘helpless’ or a powerful person shows his empowerment. The powerful can abuse and be violent but a ‘helpless’ has only abuses. And interestingly these abuses get more contemptuous in descending order of our society. It means they are hurled more at the most marginalized and physically weak one. Why should we abuse to the others ? And the answer is provided in the various terminologies of our society which have stereotyped these and justify their aggression or failures in doing so. So, there is a blame game through these abuses and terminologies. Police did not act in Mumbai as it was ‘Napunsak’ i.e. impotent or people saw fellow citizen dying on the street because there was no ‘mard ka bachcha’ ( son of MAN), as if women can not save or have not saved any one. Why is, the non functionality of our governments termed as ‘lame duck’. They call proudly ‘yeh langdi sarkar hai’. How does it feel when a person suffering from physical disability and trying to walk as fast as so-called ‘able’ people do, listens to these ‘macho’ dialogues? Have we tried to understand that? Do the people suffering from physical disability not work efficiently? Can they never be efficient and equal like ‘others’? Often in our political platforms the leaders abuse the government saying ‘yeh sarkar bahri and andhi ho gayee hai’. I don’t know but what that means is that all the men and women who are unable to hear and see are incapable. The other day, I had objection to the terminology of ‘kaladhan’ or ‘black money’ for the illicit or ill-gotten money. Why do we use this terminology? Why is black that bad that all the bad things are linked to it. For me black remains the most beautiful color, a color of change. What will we call to the money obtained by the people whose color are not fare as white skinned. I also maintained that most of this ‘so-called’ black money is actually not owned by the ‘black people’ hence why to defame an entire race. Our society is racist in nature. Not all will realize that what the reason of Mahabharata was. While we all condemn the ‘cheer- haran’ of Draupadi, (if that is a true story), but we should also remember how contemptuously she laughed at Duryodhan when he falls in to pool assuming that a glass floor. And the comment that followed was ‘andhe ka beta agar andha nahee hoga to kya hoga’ (the son of a blind will only be a blind, what else he could be). Actually, this reflects the psychology of Indians. The feeling that we can not change and we must do what we are parents and forefathers have been doing for generations. So, a person whose father was a cobbler must do the same work and not think of change. That is the reason of why people hate reservation because they feel that these children who should have been doing menial work are actually now thinking of coming to power. How can the children of cobblers, goldsmiths, iron smiths, farmers, workers, laborers be allowed to rule the country? What will they bring to us except misfortune? It is this very reason, why our middle classes get very reactive of corruption among Dalits and OBCs. Oh, how have these guys got so much of wealth? Why don’t they go back to the community? But the same questions are not asked as where from Anna Hazare got the money to sit on fast and why were businessmen so concern about ‘corruption’ and were donating handsomely to Baba Ramdev. If the same funds are given by some Christians and Muslims, immediately the question would arise, as why are they interested in our cause? Why can’t we ask the question as why the tax evading class is interested in fighting against corruption? If that fast and crowd was mobilized by Udit Raj, everyone would have been asking where the money has come from. Nobody ask the ‘polite’ upper caste about this. It is assumed that they have it for generations and hence nobody needs to question it. So, the donation to the high quality people is on ‘will’ and for a cause and for the others it is meant for ‘corruption’ and ‘conversion’. One of the biggest comments in our films and political circle is made on the inability or inefficiency of a person or a government is ‘yeh napunsak hai. This is an impotent government. ‘Be man’. What will happen if the government is headed by a woman? So any leader who is involved in all kind of misbehavior is termed as ‘impotent’ as if all the bad deeds and sexual abuse are carried over by the sexually inactive persons. Many sexual scandals of our political leaders are getting exposed these days. Should we call them ‘impotent’ or sexually pervert? It not that just physicality matters in our society. Gender and caste abuses are often part of our discourse. It is shocking to see them being used by the caste Hindus. Some of them are often used by even the ‘so-called’ revolutionaries to score a point and degrade some one’s caste. These are part of our rural culture and their daily language. Aamir Khan’s Bosedeeke is nothing but justifying these stereotype where abuses are hurled at regular basis on gender basis (most of the indigenous abuses are caste and gender biased) and cowardliness and betrayal are related to particular communities. Most of our idioms and local sayings are actually based on deep gender and caste prejudices. These idioms are nothing but glorification of our false caste pride and promote macho values which are anti woman. You can always find dialogues of Hindi films saying ‘are koi mard ka bachcha jo mujhse bhide.’ (Is there any son of a MAN who can fight me?. Often the ‘Mard’ i.e. MAN word has used in the bollywood films to degrade woman and promote patriarchical values. I do not think if there is any English equivalent to this word except MAN with a big ego in heart. This has virtually degenerated our entire system. In the 21st century India, the empowerment of communities and societies will happen through a change in our culture and not through guns and bombs. We all know society can not change over night but at least those who claim for it, work for it and want to change it must change themselves. For a healthy society we need a healthy vocabulary and not rhetoric based on prejudices towards the marginalized and physically challenged people.