[Reader-list] Crime and No Punishment: Malegaon Blast Accused Get a Respite

[Murali V]

Promoting an ideology or principle is like marketing a product which is
required only for a product whicgh is new. A public debate is required only
when there is a dispute. Promotion is the responsibility of a marketng
organization like the seventh day advantist.
RSS may not have understood the social or the cultural field, may be it
requires the explanation from people who may have understood it to say RSS
have not understood. It has become a trend, fashion, fad to say the Indian
tradition is old fashioned etc. etc. May be to project an image of ultimate
secularism.
Tollerance and Islam, this is something which evryone will take it with a
bag full of salt.
So successful has been Macaulay to  have such views that the objective has
been served.
Regards,
V Murali

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Taha
>
> My concern is not so much with that RSS hates Muslims or not, but that RSS
> is not indulging in a public debate about its own ideology, which is
> uncompromisable for itself. Any ideology or principle, especially for an
> organization which calls itself as one working in social and cultural
> fields, must be based on actually promoting or understanding those aspects.
> But the RSS neither understands the social field nor the cultural field. In
> their view, culture is stagnant and there can't be any additions to it. In
> particular, there are some pretty weird (and laughable) views regarding
> Indian culture being 'mahaan' and 'great' before the Islamic rule came to
> India.
>
> The styles of architecture which got developed around this period, the
> introduction of Urdu in the Indian culture, the idea of tolerance, or the
> ideas of the middle path and its importance stressed by later rulers, or
> the
> importance of faith, is something which the RSS seems to have lost in the
> path of understanding Indian culture and its progress under the 'Islamic'
> rule of India. (In addition to music and various other cultural progress
> which happened during this time. I am particularly partial towards music
> here because I have learnt classical music in some detail, and some of the
> best maestros of classical music were born in this time, such as Tansen,
> Baiju Bawra, Tansen's guru Haridas jee and so on).
>
> As for social field, the less said the better. The ideal should be to
> improve the capabilities of the people, and fighting for the cause of
> providing freedoms and rights to people, as I said in my previous mail,
> with
> the objective of ensuring that people are able to lead lives in ways they
> value. The Sangh would instead like people to lead lives as it values,
> which
> is a complete mockery of the people's rights. Infact, going by the
> majoritarian perspective of the RSS and the Sangh, resources would be
> looted
> from minorities through constant pogroms (termed riots in media later) and
> genocides, till they have nothing left, and 'social betterment' has been
> attained. As Sen himself says ' What a wonderful chain, in the majoritarian
> perspective, of social betterment!' (of course this is applied to a
> different situation by Sen, but I feel it suits just fine here as well).
>
> I don't expect it to happen, but if it can, the RSS should seriously
> consider whether its ideological roots are just enough to actually serve
> the
> people at all. Otherwise such kind of 'good' services as those during war
> times or during crisis times will be no substitute for wrong actions
> committed, which may be few and far, but of devastative impact on
> individuals across different regions and societies.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
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