The Joint Family System we the Indians had developed taking centuries just got obliterated by the nuclear families which copied the western ways without thinking what they were throwing into the waste baskets & what they were taking in as their own! Indians never thought for a couple of minutes before they shifted allegiance to a completely foreign idea. They never thought of the culture they had been developing over the millennia! What ‘the others’ taught them, they followed blindly & never thought of the INDIANNESS OF THEIR EXISTENCE!
They shattered into smithereens the millennia-built cultural structure of India or Bharath as it should be called, without any guilt consciousness, AS THEY THOUGHT WHATEVER THERE WAS IN BHARATH ALIEN! They considered whatever that is Bharatiya or Indian Slavish & Uncultured & ran after something or the other which were not even a couple of hundred years old! They never knew that whatever they ran after were never tested & proven in time; they never cared even! They praised the western anything & kept a well-studied passiveness & animosity towards anything Bharatiya or Indian! Whatever western was emulated & Bharatiya looked down on! And, hence, Civilised became uncivilised & not yet proven things became CIVILISATION to these people who all of a sudden switched sides! Automatically, all the OTHER or WESTERN THINGS took charge of the situation & after some time were forced upon those who were still clinging onto the remains of WHAT WE HAD BEEN! When even a mere 500-1400 year old things were praised as something supernatural & sublime the 6000-7000 year old Bharath Culture was readily, silently & unceremoniously kicked away from the main frame of the INDIAN MINDS!
We started to build the alien Flat Culture as our own, flattening our great Bharat Culture; we built nuclear families which cut the roots of our culture never ever to germinate again; we started to talk & even think in the alien languages which were thrust upon us when we were NOT FREE; we wore western coats, suits etc in the sweltering sun; we gulped Russian vodka, brandy & whiskey and went for the Churchillian Cheroots; we read Shakespeare & Goethe and feigned ignorance of Valmiki & Vyasa; we romanticised the 12th & 13th century castles of Europe & never knew Ajanta, Ellora, Khojaraho, Mahabalipuram or the magnificent forts of Rajasthan; we knew Machiavelli well but kept our ignorance burning on Kautilya or Chanakya; we started to learn & propagate the love towards German, Latin & Urdu but failed to even think of Sanskrit; we held symposiums on Oxford & Cambridge & never uttered Nalanda; we forgot Kasi, Prayag, Sarnath & remembered London, Paris & Oslo; we stopped thinking BHARATIYA & started thinking western!
Our Education System became the BUILDING FACTORY for all those things -companies & all - which are western & is for the west and based on western style! Our Medicine System Ayurveda was thrown away for the sake of Western Medicine while the westerners learned to extract benefit from it! We ran after Consumerism, following the west without ever seeing what it has done to the western people! We try to match our likings to those of the west; IF WE DONT FEEL LIKE WEST WE FEEL UTTERLY CHEAP & INSIGNIFICANT; "WHATEVER THEY MADE US THINK WE THOUGHT FEVERISHLY" & FOLLOWED THEM DOGGEDLY, WAGGING OUR TAILS INCESSANTLY!
Aping West in everything, including life style (including old age homes, kindergarten, convent education etc), culture, food, etiquette, education, medicine, money-spending system (Retirement scheme, insurance, banks & investment companies, stock market etc) consumerism and even THINKING for which no other external aid is required other than what is ours, became or made to be a fashion statement! We decorated our culture as a whore & promenaded it as A WESTERN CIVILIZED GLAM DOLL; we lifted our saris & lungees in the crowded WESTERNIZED INDIAN MARKETS TO DECLARE "OUR WESTERN 'UNDERGARMENT-EXISTENCE"; we moved in 2 pieces to prove OUR CULTURE; we felt whatever the WESTERNERS DID WAS FREEDOM & APED THEM BLINDLY; we pointed our fingers to the Ajanta, Ellora & Khojaraho & RAN NAKED IN THE NAME OF WESTERN FREEDOM!
In British Raj we gave them raw material & they altered them & sold us with a huge price hike; today we labour & alter whatever we have & give them cheap! Whatever we do we do it KEEPING IN MIND THE WAY THE WEST DOES IT; WE TODAY LIVE FOR THE WEST; WE ARE DEAD AS INDIANS or BHARATIYA! In older times we ONLY HAD TO GO AS FAR AS THE MIGHTY HIMALAYAS TO FIND OUR GODS; NOW WE HAVE OUR GODS POSTED PERMANENTLY IN THE WEST!
It has almost become as “Life Is West & East Is Death”, as WE ASSUME TO SEE All The Great Things On the other side of the fence, which is between us & the west! The WEST-CRAZE has become so engrossing & consuming that even if ONE PERISHES IN LIFE, ONE WANTS TO PERISH IN THE WESTERN STYLE! We follow a system which is NOT OURS or THEIRS....It is somewhere between these two cultures-the yet to be proven & the well proven culture of ours- which is like falling between 2 stools & never ever waking up!
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Friday, August 13, 2010
BHARATH - KNOWING OUR COUNTRY & IT'S CULTURE!
Somewhere in time Bharath was feigned forgotten and India came into existence to suit the westerners & their tongues. Then started the age of India with a western accent; everything that was & is Bharatiya got changed into Indian. We lost all our Bharat culture, names, civilisation & all to India and we tried to sleep on what is taught as Indian without ever trying to remember OUR IDENTITY AS BHARATIYA & BHARATHAS! We pretended we are & were Indians & never Bharatiya. We twisted our tongues, senses & even our existences in western ways & made ourselves THE MODERN DAY SHIGANDEES (Neither a man nor a woman)! We threw away our Bharatiya Identity & tried to embrace something Foreign & Inferior & made ourselves reach nowhere in time & progress! We (Deliberately) lost what we had built & gained over thousands of years & never reached ‘the synthetic greener pastures’ on the other side of the fence! From a very near point in time we slavishly became Indian!
India, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad (In memory of a religious fanatic of the Mogul Dynasty Aurangzeb-that is the so called secularism of Bharathas! World over, nobody puts the name of a sub-standard existence even to a street; hence we don't find Anguleemaal, Nero, Mussolini, Hitler, Raman Raghavan etc as street & town names; but in Bharath even such a sub-standard person's name is flattered so much that it has become the name of a district where the Word Famous Ajanta & Ellora Caves are situated!!), Allahabad, Patna, Banaras & a lot of great historical & cultural places forgot their real names in the process & became COMPLETELY ALIEN, TWISTED & CULTURELESS! As Bharath became India, Indraprastha/Dhillu or Dilu became Delhi, Prayag became Allahabad, Pataliputra became Patna, Ashapalli became Ahmedabad, Kasi became Banaras & a large number of places got their new, cultureless, history less PLASTIC NAMES! In the present day Bharath (or India as it is altered) nobody has the time to think about what we actually are & what history or civilisation or culture we posses! And, when someone starts to say something about all these just mentioned matters such as Bharath History, Bharath Civilisation & Bharath Culture the very next moment he is called/labelled a fanatic, intolerant, non-thinking, non-progressive, narrow-minded existence for life, by all the BHARATIYA who HAVE 'THE BIRTH-RESPONSIBILITY' TO KNOW, CHERISH & PROPAGATE WHAT WE REALLY ARE - THE BHARATIYA & BHARATHAS!
THE REAL BHARATH PLACE NAMES should be given back to them, WHICH ARE WHAT THEY ACTUALLY ARE! The wrong done to these BHARATH PLACES should be corrected sooner than later, as it’s already late by centuries! All the people who live in OUR COUNTRY have the responsibility to RE-MAKE THE GREAT BHARATH WHICH IS THE BIRTH-RIGHT OF EVERY BHARATIYA! Madras, Bombay, Bangalore, Calcutta & a lot of other places got their real names back, one way or the other, without much difficulty. BUT WHAT ALL ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT & CULTURAL THAN THESE NOW BORN PLACES - COMPARED TO THOSE WHICH STILL STAND UNCHANGED BEARING THE TWISTED & MANGLED NAMES SLAPPED ON THEM - STAY THERE SELF-UNIDENTIFIED DUE TO THE UNKNOWN & FOREIGN NAMES THEY ARE CALLED/KNOWN BY, NOW! Why did the Bharatiya & Bharathas take these long centuries to even think about this & why they wasted centuries to rectify THE DAMAGE DONE BY SOME WHO NEVER KNEW WHAT BHARATH WAS, IS & WILL BE?! PLACES WHICH DAWNED EVEN BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORY LIKE PRAYAG, KASI etc STAND HERE IN OUR ALTERED BHARATH - Read India! - ALTERED, MANGLED & DISFIGURED, WAITING TO GET DELIVERENCE (OR IN BHARATH WORD 'MUKTHI'!) FROM THIS SO-CALLED MODERN SUFFERING OF 'REAL EXISTENCE-DESTRUCTION'!
For the progress of THE BHARATH CULTURE we don't need any help from other civilisations, pseudo-civilisations or the ‘state’ of lack of civilisation; what OUR CULTURE & CIVILISATION need now is the support & recognition of the people who are the sons & daughters of OUR GREAT BHARATH! That is the only requirement OUR CIVILISATION/OUR GREAT COUNTRY MUST BE GIVEN WHOLE-HEARTEDLY & that is the right that we should give aplenty to OUR GREAT NATION! IT IS OUR DUTY TO KEEP THE CULTURE & CIVILISATION OF BHARATH INTACT & CARRY FORWARD TO THE COMING GENERATIONS & TIME, AS NO OTHER COUNTRY WILL OR CAN KEEP THE CULTURE OF BHARATH & HAND OVER ITS GREATNESS TO THE POSTERITY! It is utter foolishness even to expect any other country in the world doing the promotion of Bharath Culture & Civilisation as it should be done as WHO ELSE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT BHARATH IS BETTER THAN ONE WHO IS A SON OR A DAUGHTER OF OUR GREAT NATION?! Hence, it becomes the duty of any & every BHARATIYA to first understand & then promote the CULTURE & EXISTENCE OF OUR GREAT NATION BHARAT!
It is beyond any question that in the Culture of Bharath Hinduism is an INTEGRAL PART & Hinduism and the Culture of Bharath developed & grew hand in hand and they are inseparable! Hence, at the least in OUR BHARATH never let a Hindu or A Bharatiya be considered a lesser entity! As Our Bharath Culture & Civilisation is greatly indebted to Hinduism or in other words IS HINDUISM, let it be known that in Our Bharath A Hindu & A Thorough Bharatiya, at the least, should be considered equal to all other existences inside OUR BHARATH! At the least, he should not be discriminated against inside OUR BHARATH & he should be protected by all means inside OUR BHARATH! When 400-500, 1000-1400 years' history & culture is considered , trumpeted & promoted as something 'OLDER THAN HISTORY', HOW CAN WE CONSIDER OUR CIVILISATION & CULTURE WHICH IS MORE THAN 6000 YEARS OLD & ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT OF CIVILISATIONS SO INSIGNIFICANT & FORGETTABLE & NEVER STAND FOR IT?!
India, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad (In memory of a religious fanatic of the Mogul Dynasty Aurangzeb-that is the so called secularism of Bharathas! World over, nobody puts the name of a sub-standard existence even to a street; hence we don't find Anguleemaal, Nero, Mussolini, Hitler, Raman Raghavan etc as street & town names; but in Bharath even such a sub-standard person's name is flattered so much that it has become the name of a district where the Word Famous Ajanta & Ellora Caves are situated!!), Allahabad, Patna, Banaras & a lot of great historical & cultural places forgot their real names in the process & became COMPLETELY ALIEN, TWISTED & CULTURELESS! As Bharath became India, Indraprastha/Dhillu or Dilu became Delhi, Prayag became Allahabad, Pataliputra became Patna, Ashapalli became Ahmedabad, Kasi became Banaras & a large number of places got their new, cultureless, history less PLASTIC NAMES! In the present day Bharath (or India as it is altered) nobody has the time to think about what we actually are & what history or civilisation or culture we posses! And, when someone starts to say something about all these just mentioned matters such as Bharath History, Bharath Civilisation & Bharath Culture the very next moment he is called/labelled a fanatic, intolerant, non-thinking, non-progressive, narrow-minded existence for life, by all the BHARATIYA who HAVE 'THE BIRTH-RESPONSIBILITY' TO KNOW, CHERISH & PROPAGATE WHAT WE REALLY ARE - THE BHARATIYA & BHARATHAS!
THE REAL BHARATH PLACE NAMES should be given back to them, WHICH ARE WHAT THEY ACTUALLY ARE! The wrong done to these BHARATH PLACES should be corrected sooner than later, as it’s already late by centuries! All the people who live in OUR COUNTRY have the responsibility to RE-MAKE THE GREAT BHARATH WHICH IS THE BIRTH-RIGHT OF EVERY BHARATIYA! Madras, Bombay, Bangalore, Calcutta & a lot of other places got their real names back, one way or the other, without much difficulty. BUT WHAT ALL ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT & CULTURAL THAN THESE NOW BORN PLACES - COMPARED TO THOSE WHICH STILL STAND UNCHANGED BEARING THE TWISTED & MANGLED NAMES SLAPPED ON THEM - STAY THERE SELF-UNIDENTIFIED DUE TO THE UNKNOWN & FOREIGN NAMES THEY ARE CALLED/KNOWN BY, NOW! Why did the Bharatiya & Bharathas take these long centuries to even think about this & why they wasted centuries to rectify THE DAMAGE DONE BY SOME WHO NEVER KNEW WHAT BHARATH WAS, IS & WILL BE?! PLACES WHICH DAWNED EVEN BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORY LIKE PRAYAG, KASI etc STAND HERE IN OUR ALTERED BHARATH - Read India! - ALTERED, MANGLED & DISFIGURED, WAITING TO GET DELIVERENCE (OR IN BHARATH WORD 'MUKTHI'!) FROM THIS SO-CALLED MODERN SUFFERING OF 'REAL EXISTENCE-DESTRUCTION'!
For the progress of THE BHARATH CULTURE we don't need any help from other civilisations, pseudo-civilisations or the ‘state’ of lack of civilisation; what OUR CULTURE & CIVILISATION need now is the support & recognition of the people who are the sons & daughters of OUR GREAT BHARATH! That is the only requirement OUR CIVILISATION/OUR GREAT COUNTRY MUST BE GIVEN WHOLE-HEARTEDLY & that is the right that we should give aplenty to OUR GREAT NATION! IT IS OUR DUTY TO KEEP THE CULTURE & CIVILISATION OF BHARATH INTACT & CARRY FORWARD TO THE COMING GENERATIONS & TIME, AS NO OTHER COUNTRY WILL OR CAN KEEP THE CULTURE OF BHARATH & HAND OVER ITS GREATNESS TO THE POSTERITY! It is utter foolishness even to expect any other country in the world doing the promotion of Bharath Culture & Civilisation as it should be done as WHO ELSE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT BHARATH IS BETTER THAN ONE WHO IS A SON OR A DAUGHTER OF OUR GREAT NATION?! Hence, it becomes the duty of any & every BHARATIYA to first understand & then promote the CULTURE & EXISTENCE OF OUR GREAT NATION BHARAT!
It is beyond any question that in the Culture of Bharath Hinduism is an INTEGRAL PART & Hinduism and the Culture of Bharath developed & grew hand in hand and they are inseparable! Hence, at the least in OUR BHARATH never let a Hindu or A Bharatiya be considered a lesser entity! As Our Bharath Culture & Civilisation is greatly indebted to Hinduism or in other words IS HINDUISM, let it be known that in Our Bharath A Hindu & A Thorough Bharatiya, at the least, should be considered equal to all other existences inside OUR BHARATH! At the least, he should not be discriminated against inside OUR BHARATH & he should be protected by all means inside OUR BHARATH! When 400-500, 1000-1400 years' history & culture is considered , trumpeted & promoted as something 'OLDER THAN HISTORY', HOW CAN WE CONSIDER OUR CIVILISATION & CULTURE WHICH IS MORE THAN 6000 YEARS OLD & ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT OF CIVILISATIONS SO INSIGNIFICANT & FORGETTABLE & NEVER STAND FOR IT?!
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