The High Priestess of Indian history pitches in to besmear Rama. Remember her role during the Ayodhya days? As usual, her defence is long winded and she hacks the same lines ad nauseam. At first glance I didn’t think this was blog-worthy till this caught my attention:
These other versions might be objected to or dismissed by the person who has faith in the Valmiki version since the other versions differ. What is of interest to the historian is not the number of variant versions, which is impressively large, but why major changes were introduced into these.
This does not happen with the biographies of those who were known to be historical figures and who founded belief systems: the Buddha, Jesus Christ, Mohammad. Their biographies adhere largely to a single story-line and this helps to endorse the ‘official’ narrative of their life. Their existence is recorded in other sources as well that are not just narratives of their lives but have diverse associations.
Offered without comment.
Tags: Commentary, Indian Politics, Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame, Society & Culture, War on Communism
On 09.30.07 tamilmannan says:
this biatch romila needs a nice beating.
she is utterly debunked in this blog:
http://arvindneela.blogspot.com/2007/09/romila-thapars-double-standards-and.html
On 09.30.07 Palahalli says:
So, what do we do with “competing” Ramayanas?
On 09.30.07 Anon says:
>>So, what do we do with “competing” Ramayanas?
Common, that’s a silly question. Remember we are a secular country. If it’s “competing” bibles like davinci code ban it; if it’s “competing” korans like satanic verses ban it. If it’s competing ramayans, confer at the very least padma bhusan to the author, call him the greatest intellectual ever and use his work as pretext to malign hindus, denigrate hindu gods, attack temples and break idols. Haven’t you learned anything about living in secular country?
On 09.30.07 Chandra says:
tamilmannan, that was good link.
I guess the truth comes out from the establishment historians and apparent secularists - Hinduism is false religion and every other religion is the true one. That’s the ultimate mission - destroying Hinduism under the guise of falsified history facts.
This is much larger fight than Rama Setu.
On 10.01.07 Santharam KV says:
This is with reference to the article where fusion cannot work – Faith and History. ( Sep 28 ). From my great grandfather time we had been associated with The Hindu Newspaper as we had the News agency from 1938 at my home town. We feel very much pained at the Editorial articles, like the one of Ms Romila Thapar, being encouraged by The Hindu. I would like to tell the so called historian that the Hindu religion is the most scientific religion in this human civilization. Dasavathara is nothing more than the Darwin theory of evolution. As Darwin says that the first living being in the earth is from water ( i.e. fish ) and that is matsya avatar and it further evolved to amphibians ( i.e. Tortoise ) and that is Kurma avatar and it further evolved to terrestrial animal ( i.e. Pig ) and that is Varaha avatar and it further evolved to half man and half animal ( i.e. Gorilla or monkey ) and that is Narasimha avatar and it further evolved to half grown humans ( i.e. Dwarfs ) and that is Vamana avatar and it further evolved to full grown uncivilized man ( i.e. Stone age man ) and that is Parasuram and it further evolved to a civilized human being and that is Rama avatar and the man become more civilized which erupts to war and that is Krishna avatar and at the end of violence is Non Voilence and that is Buddha avatar and finally it is Kalki avatar which is the era of destruction of evil doers.
Darwin has given the theory of evolution only few centuries back whereas Hinduism has given the same to the Humanity before ages.
Mahatma Gandhi is our father of nation and he is the devotee of Ram and he uttered hey ram while in his last moments of life. Gandhiji would have given the correct story line or Biography which Ms Romila Thapar wants on Lord Rama.
I would request the management and the Editors of The Hindu to publish editorials with positive attitude people and those who really know what they talk about and not mere title at the end of their name. Just to get the sale of the Newspaper it shouldn’t have the name of “ Hindu” , it should represent the Hindus of this Hindustan which is the main idea of establishing this paper by the founders.
I am sure the founders of this paper will definitely get peace if you really change the functioning of this great news paper of all times. I am writing this out of my love towards this wonderful newspaper.
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On 10.01.07 sudarshan. says:
Nice to hear from one of the Eminences. Of course, their blabbering is more or less predictable now - the form at least, if not the content. Many thanks to Arun Shourie for exposing these charlatans. The term “Eminent Historians” is now a millstone around their necks. When these Eminences crawl out of their holes, they only face ridicule. Romilla Thapar ought to crawl back into the orifice now that she has had her (predictable) say.
On 10.03.07 Aravind says:
I think the paper title ‘The Hindu’ should be appropriately changed to ‘The Non Hindu’