Guy on the street says “over the years we
celebrate it more for the sake of celebration than for any religious connotation”.
He’s sort of explaining why Diwali is being celebrated. If you have an
ignoramus anchoring a TV show you are bound to have a poor beat reporter (titled
Smriti Advani) asking someone silly scripted questions. It’s a natural rule. Hinduism
has been open to question and criticism down the ages. Hindu icons have also
appeared in movie comedies and have been the subject of humour and jokes. But
it takes an extreme moron like Sagarika Ghose to ask “Is the legend of Ram the most enduring in India, was Ram a bad husband”? (November 13). The journalistic-bimbo thought that would be a
good question to ask on Diwali night on her show ‘FTN’ on CNN-IBN. I must, of course, mention that CNN-IBN and its editors
have been traditional Hindu-haters. They fail to put up that disclaimer on
their screen when they do shows like this. It didn’t occur to the Cacofonix
that she’s asking the question after almost 6000 years of the Ram legend.
In just the previous post (The holes in the mint) I talked about
another extreme moron called Priya
Ramani of Mint who has consistently abused Ram for no rhyme or reason. You
know, I wouldn’t consider criticising, poking gentle fun, even ridiculing a bad
thing but abuse and hatred for Ram or Hinduism seems to come naturally to these
ladies. Sometime back the SocialGenius wondered if Ram was a “Divine encroacher”, so you know where
she comes from. She also claimed she came from a devout Hindu family because
her unkill joined the Ramakrishna
Mission. I know of many of many idiots who say “geeze” in their conversations without knowing what that even means.
It’s sort of hip. I am willing to bet these ladies say geeze quite often.
After the older guy, the beat-woman picks up a younger guy and asks him
if Ramayana is relevant and she herself concludes “Ramayana
is not so relevant for the younger generation”. What the younger guy did
say was that Dusherra is like Diwali, when Ram destroys evil Raavan and Diwali
is more of a family celebration. I know how the street specialists are picked
by TV channels and so do most people watching the shows. And what triggered the
question and discussions? Oh that Ram
Jethmalani (RJ) said something like “Ram was a bad
husband” for the way he treated Sita. Haha! That comes from a guy with
two wives at the same time. Never mind. Does the comment of a mercurial lawyer,
frequently hated by CNN-IBN for his defence of various characters, warrant a
full-fledged discussion? No! But since it was something negative about Ram it’s
like lighting the fuse for a bomb for the journalistic-bimbo.
Then the bimbo wonders if people know what Diwali is about or if they
remember Ramayana or Ram’s story. No matter which faith you belong to in India
it is unlikely that kids have never heard of Ramayana or Mahabharata. Being two
epics it’s not possible for everyone to remember the epics from start to
finish. Most remember the essence of the stories and probably many incidents
from each. These epics have not just been widely discussed, told and retold in
India but across many parts in the world. Ram’s life has been far more public
and far more discussed than say a Gandhi
or Nehru. So when Sagarika suggests
Ramayan doesn’t resonate with the younger lot she is probably speaking from her
own life experience. Maybe her parents didn’t tell her those stories or maybe
her kids never heard those stories. Your guess is as good as mine.
So the discussion is all over a statement of RJ. Alright! This moron
Sagarika is the same one who once interviewed RJ over his defence of Manu
Sharma, the killer of Jessica Lal. Her absolute ignorance of law and legal
procedures were total exposed by RJ. The
bimbo believes if the media and public opinion holds a person guilty then no
lawyer should defend that person. Trust me, there’s a moron like this born
every minute in our media. The thrashing she got at the hands of RJ was far
more severe than the off the cuff remark by RJ on Ram. He called her rant all “bullshit”. He called her a “chit of a girl” trying to advise him.
Of course, she honestly carried a show on FTN with the question “Is Sagarika a chit of a girl & a load
of bullshit”? You remember seeing that, don’t you? I do, and I remember
99.93% voters saying “YES”! The bimbo asks a lawyer if he is “defending the indefensible”. Forget the Ramayan, no
school, no parents, no spouse, no unkill ever taught this extreme moron that
every accused has not only the right to defence but a lawyer refusing to defend
his client may be guilty of misconduct under the bar rules. If she can decide
the case of Manu Sharma in her filthy studios you can imagine what trial Ram
would go through on CNN-IBN in absentia. (See the RJ interview on Youtube)
RJ has often said quite a few things about others too. His most recent
pearls of wisdom have frequently been on the one Great White Hope of our media
morons; the one and only Rahul Gandhi.
Yeah! He’s the same guy that CNN-IBN awarded “Indian of the year” in 2009. Even Ram doesn’t have such an award
from that channel. So what did RJ have to say about RahulG? Let’s do a count:
* RahulG has black money stashed abroad (Here).
* RahulG is good for nothing! He is useless! (Here).
* There isn’t even a quotable quote from RahulG.
* RahulG is illiterate.
It’s unlikely RJ’s epithets for RahulG is going to end there. Now, how
many times have you seen CNN-IBN or Sagarika Ghose have a discussion or debate
on these statements of RJ? Ummm.. I counted and it is ‘Zero’. It’s only when
the old man had something negative to say about Ram that CNN-IBN has massive
orgasms. You see Ram pays for the TV channels through serials which news
channels can’t carry. But RahulG’s Congress is a paymaster for CNN-IBN all the
time. So I doubt you’ll see a discussion titled “Is RahulG the enduring fool of Indian politics”? Quite unlikely!
What these “secular and fiberal”
experts and Hindu-haters consistently demonstrate is their total lack of
understanding of Hindu culture itself. Unlike Muslims or Christians the Hindus aren’t
bound together by religion. The greatest Hindu scholar of recent history, Swami Vivekananda, told his American
audience that in the West a ‘woman’ means the wife or girlfriend; to Hindus, a
woman means mother. He also explained that Hindus aren’t bound as a community
by religion but rather by social customs and traditions. Holi (which for Priya Ramani is a festival of “molestation”) is a
festival of harvest and thanksgiving celebrations. So too is Pongal. A deeper look will tell
everyone that kite-flying on Uttarayan or Makara
Sankaranti has nothing to do with religion. And the shocker, even a Hindu
wedding doesn’t have much to do with religion. New Year among Hindus varies
with regions. Not much of it has anything to do with religion. Diwali too, has
precious little to do with religion. It’s a celebration of return of the
rightful king to his throne, a celebration of the victory of good over evil,
the lights symbolise new beginnings, knowledge and celebration too. The only time these media celebs find the
need for light is when they support a candle-march for some protest.
Hindus worship and adore light. Ask any of the media morons what
darkness is, I’m sure the best answer is you will get is “absence of light”.
That isn’t really an answer is it? That’s like saying hate is absence of love.
Hate is the outcome of lifelong prejudice born out of value systems built by
families among their children. The ones who discuss Ram or Hindus with so much
hate need to wonder what values they were instilled with. Their hate comes from
prejudices built over years. It’s not
easy to define darkness but you can tell darkness when you see it. You can
tell the prejudices of our TV hosts when you see them.
Forget Ram and Diwali for the moment. The right question for people
would be “Is CNN-IBN’s FTN the most
enduring stupidity on TV”? That’s a poll they won’t conduct but we will. So
do cast your vote in this poll on the top right margin of this page. Happy new year!
