He was a proud owner of a cute hatchback. He had spent Rs. 8 Lakh for the top variant of the car and another 40K more to give it the accessories it deserved.
“Are Pandit Ji, aap 51 Rs hi le lo na”, he said again.
The ageing Panditji, with a big Vaishnav Teeka on his forehead finished pouring the “jal” near the car from his Tamra-Patra. The process of pleasing the Isht, Gram and Kul Devta was complete.
“Yajman, nayi nayi gaadi khareedi hai, Brahman ko bhi prasann kar do”, he replied.
The man smiled proudly, he was a proud Hindu. He couldn’t help but wonder how beautiful Hinduism is.
“We don’t even discriminate between living and non living things. And every machine is Vishwakarma for us. “, he thought
I’ll use this line on Twitter, he muttered to himself.
“Are Pandit ji, showroom waalo ne to ek paisa bhi nahi chhoda, ab aap bhi loot lo”, He said.
“Theek hai yajman, jaisa uchit lage”, Panditji said. The man gave him 51 Rs which he tucked in his Dhoti.
The man sped away in his shiny new hatchback. He was a Hindu but not a fool.
This is the story of every new car owner and every pandit in the neighbourhood temple. We don’t negotiate inside malls and big showrooms but haggling Pandits for petty amounts of money is okay.
As long as your new car flaunts a swastika, you can call yourself a proud Hindu.
Being a Pandit is not a profession, it doesn’t have a monthly salary, post retirement benefits or medical insurances. It’s more like a family heirloom passed on from generation to generation. But every year more Pandits are leaving this pious work to go do something more “real”.
And the reason is that we don’t stop haggling. The moment you see a Pandit, you think that he is going to pester you for money. Sorry but that’s anti-Sanatan.
Ramayan talks about the many Yagyas of Raja Dashrath and later Shri Ram and talks about the riches bestowed on Brahmins.
In Mahabharata, Raja Yudhisthira simply opens his treasury for all the Brahmins conducting his Rajasooya Yagya.
Unfortunately, none of it can be seen today. Denying a Pandit of a proper Dakshina amounts to belittling Devtas.
How many of us have done Bhu-Dan, Go-Dan, Suvarn-Daan or at the very least Anna-Daan to Pandits? Very few, I am sure.
Even Proud internet Hindus sometimes behave worse than Periyarites. Anti-Brahmanism is almost always followed by anti-Hinduism jibes.
There is a reason why first the Islamists, then the British and later the communists chose to attack Brahmins. Destroy the custodians of knowledge and a whole civilisation will surrender.
And they did succeed to an extent. Brahmin bashing is cool, even for Hindus.
But if we can’t find Pandits for our children’s Marriages, 20-25 years from now, we will have no one but ourselves to blame.
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I am a Bihari, not the I-was-only-born-there-Bihari. I am a Pakka Bihari. I was born in Jahanabad, brought up in Patna and did my schooling from Patna. Most of my friends are from Bihar. Half of my family lives there and I visit Bihar at least 4 times a year.
My siblings, cousins and I did our schooling from Patna in the 90s, often dubbed as the Jungle Raj time. It definitely was. We knew about the extortion industry. We knew about the “rangadari” culture. We didn’t smoke or drink or did drugs, most Bihari kids of my age didn’t.
My Tweet thread response to this 2-bit opinion piece on CBC.
This article has been written by one Sarbmeet Singh and an Akshay Kulkarni, both of them Indian immigrants to Canada. But I won’t go for an ad-hominem attack, I would let facts do the talking.
The article suggests that Indian Students migrate to Canada because of 2 reasons:
1.Unstable Political Environment in India
2.Lack of Job opportunities
One Karan Singh has migrated to Canada because he fears for personal safety in Haryana.
That’s all that the article has to say, so Atha #AtulUvaach:
Indian students have been migrating overseas for education and employment since last many decades. Canada is a relatively new phenomena.
This is the story of a man who joined a corporation to edit the CEO’s statements for press and went on to become someone who would walk right next to the boss.
This is the story of grit, determination, well timed career switches, and showing your true worth to your current and previous organizations. If you are suffering at the lowest rungs of the corporate ladder. Read on.
So, he was hired to edit the Boss’ speech. He was a communication specialist that a talent scout had brought to the organization. The Boss was well known for unorthodox speeches and used to deliver too many of them.
To boycott or not to boycott is an individual call but let us try and understand the concept of Astras first, to make a more educated decision about Project Boycott Brahmastra.
Part of a Devi Stuti sang by Brahmaji for the first time. It means “Devi has in her 10 hands-Khadga, Chakra, Gada, Baan, Dhanush, Parigh, Shool, Bhushundi, a severed head and Shankha.”
Let us try and understand these weapons:
1. Khadga means sword. It’s a close range hand to hand combat weapon. 2. Chakra means spiked discus. It’s a long range weapon which is normally projected on to a target 3. Gada means mace: It’s again close range hand to hand combat weapon
Lal Singh Chadha is a lousy movie. And if its first day collections are any indication, it’s going to be a colossal disaster.
While Cinema experts will blame the quality of the movie to explain its doom, it’s clear as a day that boycott calls crashed Aamir’s plane.
But have we won? Can it be claimed as a civilisational victory? Or do we need to tank more movies to claim victory? The fact is, that victory is not even in sight. This one, if at all, was just a small skirmish.
Back in 2014, there was a copycat on FB. He simply stole TFI logo and name and started copying our posts. Later his ideology changed and he started shitposting. Page admins were furious. They urged me to get the page removed. But I didn’t. I monitored the page.
Continued.
it started growing slowly, then steadily and suddenly there was no stopping it.
It had some 2.5 Lakh followers for our 6 Lakhs. And they were getting more vitriolic with each passing day. I was still waiting patiently much to the chagrin of my team members.
I was waiting for the fellow to get comfortable and start investing money in what he thought, could be a business. And invest he did, at least 10 Lakh Rupees by my estimation to get new followers and activity on his posts.