Deadly Communal Virus spreading
faster than coronavirus!
Using the tools that science and
technology have gifted, eligious
bigots keep injecting hate in society.
For representational
purposes
Today the whole world is
fully caught up with Corona Virus! In
fact all are locked up in their private homes keeping a safe “Social distance” from
any and every neighbor for fear, he or she may be a carrier of this deadly
Virus which has already killed over 2,11000 lakhs. So keep a safe social
distance from every one else, is the
advise given.
In
the article below writer Anand
Neelakantan wakes us up to the most
vicious deadly disease “COMMUNAL VIRUS” which has already torn to shreds all of us,
and that for far too long! The pity is, there
is no scientific medicine to heal it!
Isn’t it not true?
Social bonding, not
distancing!
Commenting on it I wrote in my face book: Science
(medicine) can heal Corona and doctors are hell bent to find it at the
earliest. But no medicine can heal Communal Virus. What can
heal it? Coxing people to embrace each other instead of keeping ‘social
distance? Encourage and promote inter-caste and inter communal marriages,
forgetting and over looking all manmade untouchability between castes and communities?
These divisions, you know and I know are man-made, made by
BIGOTS filled with the poison of selfishness, ill-will and hatred among us bent on taking advantage
of every socially, economically, religiously or caste wise weak neighbor. Is
not, “Call a dog a bad name to hang it,”
the technique used to victimize people?
Organized
Religions, biggest Villans!
The biggest culprits are members of Organised religions
like Christianity, Islam and Hindusims with a huge fillowing.They are like
organized political parties whose strength is in the number game. One which has
the biggest number wins and call it DEMOCRACY! That is why we are against all
organized religions. Religion is one’s private belief, a private affair. It should have no role in
public domain to dictate!
What
is needed is CHANGE OF MINDSET of all blind believers in God and Religion. They
should be taught to look upon the ultimate CAUSE of things called GOD, as Love
eternal, Light eternal and Truth eternal, residing in every individual's heart
and mind, not in man-made Temples, Mosques and Churches!
Let LOVE unite!
“Snehamanu Akilasamooziyil” (Love is the sum and substance
of all things in this world, they say in
Malayalam.) May that LOVE, LIGHT and TRUTH bind the whole human race into a
loving embrace of brothers and sisters in ONE FAMILY to wipe out all COMMUNAL
HATRED, man
hating man because of differences in religion, class, caste and community!
Caste
out first Communal Virus which is more ugly, despicable and barbaros from our
hearts and minds before we crush the head of the killer Corona, which we
shall over come in due course with
science and medicine. james
kottoor, editor ccv.
Please read below Anand on Communal Virus!
Sooner
or later, we will conquer Corona too. The relentless progress of science will
ensure that. Like TB, polio, or smallpox, coronavirus also will bite the dust
before human ingenuity. However, science cannot cure
the communal virus that is spreading faster
than Corona.
Using the tools that science and technology have gifted, religious bigots keep
injecting hate in society. All countries are prone to such bigotry, but
in India, much of this hatred stems from the way history is being taught in
school.
The story goes like this. India was the greatest
civilization. Then, a thousand years ago, India fell to the Muslim invaders.
Between the opposing narrative, the argument is only about the intent of these
invaders—whether it was driven by political ambitions or religious fervent.
Depending on who you listen, you will learn that some rulers were devil
incarnates or angels dropped from heaven.
Hindu supremacists claim that the dark ages came upon
India the moment Prithviraj Chauhan fell to Muhammad of Ghor in 1192 in the
second battle of Tarain. The other side tries to disprove this by saying, how
India remained great under the Muslim rulers until the capitalist British
came and spoiled the party.
When the media was filled with the self-proclaimed
liberals, the leftist narrative had prominence. With the rise of social media,
the side with a bigger budget for cooking up WhatsApp messages and Photoshop is
winning the propaganda battle. Outside the confines of the serious
academicians, this is how Indians learn history. Had it remained as a civilized
debate, it would have remained an entertaining pastime. However, in India,
history is a political sledgehammer with which you bash the heads of those who
stand in your way to power.
How true and relevant is either narrative of our history?
Do we have a common history? No one can deny that invasions took place in some
parts of India. Like any invasion, the victor committed brutality over the
vanquished. There is nothing unique or unprecedented about these invasions. They
were as ugly as any invasion could be in any parts of the world. History is no
fairy tale. It is often gore, misery and cruelty wearing a thin mask of
imagined glory. Now, the past has gobbled up
the vanity of the victor and the anguish of the vanquished. The marks they have left
remain, some as beauty spots, some as warts, but that is what makes us what we
are.
When we talk about invasion of India, which India are we
talking about? A major part of the country, for example the southern states and
the eastern ones, remained insulated from any invasion. Sacking of a relatively
minor kingdom in Delhi 800 years ago had no impact on the Hindu empires of the
south, which continued to expand globally and create majestic temples, music,
literature, and art.
Even for a Hindu supremacist to call the last 800 years of
India as dark ages of Hindus is to insult these empires. Delhi, until the
British changed their capital from Calcutta, was just one among many cities of
India, something which the Lutyens liberals also forget in their heated
debates.
We became a nation because we united against a common
enemy, the British. We became a nation because people of almost 584 princely
kingdoms and the citizens of British India decided to become one country under
a constitution which proclaimed it as a socialist, secular, democratic
republic. Dwelling on what happened in a corner of the country many hundred
years ago, even if that corner happens to be the Capital of modern India, due
to the accident of history, is dangerous.
We need to free our history from the Delhi peg we have
tied it to. There is more to India than Delhi and our northwestern borders. We
can start telling stories about the great maritime history of India, which was
driven not by invasions or religious hatred, but by trade, science, shipping,
and commerce. At least the debates will be more about the romance of the sea
than the gore of the long-forgotten battles. mail@asura.co.in
