RSS

Due to certain unavoidable circumstances I could not update the blog on time..:-) ...last friday went to watch a documentary movie on the RSS ..( Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)..

First thing that struck me about the documentary was that it brought back memories of India ..stayin here you get so used to the place that you hardly realise that you are away from India ..it seems like you are still there ...then we saw the roads , autos , people talkin in the bihari english ..:-)..made me feel nostalgic...

Now coming back to the movie.. .the movie basically potrays RSS as a fundamentalist Hindu organisation ..the director uses his characters in a very directed manner to get his message across...the characters opposing RSS are the high society thinking class people and the other facet is just shown by some lower income not very intelligent people who get into RSS ...so that itself makes the argument lopsided in the beginning ...

The initial part of the story shows how the people in RSS were all brainwashed to go and break the Babri masjid ..the sad part of it is that no one seems to regret it ..the argument that they use is that anyways Muslim's dnt need a place to worship ..that Babri is the sacred place of Hindus and its nthin wrong if they want to put up their holy shrine there ..so the muslim's should give the place back to the hindus..

Why dnt these people understand that its not the place but the feeling which makes the difference..whatever happened was history and lets just let it be ...
The RSS people actually think they created History when they broke down the temple and they are actually proud of it ..

The movie shows RSS leaders as preaching hatred of other religions instead of love for our own religion ..it shows RSS leaders making really degrading comments about christainity and islam ..
This is how terrorism is bread i suppose.. by preaching hatred ..rather than love ...
This is not what hinduism is all about ..it is one of the most tolerant religions on earth ..and if the RSS wants to uphold Hinduism it better concentrate on making people retain their tolerance..

The movie also shows a very human face of fundamentalism ..little children are reared into this ideology ..the children go there only to play but these subtle messages which are put into their head then stay with them life long ..

It ends with glimpses of the Godhra carnage ..which acc to the director is a organised attempt by the RSS to take on the Muslim massses..

I agree the movie is lopsided in its argument but then it has some degree of truth too..the beauty of hinduism is in the fact it is all encompassing ..fundamentalism doesnt fit into its scheme of things ..and we should all strive to keep it at that ...