In our
childhood, I got curious when I first learned the Hindi phrase, "Chand ke
upar thookna". What is the meaning of that? The teacher said, "If you
spit at the moon, looking above, the spit will fall onto you only". Yeah,
I understood. But how come the Chief Minister of TN doesn't understand that?
Which school has he attended?
Once in the
classroom, teacher was talking about the false confidence level of different
people. I said what about politicians? She brushed it off, and said she won't
talk about the politicians; they are hardly humans. Her face expressed all.
What
Karunanidhi said (quoting):
“Ram is as
big a lie as the Himalayas and the Ganga are true.”
"Valmiki
has called Rama a drunkard, who regularly used to drink intoxicants”
“Let Advani
read Valmiki and come. I am prepared for a debate with him on this"
“Ramayana is
just a fictitious story like the many I myself have written and Ram is purely a
fictional character.”
After all my
learning, of phrases in the school and faces in the college, if I take the
trouble of writing about this, I would be naive. But one thing: those who
feared that the changing demography and rampant religious conversions will
corrupt India one day, are having the last laugh. And those who know the
internal politics of TN, who understood the real intentions why Shankaracharya
was tortured in the state on murder charges, who know the politics of
reservations in the state from before the independence days, who know about the
caste based riots that happened in the state, will not comment either. After
all, they had warned us a long time before. Wait a minute, that Dilip Kumar
also warned us once, "Ram Chandra kah gaye Siya se, aisa Kaliyug aayega".
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