I am mesmerized by the sheer sight of the Kumbh Mela at Allahabad. Rather than writing anything, I would let these photographs speak for themselves....
January 17, 2013
January 14, 2013
The Recent Happenings at Delhi...
I do not know how people might take this writings of mine. The recent happening in Delhi. of rape of a helpless girl, Nirbhaya, or whatever be her name is a result of long term conditioning of the minds of individuals specially the men folk of India.
Today, we find a mass hysteria in public condemning and condoling the wrong that has been done. However, I go back to my memories as a small boy, when I used to hear stories of Ramayan from my Didu and then contemplate. One of the incidents which still haunt me was when Ram and Lakshman along with Sita, were living in Panchavati; and Shupnakha approached the two handsome princes with the proposal of marriage. She was from a different clan but was still a princess in her own rights.
Making fun and cracking jokes could have been one thing but then physically mutilating Shupnakha and treating her as an article by Lakshman, as I was told, was something I was never ever convinced about. I had learned that all these things happened in the presence of Ram and Sita and when her brothers, Khar & Dushana came to her rescue they too were killed in a battle.
Ram, Lakshman and Sita were revered then and are revered now. And still all of us, feel the agony of the victim. Why do such thoughts keep crossing our minds that somehow, those who did such a dastardly deed against the victim, should suffer the same plight? - Be it though a life sentence or at least a chemical castration. And going back to the times when such things were not possible, was it not the best option available to Ravana to abduct Sita and let them, who did such an act, Lakshman, or who could have prevented such an act, Ram, understand the plight of the victim.
I had even learnt during my childhood, that the powerful king of the demons, Ravana, did not even touch Sita. Perhaps that was never his intention. We, the people of India, are once again taking a stand against the wrong doers, as did the people of Lanka, and I regret to contemplate that once again they are going to fail. History will fail to give credit or even recognize the real heroes as history is always written by the victor.
As for the victors of Ramayan, the skills of Ram and Lakshman was used by Sugreev and Vibhishana to serve their own ends. It was they who enjoyed the fruits of victory over Lanka, Ram and Lakshman had to end their own lives despite being the victors of the Lanka war.
Today, we find a mass hysteria in public condemning and condoling the wrong that has been done. However, I go back to my memories as a small boy, when I used to hear stories of Ramayan from my Didu and then contemplate. One of the incidents which still haunt me was when Ram and Lakshman along with Sita, were living in Panchavati; and Shupnakha approached the two handsome princes with the proposal of marriage. She was from a different clan but was still a princess in her own rights.
Making fun and cracking jokes could have been one thing but then physically mutilating Shupnakha and treating her as an article by Lakshman, as I was told, was something I was never ever convinced about. I had learned that all these things happened in the presence of Ram and Sita and when her brothers, Khar & Dushana came to her rescue they too were killed in a battle.
Ram, Lakshman and Sita were revered then and are revered now. And still all of us, feel the agony of the victim. Why do such thoughts keep crossing our minds that somehow, those who did such a dastardly deed against the victim, should suffer the same plight? - Be it though a life sentence or at least a chemical castration. And going back to the times when such things were not possible, was it not the best option available to Ravana to abduct Sita and let them, who did such an act, Lakshman, or who could have prevented such an act, Ram, understand the plight of the victim.
I had even learnt during my childhood, that the powerful king of the demons, Ravana, did not even touch Sita. Perhaps that was never his intention. We, the people of India, are once again taking a stand against the wrong doers, as did the people of Lanka, and I regret to contemplate that once again they are going to fail. History will fail to give credit or even recognize the real heroes as history is always written by the victor.
As for the victors of Ramayan, the skills of Ram and Lakshman was used by Sugreev and Vibhishana to serve their own ends. It was they who enjoyed the fruits of victory over Lanka, Ram and Lakshman had to end their own lives despite being the victors of the Lanka war.
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