Wednesday 26 December 2012

Identifying India?


ABVP, (Akhil Bharatiy Vidyarthi Parishad - a students' wing) had arranged a big function at MES College, Pune. Probably because of my BAMCEF activities, my public speaches in the programs of the  Siddharth Shikshan Samiti (S-4), S/C, S/T officers association and reactions discussed occasionally with youth/students coming for “Akashwani Youth Programme” about Hindu religion with specific reference to its permissible and unbreakable sanctions to ill treat and to consider almost inhuman the yesterday’s untouchables and present scheduled castes. probably the ABVP invited me to participate in this Function, I was quite in limelight. Some students took me to the hall where I noticed that the map of India embedded with the picture of Goddess of Saraswati (Godess of Learning). I said to the organizer that there was nothing wrong to worship God/Goddess of one’s faith. But if we start identifying our God/Goddess with our country, then different religious groups will start the same, which will create chaos and a national problem. My statement opened a heated argument. Thinking they made a mistake by inviting me, my name was dropped from the speakers' list and after tea one of them drove me back to Akashwani (All India Radio).

When I was actively busy with BAMCEF and other social activities, suddenly I was transferred from Pune Radio to Bombay Radio Station.

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