You are missing 'how to independence' of Assam big time.
You can't be really serious about it. Are you?
Rajen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Chan Mahanta
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:13 AM
To: Dilip/Dil Deka; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] From Hindustantimes :: How Racist we can be
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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