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'Conversion, reconversion led to Kandhamal riots'

Bhubaneswar: Conversion and re-conversion were among the major factors which led to the riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district last year, a judicial commission probing the violence has said. "Sources of the violence were deeply rooted in land disputes, conversion and re-conversion and fake certificate issues, ....Read more

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Castism By: RN | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 10:27:44 AM Reply | Forward This is in reply to the comments of MR. Vinod Kumar Mahanti. At the outset, if you are a christian why you keep your name as VK? You are a convert, born to a hindu family (your parents or forefathers), who gave birth by praying to hindu gods during gestation period. It is like insulting your own parents. On the other hand, you can see in India - Scheduled Caste Christians

CSI is very cleverBy: Ravi | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 11:30:01 AM Reply | Forward CSI is very clever they permit them to retian hindu name like Y Samuel Rajashekar Reddy and he conveniently hides Samuel in all correspondences.

Just wondering what your religion taught youBy: Senthil | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 10:12:50 AM Reply | Forward Vinod Kumar Mahanti- Who the heck on earth gave you rights to speak about Sanskrit. Do not justify what the British did was good. I am tired of this bull shit. The british (your messengers of Christianity) came to India to loot. Every religion has its own set of people who misunderstand it and corrupt the thoughts and people like you take advantage to speak about the religion itself. What do you know about the values of Hinduism to speak about what the religion preaches? Do you know if Sati/ and casteism are preached by Hinduism. I am not a fan of Hindutva, but Sanskrit and Hinduism is far beyond you. Now my question to Christian missionaries, if you truly care about the life of the people why do you offer money only if people convert? --Any thoughts about that? You do not know how to respect a language and I wonder what you were taught by your religion or your teachers.

Hindus seek justiceBy: Arul | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 9:50:08 AM Reply | Forward This is not the first time that the Kandhas and the Panas are at war. In 1992, the war between them lasted for three months, resulting in over 20 deaths. The issue was then, as it is now, land and reservation, which was the very consequence of conversion of the Panas to Christianity . The Panas got financial and political advantage and also gained lands belonging to the Kandhas. Though they lost their reservation benefits in the bargain, they began reclaiming them through their demand for ST status. It needs no seer to say that it is religious conversions that sequenced into hostilities between the Kandhas disadvantaged as Hindou majority and the Panas protected as Christian minority. No major clash between the Kandhas and the Panas was reported before the missionaries entered Kandhamal. The Christian population in Kandhamal which was some two per cent in 1961 and six per cent in 1971, rose to 27 per cent in 2001.These numbers speak volumes.

Selective amnesia By: kiran | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 9:47:31 AM Reply | Forward NHRC NMC are active only when the sufferers are non-Hindous,namely Christians and Muslims. But when it’s a case of Hindous being the minority community, their sufferings are totally ignored.Take the case of Hindou Reangs of Mizoram: they have been driven out of the state since they refuse to embrace Christianity. The NMC has never bothered to visit the camps of these 30,000 unfortunate Reangs in Tripura. Nor has it bothered to look into the pathetic living conditions of Kashmiri Pandits, either in Jammu or elsewhere.Hindous, as a minority community, cannot celebrate Durga Puja in southern Tripura, Meghalaya and other Christian majority states of the east. Does the Constitution define minorities as only non-Hindous? Now, when some churches have been attacked in and around Mangalore, they have rushed in, which has ultimately resulted in the Central Government issuing a warning to the Karnataka government.

Govt needs to actBy: Ram | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 9:46:04 AM Reply | Forward If the Govt cannot ban conversions, at least, it should not encourage conversions. If it does not interfere, it should have no objection for reconversions and, as a matter of fact, encourage reconversions. The majority Hindou has no say in any matter. They are penalised for being a majority. Their lives are cheap. The person heading the party and the person heading the Govet belonging to minority communities silently watch the deaths of thousands of Hindous with callous unconcern. If thousands and thousands of Hindou temples are demolished, they just do not bother. If an insignificant structure somewhere in a corner is touched, they themselves raise a hue and cry. India is one country where minorities rule the majority. This state of affairs needs to be changed at once. WE cannot afford to lose any more of Hindou lives - common citizens, BSF Jawans, Army Commandos. He betrayed the country. All those who were against Hindous were encouraged. No more patience. It is suicidal.

WHO WILL TAKE STEPS TO STOP CONVERSIONBy: Kumar | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 9:39:46 AM Reply | Forward After Kerala TN Orissa missionaries are aggressive in AP and KarnatakaAlarming 5 fold increase in Kandhamal Christian population from six per cent in 1971 to 27 per cent in 2001 ,It began with the arrival of Christian missionaries in the area who found the remote region very conducive to conduct prosetylization amongst the poor tribals. The conversions continued unhindered until the arrival of Swami Laxmanananda who put strenuous efforts to stop conversions and help reconversion to Hindouism as well. If not for his effort Kandhamal would have been another Nagaland in the making where the separatist movement has wrecked havoc in the state. The aggressive Christian proselytization in Orissa today pitched previously peaceful tribals into warring camps of Christians and non-Christian. This has has vitiated the peace that has existed with various communities for millenia. Why Orissa Orissa has been specially targeted because of a huge tribal population.

the root cause of conversion and reconversionBy: k.S.Rao | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 8:41:30 AM Reply | Forward Dear Sir: All historical facts confirm, people of India suffered most than any one else due to foreign invaders as muslims and christians who conducted human carnage on the natives of India the hindus in a savage manner for about one thousand years beginning 721 A.D What was India was described by Max Muller in his " India, What It Can Teach Us" which says: If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow..in some facts a very paradise on earth.. I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of the choicest gits has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life and has found solutions of some them which well desrve the attention.. I should point to India. Mr. MacAuley said " we could not vanquish the natives of India the hindoos the same way we did to natives of America.."If that happened I or Mr. Mahanti wont be here today.

Chandra SG reread the verdictBy: charan gill ,patiala | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 7:35:42 AM Reply | Forward Many BJP leaders themselves are concerned about the party's growing isolation because of being perceived as a threat for the communal peace and harmony.We know Modi and Varun are targeted in BJP's inner party struggles.These reality feelers in BJP demand a shift saying goodbye to its discredited hindutava for a change in the party image.India does not need communal tensions and controversies anymore.Why not opposition parties focus on struggles for the uplift of poor people instead of activating fault lines of history?Here in Punjab we know fully well what we suffered because of a similar communal tilt of Sikh fanatics.I think you need serious introspection instead of finding a defense in voting percentage analysis and reread the verdict to appropriate its true essence which is scripted very carefully and is impregnated with the truly Hindustani spiritual values and what is rejected is Aurangzebi spirit of imposing mono culture.

Reply to Kali MahantiBy: Hary Nambiar | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 7:15:04 AM Reply | Forward Thanks for the statistics Chandra. Proffet (Kali) Mahanti, your arguments are based on limited information. A small minority of Christians and Muslims own most of the land in the world. They also exploit the resources of land they do not own. So do they exploit the relatively poor world population! Christianity and Islam are the social tools of exploitation of these small minority groups. Many alien groups had invaded India. What invaders commonly do is take over the resources, and enslave indigenous people. The Brahmins, whom you seem to hate, are relatively poor and own very little real estate. They live a simple life and raise their children with discipline and subservience to God. These qualities help them to excel in education and their work. They would not object to temple entry if every one is vegetarian, a quality one evolves into. The social problems you mentioned are the products of social evolution, for which the Brahmins had limited control.

@Chandra SGBy: Brahm Upadhyay | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 6:22:54 AM Reply | Forward Chandra SG,if you ask any Hindu from a decent and educated family the you will find that not even 2% of our total population would follow LeT or taliban and communal like sanghparivar. Total 100000 persons all over our country wanted to attend the sanghparivar meeting which did not take place because of heavy rain. Now 100000 persons are like a drop of our Hindu urine in the toilet.If we Hindus altogether piss on one of our neigbours then they will drown.We Hindus were and still are never communal, but it is the taliban like sanghparivar which has been misuseing our Hindu Dharma to gain control of our country by mixing religion and politics lie osama, but we Hindus did not except these rouges. Because we Hindus do not believe in demolishing or burning Mosques and Churches, and we do not even believe in raping and murdering our mother and sisters likes from the Sikh,Muslim, Christian, Dalit or any other race or religion. So shut your gub and do not preach hatred on our Hindu names.

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