[Reader-list] Rama As KundiKaran

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Sh Radhakrihnan,

NamaskAr

Your mail has been a pleasure to read and your frank views very well
appreciated . I wonder why on an issue which should be condemned sraight
away , the comrades as silent. As you wrote "Interestingly the Cong and the
upper caste left progressive are displaying a muted silence" , though Mr
Karat has said recently that there is no proof of ramas existence ....I
wonder if Mr Karat has proofs of everything related to him in his life which
he believes in !

Pawan


On 22 Sep 2007 04:50:11 -0000, Radhakrishnan <krishnanrr at rediffmail.com>
wrote:
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> Dear Sh Pawan,
> I agree with your observations. I am subject to correction If I had meant
> giving license to hurt any group or community's faith or belief.
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> What I meant was that the stray comments made by Karunanidhi are something
> which has been part and parcel of his politics. He is merely trying to
> deploy old lexicon/issues raised during the heydays of the periyar
> movement.Unfortunately it also present the worst case of casteist and
> parochial society all in the name of launching a movement in the name of
> social justice. So What I would lay emphasis on, is the perverted deployment
> of secularism and its distorted projection. Interestingly the Cong and the
> upper caste left progressive are displaying a muted silence.
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> Its rather a last ditch attempt by a party chief who is sick of the
> wranglings in his own party and family, which has got too many contenders,
> since Dalits don't deserve any kind of empowerment in the power discourse of
> the DMK.But despite the media hype the self styled KIng of Arts can't
> score any brownie points since the Science and rationality to which he so
> vehemently adheres to has disproved the so called Aryan and Dravidian wars
> and divides.
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> If Ravana is the hero for him, its again a vindication of the Indian
> culture and ethos and hypothetically Karaunanidhi with all contrived
> passion/honesty and belligerence would end up supporting a learned Shiva
> bakht BRAHMIN that Ravana was!
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> Finally its quite natural for Kshatriya to have meat and Sumabhan,what is
> amusing is Karunanidhi choses to see as a big scientific discovery and
> thinks of having a pseudo intelectual debate on it. The question is what is
> its relevance to our present and day to day existence!
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> Moreover self abnegation is a classic art mastered by our brahmin as well
> non brahmin elites - thanks to the British Raj.
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> Radhakrishnan
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