Monday, March 06, 2023
Color racism
A festival of colors where everyone celebrates with splashing colors and merriment. A festival that celebrates the divine love of Lord Krishna and Radha. A festival whose colors are now seen in celebration worldwide with the world becoming flat and people migrating. The Indian diaspora has successfully taken this culture of colors, love and festivity globally.
The irony is we have painted the world with colors in celebration of Holi, but what are we painting in India? We have made colors an identity of two religions. Orange for Hindu and Green for Muslims. Which God is color racist? He made human beings with one color of blood and what are we doing? From racism of human skin color we have now given religion also a color, so Poiticians and and Religious leaders have another plaform to divide us. A video surfaced many years ago shows how an Indian Muslim is subjected to questioning because of him wearing an orange attire at Mecca.
https://youtu.be/c1ozwWALvS4
Ploy of politicians aligned with religious leaders are trying keep Indians divided with religious hatred, cultural divide, food choice dictated, renaming roads which had colonial or Mughul names but cannot make good roads, naming a stadium after a living Prime Minister, instead of focusing of developing sporting talent, and even giving religion a color code.
It is really a treat for the eye to see a new India, where every citizen revels in the joy of other religion festivities. Color splashed happy faces where one cannot even differentiate anyone with a religion. Let the politicians and religious trying hard to divide us, realise that Indians with retaliate with one color and that is the color we ink our fingers with at elections, next year.
India needs new political leadership. It cannot be dynastic ruling or a dictatorship shrouded in democracy. It's sad and heart breaking to see the sycophancy of intellectuals that bootlick and apple polish some of our leaders. How long are we going to be fool ourselves that we are a real democracy? Is it of the people, for the people and by the people? Or is it only for a color?
So let this Holi be our message to all Politcial parties and religious heads, don't paint this beautiful country red with blood of religious and color divide.
Wishing u all a blessed, happy and colorfully aware holi. Awareness of the colorful spectrum of a diversity of our cultures. Let that be our unity and identity.
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True. Not only colour, our current political / religious leaders have divide all animate or inanimate objects and celestial spheres in the name of religion.
# posted by 
: 11:13 PM
: 11:13 PM
I loved the punchline "Awareness of the colorful spectrum of a diversity of our cultures. Let that be our unity and identity."
I would add "May all Indian citizens vow to not permit divisive elements to cause a rift amongst us on the basis of creed and religion. Also let us all not indulge in any activity which would harm our Nation, its unity and its environment. Lets us all demand transparency, accountability and good governance from our public representatives and public servants so that our Country becomes the "Sonay ki chidiya" it once was.
May God bless us all.
I would add "May all Indian citizens vow to not permit divisive elements to cause a rift amongst us on the basis of creed and religion. Also let us all not indulge in any activity which would harm our Nation, its unity and its environment. Lets us all demand transparency, accountability and good governance from our public representatives and public servants so that our Country becomes the "Sonay ki chidiya" it once was.
May God bless us all.
# posted by : 11:33 PM
: 11:33 PM
Sir it's our own blinkers that dont let us look beyond being FRATERNAL
Sir you forgot white flowers go to the CEMETERY Is the notion
Sir you forgot white flowers go to the CEMETERY Is the notion
Please don't use religion to breed hatred. Allow us to joyfully celebrate all religious festivals, not only our own. That's the Indian grass-roots reality! Congrats to this well written blog.
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