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Eminent Poet Arvind Meherotra slams Chaddi intolerance: "In today's times, Kabir wouldn't have been allowed to open his mouth"
by Guest Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:50 am
Appalled at their academic and overall deterioration, he pulls an example out of Allahabad university where journalist Siddharth Varadarajan was called 'anti-national' and stopped from addressing students by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad.
"There is a re-definition of what is national and what is anti-national and there, of course, the BJP is to be blamed."
"Universities are places where ideas go back and forth, no idea can be anti-national. It is just an idea. How can talking to a group of students in a debate or addressing them, be anti-national? As a matter of fact, to not allow people to talk or listen is the biggest act of anti-nationalism."
"Religion at the end of the day is something that man has constructed. It is a nice enough idea, but people can have different ideas at different times and can change religion at will," he says, adding that there are things he doesn't understand and religion is one of them.
"In today's time Kabir wouldn't have been allowed to open his mouth. I am absolutely certain of that," he says, looking at the book which he would later sign resting it on the petite bonnet of his Nano.
"He's very forthright and writes against the Hindus and the Muslims. Had there been any Christians around, he would have written against them as much. He attacked religion in any of its established forms -- whether a temple or mosque or religious site or city or a ritual or holy book. You can't think of anyone writing this today and getting away."
http://www.rediff.com/news/special/a-conversation-with-poet-arvind-krishna-mehrotra/20160224.htm
"There is a re-definition of what is national and what is anti-national and there, of course, the BJP is to be blamed."
"Universities are places where ideas go back and forth, no idea can be anti-national. It is just an idea. How can talking to a group of students in a debate or addressing them, be anti-national? As a matter of fact, to not allow people to talk or listen is the biggest act of anti-nationalism."
"Religion at the end of the day is something that man has constructed. It is a nice enough idea, but people can have different ideas at different times and can change religion at will," he says, adding that there are things he doesn't understand and religion is one of them.
"In today's time Kabir wouldn't have been allowed to open his mouth. I am absolutely certain of that," he says, looking at the book which he would later sign resting it on the petite bonnet of his Nano.
"He's very forthright and writes against the Hindus and the Muslims. Had there been any Christians around, he would have written against them as much. He attacked religion in any of its established forms -- whether a temple or mosque or religious site or city or a ritual or holy book. You can't think of anyone writing this today and getting away."
http://www.rediff.com/news/special/a-conversation-with-poet-arvind-krishna-mehrotra/20160224.htm
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Re: Eminent Poet Arvind Meherotra slams Chaddi intolerance: "In today's times, Kabir wouldn't have been allowed to open his mouth"
by Guest Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:52 am
Scathing about corrupt politicians and every party's own definition of Indian culture, he gives the example of second century erotic love poems about female sexuality which he translated from Prakrit in The Absent Traveller.
"What some semi-educated neta thinks as Indian values becomes Indian values. These politicians should be asked if these Prakrit poems are a part of our culture or not."
"What some semi-educated neta thinks as Indian values becomes Indian values. These politicians should be asked if these Prakrit poems are a part of our culture or not."
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Re: Eminent Poet Arvind Meherotra slams Chaddi intolerance: "In today's times, Kabir wouldn't have been allowed to open his mouth"
by Guest Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:17 am
if Kabir would have been writing today, eminent Such scholar Vakavaka Pakapaka would have slammed him as a sickular fukular.
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