Absolute Truth?
US state department slams India on its dismal rights record says the headline in Rediff and the main concern is the History text books in Gujarat, read on. I agree that we have to do a lot in addressing the rights concerns. But, kettle calling the pot black? Who are you to slam us? Have you checked what's happening in your backyard, just switch on the TV or open the window for a second? Are human rights a western concept?
Does that mean Indian civilization which hasn't been in touch with west for more than 16 centuries didn't have any rights at all? Does that mean the west which didn't have voting rights for women and blacks till 1940s are the beacons for human rights? Does that mean the ancient civilizations who had women ruling them for ages are in the dark muddy swamps? What riles me up is this idea of human rights as a western thought and concept.
Excuse me, isn't this a racist thought?
Anyway I digress, what I was going to talk about was, the main concern of State Department was not the spate of Rapes or the state of Hindu pundits in Kashmir or the fate of Tribals but the Text books in Gujarat. Yes Madam, we want the Chapter 4 of Social sciences of grade 8 to be changed. It states the Mohd Gazni attacked India and plundered the temples 19 times. We want that to be changed, he was just a tourist and he borrowed some money from the temple when he ran out of money to catch the boat back to the desert hole he came from.
Who owns Absosolute Truth? The communists who wrote the history at the beginning? Where they went out of the way to shield all the dirty truths about our history just to sensible to all the minorities and special interest groups. Now the right comes into power and changes the text books and writes what they consider as history. So who should we believe? Is Gazni a plunderer or a just a Camera toting tourist visiting Somnath Temple?
Shouldn't be the State Department be concerned more about the Nuclear Proliferation rather than what grade 6 students in Gujarat are taught? That's what we think, but the people standing on the 'Moral Hill' has to pass a judgment on each and everyone. All they don't know is these Moral Hills have this unfailing tendency to collapse without a warning, watchout guys...
Does that mean Indian civilization which hasn't been in touch with west for more than 16 centuries didn't have any rights at all? Does that mean the west which didn't have voting rights for women and blacks till 1940s are the beacons for human rights? Does that mean the ancient civilizations who had women ruling them for ages are in the dark muddy swamps? What riles me up is this idea of human rights as a western thought and concept.
Excuse me, isn't this a racist thought?
Anyway I digress, what I was going to talk about was, the main concern of State Department was not the spate of Rapes or the state of Hindu pundits in Kashmir or the fate of Tribals but the Text books in Gujarat. Yes Madam, we want the Chapter 4 of Social sciences of grade 8 to be changed. It states the Mohd Gazni attacked India and plundered the temples 19 times. We want that to be changed, he was just a tourist and he borrowed some money from the temple when he ran out of money to catch the boat back to the desert hole he came from.
Who owns Absosolute Truth? The communists who wrote the history at the beginning? Where they went out of the way to shield all the dirty truths about our history just to sensible to all the minorities and special interest groups. Now the right comes into power and changes the text books and writes what they consider as history. So who should we believe? Is Gazni a plunderer or a just a Camera toting tourist visiting Somnath Temple?
Shouldn't be the State Department be concerned more about the Nuclear Proliferation rather than what grade 6 students in Gujarat are taught? That's what we think, but the people standing on the 'Moral Hill' has to pass a judgment on each and everyone. All they don't know is these Moral Hills have this unfailing tendency to collapse without a warning, watchout guys...
posted by Pavan @ 9:59 AM
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1 Comments:
good man realy good. but the question is not that whether gazni is to be taught as a tourist or a "lootera", the problem comes when you try to make a point by stating history as it is that all the muslim here in india small gazni.
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