Minorities are ostracized @radzzzzster, that's why #NupurSharma has to chose to live in complete anonymity. That's why Kamlesh Tiwari, Dr Umesh etc happened. That's why no one criticize Islam even a bit, but there you are calling integral Diwali tradition of firecracker useless.
What has happened with Nupur etc is for the dhimmis like you @radzzzzster , who wish to declare Hindu traditions useless but will see those as ostracized who en-mass came on streets asking for STJ of so many.
Shame on you ! Disgusting!
I'm one, really vocal against all meat consumption, forget just the beef.
I'm no parading activism around lie you that I would need to showcase my CV of activism to you. You are the one selectively doing it so be prepared to answer.
I don't give a damn what you write right now, but the truth is that you are comparing essential practice (firecracker) in Deepawali with loudspeaker of Aazan.
Dr with your name, so go check noise pollution level too as starter to get logic fitted right.
What a foolish tweet to say that it has nothing to do with Dharma, when Skand Puran clearly recommends Ulka Dan for the ancestors (pitr) through Ulka-hastha?
I say foolish because you began interaction by hinting religious mention can't be prioritized.
Just a key to few people who tend to boil quite often.
Tradition=परंपरा=practice of an act periodically without fail
Practice= an act which can be periodic or irregular. The moment it is irregular, it’s not a tradition. For eg, Sati (as understood in colonial terms).
It happened, but too lesser in number, irregularly not something that can be bracketed under tradition. Lord William Bentick had vicious vision & he manufactured fake data of Sati as a process to show how ridiculous the Hindus are. Hence justify the project of civilising Hindus.
That was a step to strip off tradition one by one from the Hindu fold. The idea was in place a lot before Macaulay read his minutes which to explored on direct & indirect Christianisation of Indians.
Not true. When years before Babur was wandering, living in tents without throne, Vijayanagar had Deepawali Celebration with fire crackers.
The creation of firecrackers has been mentioned in (7000 verses of Bogar), 6th cen BC Tamil text & explosives are mentioned in Arthashastra.
In fact the process of celebrating Deepawali with Firebrand (Ulkahast) is mentioned in Skand Puran to do Ulkadan showing path to the ancestors (pitr) Firebrand did exactly what a firecracker does & it became firecracker. Read my article firstpost.com/opinion-news-e…
Well, @SubhashiniAli , I must tell you that there are sources which tell that even china got the inspiration for saltpetre from India.
So indeed it is absolutely unscholarly to believe that India had no firecrackers before Timurids (distorted Mughals) came to Bharat.
In democracy, you don't see virtue in "feel good factors." Rather you go all throttles to elect leader who can do something for you.
Expectations can be religious, economic or infrastructure etc.
It is hilarious to expect that world's largest democracy would not vote for own good but to prove a virtue that some ultra minority folks (politicians) have set.
It is outright insult of the democracy that voted again for a party after having seen the work of a leader from a minority Sikh community in 2014.
There have been case where a Jain has been elected as MLA and then as MP by the large Hindu community.
Must share this important observation about AIT by British Social Anthropologist Edmund Leach:
“Why do serious scholars persist in believing in the Aryan invasions?(...) Why is this sort of thing attractive? Who finds it attractive?
Why has the development of early Sanskrit come to be so dogmatically associated with an Aryan invasion? (…) Where the Indo-European philologists are concerned,
the invasion argument is tied in with their assumption that if a particular language is identified as having been used in a particular locality at a particular time, no attention need be paid to what was there before; the slate is wiped clean.