Where is Indian society headed when a Muslim is prevented from paying his honest respect to Lord Rama?
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Where is Indian society headed when a Muslim is prevented from paying his honest respect to Lord Rama?
A few days back, Muzaffarnagar made it to the national headlines again for all the wrong reasons. Well-known film actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui was allegedly forced out of a Ramlila play at his home town by Shiv Sena activists on account of being a Muslim.
Indian society seems to have divided itself along sectarian lines like never before. Lord Ram, Lord Krishna, Lord Ganesh etc are increasingly becoming symbols of Hindu religion rather than of the Indian composite culture that they represent. The same is the case with the tombs of Haji Ali, Moinuddin Chishti etc., which are being claimed as Muslim. Small political outfits and individuals flare up communal tension by invoking these symbols of Indian culture as part of their own exclusive religious identity.
The Ramjanmabhoomi movement that emerged in the late 1980s caused a wide rift among Hindus and Muslims in India. The Bhartiya Janta Party might have emerged as the largest electoral party thanks to this movement but India as a nation lost its glorious composite culture. Crores of Muslims in the subcontinent got separated from the ideal moral figure of Lord Ram. The generations that came of age in the decade of the 1990s and after do not, or rather cannot, believe there was once a time when many Muslims in India revered Ram as much as Hindus did....
As Anuradha Kapur wrote in an important 1989 essay, ‘Militant images of a tranquil God’, published by the Times of India in 1989, Ram was consciously projected as a warrior king to assert a martial nature that the Sangh parivar wished to emphasise – which did nothing but vitiate the communal atmosphere in the country. Philosophy and learning were deliberately not attributed to Ram in the political rhetoric produced by the Hindu right and he was left as a warrior, where all his other characteristics were subdued in order to pursue petty political gains....
Where are we headed as a society when a Muslim cannot pay his honest respects to ‘Imam-e-Hind’ Lord Ram just because of his religious faith?
https://thewire.in/72275/politicians-made-ram-hindu-indias-muslims-lost-maryada-purshotam/
Indian society seems to have divided itself along sectarian lines like never before. Lord Ram, Lord Krishna, Lord Ganesh etc are increasingly becoming symbols of Hindu religion rather than of the Indian composite culture that they represent. The same is the case with the tombs of Haji Ali, Moinuddin Chishti etc., which are being claimed as Muslim. Small political outfits and individuals flare up communal tension by invoking these symbols of Indian culture as part of their own exclusive religious identity.
The Ramjanmabhoomi movement that emerged in the late 1980s caused a wide rift among Hindus and Muslims in India. The Bhartiya Janta Party might have emerged as the largest electoral party thanks to this movement but India as a nation lost its glorious composite culture. Crores of Muslims in the subcontinent got separated from the ideal moral figure of Lord Ram. The generations that came of age in the decade of the 1990s and after do not, or rather cannot, believe there was once a time when many Muslims in India revered Ram as much as Hindus did....
As Anuradha Kapur wrote in an important 1989 essay, ‘Militant images of a tranquil God’, published by the Times of India in 1989, Ram was consciously projected as a warrior king to assert a martial nature that the Sangh parivar wished to emphasise – which did nothing but vitiate the communal atmosphere in the country. Philosophy and learning were deliberately not attributed to Ram in the political rhetoric produced by the Hindu right and he was left as a warrior, where all his other characteristics were subdued in order to pursue petty political gains....
Where are we headed as a society when a Muslim cannot pay his honest respects to ‘Imam-e-Hind’ Lord Ram just because of his religious faith?
https://thewire.in/72275/politicians-made-ram-hindu-indias-muslims-lost-maryada-purshotam/
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