A month ago, around December 6th, in the year of Our Lord 2010 (notice the capitals), Comrade Varavara Rao wrote a poem – about our lord Rama (notice the lower case o-l): the highlight of the poem was that he said there is nothing creative about what all Rama did other than producing twins. I am glad that the good Comrade did not accuse Rama of denying his role in the ‘production’ of the kids Kush and Luv.
Indeed, our lord Rama sent his consort Sita to the forests on grounds of infidelity: really, on his suspicions. Muppaval Ranganayakamma, feminist and Marxist at large, accused Rama of being anti-women, because he suspected Sita. Oh well, whether or not Rama is anti-women or not, Comrade Varavara Rao, mercifully, did not make such allegations. However, he concluded that the only ‘creative’ thing Rama did was to produce twins. The Comrade never had the vital organs (round in shape and two in number) to say something about Our Lord, after whose year of birth the entire world calibrates the calendars – that he did not even produce a single kid (forget about twins).
One could go a step forward and say that Our Lord had an affair with a woman of (according to the mores of the day) ‘loose morals’. I don’t want to raise any hackles; I am very sorry if any ‘religious sentiments’ are hurt: I am only targeting Comrade Varavara Rao and his cohorts. Come on guys, be bold to make things about other religions too: why is Hinduism such an easy target?
The Comrade is not known to have made such bold remarks about other prophets who married more than once and ‘moralized’ (a word I use to mean in the lines of ‘legalized’) the marriage of a man to four women (at one time). Comrade Varavara Rao and other revolutionary poets find Hindu gods and goddesses easy targets: nobody is complaining. The Hindus in general don’t care if some virasam or sarasam poet caricatures their gods and goddesses.
Indeed, a good many god-loving Hindu cartoonists sketch cartoons on Ganesh-ji during the Ganesh Chaturdhi season; special comic issues of magazines are published with a plethora of cartoons on Ganesh-ji. That is the level of Hindu tolerance. But once in a while, there is an M F Hussain who gets unofficially ‘exiled’, but that is small consolation.
All religions are irrational
Belief itself is beyond reason: this is what philosophers of the west and east said for eons. Then what is particularly irrational about Hindus and their beliefs that Our Comrades (notice the capitals) attack them? The Comrades who don’t have two vital organs (round in shape and two in number) to say a word about the two minority religions and their beliefs, go all out to fork the majority religion with their wrinkly vital organ (one in number, boneless).
I dare Comrade Varavara Rao and sundry communists and Maoists to speak about Spanish inquisitions; about the Indian Christian Burial Grounds in Bangalore (now called Benguluru). I want them to pass cavalier remarks about the promiscuity of the prophets of other religions as easily as they lampoon Hindu gods (notice the lower case ‘g’) and Hindu beliefs.
Swami Asimanand
One thing is clear from this entire episode: the Hindu community is not going to sit idle, spreading its legs wide. Sorry to be crude, but that is how it is. This is Hindutva modi-fied, whether you like it or not. Long live Vibrant Gujarat.
Telavarademo swami…
As I write this, I am watching a show on television highlighting K J Yesudas and his super hit songs; one of them, here:
"Cheluvamuneelaga, chengata levani
Kalataku nelavai nilachina nelataku
Kalala alajadiki niddara karavai
Alasina deveri, alamelu manga ku –"
The nature of poetry , according to Edgar Allen Poe, is that it is untranslatable; I am not going to try – in this instance.
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