I admire you Vaishanavi, for you ideas. I don't see why the other posts are not so favourable. I have young daughters and I always worry about them. I know not every guy is bad, but many goods guys have no guts to come forward to help the girls in need. The other postings gave me an impression, what are they trying to tell? about your histroy knowledge or about how many mistakes are there in your article. We need girls like you not any Indian Management Students and giving lessons on how to post articles. Sick.
Re: Raksha Bandhan
by Aarti Date on Aug 04, 2012 12:08 AM
We readers r not here to guide people on how to write an article thats not our job, lady in question is measuring everyone wit the same scale thats sic sic sic..
Vaishnavi perhaps thinks every guy out there is just bent on 'having some' with every girl out there! Stop stereotyping guys Vaishnavi. Agreed the Guwahati molestors should be heavily punished, but that does not give you the moral right to extrapolate the behaviour onto other guys who are loving brothers to someone. You don't sound like an economics graduate at all when all that you do is demean the personal choices of men, who would protect a girl, irrespective of whether she has tied a rakhi or not! That Singapore Management University degree, irrespective of what you did or did not learn in the process, is a signalling device for sure!
There are too many mistakes in this article. Alexander's wife was Roxana from Persia; she has not accompanied Alexander to India. Puru had no chance to put his swords on Alexander's throat either. These are just imaginations.
The story of Bahadur Shah and Humaun was also false. There was a story that the Queen of Mewar send a Rakhi to Raj Singh to rescue her kingdom.
Rakhi Bhandhan was performed in modern India and the tradition was revived by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 Swadesi movement. The author has failed to mention that.
Re: Too many Mistakes
by Dipak Bose on Aug 03, 2012 03:13 PM
I was a bit wrong. Queen of a small Kingdom of Rajasthan sent a Rakhi to Raj Singh, Rana of Mewar to save her kingdom from Aurangjeb.
Re: Too many Mistakes
by Dipak Bose on Aug 03, 2012 08:34 AM
The story of Raj Singh was described first by James Todd in his book Annals and Antiquites of Rajasthan. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote a huge novel named Raj Singh. A children's version of that novel is now produced by the Amar Chitra Katha.
What if during the Guwahati molestation, a guy (or guys) had stepped up to protect the girl, regarding her as his/their sister? I guess if the girl was Vaishnavi, she would not want that to happen.
One thing Vaishnavi missed out is that the rakhi symbolizes unconditional love between a sister and a brother. It is a two way street.
