It continues, “their fear is understandable, with essential commodities becoming scarce, price rise hitting the common man... The Left predicament is worsened by the raging rural riots against the CPM supported ration shops in West Bengal. The party’s bourgeois character particularly under the UPA patronage is out in the open.”

Logic of Ram

RSS ideologue P. Parameswaran writes in the Organiser, “It was a pleasant surprise to read comrade Sitaram Yechury’s article ‘Misusing faith’ in People’s Democracy, dated September 23. It was a very smart ploy by the Marxist ideologue to demolish the faith of the Hindu people, not only in Ram Setu, but also in Ram Avatar”.

He says that Yechury exploited the ancient Dasavatara concept in order to refute the historicity of Ram himself, and says that, “the write up creates the impression that the Marxist leader accepts that the ancient sages of India were well familiar with the theory of evolution millennia before the Western scientist Charles Darwin propounded it... But, his real intention, in this case, is not to show appreciation of the wisdom of ancient India. He is applying his logic in a backhanded way to prove that avatars are only symbolic and none of them ever lived in flesh and blood. He also wants to establish that the concept of avatars is just a symbolic anticipation of the ‘historical materialism’ of Karl Marx. He is trying to provide a materialistic interpretation of the concept of Dasavatara and thereby take away any spiritual foundation in the hoary Marxian traditions of ‘logical positivism’.”

Ban, please

The Organiser reports that the “VHP has demanded a ban on the film Bhool Bhulaiyya for its offensive and objectionable song on Ram. In a letter to Union information and broadcasting minister the VHP said: ‘This is to inform you that promotions of a song ‘Hare Krishna Hare Rama’ from the movie Bhool Bhulaiyya are being aired intensively on all leading TV and radio channels. The song shows vulgarly dressed semi-nude girls and the lead actor dancing suggestively on pious chant of ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ and imitating Rama, Krishna and Hindu saints insultingly.’”