why hinduism is a blot on the idea of India

[SQ8]

People have been brainwashed to live in a box , Anyone with any critical thinking is ridiculed.

That argument applies to any line of thinking. A Pro Hindu superiority person and a pro secular idealist can both use that line.

 

[HariPrasad]

“Indian voting rights (given to Hindus) must be reconsidered” – Zoya Hasan, a professor of political science in JNU, had thundered in NDTV studios on the morning of May 16th this year when it was quite apparent that Narendra Modi would be the new Prime Minister of India. These days the only noise one hears from the opposition in Rajya Sabha, since the opposition is absent in Lok Sabha, is on topics concerning some “reconversions” by a vague Hindu outfit or about a stray ruling party MP making some bombastic comments on some trivial religious matters. Over the last month, maximum airtime on various media platforms was allocated to a ‘colloquial’ mis-comment by a junior minister in the central government which was a classic case of making a mountain out of a molehill.

For the last 2-odd years there has been this constant theme running in the background which keeps harping about the “Idea of India”. There have been various subtle, not-so-subtle and in-your-face attempts to constantly remind us that either Hinduism is rogue or that ordinary Hindus need to be apologetic about the supposed ‘excesses’ of their religion on the whole and certain co-religionists in particular. Over the last few years, especially under constant ridicule and persistent attack have been religious figures, Hindu Matths and those termed derisively as ‘Godmen’ by the media.

This continuous messaging is having little impact as urban middle classes have not yet developed a ‘healthy’ distaste towards Hindu religious symbols, especially the so-called ‘Godmen’. Realizing that relentless bombardment on 24/7 news channels against various babas from Nithyanandas to Asharam Bapus to Rampals is not enough to change the Hindu psyche, more creative folks are now getting into this business of dissing Hindu systems. Now the messaging is more subtle, underplayed and laced with humour so that it makes a deeper impact on urban India.



An alien who looks exactly like us humans lands in the deserts of Rajasthan only to be robbed of his “remote”, which connects him to his mother ship. Meanwhile an Indian girl falls in love with who else but a Pakistani boy in Belgium – this is an important template for Bollywood to show its proverbial middle finger to all those ‘silly Hindu fanatics’ who harp about LOVE JIHAD, so every right thinking, no strike that, every Left-thinking Indian woman must dutifully fall in Love with a Pakistani guy. The girl’s father objects to this union because, hold your breath, he is an undying bhakt of a Hindu Godman who keeps lecturing about Mohammad Ghazni’s invasion of India. Our poor Godmen simply refuse to understand that Hindu girls have this ‘inherent craving’ for Pakistani men who are such nice, soft spoken, caring gentlemen without a religiously violent hair on their waxed and tanned bodies. Can’t these Godmen see how we as a nation collectively trend #IndiaWithPakistan when those non-violent Pakistani men murder 150 young kids in a school in Peshawar?

Due to a tragic twist of fate, the unsuspecting Indian girl believes that her Pakistani boyfriend has ditched her at the altar, so she returns back home to the big bad lands of India infested with too many Hindu temples and Hindu Godmen and, well, Hindu men and women (oh why can’t India just be another Pakistan with those nice, non-violent Pakistani men?). Here in India the alien (played by the redoubtable host of Satya Meva Jayate) has started circulating “Missing” pamphlets with pictures of various Hindu Gods because he believes the Hindu Gods are responsible for his missing remote. He even visits Hindu temples but chain locks his slippers at the gates because, you guessed it right, all Hindu devotees are thieves who rob slippers – in the Rajkumar Hirani universe Hinduism is totally infested with thievery and nothing but thievery, everything else is merely the figment of Hindu imagination.

Over the next 2 hours, PK keeps going in circles just to progressively caricaturize Hindu temples, Hindu Gods and Hindu Godmen (to be sure, there are but some fleeting references to other religions too but then you would have missed them by the time you would have blinked and yawned in between). Then, after every aspect of Hinduism is ridiculed and the audience is sufficiently frustrated with the religion to dash out of the cinema hall and race into the nearest church/masjid to immediately get converted, we unhurriedly reach the climax when there is finally a bomb blast and the TV newscaster informs us that some people of an unknown “kaum” (religion) have taken the responsibility for the blast. What religion could that be? Shhh! don’t ask, some questions are best kept under wraps… okay, let’s get back to Hindu bashing then.

So, in the climactic TV studio confrontation between a Hindu Godman and the alien… wait, by the way, did we tell you that the left-thinking woman who returned back from Belgium after her supposedly “failed” love affair with that nice, non-violent Pakistani boy has now joined a TV news channel as an anchor? Oh she has, and, now we know why our TV News anchors have such a tender soft spot for anything that has a Pakistani label on it. Anyway, so, in the climactic TV studio confrontation between a Hindu Godman and the alien, the alien emerges victorious!!! What a relief! In fact, the alien defeats the Godman by telling the whole truth to the girl (who is now the TV news anchor and had fallen in love in Belgium with a soft spoken, nice, non-violent… okay fine, it was Anushka Sharma with her recently acquired shark-like lips, there I said it finally!). The whole but simple truth is this – the Pakistani boy hadn’t ditched her after all, and, has been in fact waiting for 2 years in Lahore with bated breath for a call from her.

Moral of the story? It’s simple you idiots, all Hindu Godmen, Hindu Gods (and Hindu men for that matter) are thugs and thieves, so in Pakistanis we must trust.

PK: Why is Hinduism a blot on the idea of India | 5Forty3

These are real secular of India. If Hindus turn blind eye than Hindus are responsible and not those secular who have an agenda of finishing Hindus.

 

[Star Wars]

That argument applies to any line of thinking. A Pro Hindu superiority person and a pro secular idealist can both use that line.

Only thing is Seculars and liberals in this country are extremely quick to stereotype and generalize an entire society of people . Its Ironic considering what these people are supposed to stand for ...

 

[ranjeet]

Your logic is retarded , nobody said Hinduism Khatra mai hai . But there are many people in the media and News who get their daily bread and butter form Bashing Hinduism .. Owasi says something, media is silent while prime time news for an entire week is alloted to Ladoo feeding

I don't understand why Media is taken so seriously? After what happened in LS election I thought everyone knew media hardly plays a role in shaping public's opinion anymore. If you want to take such stupid debates about Laduu feeding and what this or that BJP/RSS leader said then please stop following media or grow a thick skin.

 

[Dash]

I don't understand why Media is taken so seriously? After what happened in LS election I thought everyone knew media hardly plays a role in shaping public's opinion anymore. If you want to take such stupid debates about Laduu feeding and what this or that BJP/RSS leader said then please stop following media or grow a thick skin.

Not everybody can grow a thick skin man.

 

[Star Wars]

I don't understand why Media is taken so seriously? After what happened in LS election I thought everyone knew media hardly plays a role in shaping public's opinion anymore. If you want to take such stupid debates about Laduu feeding and what this or that BJP/RSS leader said then please stop following media or grow a thick skin.

The basic point is his fears are justified , because there are people in high places who is trying to degrade an entire religion for his/her own personal reasons . Its articles like these which shaped public opinion against the media . People did not start mistrusting Media on a flick of a switch . It was a gradual process because people started speaking out irrespective of the ridicule they would receive ..

 

[ranjeet]

Not everybody can grow a thick skin man.

this is politics not a pillow fight between teenage girls, if you cant stand it avoid it then.

The basic point is his fears are justified , because there are people in high places who is trying to degrade an entire religion for his/her own personal reasons . Its articles like these which shaped public opinion against the media . People did not start mistrusting Media on a flick of a switch . It was a gradual process because people started speaking out irrespective of the ridicule they would receive ..

True but this looks more like whining then taking on such people. Discredit such people not whine about what they do. Just saying what i believe, we might not agree to it, but according to me this is stupid. make uproar about something stupid and give free publicity to the movie for how long we will fall such antics.

 

[Echo_419]

This author must keep his insecurities to himself, and such articles to movie review section.

Agreed no need to publish such large amount of Bull Shit

 

[T90TankGuy]

What a stupid article !!!! religion has not failed man , man has failed religion repeatedly by misrepresenting it .

 

[SQ8]

the small flaw in the article is that it concludes with Pakistan as a Muslim state, but let's just forget any comparison, partition or things like that. Its a question of what is the objective behind or why only Hinduism is targeted for objective questions.

A lot of it has to do with the lack of coherent organization Hinduism had for a rather long time(1000 years +) as a religion(not as a cultural phenomenon). What that refers to is the teaching of Hinduism on a state level and is support from a state level, not as a interpersonal communality but rather as a state sponsored and inculcated theology. Would that have happened had partition not happened? That is the question.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Message received. "Hinduism is a blot on the idea of India."

 

[Star Wars]

True but this looks more like whining then taking on such people. Discredit such people not whine about what they do. Just saying what i believe, we might not agree to it, but according to me this is stupid. make uproar about something stupid and give free publicity to the movie for how long we will fall such antics.

Again ... your arguments make absolutely no sense at all ..

Anything in this world can be considered as "whining" . Even fighting against corruption or terrorism can be considered as "whining" . Just because you used a word with a negative connotation does not mean it is a bad thing. If you are so strong a person you might as well have grown a thick skin and tolerated terrorism,corruption rape etc. He is pretty much exposing how the media and film industry in this country works , not sure why you'r butt hurt about it . Here you the have a media trying to demonize one section of the population purely on religious grounds and when people stand against it we have tools like you trying to ridicule them...

 

[NKVD]

“Indian voting rights (given to Hindus) must be reconsidered” – Zoya Hasan, a professor of political science in JNU, had thundered in NDTV studios on the morning of May 16th this year when it was quite apparent that Narendra Modi would be the new Prime Minister of India. These days the only noise one hears from the opposition in Rajya Sabha, since the opposition is absent in Lok Sabha, is on topics concerning some “reconversions” by a vague Hindu outfit or about a stray ruling party MP making some bombastic comments on some trivial religious matters. Over the last month, maximum airtime on various media platforms was allocated to a ‘colloquial’ mis-comment by a junior minister in the central government which was a classic case of making a mountain out of a molehill.

For the last 2-odd years there has been this constant theme running in the background which keeps harping about the “Idea of India”. There have been various subtle, not-so-subtle and in-your-face attempts to constantly remind us that either Hinduism is rogue or that ordinary Hindus need to be apologetic about the supposed ‘excesses’ of their religion on the whole and certain co-religionists in particular. Over the last few years, especially under constant ridicule and persistent attack have been religious figures, Hindu Matths and those termed derisively as ‘Godmen’ by the media.

This continuous messaging is having little impact as urban middle classes have not yet developed a ‘healthy’ distaste towards Hindu religious symbols, especially the so-called ‘Godmen’. Realizing that relentless bombardment on 24/7 news channels against various babas from Nithyanandas to Asharam Bapus to Rampals is not enough to change the Hindu psyche, more creative folks are now getting into this business of dissing Hindu systems. Now the messaging is more subtle, underplayed and laced with humour so that it makes a deeper impact on urban India.



An alien who looks exactly like us humans lands in the deserts of Rajasthan only to be robbed of his “remote”, which connects him to his mother ship. Meanwhile an Indian girl falls in love with who else but a Pakistani boy in Belgium – this is an important template for Bollywood to show its proverbial middle finger to all those ‘silly Hindu fanatics’ who harp about LOVE JIHAD, so every right thinking, no strike that, every Left-thinking Indian woman must dutifully fall in Love with a Pakistani guy. The girl’s father objects to this union because, hold your breath, he is an undying bhakt of a Hindu Godman who keeps lecturing about Mohammad Ghazni’s invasion of India. Our poor Godmen simply refuse to understand that Hindu girls have this ‘inherent craving’ for Pakistani men who are such nice, soft spoken, caring gentlemen without a religiously violent hair on their waxed and tanned bodies. Can’t these Godmen see how we as a nation collectively trend #IndiaWithPakistan when those non-violent Pakistani men murder 150 young kids in a school in Peshawar?

Due to a tragic twist of fate, the unsuspecting Indian girl believes that her Pakistani boyfriend has ditched her at the altar, so she returns back home to the big bad lands of India infested with too many Hindu temples and Hindu Godmen and, well, Hindu men and women (oh why can’t India just be another Pakistan with those nice, non-violent Pakistani men?). Here in India the alien (played by the redoubtable host of Satya Meva Jayate) has started circulating “Missing” pamphlets with pictures of various Hindu Gods because he believes the Hindu Gods are responsible for his missing remote. He even visits Hindu temples but chain locks his slippers at the gates because, you guessed it right, all Hindu devotees are thieves who rob slippers – in the Rajkumar Hirani universe Hinduism is totally infested with thievery and nothing but thievery, everything else is merely the figment of Hindu imagination.

Over the next 2 hours, PK keeps going in circles just to progressively caricaturize Hindu temples, Hindu Gods and Hindu Godmen (to be sure, there are but some fleeting references to other religions too but then you would have missed them by the time you would have blinked and yawned in between). Then, after every aspect of Hinduism is ridiculed and the audience is sufficiently frustrated with the religion to dash out of the cinema hall and race into the nearest church/masjid to immediately get converted, we unhurriedly reach the climax when there is finally a bomb blast and the TV newscaster informs us that some people of an unknown “kaum” (religion) have taken the responsibility for the blast. What religion could that be? Shhh! don’t ask, some questions are best kept under wraps… okay, let’s get back to Hindu bashing then.

So, in the climactic TV studio confrontation between a Hindu Godman and the alien… wait, by the way, did we tell you that the left-thinking woman who returned back from Belgium after her supposedly “failed” love affair with that nice, non-violent Pakistani boy has now joined a TV news channel as an anchor? Oh she has, and, now we know why our TV News anchors have such a tender soft spot for anything that has a Pakistani label on it. Anyway, so, in the climactic TV studio confrontation between a Hindu Godman and the alien, the alien emerges victorious!!! What a relief! In fact, the alien defeats the Godman by telling the whole truth to the girl (who is now the TV news anchor and had fallen in love in Belgium with a soft spoken, nice, non-violent… okay fine, it was Anushka Sharma with her recently acquired shark-like lips, there I said it finally!). The whole but simple truth is this – the Pakistani boy hadn’t ditched her after all, and, has been in fact waiting for 2 years in Lahore with bated breath for a call from her.

Moral of the story? It’s simple you idiots, all Hindu Godmen, Hindu Gods (and Hindu men for that matter) are thugs and thieves, so in Pakistanis we must trust.

PK: Why is Hinduism a blot on the idea of India | 5Forty3

Try to give explanations to Supreme Court of india which certify that hinduism is a soul of our constitution peacewho is this asshole to pass judgement.

 

[ranjeet]

Again ... your arguments make absolutely no sense at all ..

Anything in this world can be considered as "whining" . Even fighting against corruption or terrorism can be considered as "whining" . Just because you used a word with a negative connotation does not mean it is a bad thing. If you are so strong a person you might as well have grown a thick skin and tolerated terrorism,corruption rape etc. He is pretty much exposing how the media and film industry in this country works , not sure why you'r butt hurt about it . Here you the have a media trying to demonize one section of the population purely on religious grounds and when people stand against it we have tools like you trying to ridicule them...

I think you got my post in wrong sense, I am not asking to cow down in front of such assault on Hinduism. I am recommending instead of being reactive be proactive and attack such people where it hurts the most. Having said that I Don't need a certificate of my Hinduness from anyone here.

Message received. "Hinduism is a blot on the idea of India."

India is Hindu .. and Hindu is India ... its as clear as that. The only place withstood the Islamic hordes and yet maintained their native religion instead of hundreds of years their rule.

 

[Kaniska]

Not a very balanced view, but then again there were always stories on when M.A Jinnah met Maulana Azad he congratulated him on India, to which Azad replied that he could not decide what to congratulate him(Jinnah for); the creation of yet another Muslim country or the creation of the world's first Hindu state.

Honestly...I find Jinah is more visionary than Gandhi..Gandhi and Nehru are just over hyped Heros of the Indian histroy....India could have made a clean partition with Hindus or people having faith in hinduism in India and rest should have moved to Pakistan..It could have created a clean partition where India and Pakistan could have been good to each other too....