"Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
A message had been forwarded by ( I don't know whom) but I am pretty sure it passed through many so called "intellectual" or at least "educated" hands , and the message reads as - "Pray for Ram Temple's right in Ayodhya . Court will declare the judgement on 15th September , 2010. Spread this message like Fire - 'Jo Hindu Ram ka nahi wo kisi kaam ka nahi' " .
What a crap! What has happened to Indian youth? Those Youths who call their previous generation conservative and backward ? Are we now not showing our own backwardness ? Sitting in an arm-chair , A.C. , eating pizzas what we will know of deprived families , murdered husbands , raped sisters , wives and bloody massacre … its so easy to sympathize and not sympathize with the past age , but to imagine yourself in that situation – I am sure then you would shudder at least once before forwarding such messages.
What a crap! What has happened to Indian youth? Those Youths who call their previous generation conservative and backward ? Are we now not showing our own backwardness ? Sitting in an arm-chair , A.C. , eating pizzas what we will know of deprived families , murdered husbands , raped sisters , wives and bloody massacre … its so easy to sympathize and not sympathize with the past age , but to imagine yourself in that situation – I am sure then you would shudder at least once before forwarding such messages.
Who is Ram? And who is Allah? Our poor people have no such God . . What a poor has to do with it? Why a child labourer will care for it? Are they getting food or education if there will be a Ram temple ? Or a Muslim women will have all rights which she deserves , if there will be a mosque? We fight on trivial things such as a right of temple or mosque which is not even a true part of religion … but why don’t we fight for the cause of humanity – for poverty , for the right of education , for women empowerment? Has India left with no noble cause to fight for?
Ours is surely a Lost Generation. The elders are in their cozy caves of lost tradition and we young people are fighting a blind battle… When I think of India - my poor country - where politics is a dirty and religion a blind game. And where Youth are just hopeless intellectuals ...I pray - May God give them some sense so that they pray for Mother India striped off necessities rather than for a structure of bricks and sand.
- Ojasi mehta
a real gud thought presented through ur blog, although i say that one must have the general knowldge about various things goin on in ones country.
ReplyDeleteBut religion is making ppl mad and insane. Ppl want to do stupid things in the name of religion....It wont stop till single person is alive in this world.
only way to reduce is through development.
These things are making me atheist day by day...
Ya I agree one should know wat's going on...
ReplyDeleteI think its related to human psychology , to understand them one need to go in depth ... Evil is interred in bones... Man finds one way or the other to show his savage instincts ... through good education... esp from early age might curb these negative thoughts.
Atheist ... well sort of thing wd me too... I have grown a disliking for all traditions n customs n religious beliefs n so on...
truth, and well written. i believe, initially, religion was required as a means for spreading moral education. a way to implicitly bind communities together and enforce an unsaid law and order in society. now we realize that one can have the same respect for humanity without the need of religion, and so it has become irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteit has become more and more like club football. fanatics using religion to define their own identity, for whatever reason. go go manchester united. heh! i hear them yell at the bar, and wonder how it makes the slightest difference to anyone!