Hi Varsha, I read u'r articles regularly. And this particular one really touched me as i am basically form rajasthan, and i have heard a similar kind of bisaed reporting, But, nobody from the press ever said that. I like the courage that u show in dealing with various issues, particularly hinduism. But, as far as i know, rediff doesnot have the wide viwership as TOI or The Hindu, etc. Though i agree, that u won't care abt it.. But i feel you should also look into sending them to popular magazines.
If the healing touch is required by the majority population in kashmir, then it is aloso required my majority population of india.
Re: BHARAT PRASHARS COMMENTS ON INDIAN HISTORY and his observations on my historical knowledge or rather the lack of it :)
1. In my humble opinion, Partition of India RESULTED in the massive shift in population demographics w.r.t religion. The latter was certainly not the CAUSE. You may be enlightened to know that from 1871 (Census of British controlled India incl the feudatory sta
Pseudo secularism seems to be the flavour of the month..Thanks Varsha for a different and insightful view that our colored and biased press fails to present
My question is to all the missionaries all around the world for all religions "What makes you guys so sure that the rest of population not following your faith is in darkness, in complete illusion????".
I dislike this writer excessively, absolutely deplore her writing style, and think that any self-respecting news organization ought to fire her. When she is not writing some rambling, inarticulate, senseless and uninformed article about an issue on which she knows nothing, she is hurling vituperative at insignificant responders on a message board.
However, I'm forced to concede that in this case she has a point (however badly expressed and mangled). The practice of religious conversion is deplorable, particularly as practiced by Christian missionaries. It's bad enough to go to badly needy people and extol the virtues of some religion, but missionaries actually withhold humanitarian aid upon condition of conversion to Christianity. How inhumane is that? Going to illiterate people who don't know any better, spreading propaganda and making outright threats that if they are Hindu/Muslim/any kind of infidel they will go to Hell?
If and when judgment day arrives, these "missionaries" will have a lot to answer for in the eyes of God. Hinduism may be "pagan", as they like to call it, but proselytizing is evil and ungodly.
I saw a few messages saying that even if missionaries convert people by enticing with money, it is OK as it is helping people in need. Now, what I don't understand is how this doesn't apply to IDRF? Practically everyone made a big fuss about this outfit helping only needy hindus with the money they collected from the US and succeeded in stifling it to an extent.
There was also a lot of hue and cry about the sangh parivar outfits trying to reconvert tribals in gujarat and other parts of the country back to hinduism. Why this double standard? If the missionaries are not wrong in converting people how come the people who reconvert them back are bad?
I can completely understand the point you are trying to make with respect to the staines. What happened to them was unfortunate and any culprits if convicted should get the maximum punishment. You are trying to say that if you justify a crime -- perpetrated by some one -- based on a diseased system then it should uniformly apply to everyone. I don't know how a lot of readers don't understand your point. I get the feeling that they do get your point but want to still get at you by saying that you are exhonorating a murderer.
