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Platypus Side Hero Username: Platypus Post Number: 3239 Registered: 01-2008 Posted From: 167.220.236.23 Rating: N/A |
Ilaanti claims chala choosthunnaam eerojullo thanks to WhatsApp. Seems Hindus have known everything about everything under the sun since 2000 BC. Naaku nacchindi janaalaki nacchadu... Janaalaki nacchindi naaku nacchadu... Nenanthe.. adho type. | ||
Teluguvaadu Junior Artist Username: Teluguvaadu Post Number: 313 Registered: 11-2012 Posted From: 117.195.225.12 Rating: |
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/portents-of-a-religiou s-autocracy/article7834155.ece Promoting unreason According to Article 51a(h) of our Constitution, it is the fundamental duty of every citizen “to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform”. However, the government now is the biggest hurdle to the practice of scientific temper which, by definition, is rooted in reason and rationality. No government in the past has had such little understanding of science. This can have a substantially negative effect on the country’s developmental agenda. Absurd claims are being made about our past: that we had large planes that could perform interplanetary travel and the ability to transplant an elephant head over a human torso. History is being distorted to suit religious beliefs with mythological figures and gods presented as historical figures. There have been organised attempts to impose the Hindutva agenda across the country with the tacit support of organisations that have no respect for the law, leave aside reason or secular values. The recent actions of the Shiv Sena, despite being in a ruling alliance with the BJP, such as throwing black ink on Observer Research Foundation Chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni’s face because he launched a book written by former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, not allowing Pakistani musician Ghulam Ali to perform in Mumbai, and storming the offices of the Board of Control for Cricket in India during a meeting with officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board, are examples. Apart from attacks on freethinkers and Dalits, minorities are also made to feel like second-class citizens. Churches have been attacked and more recently, in an apparently premeditated assault, Mohammad Akhlaq, a blacksmith in Dadri near Delhi, was lynched and his son severely injured on the suspicion that they ate beef. This incident was defended by BJP legislators Sangeet Som and Sakshi Maharaj. A Hindu fundamentalist organisation has announced a reward to all Hindus who have five or more children, to prevent the Muslim population in the country from increasing at a higher rate than the Hindu population. The Hindu Mahasabha has meanwhile announced that November 15, the death anniversary of Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, would be celebrated as Martyrdom Day. |
