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| Sep 06, 2006 5:41 am |
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re: re: re: The National song controversy |
Sumanth Cidambi
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Hey Hasmukh
Welcome back, long time no hear... how are you keeping?
For what its worth, no religion or faith is subject to any state... The more mature democracies decided to separate religion and state to avoid that debate... We merely profess to have that separation in India but do not abide by it at all...
The "secular (Indian) state" as you quaintly put it rests its foundation on the Manusmriti and Yagnavalkya Smriti (a.k.a ordained scriptures) as well as the Vedas... That is the source of a lot of our civil and personal law in India today... Just as western law (probably) evolved from the ten commandments and biblical canons, so did our constitution and law and our Indian state evolve from our religious scriptures... Which by the way did not preach but taught tolerance towards all creatures through the innumerable parables and legends
Sorry to have segued there a bit...
But probably you may now want to reexamine the very basis of Indian civil liberties as we know it to accomodate the concept of supremacy of state over religion... A neo modernist version of the Vedas perhaps... I happen to know a couple of good 21st century copy writers in the style of of Manu and Vyasa that I can recommend ;-)
Cheers
S
PS: I have learnt in life that most times we must be careful what we wish for... I have also mentioned on some other posts as well that ultra right wing thinking and gradual restrictions imposed on personal liberties only brings us closer to the Orwellian state from 1984...Private Reply to Sumanth Cidambi (new win) |
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