04-24-2007, 09:05 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Guru+Apr 24 2007, 11:45 AM-->QUOTE(Guru @ Apr 24 2007, 11:45 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->No Xtian or Islamic narrative is ever complete without a derogatory word on Pagan beliefs and practices. Even when this is repulsive it always found takers. Essential Hindu practices were derided as backward or evil and in need of reform or complete rejection. A Hindu narrative has to have a chapter to do the same to EJ otherwise we will continue to be feasted upon by the virus with no defence.
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Ages ago when I read the book "Roots" - I was amazed at how an oral narrative was transmitted from Africa to modern day America to link up people from the past with those of the present.
Judging from the paucity of written references of the humongous numbers of Hindus displaced and generally made to suffer compared with stories that one hears in every family of what happened in days gone by - it is clear that there already is an oral narrative of Hindu history. It needs to be written and I repeat that the narrtive may not obviously be of significance - but you don't complete a jigsaw unless you put in every piece - so even the top right hand corner of the jigsaw containing a bit of blue sky and no there detail is important to complete the puzzle.
Ask your father or grandfather about what he has heard about the past and record it. Do not feel it is unimportant just because your family's narrative does not sound so exciting as that of say someone who is descended from Shivaji or something.
It is important not to let stories of the past die with those who are passing away.
No I am not a cardiothoracic surgeon, ajatashatru although I have received training in cardiac surgery.
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Ages ago when I read the book "Roots" - I was amazed at how an oral narrative was transmitted from Africa to modern day America to link up people from the past with those of the present.
Judging from the paucity of written references of the humongous numbers of Hindus displaced and generally made to suffer compared with stories that one hears in every family of what happened in days gone by - it is clear that there already is an oral narrative of Hindu history. It needs to be written and I repeat that the narrtive may not obviously be of significance - but you don't complete a jigsaw unless you put in every piece - so even the top right hand corner of the jigsaw containing a bit of blue sky and no there detail is important to complete the puzzle.
Ask your father or grandfather about what he has heard about the past and record it. Do not feel it is unimportant just because your family's narrative does not sound so exciting as that of say someone who is descended from Shivaji or something.
It is important not to let stories of the past die with those who are passing away.
No I am not a cardiothoracic surgeon, ajatashatru although I have received training in cardiac surgery.