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This is the 21st century where the fact is our immune systems cannot handle a totally new virus. These comparisons of whom you worship and which festival you celebrate does not matter to Nature.
This country is made up of bonkers spending time on all these kinds of comparisons…
After reading a few comments it can definitely be said that majority of the caste hindus need intellectual regeneration , otherwise , they will lose the ground to non hindus, especially Evangelical Christianity which has become powerful in the north eastern states.Dalits and Adivasi s are now fed up with Hinduism.These two groups and OBCs will create a new India where real democracy will be based on equality , liberty and fraternity.
When you chose to deliberately and constantly refer to a person decorated with more degrees and recognitions than your “leash owners” collectively have, it shows the depth you have sunk to.
With agenda of fake hindu shiv sena is going to sink in the state otherwise congress and NCP will take down shivsena very cleverly without any proof, and about print media , it is paid media everyone knows that!!!
Commies are using media to express their anger after failing to defeat NAMO. Commies are bad loosers, once considered as epitome of liberal idea, now marked as master of racism.what steep fall in public eye…shame on you!!
Purpose of this article on the eve of 2020 D isn’t understood! Now the biggest Pan-India Ganesh utsav is held at Lalbaug in Mumbai, whose idol, लालबाग चा राजा is now a World Celebrity Deity! Brahmins are microscopic minorities in all fields & services including politics but Dalit attrocities haven’t stopped, in fact they remain more violent & aggressive & perpetrators are upper-caste non-Brahmins! Nothing positive or creative in this article & it’s contrary to media role
some social justice activists also say that durga was a prostitute sent by aryans to defeat native mahishasur. so what narrative should we believe,one by mr kulkarni or one by bengal leftists. kulkarni must know that these scathing villyfying pieces wont give healing touch that is required
If you want to break the exploitation of temples and the promotion of idolatry and superstition, there is no point Dalits setting up another idol and idol house to compete with the Brahmin one. That just continues the mess. It is best to convert and finish caste and superstition for good.
When you don’t have any communal headlines to write bring Ambedkar into the matter, easy.
@author,can you please find out if sitaram thackeray used toothpaste or toothpowder in the mornings?
Instant journalism of today makes things binary and then pick a favourite target and bash it up. Here it is Lokmanya Tilak who is being paraded as a Brahmin leader with Peshwa mindset. Still Jinnah found it worth defending him. for his iconic statement of “Swaraja is my birthright and I shall have it”. Like all faiths, rituals in Hinduism have some strict norms of purity. I am a brahmin but as a child was beaten when I touched family deities without bathing. Yes, that was too puritanical, you may say, but Corona is telling us now that some of these purification processes were not just fads. Yes, Savarna Hindus have erred badly in not allowing Dalits in temples and have paid for it. But to paint the entire festival as pro-this caste or pro that caste is unhealthy. By the way, Savarkar another Brahmin and Hindutvavadi hate figure, was a pioneer for asking temples to be opened up for Dalits. Such biased articles do not matter much, because how many read English in India and then how many comment but fools like me. He He he.
What is your point ? You want to tell us you are Brahmin who sincerely accepts Dalits ? If you did, you would not so proudly say you were Brahmin.
‘….but Corona is telling us now that some of these purification processes were not just fads.’
It requires a pure unsullied Brahmin mind to understand your statement.
How many castes and creeds you have in your faith…I must say countless……How many girls will you get when you die??…..Thank God at least Hindus don’t have shit in their minds like in yours…
What’s wrong with saying that he’s a proud Brahmin. Many converts proudly say that they’re Christians or Muslims. Many Dalits proudly proclaim that they’re Dalits.
Bull shit, I belong to a Brahmin family. Our ancestors have been celebrating Navaratri for close to 100 years, on a minimum minimum level
U r anti hindu agenda One Day Gonna Be Screwing you Lets forgrt old things Today I Celebrate Navrstri And Ganesh Utsav With Dalits And other hindus With unity and Joy
I bet you celebrate with Dalits. You sound so sincerely swarana.
Think The print is hell bent on driving and also deeplng wedges between Brahmins and others paing pictures dipicting Brahmins as the root cause of all caste driven ills of Indian society.un fortunately Brahmins have become whipping boys as they have become politically very poor and defence less. Should the country foget the contribution by Brahmins which put India at ahigh cultural pedastal among contemporary cultures
The only contribution of Brahmins is the caste system. You are an unscrupulous and scheming race. If we had a French or Russian revolution, Brahmins would have their heads on the chopping block.
And the only contribution of yours is LIE ,HATE, FORCEFULL CONVERSION, ROBBERY,RAPES……ALL this comes from middle east……its their culture …….57 Rapistan…
Very nice article, informative as well as lucid writing. I have got lot of Idea about the issue. I feel sorry when in the name of caste many try to get at the top. One can be great by activities only and that is why to counter mainly Brahminism in then Bengal Brahmo Samaj was initiated by stalwarts including Rabindranath Tagore and his father.
I wish to mention here that Swami Vivekananda was not Brahmin but Indian culture and Hindu religion were popular in the world because of him. And same is the case of Rishi Aurobindo.
But Brahmins were and are the drivers of Hindu fascism – Golwakar, Savarkar, the RSS, Hindu Mahasabha. Any coincidence ?
Brahma samaj was feudal in character, vivekananda became populer bcoz of blessings from Ramkrishna…perfect social system is only possible by blessings from Brahminism.
The very idea of the deity being taken on a procession in southern India was to allow those who cannot visit temples to have Darshan.
This news paper divides hindus in the name of ganesha chaturthi & NavRatri , they praise tanishq ad but here they divide hindu ,they hates hindus, it is same way where Leftist Historian wrote the NCERT History books , praising mughal and sidelined the great hindu ruler, in the name of facts they creates a bad Manipulated script of any flop movie, these leftist are dominated only in news papers , but in the Ground they self certified intellectual proven failed.
Shiv Sena is of late becoming an anti-hindu party. Many of my groups think the same especially the aloof attitude at the Palghar lynching of unarmed Sadhus by converted Christian armed communists! Also his willful absence refusing the invitation at lord Ram’s temple at Ayodhya is viewed with crossed fingers by his partymen
Instead of hurting the sentiments of great social leaders, it is essential to give importance to education and empowerment to socially backward communities. It is not the question of entering temples that will uplift the downtrodden but fair representation in all levels of society. Nothing can be changed overnight it takes generations to change the mindset. Unfortunately, reservation is a tool of upper castes to systematically sideline the marginalised community. It’s a trap in which the Dalits are entangled. Dalits should voluntarily give up reservation and assert more on education, self employment, skill development and provide dignified life to the next-gen.
at this age and time if a newspaper is bringing caste it shows u have political motive specially language. Being used Today is era when u travel u don’t know who is sitting next u.if a religion is evolving hope u support by providing positive reporters rather than this cheap antics to antagonise people.and u think being brahmin is easy in today world where u have made them look like vermine
As if Dalits and tribals were in heaven before independence when Reservations were not provided to them.
Isn’t it castiest and racist to call ganesh festival brahminical?
Where it is written ganesha is only for brahmins. There are thousands of tribal places having ganesha temple across India. Ganesha also called Ganapathi meaning leader of ganas, ganas where local tribal people.
Nice devide strategy by the print, but let me tell you people are not fool
I think you did not care to read the Article. The author did not say that Ganesha is a Brahmin god, he clearly mentioned Ganesha festival organizing committees were filled with mostly Brahmins with very few chances for other castes to participate in the program.
ThePrint your stand on india’s socio-political leaders is like an ECG graph. The problem with you is that you revere only those who fulfill your biased agendas. For your the rest of the world then are idiots. And if those idiots by chance fulfill your biased agenda or you manage to frame them as doing so, then you write a whole essay on them. Insecurity. Hypocrisy. Duplicity. Misinformation. Just few of the many negative adjectives that were written in the English dictionary specially for you.
Oh shut up you casteist morons. Its all about monetary contributions. The moment Shiv Sena was able to take over the lucrative ganeshotsav mandals and the revenues they rake in, they stopped having a problem with their ‘toxic brahminism’ or whatever buzzwords these idiots are peddling today.
The way the lower castes were treated was inhumane. There is a big progress made in this regard due to efforts of the social reformers. I hope hindu society will soon do away with the caste differences.
How can Hindu society do away with caste differences when it is the only tenet of Hindusim ?
Tenet can be change. I hope you know that.
Devbandi, Barelvi, jamat, Suni, shia, Ahmadees and many more(countless castes)……do something better in yours first then teach others because Hinduism is far far better then yours…. we are not radicals & liers like you….
How Sad… English media is still advocating Cast System , Publishing such articles and trying to spread poison….
Joshi your name itself advocate casteism…. Look inside you how castiest you are before pointing at others.
This rascal is now trying to divide Hindus by such third grade articles. Retrograde, antinational. Ambedkar said many things about other religion also. Can he dare to say that.
Another malicious story by the print to divide the Hindus based on caste lines. It gives immense satisfaction to see Hindus united against you and your caste based politics. Its funny Everytime you quote Babashaeb ambedkar but never from his book Pakistan and the partition of india… Why because it dosent suit your jai bheem jai meem narrative?! Why don’t your editors tell people what Babashaeb thought of Gandhi? I agree with Dr. Ranganathan that Babashaeb should be the father of our nation
Just by refusing to acknowledge the existence of problem will never solve the problem. The caste division between Hindu’s are a fact and solution can emerge only if the accept the fact and try to work towards removal of caste decimation.
Article is sensless, appears to be written with an intention to create hostile atmosphere among Hindus and perhaps funded by anti Hindu forces like print
My God versus your God. My idol versus your idol.
This is the 21st century where the fact is our immune systems cannot handle a totally new virus. These comparisons of whom you worship and which festival you celebrate does not matter to Nature.
This country is made up of bonkers spending time on all these kinds of comparisons…
After reading a few comments it can definitely be said that majority of the caste hindus need intellectual regeneration , otherwise , they will lose the ground to non hindus, especially Evangelical Christianity which has become powerful in the north eastern states.Dalits and Adivasi s are now fed up with Hinduism.These two groups and OBCs will create a new India where real democracy will be based on equality , liberty and fraternity.
This is called Bevarsi news
Halka sulemaklu
When you chose to deliberately and constantly refer to a person decorated with more degrees and recognitions than your “leash owners” collectively have, it shows the depth you have sunk to.
With agenda of fake hindu shiv sena is going to sink in the state otherwise congress and NCP will take down shivsena very cleverly without any proof, and about print media , it is paid media everyone knows that!!!
This is totally nonsense, no facts in this article…completely misleading innocent people. The print is anti hindu and anti national
Commies are using media to express their anger after failing to defeat NAMO. Commies are bad loosers, once considered as epitome of liberal idea, now marked as master of racism.what steep fall in public eye…shame on you!!
Purpose of this article on the eve of 2020 D isn’t understood! Now the biggest Pan-India Ganesh utsav is held at Lalbaug in Mumbai, whose idol, लालबाग चा राजा is now a World Celebrity Deity! Brahmins are microscopic minorities in all fields & services including politics but Dalit attrocities haven’t stopped, in fact they remain more violent & aggressive & perpetrators are upper-caste non-Brahmins! Nothing positive or creative in this article & it’s contrary to media role
When You are done with Muslim appeasement, go for division and hate among Hindu groups. Hats off to the journalism level of The print.
some social justice activists also say that durga was a prostitute sent by aryans to defeat native mahishasur. so what narrative should we believe,one by mr kulkarni or one by bengal leftists. kulkarni must know that these scathing villyfying pieces wont give healing touch that is required
If you want to break the exploitation of temples and the promotion of idolatry and superstition, there is no point Dalits setting up another idol and idol house to compete with the Brahmin one. That just continues the mess. It is best to convert and finish caste and superstition for good.
Are you converted??
He’s a rice bag convert. He wants more rice bags from Vatican that’s why he’s saying such stuff.
Only a dirty and filthy minds of PRINT can do this anti social editorials and coverage. Have some same you bigots.
When you don’t have any communal headlines to write bring Ambedkar into the matter, easy.
@author,can you please find out if sitaram thackeray used toothpaste or toothpowder in the mornings?
Instant journalism of today makes things binary and then pick a favourite target and bash it up. Here it is Lokmanya Tilak who is being paraded as a Brahmin leader with Peshwa mindset. Still Jinnah found it worth defending him. for his iconic statement of “Swaraja is my birthright and I shall have it”. Like all faiths, rituals in Hinduism have some strict norms of purity. I am a brahmin but as a child was beaten when I touched family deities without bathing. Yes, that was too puritanical, you may say, but Corona is telling us now that some of these purification processes were not just fads. Yes, Savarna Hindus have erred badly in not allowing Dalits in temples and have paid for it. But to paint the entire festival as pro-this caste or pro that caste is unhealthy. By the way, Savarkar another Brahmin and Hindutvavadi hate figure, was a pioneer for asking temples to be opened up for Dalits. Such biased articles do not matter much, because how many read English in India and then how many comment but fools like me. He He he.
What is your point ? You want to tell us you are Brahmin who sincerely accepts Dalits ? If you did, you would not so proudly say you were Brahmin.
‘….but Corona is telling us now that some of these purification processes were not just fads.’
It requires a pure unsullied Brahmin mind to understand your statement.
How many castes and creeds you have in your faith…I must say countless……How many girls will you get when you die??…..Thank God at least Hindus don’t have shit in their minds like in yours…
What’s wrong with saying that he’s a proud Brahmin. Many converts proudly say that they’re Christians or Muslims. Many Dalits proudly proclaim that they’re Dalits.
Bull shit, I belong to a Brahmin family. Our ancestors have been celebrating Navaratri for close to 100 years, on a minimum minimum level
U r anti hindu agenda One Day Gonna Be Screwing you Lets forgrt old things Today I Celebrate Navrstri And Ganesh Utsav With Dalits And other hindus With unity and Joy
I bet you celebrate with Dalits. You sound so sincerely swarana.
Think The print is hell bent on driving and also deeplng wedges between Brahmins and others paing pictures dipicting Brahmins as the root cause of all caste driven ills of Indian society.un fortunately Brahmins have become whipping boys as they have become politically very poor and defence less. Should the country foget the contribution by Brahmins which put India at ahigh cultural pedastal among contemporary cultures
The only contribution of Brahmins is the caste system. You are an unscrupulous and scheming race. If we had a French or Russian revolution, Brahmins would have their heads on the chopping block.
And the only contribution of yours is LIE ,HATE, FORCEFULL CONVERSION, ROBBERY,RAPES……ALL this comes from middle east……its their culture …….57 Rapistan…
Very nice article, informative as well as lucid writing. I have got lot of Idea about the issue. I feel sorry when in the name of caste many try to get at the top. One can be great by activities only and that is why to counter mainly Brahminism in then Bengal Brahmo Samaj was initiated by stalwarts including Rabindranath Tagore and his father.
I wish to mention here that Swami Vivekananda was not Brahmin but Indian culture and Hindu religion were popular in the world because of him. And same is the case of Rishi Aurobindo.
But Brahmins were and are the drivers of Hindu fascism – Golwakar, Savarkar, the RSS, Hindu Mahasabha. Any coincidence ?
Brahma samaj was feudal in character, vivekananda became populer bcoz of blessings from Ramkrishna…perfect social system is only possible by blessings from Brahminism.
The very idea of the deity being taken on a procession in southern India was to allow those who cannot visit temples to have Darshan.
This news paper divides hindus in the name of ganesha chaturthi & NavRatri , they praise tanishq ad but here they divide hindu ,they hates hindus, it is same way where Leftist Historian wrote the NCERT History books , praising mughal and sidelined the great hindu ruler, in the name of facts they creates a bad Manipulated script of any flop movie, these leftist are dominated only in news papers , but in the Ground they self certified intellectual proven failed.
Shiv Sena is of late becoming an anti-hindu party. Many of my groups think the same especially the aloof attitude at the Palghar lynching of unarmed Sadhus by converted Christian armed communists! Also his willful absence refusing the invitation at lord Ram’s temple at Ayodhya is viewed with crossed fingers by his partymen
Instead of hurting the sentiments of great social leaders, it is essential to give importance to education and empowerment to socially backward communities. It is not the question of entering temples that will uplift the downtrodden but fair representation in all levels of society. Nothing can be changed overnight it takes generations to change the mindset. Unfortunately, reservation is a tool of upper castes to systematically sideline the marginalised community. It’s a trap in which the Dalits are entangled. Dalits should voluntarily give up reservation and assert more on education, self employment, skill development and provide dignified life to the next-gen.
at this age and time if a newspaper is bringing caste it shows u have political motive specially language. Being used Today is era when u travel u don’t know who is sitting next u.if a religion is evolving hope u support by providing positive reporters rather than this cheap antics to antagonise people.and u think being brahmin is easy in today world where u have made them look like vermine
You do not see caste as a problem, you see its discussion is a problem. Needless to say you are a Brahmin.
And needless to say you are a rice bag convert.
Calling someone upper lower caste is a proof of being morally bankrupt.
Biased and fake media outlet!!!
For those who dividing are the poisonous dogs…all are hindu be it tribal or dalit….those below them are the 2 are kept outside the door..
Tribals and Hindus are forcibly kept as Hindu. Forcible retention is the problem, not forced conversion.
And people are converted to Christianity by giving out freebies and rice bags. And to Islam by brainwashing by the Mullahs. Conversion is the problem.
I believe in god not those who work for one religion or caste.reservation one of the blackest disease of india
As if Dalits and tribals were in heaven before independence when Reservations were not provided to them.
Isn’t it castiest and racist to call ganesh festival brahminical?
Where it is written ganesha is only for brahmins. There are thousands of tribal places having ganesha temple across India. Ganesha also called Ganapathi meaning leader of ganas, ganas where local tribal people.
Nice devide strategy by the print, but let me tell you people are not fool
I think you did not care to read the Article. The author did not say that Ganesha is a Brahmin god, he clearly mentioned Ganesha festival organizing committees were filled with mostly Brahmins with very few chances for other castes to participate in the program.
ThePrint your stand on india’s socio-political leaders is like an ECG graph. The problem with you is that you revere only those who fulfill your biased agendas. For your the rest of the world then are idiots. And if those idiots by chance fulfill your biased agenda or you manage to frame them as doing so, then you write a whole essay on them. Insecurity. Hypocrisy. Duplicity. Misinformation. Just few of the many negative adjectives that were written in the English dictionary specially for you.
really very informative article, detailed, and with the references
Oh shut up you casteist morons. Its all about monetary contributions. The moment Shiv Sena was able to take over the lucrative ganeshotsav mandals and the revenues they rake in, they stopped having a problem with their ‘toxic brahminism’ or whatever buzzwords these idiots are peddling today.
The way the lower castes were treated was inhumane. There is a big progress made in this regard due to efforts of the social reformers. I hope hindu society will soon do away with the caste differences.
How can Hindu society do away with caste differences when it is the only tenet of Hindusim ?
Tenet can be change. I hope you know that.
Devbandi, Barelvi, jamat, Suni, shia, Ahmadees and many more(countless castes)……do something better in yours first then teach others because Hinduism is far far better then yours…. we are not radicals & liers like you….
How Sad… English media is still advocating Cast System , Publishing such articles and trying to spread poison….
Joshi your name itself advocate casteism…. Look inside you how castiest you are before pointing at others.
This rascal is now trying to divide Hindus by such third grade articles. Retrograde, antinational. Ambedkar said many things about other religion also. Can he dare to say that.
Continue your efforts to divide Hindus. Promise that you wouldn’t succeed.
Another malicious story by the print to divide the Hindus based on caste lines. It gives immense satisfaction to see Hindus united against you and your caste based politics. Its funny Everytime you quote Babashaeb ambedkar but never from his book Pakistan and the partition of india… Why because it dosent suit your jai bheem jai meem narrative?! Why don’t your editors tell people what Babashaeb thought of Gandhi? I agree with Dr. Ranganathan that Babashaeb should be the father of our nation
Just by refusing to acknowledge the existence of problem will never solve the problem. The caste division between Hindu’s are a fact and solution can emerge only if the accept the fact and try to work towards removal of caste decimation.
Divide and Rule!
Article is sensless, appears to be written with an intention to create hostile atmosphere among Hindus and perhaps funded by anti Hindu forces like print
Another myopic view to discredit the inclusivity of all members of the society.
This vijaydashmi onwards we should start celebrating from deekshabhoomi or ambedkar Sankul in kamptee.
This outreach is necessary for consolidation and inclusivity across each one of us, which is also the essence of ram Rajya.
Shiv Sena is largely a CKP party who use Raut to hoodwink Marathas.