11-04-2006, 10:17 AM
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Folks: Any answer to the following conundrum? About a year or so back, at one of those useless Hindustan Times (HT) or India Today (IT) conclave jaunts, pseudo secularist Javed Akhtar viciously attacked Hindu saints as quacks, charlatans etc; right in the presence of his holiness, gentle giant, and intellectual genius par excellence: Sri Sri Ravishankar.
And his attacks were cheered on by the motley crowd comprised of New Delhi socialites and assortment of white westerners that HT/IT beg to adorn the conclave and sing a few paeans on India's arrival as a 'great power'.
Of course, Sri Sri in his customary non confrontational style shamed Javed Akhtar in a rejoinder op ed piece. And in that op-ed, Sri Sri posed the unanswered question as to why it is that Hindus alone evoke universal contempt, and the most vile epithets and characterization are reserved fir Hindus and their saints. Christianity of course is sacrosanct for the west, they dare not say anything remotely offensive towards Islamist and Jews for obvious reasons. And of course Buddhists and their saints like Dalai Lama are revered thanks to the messianic appeal that Buddhist converts, Hollywood nuts like Richard Gere have around the world.
The cudgels are out only against the Hindus. Any explanations for this sociological phenomenon?
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This is the result of reductionist process in the sociology academic circles who also call themselves the 'intellectuals'.
One of the by product of modernism
http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2002/02/15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Ritual.htm
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu...05se0i.htm
Folks: Any answer to the following conundrum? About a year or so back, at one of those useless Hindustan Times (HT) or India Today (IT) conclave jaunts, pseudo secularist Javed Akhtar viciously attacked Hindu saints as quacks, charlatans etc; right in the presence of his holiness, gentle giant, and intellectual genius par excellence: Sri Sri Ravishankar.
And his attacks were cheered on by the motley crowd comprised of New Delhi socialites and assortment of white westerners that HT/IT beg to adorn the conclave and sing a few paeans on India's arrival as a 'great power'.
Of course, Sri Sri in his customary non confrontational style shamed Javed Akhtar in a rejoinder op ed piece. And in that op-ed, Sri Sri posed the unanswered question as to why it is that Hindus alone evoke universal contempt, and the most vile epithets and characterization are reserved fir Hindus and their saints. Christianity of course is sacrosanct for the west, they dare not say anything remotely offensive towards Islamist and Jews for obvious reasons. And of course Buddhists and their saints like Dalai Lama are revered thanks to the messianic appeal that Buddhist converts, Hollywood nuts like Richard Gere have around the world.
The cudgels are out only against the Hindus. Any explanations for this sociological phenomenon?
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This is the result of reductionist process in the sociology academic circles who also call themselves the 'intellectuals'.
One of the by product of modernism
http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2002/02/15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Ritual.htm
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu...05se0i.htm