---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM Subject: Pranaayaam Was Never So Painful article by Shuddhabrata Sengupta To:
"...Crowds are running helter-skelter. I can see an atmosphere of total chaos unfold before my eyes. I can hear the NDTV correspondent/commentator say, *“the police have not as yet hit anyone with sticks, but some supporters of the Baba have started pelting stones and bricks.”*. There is still no sign of Baba Ramdev. The NDTV voice says, it seems *“he has been whisked away”*. He asks someone who is referred to as a ‘senior aide’ – *“kya baba ko leke gaye” (“has Baba been taken away”)* – the man answers saying he does not know. The Baba has left the Shivir (camp). Ramdev came into our consciousness from nowhere, like Narad-Muni descending on hapless and puzzled mortals in the epics. He made his way into our TV screens, urged us to rub our fingernails and suck in our abdomens and steadily occupied the void, the lack of imagination, the absence of vision that tears right through our collective social, cultural and political space. He built his empire, pushed his dope, made his deals and caught us in the vice-like grip of an *‘asana’* (posture) that refuses to let go our minds..." http://kafila.org/2011/06/05/pranayam-was-never-so-painful/ -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights 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/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
