For this blog, I am going to get a flack from both Hindutvadi brigade and pseudo secularist clique but as a fierce nationalist I care dam. This is my space and I am going write exactly, what I want to.
After wasting lot of time in the legal wranglings, lot of blood on the streets and having futile debates in the newspapers and channels, our judiciary which will put even snail to shame has finally has arrived at some conclusion. Now we have to wait only for few days before our nation once again reaches boiling point.
I am proud to be Hindu but a Hindu who is agnostic (I don't need a certificate from anyone to be called Hindu and it doesn't matter whether I am believer, agnostic or atheist, nobody can question my right to be called as a Hindu, this feature of Hinduism makes me proud about my religion) feels that, I had my revenge against invading warriors like Babar with the destruction of the so called Babri Mosque.
Now it doesn't matter for me whether, you have there Ram temple, casino or brothel at the site.
But as a fierce nationalist, I believe, if we have to avoid the bloodshed which happened in the wake of Ramjanmabhoomi agitation in the late eighties and early nineties and keep the nation's growth story rolling on, more importantly we can't afford to have another internal strife when Kashmir is boiling, nation is fighting grim war against red terror of Naxals and we are being besieged by the neighbouring countries like China.
Then the only option we have is to create some kind of national monument as once suggested by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thckeray.
The monument paying homage to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Chandrashekhar Azad, Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaqullakhan and such other revolutionaries or a monument paying a tribute to the martyrs of 1857 will be also the apt one as Ayyodhya which is part of the Awadh province which was hotbed of the first war of independence or even idea of world class hospital like Delhi's AIIMS providing much needed health care facility to all communities of UttarPradesh who hardly have an access to such facilities is sensible.
I know this suggestion is idealistic but as an optimist I hope, this solution which is honourable to both the communities will be embraced by the both communities in larger national interest.
why even build any monument? le the site remain as it is. even after having a new monument, as suggest by you, the disputes won't end.
ReplyDeletebabri demolition was wrong and shouldn't have happened. No monument / statue / memorial should be destroyed. or else, this coutry will keep burning over these non-issues for ever.
The idea of justice will be complete only if a monument to Lord Rama gets built at the site. Saying that a monument or some charitable establishment like hospital be built there is akin to calling for using the money being spent on the Commonwealth Games on social welfare. Every nation's collective sensibility is shaped, moulded, and reshaped by physical symbols of history. That is why the Jalianwalah Bagh has a monument to those recklessly killed by one insane person. That is why we have built monuments to the great national heroes at the Rajghat and that is where we remember them on their anniversary. By no means this means that we should not remember them on other days or we need only physical monuments to rekindle our collective memories. But yes, historical monuments to national icons and physical symbols which are testimony to their deeds have always been an essential ingredient of any great human civilisation's psychological growing up, its collective cultural history, its very identity. To my mind and heart, Lord Rama is unarguably one such icon who deserves to be enshrined in a glorious temple at a place millions believe to be his birthplace. Mind you, every great nation on earth remembers its icons and in as much symbolic manner as possible. There could be a debate about our civilisation's claim to greatness (at least on the basis of its contemporary visage). But I believe it was one of the greatest and has the potential to reclaim its pride of place. Remembering our icons is a small step towards that epic goal. Imagine the psychological poverty and cultural void we Maharashtrians would have been hurled into if we did not have that sublime statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Raigad.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping for following verdict: High Court remands the matter back to civil court. Then it languishes there for another 20 years. Then back to High Court. Another 20 years...Then Supreme...time and courts can kill any dispute!
ReplyDeleteBuilding a monument, to anyone or anything, you mentioned Makrand, will not serve the purpose. it will only lead to another decade or so on finalising on the theme of the monument. As far as hospital is concerned, it is a welcome suggestion. But the question still remains that what about the sentiments of majority of the population? It is a fact now that the structure is not a mosque technically. For no worship has taken place there since last two decades and even before that. And most importantly how can we ignore the archaeological evidences found on the site? they all suggest it was a temple and that too a Ram temple. No matter what the consequences are, i feel a temple must be built on the very spot. It is important for protecting the ideology and identity of majority of the population of the nation. Lord Ram is the soul of the way of life called Hinduism.
ReplyDeleteform a five member high power committee headed by Mayawati to decide what should be there.
ReplyDelete