Beautiful Letters to the Herald
Ignorant Fanatics by Abhijeet Naik, Fatorda
I strongly second Floriano Lobo’s thoughts (‘Talking to the HJS’, Herald, 30 July). HJS members are non-Goans. Their literature is all in Marathi.
Those supporting Marathi like the Shiv Sena of Mapusa, the Sanatan Sanstha and the HJS should pack their bags and leave for Maharashtra. We Goans – Hindus, Christians and Muslims – have always lived in peace. We do not need any HJS or SS to teach us Hinduism. When the HJS representative herself admitted that she did not know the Hindu scriptures, how can she or her group interpret Dr Jose Pereira’s paintings? He has also painted Christian deities in a similar manner.
I strongly second Floriano Lobo’s thoughts (‘Talking to the HJS’, Herald, 30 July). HJS members are non-Goans. Their literature is all in Marathi.
Those supporting Marathi like the Shiv Sena of Mapusa, the Sanatan Sanstha and the HJS should pack their bags and leave for Maharashtra. We Goans – Hindus, Christians and Muslims – have always lived in peace. We do not need any HJS or SS to teach us Hinduism. When the HJS representative herself admitted that she did not know the Hindu scriptures, how can she or her group interpret Dr Jose Pereira’s paintings? He has also painted Christian deities in a similar manner.
************A Real Hindu by Kajal Chatterjee, Calcutta
Apropos the editorial ‘Who is the real Hindu?’(Herald, 29 July), a true Hindu is one who never hurts the sentiments of another community. Mahatma Gandhi, an ardent follower of Lord Ram, never misused the name of the epic hero to inflict pain and tension among the minorities. A true Hindu is also one who protests against torture or ethnic cleansing of the community. (S)he should vehemently protest against discrimination towards Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley. (S)he should equally condemn the Gujarat pogrom and the barbaric demolition of the Babri Masjid and desist from equating the Ayodhya movement with ‘cultural nationalism’.
Apropos the editorial ‘Who is the real Hindu?’(Herald, 29 July), a true Hindu is one who never hurts the sentiments of another community. Mahatma Gandhi, an ardent follower of Lord Ram, never misused the name of the epic hero to inflict pain and tension among the minorities. A true Hindu is also one who protests against torture or ethnic cleansing of the community. (S)he should vehemently protest against discrimination towards Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley. (S)he should equally condemn the Gujarat pogrom and the barbaric demolition of the Babri Masjid and desist from equating the Ayodhya movement with ‘cultural nationalism’.
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Outsiders all by Praxy Fernandes, St Cruz
Hats off to Floriano Lobo (‘Talking to the HJS’, Herald, 30 June) and Damodar Mauzo (‘Why not close Khajuraho?’ Herald, 31 June) for taking up cudgels on behalf of renowned Sanskrit scholar Dr Jose Pereira, and asking the Hindu JanJagriti Samiti and Sanatan Sanstha to desist from violence and threats.
Outsiders all by Praxy Fernandes, St Cruz
Hats off to Floriano Lobo (‘Talking to the HJS’, Herald, 30 June) and Damodar Mauzo (‘Why not close Khajuraho?’ Herald, 31 June) for taking up cudgels on behalf of renowned Sanskrit scholar Dr Jose Pereira, and asking the Hindu JanJagriti Samiti and Sanatan Sanstha to desist from violence and threats.
These self-styled religious watchdogs are all non-Goans. Some of them are there even in my religion. All such fundamentalist and communal elements should be driven away and banned from Goa, as they are just intent on fomenting trouble in Goa.
Let them play their mischief in their own states. Why are they trying to drive a wedge between Goan Christians and Hindus? None of my Goenkar Hindu friends have taken offence to the paintings of Dr Jose and Dr Subodh.
Let them play their mischief in their own states. Why are they trying to drive a wedge between Goan Christians and Hindus? None of my Goenkar Hindu friends have taken offence to the paintings of Dr Jose and Dr Subodh.
Kudos to Abhijeet Naik from Fatorda. You are a true son of Goa and Goan Fraternity. Goa needs people like you to restore the brotherhood of Goa that once existed before the lousy indians took over us.
ReplyDeleteKajol well said. You have shown the real picture of who a Hindu should really be. This shows you are educated to understand the problem exactly.
My Hats off to Abhijeet Naik, Fatorda you have said it all for Goans, be it Hindu,Christians of Muslims.We all stood to together in 1967 during the Opinion Poll, "Long live Goan Unity"
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