Interesting (and related) piece of trivia:-

Byomkesh Bakshi mentions the Pontoon Bridge (that was the predecessor to Rabindra Setu) in “Pother Kanta”. Remember the story of the Bicycle Bell that shoots Deadly Gramophone Pins into Kolkatan businessmen’s hearts?

Happened last week. We will respond with a relief campaign as usual…the best we can do.

http://www.persecutionbd.org/news/july-25-attack-hindus-looking-for-justice-leaving-days-under-fear/

our Karma

Just to show why I am emigrating :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8169966.stm

Boko Haram !! Boka Halaal ??

Thx for your kind words & nice compliments, yourfan2. Rest assured, I shall continue to be involved in Hindu affairs even in Australia.

Who knows, it may work out for the better!! With hopefully a calmer pace of life there, I’ll have more time on my hands which I can utilise for doing even more research on our faith and culture.

You can wrench the patriot out of the heart of the country. But you can never remove the country from the heart of the patriot.

Or rather, why assume even the happiest person, living a life full of health and wealth, would never succumb to such *pleasures* of vandalizing public property?

Or is it .. human psyche?

Take me as an example, I remember I was caught throwing a stone at my school principles office (when I was in Class I). Was reprimanded, and havent done it since, but gee .. it was fun!

Great article, btw!

People like HHBB, Rishi and Bengal Voice are educators! I understand that when you have mastered a course, hearing the same thing again and again like a broken record might be quite exasperating, but please do realize the fact that there are always new students on this blog. Plus there is just too much pseudo-secularism floating around in the Indian media. We need to counter that.

Many people come here to read the TRUTH. Now there are two ways of looking at it-

1> That we realize the TRUTH, and even acknowledge it privately. But we hypocritically mask it with politically correct statements, like the pseudo secular media does. But too much obfuscation of truth can create an Orwellian type situation. If you say that the revelation of the TRUTH is a crime, then you are nothing but thought police.

2> That we say it as it is. There is a paucity of people who say it as it is. Therefore people like Rishi etc are doing a service to people who suspect that the TRUTH is out there, but didn’t know where to find it, till they inadvertently stumble upon the comment sections of this blog.

I wish I could write more. But it is a sad day! HHBB, one of the greatest sons and amazing minds of India is leaving his Southeast Asian adobe for Golden Antipodean shores. I feel like crying! What a loss to our country! As big, if not bigger than the loss of the Kohinoor to the Brits.

Shivam Bhutvo Shivam Yajet – The best way to worship Lord Shiva is for the devotee to become like Lord Shiva Himself (by imbibing His qualities).

Wishes seldom come true, unless you work at it. Wishful thinking and complacency are lame excuses for not doing anything. Let us not be like clucking chickens in an abattoir – choosing to be in denial and in complacency.

This lack of threat perception is quite common among Indians and must be dispelled. It reminds me of the meek Jewish civilians standing patiently in long queues leading to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, looking up at the thick columns of smoke emanating from the crematoria chimneys, and convincing each other in total denial: “I don’t think there is any chance the Nazis will exterminate us”. I would rather that you emulate the Jews of Warsaw ghetto, who knew what lay in store for them.

If you feel that your civilisational faith is precious not simply because it ancient and unique, but most importantly because it has so much to offer to the world (World Peace, Yoga, Ayurveda, Classical Arts, Visual Arts and Sculpture, Astronomy, Mathematics and Sciences), then you must do your bit to protect your civilisational faith and salvage the situation.

Unless YOU do it, nothing will change (and things will automatically do downhill). Until and Unless YOU do it, its just wishful thinking.

From my own experience, I know only one thing… WE must be the change we wish to see in the world.

3) Then look around the world whether Religions can get snuffed out, extinguished for ever. Many Religions have come and gone. Once “Mighty” Religions have now become extinct throughout the world.

• With no adherents, the mighty Greek and Roman Religions have vanished into thin air.
• All that is left of the exotic Pharaonic Egyptian Religion today is a few crumbling pyramids and zero followers.
• As for the well-developed Sumerian, Babylonian and Mesopotamian religions that have long disappeared off the face of the map, look no farther than their location (Iraq) to see how their former adherents are faring.
• And do we even know that a global religion called Manichaeism even existed?
• Or do we recollect that the Assyrian Religion is as dead as a dodo?
• Or do we remember that the Germanic/Norse/Scandinavian Religion’s only reminder that it ever existed is – that some days of the week are named after Woden, Thor and Freya (Fria)?

When all these Religions were at their zenith of glory and at the pinnacle of their grandeur, would any follower (of these religions) have believed warnings that their Religion was going to become extinct?

One religion supplanting another by killing and conversion is quite a normal fact of life – whether or not, we like it. The answer is: Do you want Hinduism to join the pack of Extinct Religions or would you want to prevent such a great loss to humanity? Of course, the Death of Hinduism can be prevented and it must be prevented.