The shocking news of Kanchi Shankaracharya's arrest spoiled the Diwali completely!
This event marks the Indian politicians reaching the pinnacle of success in ruining the country. They've been irresponsible over the years, making money, taking the country to the dogs. Whatever good some of the still-alive ministers tried to do in favour of the people, were never re-elected by massive booth captures and the like. Its a country of Lalus, Jayas and Mir Zafars... very rightly has Shri Rajiv Dixit questioned: when one Mir Zafar gave India 500 years of slavery, how much misery does India need to go through with her being run entirely by Mir Zafars?!!!
Many a ministers have to their account a few crimes to say the least. Still, they're on the stage of the country, taking decisions for us. No one bothers to open their books for verification, leave alone arresting them, even after having ample proof to hang those anti-nationalists. But based on some investigation-pending statements made by peace-unfriendly goondas, our responsible police have gone ahead to arrest one of the topmost religious leaders in the country! That too with such hideously planned act: arresting at an odd hour, on an odd day, so that the Swami gets delayed help, if any. They didn't bother to ask the pontiff to co-operate till the investigation is over; instead they just put him behind bars! This is the same pontiff who helped negotiating the Ayodha issue when we all felt that the country's about to go through another mishap on the Ram mandir account. Nevertheless, none thought of the impact this is to have on the sentiments of Hindus, the so-called majority of a secular nation.
Such are the great people we've elected, stood by and are tolerating. These are one of those rare moments that I feel ashamed of being an Indian. How wrong was I when I felt good of Gurcharan Das' The Elephant Paradigm! Yes, we do have a long way to go; but, now I ponder, is the path right? The country sleeps on...
(Reminds me of a song: rAmachandra keh gaye siyA se *aisA* kaliyug AyegA!)
6 comments:
What if the seer IS the culprit?
Why should we assume that he was innocent or worse; "not as bad as other politicians" (which would mean that some evil within a man of that stature is tolerable)
"What if..." is an assumption. I'm not making any of those. I'm just saying the way it was done wasn't right. Just because the pontiff is not a politician doesn't mean that he should be arrested with pending investigation, while political criminals, with even proven records, go scot free!
PS: I'm not sure where have you quoted "not as..." from .
"Many a ministers have to their account a few crimes to say the least. STILL, they're on the stage of the country, taking decisions for us. No one bothers to open their books for verification, leave alone arresting them, even after having ample proof to hang those anti-nationalists. BUT based on some investigation-pending statements made by peace-unfriendly goondas"
Sorry, I just simplified this above paragraph. Keywords:
1. STILL, politicians are free
2. BUT with evidence from 'peace-unfriendly goondahs', when the police arrest the seer, its an issue.
This implies that you dont want people (or people like the Kanchi Seer) to be convicted even when there is evidence against them
or
you want the seer to be free because those other people are roaming around.
These peace unfriendly goondas?? how do you rate them?
Odd arrest you say? The seer was supposed to be in Bangalore.. but he knew the police would be coming and so he went to Andhra... and that too by road? I agree the arrest was odd.. thats only because the seer was trying to buy time.
Do I? Thats quite an interesting logic, when used upon your statements gives out following:
"You want the seer arrested even though investigation is *pending* while corrupt politicians can go scott free... who cares for such proof?".
That logic doesn't help!
Kindly don't read my lines to mean what you want them to mean. I said that:
1) the *way/manner* in which the seer was arrested was wrong.
2) there is so much *evidence/proof* against many politicians (I'd be surprised if you don't agree!) and no one acts on them, but even with a tip off (someone has already confessed that police forced him to pass the blame on the pontiff), the police arrested the acharya.
You ask me how do I rate goondas? Quite simple, past; look up the past.
Lastly, how can it be supposed where the seer was to be? And why is it that he can't go to Andhra by road from a neighboring state? No conclusions based on these; assumption is the mother of all screwups.
I dont wish to see criminals running freely, whether they are politicians or religious leaders.
If you do not arrest a convict once you have sizeable evidence, what is the point in investigating. Do you think the convicts are naive enough to sit in their home (mutt in this case) and let it go? They shall surely try to meddle with the investigation. Hence detention is a must.If a politician was not arrested even with evidence, thats a gross mistake too.
A convict of murder has to be treated as a convict for murder. If a politician is given royal treatment, its wrong.
By the way,
Who is the seer? Why should he be treated like a VIP? Was he elected by people's vote? Were you asked to select a seer? Did anybody do a background check before accepting him as the seer?
Doesn't the seer's following show enough VIPness? He doesn't have to be elected by the people for that! Yes, only after a background check and after enough confidence by the prior Shankaracharya, has this one been appointed!
Its easy to say that not arresting politicians, with enough proof against them, is a mistake. But why treat different people differently? If one gets the benefit of being innocent until proven guilty, so should the other.
Its high time that Hindu (brahmins', in this case) sentiments are also considered while taking actions. Just because the pundits react only in words doesn't mean that everything is fair against them, while even fair actions are not taken against reserved communities thinking of consequences. India no longer remains secular if she treats the minority above the majority.
(I've seen enough to believe that we didn't elect many a candidates. If we were truly democratic, we would've neither tolerated booth-captures nor these politicians. Democracy needs a lot of maturity that most Indians don't have, politically)
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