Are the seculars
& liberals in India, losing the hopes for social survival?
The Semantic Trap of the ‘Western
Paradigm Prison’
‘Seculars &
liberals have lost moral authority only because they condone all crimes against
Hindus from conversion to killing.’ - Tweeted @sgurumurthy
‘Sadly both are
clueless!’ – Respond tweeted @madhukishwar
The
above tweets motivated me to raise and explore the answer to the above
question, in
view of my unusual background and experiences.
I was once a
staunch ‘PeriyAr’ E.V.R supporter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periyar_E._V._Ramasamy )& hence
experienced the extreme mind set of the seculars & liberals. I was
convinced that the ‘nationalism’ of India was anti-Tamil & anti-Tamils,
justifying the demand of the separation of Tamilnadu, from India.
Fed up with the
dominating selfish emotional trend in public life, during the rule of the
Dravidian parties in Tamilnadu, I diversified to music related application of
Physics to the ancient Tamil texts. In the process, I discovered how ‘PeriyAr’
E.V.R & the seculars & liberals, unconsciously led themselves to become
the victims of the anti-Swadeshi colonial conspiracy. (‘The Dravidian Movement
& Rescuing Tamilnadu’; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2014/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_10.html )
Also I doubt if
the ‘seculars & liberals’ are aware of the ‘probable pitfalls in the
western based rationalist approach’ (http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2014/09/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_19.html )
If they
continue to be the prisoners of the western paradigm through the following
semantic trap, they will become irrelevant to the Indian society.
‘The semantic trap
of the western origin words; like caste, religion, Hindu, nation, nationalism,
classical & folk; denying the evolution of the Indian rooted meanings and
concepts through the process of modernization without westernization, is now
effectively challenged.’ (‘What is wrong with importing Euro-centric
nationalism to India? A criticism on Romila Thapar’s ‘ON NATIONALISM’ ; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2016/07/what-is-wrong-withimporting-euro.html )
In my view, seculars & liberals in TN are in the process of alienation from the common
public, speeded up during the Modi era.
The resulting
decline of the political parties supported by the seculars & liberals, unless
reversed, may lead to depriving the potential opposition to the Modi govt,
essential to serve the interests of the Indian democracy.
Fortunately the
opposition from RSS serve the purpose of safeguarding the interests of the
country and democracy. ((The Modi governments reform agenda continues to face
opposition from the RSS. http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/the-modi-governments-reform-agenda-continues-to-face-opposition-from-the-rss/story/244680.html
)
Also R.S.S is
emerging as the only mass based organization to rescue all the Indian languages,
facing demise due to the onslaught of the English medium western worshipping
education business. (‘Why RSS, the only option, to rescue the TN Tamil Medium
Education & hence Tamil?’; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2015/11/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_10.html
)
Minus the ‘periodic’
social oxygen supplied by the ‘cow vigilantes’ & ‘over enthusiastic censor
officials’ deleting few words in the documentary on Amartya Sen (note below), are the seculars & liberals in India, losing
the hopes for social survival?
‘Also as the pro-Hindutva writer S.Gurumurthy,
the editor of Tamil weekly ‘thugLak’, had rightly observed, the fast weakening
of the Congress party, will not prove to be good in the interests of democracy.
In the interests democracy & to strengthen a right opposition to BJP,
anti-Hindutva scholars, need to distance themselves, from anti-Swadeshi forces
with camouflaged ‘Anti-Hindutva’ masks, and be familiar with the ground level
realities, & emerging new polarization- pro-Swadeshi & anti-Swadeshi
polarization.’ (http://veepandi.blogspot.sg/2017/06/why-karl-marx-on-castes-in-india-noam.html )
Note:
‘When
AIADMK leader Jayalalitha replaced DMK leader Karunanidhi as TN CM after the
previous assembly elections, the Tamil word & the picture for ‘sun’ – சூரியன்,
the symbol of DMK, were removed from the school text books all over in TN, by
the officials of the education dept (like the above censor board officials), a
great mockery witnessed by TN public.’;
