Harsh M Krishnatreya
हर्षमोहन कृष्णात्रेय
A lion reached to a stream to quench his thirst. A lamb was also drinking water at the downstream. On seeing the lamb, his mouth watered. The lion wanted to eat it up. But, a king cannot punish anyone without any fault… He needed some excuse for it. He said, “Why are you making water muddy? Don’t you see I am drinking it? The lamb replied”, the water is flowing from you to me. How can I make it muddy?”
After a few minutes, the lion said. “Why did you abuse me last year”? The lamb replied sir, “I was not born last year”. “Then it must be your father or mother.” I will not forgive you”. Saying this, the lion sprang upon the lamb. He tore him to pieces and ate him up.
Moral: Any excuse is good enough for a wicked person. It’s spontaneous to find a fault in anyone for a person with vested interest. It’s very much of human nature to justify oneself.
I will never convince any non-vegetarian person to adopt vegetarianism as I am damn sure that the person, who has become deaf against the screaming, wriggling of an innocent week bleeding animal is surprisingly capable of listening the pining of speechless plants and sensing the pain of mute vegetations. The person who has developed ability of finding virtues in Jinnah, a mastermind of direct day action causing mass slaughtering and instrumental in killing of 2 lakhs people, but most ironically, cannot find a single good thing in Nehru and Patel. I am not saying that Jinnah had no merit to discuss about….
No…No… I will never describe the list of achievement of a leader before a person who has critical approach against that leader when the lion is set to kill the lamb anyhow. I will neither describe merits of Hinduism to a staunch Muslim nor make any attempt to convince a staunch Hindu against good values in Quran…
I know these people with vested interest and inflated grudges cannot be truth seeker like Jesus or Kabira…..Who hesitated to speak against the wrongdoers. They did so as they wanted to improve themselves rather than improving others…whereas a commoner has tendency to point out fingers on others rather than noticing faults in him/her…
बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय,
जो दिल खोजा आपना, मुझसे बुरा न कोय। Saint Kabira
I searched for the crooked, met not a single one
When searched myself, "I" found the crooked one (Saint Kabira)
When searched myself, "I" found the crooked one (Saint Kabira)
It has invariably been noticed that we, common people tend to find fault with someone else for our situations and circumstances. We always try to put blame of every failure on others and expect them to be changed rather than ourselves. But positive thinkers like Jesus and Saint Kabira have no time exploring faults in others but gain good things from others to improve themselves.
The person who has never committed a sin will stone the lady accused of adultory-"Jesus"
“Father forgive them as they don’t know what they are doing” Jesus
The political scenario would have been startlingly different if the narrative of different Indian political groups would go as follows:
What if a Congress man adopts this narrative?
Congress – “Dear Congress fellows, we must learn from the past so as not to repeat the tragedy of throttling of democratic values during the emergency imposed wrongly by our beloved Leader Indiraji…Yes Rajiv Gandhi failed in controlling anti-sikh riotous situation in the country… We should be apologetic and ensure to public not to repeat this…Yes…sure…our party once misused the Judiciary in the past…We have learnt a lot and assure you not to repeat this….”
What if a BJP man adopts this narrative?
BJP – “Yes…Yes…. We assure you that no more Gujarat tragedy now….Though we were not be the direct perpetrators of this but, atleast, being in the ruling government we must own the responsibility and now we are committed to take the remedial measures so as not to repeat this in future…We also disown and condemn Guarakshak vignettes…Yes..We agree that polarization in the name of Hindutva has been our interest in the past…but now we’ll leave no stone unturned fighting against this…We unnecessarily inflated the issue of Subhash Bose’s hiding, Bhagat Singh vs Gandhi… glorifying Savarkar and Naathuram Godse…We’ll request our party workers to stop distortion of History…”
What if a Marxist comrade adopts this narrative?
Rational/Communist – Yes…yes...sure…we exploited terms like…”Azadi” ‘Afzal Guru” “Jinnah” with ulterior motive…Yes…we put our full energy in denigrating and maligning leaders like Patel...Nehru with vested interest...But now we will put entire energy to work for social cause rather than spending time in coining new terms and criticizing others and exploiting Dalit and farmers issues…We’ll share our food, shelter and clothes with needy first instead of expecting socialist values in others… we’ll restrain influx of foreign money for our cause….We’ll make ourselves first nationalistic than raising fingers on the functionaries of other parties….
What if a Savarkar follower adopts this narrative?
Savarkar wokers – “enough is enough…let’s now accept the conspiracy theory of assassination of Mahatama…..Yes…Savarkar had grudge against Gandhi….he blessed Godse for eliminating Gandhi…We will work hard to wash this stain now….We will focus over Savarkar’s other achievements rather than sweating for proving Savarkar a non-conspirator…we may differ in opinions or ideologies… …..A murder is a crime...and can never be acceptable as far as democratic values are concerned…We’ll work for the nation now and improve our ideology and stop distorting history for our vested interest…Yes Savarkar was first to advocate two nations’ theory prior to Muslim league..”
What if a staunch Muslim leader adopts this narrative?
Muslims leader: “Jehad has no place in human’s democratic society….Why we Indian to bother Palestine vs Israel problem much more than our own domestic problems of unemployment and poverty …Why to be ultra sceptical about Israel and USA’s stand as anti-Muslim every time much more than our farmers’, underprivileged class and women’s problem? Why RSS lobby is to always blame for fanaticism and branding them anti-Muslims just to shift attention from Muslim Jihadists and anti-nationalist Muslims? Let’s first make ourselves lesser fanatics rather than condemning RSS and BJP for every wrong happening now and then….Why to acknowledge Jinnah and Muslim league who gave a call for a separate homeland for Muslims and Direct Action Plan and paved the path for partition?
What if a staunch Ambedkrite leader adopts this narrative?
An Amedkrite:-Yes, we do exploit the word "Manuvadi" and Brahminism irrationally on many occasions for vested interests. We have grown very insensitive against sentimental issues such as desecration of Baba Saheb's statue and other Dalit symbols but are least concerned on real social issues. Obviously, we now and then criticise Mahatma Gandhi irrationally, though Gandhi, undoubtedly, fought for the cause of underprivileged and downtrodden. Moreover, he was instrumental in getting Baba saheb a respectable position in the Constitutional Assembly, but we like to ignore this fact at the pretext of this or that. We do have castism in the name of Mahar, Chamar, Matang, Cobler, Washerman etc. in our society too but we blame upper cast people everytime for the same. Baba Saheb's Neo-Buddhism prohibits the use of violence, liquor, smoking, non-vegetarianism and adultery, but we are least bothered of these. Yes, we haven't come out of the tendency of worshipping idols completely. Now, we worship Baba Saheb, Buddha, Mahatma Phule instead of Ram or Krishna. Though we are intolerant to Muslims but occasionally we join hands with them too at the pretext of fighting against Manuwadi forces and RSS. Even, we don't have any problem to stand with communists for vested interest. Sometimes, many of us hidingly or openly worship Hindu gods and goddesses too as it's too difficult to renounce old practices and ancestor' rituls or rites. Many of upper caste people stood with Bab Saheb and supported other Dalit activists like Mahatma Phule, but we like to denounce these and applaud only Muslims and our caste peoples who were with Baba Saheb. We don't accept Baba Saheb's view on his book "who were the Shudras?" in which Dr B R Ambedkar categorically had stated that Shudras were previously Kshatriyas. Brahmins the elite group were resorted to atrocities by them and, consequently, they faced the social boycott by the society and become untouchable in the eyes of the Society.
An Amedkrite:-Yes, we do exploit the word "Manuvadi" and Brahminism irrationally on many occasions for vested interests. We have grown very insensitive against sentimental issues such as desecration of Baba Saheb's statue and other Dalit symbols but are least concerned on real social issues. Obviously, we now and then criticise Mahatma Gandhi irrationally, though Gandhi, undoubtedly, fought for the cause of underprivileged and downtrodden. Moreover, he was instrumental in getting Baba saheb a respectable position in the Constitutional Assembly, but we like to ignore this fact at the pretext of this or that. We do have castism in the name of Mahar, Chamar, Matang, Cobler, Washerman etc. in our society too but we blame upper cast people everytime for the same. Baba Saheb's Neo-Buddhism prohibits the use of violence, liquor, smoking, non-vegetarianism and adultery, but we are least bothered of these. Yes, we haven't come out of the tendency of worshipping idols completely. Now, we worship Baba Saheb, Buddha, Mahatma Phule instead of Ram or Krishna. Though we are intolerant to Muslims but occasionally we join hands with them too at the pretext of fighting against Manuwadi forces and RSS. Even, we don't have any problem to stand with communists for vested interest. Sometimes, many of us hidingly or openly worship Hindu gods and goddesses too as it's too difficult to renounce old practices and ancestor' rituls or rites. Many of upper caste people stood with Bab Saheb and supported other Dalit activists like Mahatma Phule, but we like to denounce these and applaud only Muslims and our caste peoples who were with Baba Saheb. We don't accept Baba Saheb's view on his book "who were the Shudras?" in which Dr B R Ambedkar categorically had stated that Shudras were previously Kshatriyas. Brahmins the elite group were resorted to atrocities by them and, consequently, they faced the social boycott by the society and become untouchable in the eyes of the Society.
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