Thus
Hindutva has both ideological as well as institutional capacity to battle the
forces of casteism which have been unleashed by the Smrithi-based psyche that
centuries of social stagnation has produced. In Tamil Nadu context, this psyche
has been reinforced by perverted racism of Dravidian politics which has only
added anti-Brahminical hatred to the Dalit hatred in the name of social reform
movement. To reach out to the Dalits who have been singled out by Dravidian
casteists and who have been denied justice for centuries by Hindu society,
Hindu Sanghathanists can take a cue from that film of 1980s.
It
is time to create a popular spiritual culture that is based on the Vedantic
ideal of Integral Humanism – all humanity is part of the same Divinity.
Scriptural barriers become meaningless before the vision of compassion of the
Mother. If Hindutva movement can take this message forcefully through all
possible media to all sections of the society and liberate caste-Hindus from
the shackles of their casteism and Dalit Hindus from the injustice they are
suffering from the mindset of the caste Hindus that shall be the day Hindu
Sanghathan has arrived in this ancient land of Tamils .
Gurcharan das exposes the illiberalism at the core of India's
ruling caste of dynasts and bureaucrats from Shadow Warrior by nizhal yoddha The Economist Modern
India: Liberal worries
The
book raises some excellent questions. But what is missing, perhaps surprisingly
given Mr Das’s connections, is a real insider’s account of why the sort of
ideas he is promoting so often fail to get implemented. Relatively few Indians
claim to be avowed classic liberals, yet a clutch of powerful people, including
the current prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and others in cabinet, would agree
with much of Mr Das’s argument.
The Hindu : Book Review : Integration of the sacred and the
secular 6 Mar 2007 – PREMA NANDAKUMAR - ANCESTRAL VOICES - Reflections on Vedic, Classical
and Bhakti Poetry: Ramesh Chandra Shah
Nearer
our times we have Sri Aurobindo writing poetry as part of his `Yoga sadhana'.
Ramesh Chandra Shah asks himself: "How exactly is Yoga, that realm of
silent wordless inward action related to the same man's unrelenting passion for
the order of words?" Relation there must be, a connection with our
earliest dawns but which we have lost by limiting our visions to our own
"egoistic shells of separativity." These ideas and more are woven
with expertise by Shah in a seamless argument.
Ancestral
Voices: Reflections on Vedic, Classical and Bhakti Poetry - Page 32 - Ramesh
Chandra Shah - 2006 - According to Sri Aurobindo, 'an itihasa was an ancient historical or
legendary ...
Yeats
and Eliot: perspectives on India Ramesh Chandra Shah - 1983 - 174 pages
- This is not entirely unjustified, because Samkaric monism does tend to
world-negation in a way that the original Vedanta doesn't. That is why Sri
Aurobindo ... 7:48 PM
What
happens to our culture conditioning – our actual cultural boundaries when we
come to face the ‘final facts’? Doesn’t it demonstrate conclusively the fact,
poetry can sometimes speak across cultures and thus acquiring a universal
voice, make its unique contribution towards realisation of what Sri Aurobindo
calls ‘the ideal of Human Unity’.
And
it’s not just poetry which has this potential: fictional and other kinds of
creative prose too can incarnate and enact a similar force and capability. Only
he can be credited with the capacity of real ‘seeing’ who can become everybody,
i.e. who can empathise with and embody all sorts of human types and states of
being. Now, if you consider this in depth, you come to understand how great
novelists and dramatists can produce such more than real-life impact upon you.
It is precisely by dint of their personally acquired and superior knowledge by
– indwelling, i.e. by their powers of empathy that they are enabled to reproduce
the illusion of actual life – situations and actual characters which affect you
like real-life events. The competent teacher of literature has to re-enact this
capacity of literature experientially and not just through academically
‘correct’ procedures. Correctness after all is a rather tame ideal and there is
a yawning gulf between mere correctness and real clarity of understanding.
There in lies the challenge, before the real teacher. Professor Ramesh
Chandra Shah, Padmashri, is an eminent scholar, thinker, creative writer and
critic. Dialogue (A quarterly journal
of Astha Bharati) - Astha Bharati
Here I find McLuhan's invitation to investigate
the properties of specific technologies to be liberating... not to mention a
hell of a lot clearer! ... (As a sidenote, McLuhan does take things too far
when he insists that the content of media doesn't matter)] 10:42 AM
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