06-25-2006, 11:54 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-vishwas+Jun 25 2006, 01:34 PM-->QUOTE(vishwas @ Jun 25 2006, 01:34 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How reactionary are they getting? What does the word "reactionary" mean in this context? Are they banning people from entering temples? What are they doing, that derserves that epithet?
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Personally, I think it is time that we reflect and examine ourselves in the context of the forthcoming century. The thread has a lot of historical contexts to explain the current. But what is missing is the positive reality of the Tamil brahmin life and livelihood in Tamil Nadu.
One might want to remember the rule of cause and effect. Nothing happens without a reason. Even though all of us have been the object of the vilest of abuses from the DK group, has any of us ever questioned that there may be validity to it. What I regret is that rejection to be accepted as part of the Tamil community.Thevast majority of Tamil speakers, honestly believe that our loyalty is to a vague North, which exists only in our imagination.
Back to the term 'reactionary'. The poor Brahmins, caught in the vice of acute discrimination, look upon to their remembered glories and the Kanchi Mutt, neither one of which will be able to alleviate their condition. The Kanch Mutt, especially with the previous leader, had a golden opportunity in 1967, when Annadurai was elected. He was from Kanchi and the Mutt lost an opportunity to pay respects to the favourite son. Just the reverse, had the same CNA been a brahmin, would the Mutt have behaved differently? I leave the reader to answer the question as befitting her/his view.
All I am saying, is that, being rigid and self justifying, we are digging the hole deeper. And increasingly, judging by the way North Indian politics is going, we might not have that avenue as welcoming to us as before.
One additional point, I may as well bring up. The ones who have emigrated, especially abroad, are among the most reactionary (yes I would like to use the word again). After all, they do not have face they day to day life hinderances.
Make peace with your fellow Tamil Hindus and try to get on with it. Instead of whining that an old way of life is dying. Maybe it was based on wrongness of universal inequality in the first place. This would not play in the 21st century.
If we are really all that smart, it will be to negotiate reserved seats for the poor Brahmins.
How reactionary are they getting? What does the word "reactionary" mean in this context? Are they banning people from entering temples? What are they doing, that derserves that epithet?
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Personally, I think it is time that we reflect and examine ourselves in the context of the forthcoming century. The thread has a lot of historical contexts to explain the current. But what is missing is the positive reality of the Tamil brahmin life and livelihood in Tamil Nadu.
One might want to remember the rule of cause and effect. Nothing happens without a reason. Even though all of us have been the object of the vilest of abuses from the DK group, has any of us ever questioned that there may be validity to it. What I regret is that rejection to be accepted as part of the Tamil community.Thevast majority of Tamil speakers, honestly believe that our loyalty is to a vague North, which exists only in our imagination.
Back to the term 'reactionary'. The poor Brahmins, caught in the vice of acute discrimination, look upon to their remembered glories and the Kanchi Mutt, neither one of which will be able to alleviate their condition. The Kanch Mutt, especially with the previous leader, had a golden opportunity in 1967, when Annadurai was elected. He was from Kanchi and the Mutt lost an opportunity to pay respects to the favourite son. Just the reverse, had the same CNA been a brahmin, would the Mutt have behaved differently? I leave the reader to answer the question as befitting her/his view.
All I am saying, is that, being rigid and self justifying, we are digging the hole deeper. And increasingly, judging by the way North Indian politics is going, we might not have that avenue as welcoming to us as before.
One additional point, I may as well bring up. The ones who have emigrated, especially abroad, are among the most reactionary (yes I would like to use the word again). After all, they do not have face they day to day life hinderances.
Make peace with your fellow Tamil Hindus and try to get on with it. Instead of whining that an old way of life is dying. Maybe it was based on wrongness of universal inequality in the first place. This would not play in the 21st century.
If we are really all that smart, it will be to negotiate reserved seats for the poor Brahmins.