Thread by @raghav4india

@Soumitri_Debroy @sarkar_swati तुलसीदास राम और कृष्ण की तात्त्विक एकता स्वीकार करते हुए भी राम-रुप श्यामघन पर मोहित होने वाले चातक थे। अतः घनश्याम कृष्ण के समक्ष नतमस्तक कैसे होते। उनका भाव-विभोर कवि का कण्ठ मुखर हो उठा -
कहा कहौं छवि आज की, भले बने हो नाथ ।
तुलसी मस्तक तब नवै, जब धनुष बान लो हाथ ।।

@Soumitri_Debroy @sarkar_swati इतिहास साक्षी दे या नहीं द, किन्तु लोक-श्रुति साक्षी देती है कि कृष्ण की मूर्ति राम की मूर्ति में बदल गई थी।

@Soumitri_Debroy @sarkar_swati This was when Goswami Tulsidas ji visited Vrindavan and impressed upon the deity of Sri Krishna to take the form of Sri Ram.

This was a poet philosopher’s fetish for his own ishta.

@Soumitri_Debroy @sarkar_swati So why cannot be accept @MamataOfficial ji’s reservations to reverberate only with the chants of Bande Mataram, Durga et al?

Every geo-cultural locale of Bharat has its own distinctive character and design. Why to invade it with extraneous considerations.

@Soumitri_Debroy @sarkar_swati @MamataOfficial #EkBharatShreshthaBharat has to be an inside out phenomenon whereby the local and regional identities of Bharat are coalesced into an all encompassing national identity.

Rather than the reverse imposition of some singular variant to all geo-cultural locales of Bharat.

@Soumitri_Debroy @sarkar_swati @MamataOfficial The ongoing Cultural Revolution of Modi ji aimed at consolidating his unquestionable Political Power tends to purge the distinctive cultural choices of Bharat from Braj to Bengal.

Monotonous uniformity has never ever been the Indian National Way.