06-25-2006, 03:02 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jun 21 2006, 10:44 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Jun 21 2006, 10:44 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->dravidianist are just morons of highest order.
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Attitudes like this don't help the situation. Brahmins have lived in Tamil Nadu for ages. They have failed to integrate with the Tamil culture 100%.Their leaders have failed to provide the guidance as to how the community could be benefitted in the changing times. They have closed their eyes to the realities of the day and the need to change with times. It is time that the leaders come off from their pedestals and figure out how well they can help the remnants of the Brahmin community survive as the future indeed looks bleak for them. The rich can take care of themselves. The smart ones have left, leaving behind a dredge that is incapable of fending for itself, and probably getting more reactionary/self pitying by the day.
It is the ultimate sad situation, that after all that happened in the Kanchi Mutt, there was not one non Brahmin citizen of Kanchi prepared to make a favourable comment. Such is the price of exclusive arrogance.
This time around, Brahmins might be willing to mix with the other castes. But as reality now shows, they others don't want us.
Even though we go to the same temples and pray to the same God, why is it that we have to consider ourselves so different to exclusion of our fellow Hindus. No point breast beating about the sad fate of temple properties in Tamil Nadu. Till such time that the other Hindu communities feel the same sense of anguish, nothing can be done.
Even though we speak Tamil at home, why should we not have a majority of the songs in Tamil during the Carnatic concerts? What is wrong with Tamil prayers? It is things like this which are key to identity as a culture. No amount of Ponniyin Selvan will make up for the day to day sense of aloofness.
It would have been so much better if the Brahmins had initiated the process of incorporating other castes in the priestdom. We might not have directly inflicted many of the injustices of the past, but we do have a moral responsibility for make the code inflexible and being on top of that heap!
Take the initiative to reform, or reap what our ancestors sowed.
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Attitudes like this don't help the situation. Brahmins have lived in Tamil Nadu for ages. They have failed to integrate with the Tamil culture 100%.Their leaders have failed to provide the guidance as to how the community could be benefitted in the changing times. They have closed their eyes to the realities of the day and the need to change with times. It is time that the leaders come off from their pedestals and figure out how well they can help the remnants of the Brahmin community survive as the future indeed looks bleak for them. The rich can take care of themselves. The smart ones have left, leaving behind a dredge that is incapable of fending for itself, and probably getting more reactionary/self pitying by the day.
It is the ultimate sad situation, that after all that happened in the Kanchi Mutt, there was not one non Brahmin citizen of Kanchi prepared to make a favourable comment. Such is the price of exclusive arrogance.
This time around, Brahmins might be willing to mix with the other castes. But as reality now shows, they others don't want us.
Even though we go to the same temples and pray to the same God, why is it that we have to consider ourselves so different to exclusion of our fellow Hindus. No point breast beating about the sad fate of temple properties in Tamil Nadu. Till such time that the other Hindu communities feel the same sense of anguish, nothing can be done.
Even though we speak Tamil at home, why should we not have a majority of the songs in Tamil during the Carnatic concerts? What is wrong with Tamil prayers? It is things like this which are key to identity as a culture. No amount of Ponniyin Selvan will make up for the day to day sense of aloofness.
It would have been so much better if the Brahmins had initiated the process of incorporating other castes in the priestdom. We might not have directly inflicted many of the injustices of the past, but we do have a moral responsibility for make the code inflexible and being on top of that heap!
Take the initiative to reform, or reap what our ancestors sowed.