[Assam] From Hindustantimes :: How Racist we can be

[Chan Mahanta]

Ram:

You don't need to defend your own Hinduism. No one is charging YOU of 
any bigotries. But you are not the custodian of arguably one of 
Hindudom's foremost
fortress, zealously protected from them untouchables for millenia.

There may be such Hindus in Assam. But they are NOT being charged , 
or for that matter those OTHER religions either, with the magnitude 
of absurdity as is being demonstrated by the recognized keepers of 
the Hindu faith at this Unholy See. All transgressions therefore are 
NOT equal.

That is the difference.

c-da



At 9:48 AM -0600 3/2/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>C'da
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>  >*** 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.
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>Not my brand of Hinduism. It is extremely easy to poke holes into 
>any religion. As to whether Hinduism is good, bad or lousy, it is 
>NOT as if Assam is not full of Hindus (well - I am not too sure 
>about that today) - nevertheless, it does have a sizeable Hindu 
>population, and if such bigotries exist elsewhere, you can be sure 
>they exist in Assam as well. And rest assured, C'da, even if one 
>were to take Assam and keep it in the mid-Atlantic, those bigotries, 
>if they exist,  will also come along. Assam ain't immune to that.
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>--Ram
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>On 3/2/07, Chan Mahanta 
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>  >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) :).
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>At 9:24 AM -0600 3/2/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
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>>Hi Utpal
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>First the HT is not correct in terming this as "racist". Its more 
>religious bigotry, intollerance, and simply blind faith than 
>anything else.
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>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.
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>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) :).
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>Hope you and Malabika are doing fine.
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>--Ram da
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>On 3/2/07, Malabika Brahma 
><<mailto:malabikabrahma at yahoo.co.uk>malabikabrahma at yahoo.co.uk> 
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>Food destroyed at Jagannath temple after foreigner's entry
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>Indo-Asian News Service
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>Bhubaneshwar, March 2, 2007
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Foreigners are not allowed to enter leading Hindu temples in Orissa, 
>including the Jagannath temple at Puri and the Lingaraj temple here.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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