On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007 8:55 pm, ashok _ wrote: > I dont get the hindu connection ? how does "being more hindu" prevent you > from crapping on the road...? what about all the people who dont want to be > hindu, would they be more likely to crap on the road? this is a clear > problem of civic sense, lack of facilities and too many people.
I am not surprised that you have not got the connection. You might want to re-read what I have written. Hindu social stratification makes us (you included) cheerfully accept the presence of itinerant workers who have no place to crap other than the road. They may be working on your own house, but you will not allow them to crap in your toilet if such is available. We want their labor, we are not interested in providing facilities for them to crap, or facilities for their children to study. We then fail to recognise that our own Hinduness accepts this social discrimination, with you on top and the laborer or "housemaid" below and equally fail to see the connection between our Hinduness and people crapping on the road. This is blamed on lack of "civic sense". On whose part, I ask? The behavior of Indian society, despite vehement denials is very very Hindu. You deny that and you are denying some of the deepest reasons for rot in Indian society. There is a tendency to blame the RSS for claiming that there are a lot of Hindus in India, and there is a pretence that Hinduism does not exist in that way. Oh yes it does. If the RSS highlights what is convenient to them, you are probably denying all that is inconvenient to you. Why pretend that you are the product of some very modern and liberal thinking? You are not. You are a product of a very conservative Hindu society that teaches you to see the world in a particular way. Hinduism is only partly about religion. It is also deeply about social stratification, social insulation and pooling, elitism and discrimination - all of which exist among us but are denied by the very people who are born and educated by that system, and continue to allow the system to work that way while they claim to be somehow "more modern" and less fundamentalist than the RSS. That is a joke. Just look at what your relatives and friends are doing. Blaming the RSS is a bogey that takes the attention off the real Hindu. We Hindus use and like all the benefits of the system while we claim not to represent those parts of the same system that we can afford to disown. By denying that we are Hindus, and feigning modernity we can shrug off responsibility for social ills that exist in Hindu society and blame someone else. What a con job. shiv
