On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008 6:26:22 pm Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > Sumathi Ramaswamy has some intelligent thoughts on this > > http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1601/16010920.htm
I am reading a very interesting book by a pair of authors whose views not only validate many views I have held but go far beyond what I could have imagined. The book is "The Indians" by Sudhir and Katharina Kakar. The black and white image of "Tamizhthai" with the picture of a good lookin- big bosomed chick fits in perfectly well with the ambiguous sexuality and mother worship that is common in India. The hoohah about Vande Mataram vs Tamizhthai is IMO misplaced as are the issues with Saraswati. All are forms of worshipping a mother figure. I doubt if Tamizhthai is a Goddess, and Vande mataram refers to no Gods - so references to absence of secularism wrt to one and not the other are also misplaced. In fact, technically "worship" of anything other than prescribed Gods is blasphemy by some viewpoints. Tamizhthai worship is as "bad" and anti-secular as Vande Mataram by that standard. But then - those are my views - we probably have 999,999,999 other views to get about this yet. shiv
