Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Majumdar,

How would sectarian clash truths fecilitate Red-Hinduism?

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Majumdar,

Can you enlarge on the motives, of the Stalinist historians, to play up the sectarian discrimination? To my knowledge they were more interested in propounding the efficacy of state owned/controlled businesses...

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Shaivites persecuted Vaishnavites...Start from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanuja

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Re: # 185

Nkg,

Then do we need Ram?

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Nkg,

I think you are right, apart from Jayakanthan we do not have many to boast in the literary world. I will even go as far to accept the rest of India's population is culturally and intellectually superior. What Tamilnadu has achieved and others have not is social amity and self respect. Though it was achieved at a great cost to the upper castes, I would still rate it as one of the best things to have happened to the world.

Even, at this point of time, the lower caste people of Tamilnadu has far more to catch up with the upper castes of the rest of India. What is remarkable is, the belief in them that they can achieve intellectual and cultural parity. They have proudly defended their language and they have not indulged in religious animosity. This, I believe, is where tehe rest of India has failed. Appropriate credit has to be given to the upper castes of Tamilnadu for contributing to the social revolution.

We will come to a point where we will have no more frustrated kids, of any caste.

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Sanatani,

If you are a product of a single father you would not have abused somebody behind a nick and the net.

It speaks a lot about your family and your women. You probably were excreted in the loo through a rectum.

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Re: # 156

Majumdar,

I believe its time we stopped believing in the 'Patriotism' business. Visit the nearest government hospital, you will see how many are in a queue for a obsolete dialysis machine. We are killing our own people in the name of defence spending.

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul akcheema,

A politician doesnt have to know anything and still suck. You know we have a fulllly endowed opposition leader Jayalalithaa, in Tamilnadu, who regularly bark inanities.

1. She would parrot how dangerous the India - US nuclear deal going to be without really knowing what the deal is all about

2. She would pose before TV cameras on her meeting with Ernst&Young consultants .....LOL

3. The one that takes the cake is how great she was in her academics. Though I dont give much importance to academic credential, this lady claims to super achievements when she is just a school dropout.

4. When speaks about Tamil culture and chastity, it is difficult saab to go og....

Jinnah was miles ahead of the contemporary politicians we have now.....Shameful existence we have now...

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Majumdar,

"Also you guys admit that although MKG was a great man, his ideas should not be followed either by us in our personal life or by India politically, socially or economically."

We don't have to. When people of your ideas get to rule, do whatever you want. Till then remember you live in a democracy where the numbers count...

Race to the Finish Re: # 656

bj,

Whats the time there in your place.....

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Guru,

You were against us participating on Chowk. I thought you would never come back :)

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Majumdar,

A few days back I saw a news item on a self-sustaining British village. Looks like Gandhi was not only ahead of his contemporaries but our contemporaries too.

It was on CNN-IBN.

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Re: # 128

Majumdar,

Nobody cares if Gandhi was foolish or intelligent. What endears him is his ideals, which brings out the innate goodness of human beings and which reassures us about the goodness of being good.

Have we ever analysed the foolishness of Ram and Lakshman in running behind a deer or Yudhistra's acceptance to sit for a game of gambling?

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Re: # 124

Majumdar,

Muslims know that their God is different from Ram. Afterall almost all of the IMs know Ramayana upside down...:)

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Majumdar,

It is STILL right to think through the eyes of Gandhiji. We have a sizeable Muslim population with us and its time we started to think how we win their good will.

As Harish said, if INC or the Indian people thought Gandhiji was making unrequited and inappropriate concessions, which was against their will, they would have prevailed on them. This is what a Hindu is capable of. The concept of 'Dharmam' is too ingrained into the people of this land; they could not have acted in anyother way other than Gandhi's. In a way Gandhi represented the commoners of the majority pool. At least this has inculcated a sense of fairness or at least the importance of being fair. That’s the reason we have had upper caste people becoming the champions of lower caste.

Bharathyar, an important Tamil poet, a Brahmin revolted, against the upper caste for their discriminatory behaviour. He was duly ostracized. There are several instances and leaders like him. What I am trying to say is it was Gandhi or largely Gandhi's way of thinking that others related to shaped/shapes our conscience and made/make aware what our Dharmam is. We cannot afford to deviate.

Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul Re: # 111

Cheema Saab,

I wish to think that the majority of the Muslims, who chose to stay back, wanted to have their destiny unfolded in India. They, proly, did not subscribe to the notion of religion as the only uniting factor.