Comments on: Was this a cover-up or blind omission? [ must read ] http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/03/25/cover-up-or-blind-omission/ Dedicated to "Bharat" and "Dharma" Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:09:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sanjay http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/03/25/cover-up-or-blind-omission/comment-page-1/#comment-43943 Sanjay Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:53:49 +0000 http://hindudharma.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/cover-up-or-blind-omission/#comment-43943 ) In a civilised country, permission is required to erect statues in public spaces. Permission is granted/not granted as per law. On what basis did "Activists" put up Periyar's statue in front of the Srirangam temple? If they had done this illegally, the statue should have been brought down by the state. If done legally, then what was the provocation for damaging the statue? If Periyar's acolytes couldn't view the temple even as a historical (not religious) site, then why couldn't the fans of the temple view the statue as that of yet another Tamil leader? Shows how unthinkingly polarised, at every level, the country really is. ii) Periyar's statue was damaged by some miscreants. Again, in a civilised country the law would've been involved & the guilty brought to book iii) As violence erupts across the state against Hindu temples and Brahmins, the state and police are their usual emasculated self. The media is least interested. Such is medieval India where the rule of law and justice have been discarded into the dustbins. There's no confidence in the "justice" system and hence there's tit-for-tat retaliation in a steady downward spiral towards nationwide medievalism! Unless the justice system is reformed, I don't see any deceleration in our spiral. Jai Ho? Sanjay ) In a civilised country, permission is required to erect statues in public spaces. Permission is granted/not granted as per law. On what basis did “Activists” put up Periyar’s statue in front of the Srirangam temple? If they had done this illegally, the statue should have been brought down by the state. If done legally, then what was the provocation for damaging the statue? If Periyar’s acolytes couldn’t view the temple even as a historical (not religious) site, then why couldn’t the fans of the temple view the statue as that of yet another Tamil leader? Shows how unthinkingly polarised, at every level, the country really is.
ii) Periyar’s statue was damaged by some miscreants. Again, in a civilised country the law would’ve been involved & the guilty brought to book
iii) As violence erupts across the state against Hindu temples and Brahmins, the state and police are their usual emasculated self. The media is least interested.

Such is medieval India where the rule of law and justice have been discarded into the dustbins. There’s no confidence in the “justice” system and hence there’s tit-for-tat retaliation in a steady downward spiral towards nationwide medievalism! Unless the justice system is reformed, I don’t see any deceleration in our spiral.

Jai Ho?
Sanjay

]]> By: sridhar krishna http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/03/25/cover-up-or-blind-omission/comment-page-1/#comment-43872 sridhar krishna Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:08:09 +0000 http://hindudharma.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/cover-up-or-blind-omission/#comment-43872 dear shantanu, 1. as a tamilian who is competent in tamil, i can vouch that the blogger has done a very very competent job on transliteration of the article that appeared in "Dinamalar" a middle of the road vernacular news paper. 2. as an hindu who has lived in tamilnadu most of my life i can attest that this is not something new for us. 3. as a brahmin all i can say is "How do you retaliate? by stooping to the level of the people who did this ? Or like Arudathi Roy writing an article titled a "Republic of One" or " India needs Azaadi from Psuedo Secularists". You learn to live with them and laugh at them. after we are the nation of "Chaltha Hai" or "No Problem" dear shantanu,

1. as a tamilian who is competent in tamil, i can vouch that the blogger has done a very very competent job on transliteration of the article that appeared in “Dinamalar” a middle of the road vernacular news paper.

2. as an hindu who has lived in tamilnadu most of my life i can attest that this is not something new for us.

3. as a brahmin all i can say is “How do you retaliate? by stooping to the level of the people who did this ? Or like Arudathi Roy writing an article titled a “Republic of One” or ” India needs Azaadi from Psuedo Secularists”. You learn to live with them and laugh at them. after we are the nation of “Chaltha Hai” or “No Problem”

]]> By: B Shantanu http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/03/25/cover-up-or-blind-omission/comment-page-1/#comment-13873 B Shantanu Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:44:13 +0000 http://hindudharma.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/cover-up-or-blind-omission/#comment-13873 Can some reader who can read Tamil (or is from TN) please verify this report for me? http://tinyurl.com/3jh82o Full URL: http://mnachiappan.indiainteracts.com/2008/09/23/... -dsecrated-human-excreta-on-the-vinayaka-idol-chappal-garlan d-in-the-sanctum-santorum-of-amman/ *** Last year in Feb, TN police had "...arrested two persons on the charge of damaging a Vinayaka idol at Rameswaram..." http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/04/stories/2007020406640400.htm Can some reader who can read Tamil (or is from TN) please verify this report for me?

http://tinyurl.com/3jh82o

Full URL: http://mnachiappan.indiainteracts.com/2008/09/23/...
-dsecrated-human-excreta-on-the-vinayaka-idol-chappal-garlan
d-in-the-sanctum-santorum-of-amman/

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Last year in Feb, TN police had “…arrested two persons on the charge of damaging a Vinayaka idol at Rameswaram…”
http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/04/stories/2007020406640400.htm

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