CONTEXT! CONTEXT!!!
You and I may have liberated ourselves from the religious shackles
but the >average citizen in Assam has not
*** Are you suggesting that thus it is legitimate or excusable to
give the incident respectability? That the average Assam Hindu ought
to pledge allegiance to such bogotries?
even after 35 years of living abroad I feel very connected to Indian
culture >and Assamese sub culture.
*** What does that have to do with the ISSUE in point--the hollowness
of Hinduism as demonstrated in the incident in question?
At 8:58 AM -0800 3/2/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
If you are thinking that severing the political and administrative
link to India will also isolate Assam from the religious and
cultural links to India, you must have "pol-potian" designs in your
mind.
You and I may have liberated ourselves from the religious shackles
but the average citizen in Assam has not. As for culture, I do not
want to comment since even after 35 years of living abroad I feel
very connected to Indian culture and Assamese sub culture.
To answer your question in the email below, religious and cultural
connections are the big reasons why Assam chose to be with India and
not Pakistan in 1947. Remember Assam's people and its leaders
struggled to remain in India.
You use the word "servitude to India" a lot. What do you really
mean? By constitution Assam had and has the same status as any other
state. In reality if it has changed, it is due to how Assam's
leaders have represented the state to the center and the other
states.
Dilip
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Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I hope people don't jump up and down, and use this as a show case
to show why >Assam should gets its independence (because of rampant
bigotry in Puri, >Jagananath) :).
*** And why not :-)? It does underscore, once again, the hollowness
of the Hinduism that SOME proponents of Indian servitude for Assam
wave as a reason.
At 9:24 AM -0600 3/2/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
Hi Utpal
First the HT is not correct in terming this as "racist". Its more
religious bigotry, intollerance, and simply blind faith than
anything else.
Years ago, Indira Gandhi was allowed into the Trupati Temple in
spite of the fact that widows were not allowed - but then she was
the Prime Minister.
I hope people don't jump up and down, and use this as a show case to
show why Assam should gets its independence (because of rampant
bigotry in Puri, Jagananath) :).
Hope you and Malabika are doing fine.
--Ram da
On 3/2/07, Malabika Brahma
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wrote:
Food destroyed at Jagannath temple after foreigner's entry
Indo-Asian News Service
Bhubaneshwar, March 2, 2007
In a country where millions go to bed hungry, food worth Rs 1
million, meant for holy offering at Orissa's Jagannath temple was
destroyed on Friday because a foreigner had entered the shrine, an
act seen as defiling the premises.
Priests at the temple in Puri, 56 km from here, also performed
rituals to cleanse the shrine after Paul Rodgier, a 55-year-old
American Christian, visited it on Thursday afternoon.
The priests fined him Rs 209 when he pleaded that he was not aware
of any restriction on the entry of foreigners to the temple. Rodgier
had reportedly come to the government-run National Thermal Power
Corp in Angul district on official work a few days ago.
The shrine administration then decided to destroy the food that was
prepared for offering to the deities, temple official Laxmidhar
Pujapanda told the agency. A mud pit was dug inside the premises and
the holy offering was thrown in it.
The priests, who had stopped all the rituals of the temple since
Thursday afternoon, also performed purification rituals on Friday,
he said. The kitchen areas of the temple were also washed
thoroughly, he added.
Foreigners are not allowed to enter leading Hindu temples in Orissa,
including the Jagannath temple at Puri and the Lingaraj temple here.
An American woman, Pamela K Fleig, who had converted from
Christianity to Hinduism after marrying an Uttar Pradesh resident,
was denied entry into the 11th century Lingaraj temple in
Bhubaneswar in 2005.
Thailand's Crown Princess Sirindhorn was also not given permission
to visit the Jagannath temple the same year because she is a
foreigner and a Buddhist.
Even former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a born Hindu was not
allowed to enter the temple when she was in power because she had
married a Parsi.
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