E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji was reading Praja Vani near the Tulsi katte, as usual. After sometime, she flung the paper aside in disgust instead of her usual practice of neatly folding it and keeping it aside.
Ajji’s demeanour resembled Manmohan Singh’s anger against his agriculture minister who was still flogging the Twenty20 horse in London when the country was getting desperate for monsoon rains.
“Yenaaaythu Ajji; anything bothering you?” I asked.
“Ramu! Years ago I told you about Bhaktha Prahallada and Hiranya Kashipu. Do you remember the story?” Ajji asked.
“Yes, as if it happened in front of my eyes. I especially remember the scene when the demon-king Hiranya Kashipu ridicules Prahallada when he tells him God is omnipresent.”
“Yes.”
“Hiranya Kashipu shows a pillar and derisively asks whether Vishnu was present in that pillar. Prahallada informs him that God is present everywhere including the pillar. When Hiranya Kashipu tries to break the pillar with his mace, Vishnu himself comes out through the crashing pillar and ultimately kills Hiranya Kashipu,” I said.
“Vishnu is present everywhere for his Bhaktha who can see nothing else,”
“Ajji! I also remember your story of Krishna telling Arjuna that he will be reborn in the world whenever dharma is in danger and the evil forces have to be put down.”
“I am glad you remember that. In fact in the Bhagavad Gita the stanza is:
“Yadaa Yadaa hi Dharmasya…… Sambhavami yuge yuge”( meaning: “Whenever there is decay of righteousness and rise in un-righteousness, I shall manifest and make myself evident; chapter 4 -7)”
“Ajji! You had made us all by heart the entire stanza as well as the story of Prahallada. But what made you recollect all that now?”
Ajji paused for a while.
“Do you know something? Just as Vishnu appeared in the pillar to prove God is everywhere, now Mayawati is trying to show Dalits that she is Goddess and omnipresent with her statues all over Lucknow and UP!”
“Oh, Ajji!’
“Isn’t it shameful that a human being equates herself to Goddess and constructs her own statues all over using public money even as she proclaims herself as the messiah of the poor? Even Bhima Rao Ambedkar who did so much for the cause of Dalits did not call himself God. If any, he was one of the downtrodden and fought his way through education and later fought for their rights and condition in society.”
“That is true, Ajji.”
“Why, our own Bahubali who had won everything renounced his kingdom and his statue in Shravanabelagola stands there as a symbol of renunciation, sacrifice built not by Bahubali himself but his brother Bharatha.”
“That’s right.”
“Idu vinasha kale vipareetha buddhi kano! Once, Indira Gandhi had displayed this when she clamped Emergency. Congress learnt the lesson and gave a public apology. L.K. Advani, in a moment of madness did a similar thing when he led kar sevaks to the Babri Masjid and reignited the Hindu-Muslim conflict. I don’t care what that retired judge Liberhan, who made a second career out of his commission, has to say on that. Now Mayawati, the megalomaniac equating herself to Goddess, squanders thousands of crores of public money to build her own statue all over UP. Along with the corruption charges leveled against her in the Taj corridor case, spending crores of public money can only mean one thing.”
“What is it, Ajji?”
“The spark of indignation and revulsion that all feel against megalomania will result in removal of the ghastly statues lock, stock and barrel as also Mayawati herself as CM. Then only dharma can triumph against such evil forces,” concluded Ajji.
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4 July 2009 at 1:16 am
What’s up with the designer handbag in the stone Mayawati’s hands?!
The Kanshi Ram statue I must say seems to have been made by a talented sculptor.
4 July 2009 at 6:03 am
ajji, maaDli biDi. naavu sumaaru varsha aa janranna tuLidu tuppalsiddu ide. aagomme eegomme, halavomme kelavu manetanagaLLanna etti kaTTi raayru, raajru maaDidivi nija, aadru samanyarige english alli relief-anthaaralla adirlilla biDu.
in anycase, hengu saaviraru varsha namm ajana UP-li dhimmi gaLaagiddu, enu maaDidilla. ididdu kaLkonDru. hogli aake aadru maaDli. hengaadru aagali, native indic ideas lord aadre saaku. aa shah zafar-u avana sotu sustaada haLe peeTl bhaava geethe-nu hoggidde hoggidu deshakke hosa chetana bandante.
nOdajji, yaava lord luckpathy aagli, saamanya janirigaagi enu maaDolla. irodralli, namanthoru swarga huDkobeku, ashTe.
4 July 2009 at 9:18 am
Nothing will happen. That was different yuga. This is Kaliyuga. Now whenever elections are held, people vote lock, stock and barrel to the very same people.
4 July 2009 at 8:34 pm
How long before the Congress & BJP want to compete and start building its leaders statues everywhere?
8 July 2009 at 5:32 pm
I happened to visit Lucknow last week which is full of Mayawati,KanshiRam and Elephant.Byt she has shown some concern to Buddha and Dr Ambedkar which are also seen.I also some photos of main streets with litters.She can do wonders if she can save some money for the infrastructures.Voters of UP knows it better.
9 July 2009 at 8:11 pm
i am pretty sure the venerable ERR is the best person to write about it. but let me give him an idea.
some some indians have faced this condition, where in after visiting the ghats of indira, rajiv and sanjay gandhi, many indians exit delhi via Indira Gandhi International Airport to land in Rajiv Gandhi IA and then when we visit our native lands see people employed in *Gandhi employment schemes, and in desperation we ask for a nature reserve we are suggested to visit Rajiv Gandhi national park. This apart from sundry indians who are asked to live in *Gandhi nagars, and drive by *Gandhi roads and bridges and and use *Gandhi services and drink of *Gandhi culverts and yet denied a decent burial on this of yamuna, unless you carry a *Gandhi name even you have a proven record of having done the best for country.
useless things built on our own money we can ignore. how do we handle the psy-ops involved in usurping all the glory in doing the obligatory duties towards our rightful rational needs that have been usurped by the most favoured family?
9 July 2009 at 8:43 pm
TS:
Thanks for your comments and suggestion.
But somebody has already done it and done it so well! I am referring to an article,’From Cradle to grave, be grateful to Nehru- Gandhis!’ By A. Surya Prakash under Panorama page 9, July 6th Deccan Herald.This is a must read and compulsory education for everybody except the family mentioned therein. I don’t how to give the link ( is it URL?). If somebody can give this I will be grateful.
18 August 2009 at 3:27 pm
Who gives these people right to use public money to promote themselves as super humans. So much could have been done with this money to improve the quality of life of people in Uttar Pradesh. I don’t understand why we choose these as our leaders and till when people will vote only on the basis of caste.
This should be considered as serious fraud. People give their hard earned money as taxes to government.