May I also add that: some one out there, perhaps not active here, would definitely think that if two personas with xian and muslim sounding name has no particular issue with this "sloka" recital, why then a caste-hindu, damodar prasad raise such issues. Why should d,prasad wants to "maintain" the difference.
I think the -no-doubt- resolution- point of tradition as a greater common wealth of all has to be challenged? Why modern-nation leaves out "other" traditons while narrwoing down it to a selected past? ? Is there an ideoloy in this fabricated consent over tradition? Does this consent refers to "one-nation" obedient theory? For me these are important questions. Hence the reason why I raised those queries... On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM, damodar prasad <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Ashik and bobinson, > I may have a few doubts. How is that Katho Upansihad sloka becomes a > "greater common property" of all? > The paraphrase of this sloka is this: > *May He protect both of us. May He nourish both of us. May we both acquire > the capacity > (to study and understand the scriptures). May our study be brilliant. May > we not argue > with each other. Om peace, peac*e, *peace.* > Yes, one can interpret in it modern context. But how does it become an > invocation song of modern technology institution?How can religious ( and > bramhnical) scriptural sloka be integtrated to this endevour of learning? > Interestingly, one "*inappropriate"* image in the signatue part is the > "rose". "lotus" image would've integarted well with the lyric, bg bit and > sloka. > secondly, I think many has pointed out here the combination of taliban with > saffron. "saffron clad talbans" soemhow denotes saffron as some what > "innocent". (am refering to saffron as metonym). Even in a precisley > "agraharic" issue, why should we bring in Taliban without any reason? The > very reference to "saffron" is enough to make the point. > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM, ashik salahudeen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You are correct bobinson. >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
