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From: Prateek Arora
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
As much excited I got after hearing at start of your BBC World Service program on २८ April २०१० (http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/newspod/newspod_20100429-1557a.mp3) that there is a news piece on commencement of Hindu Holy Festival of Kumbh Mela, the largest Spiritual & Religious congregation of Devotees, Pilgrims & tourists alike in the world, the sooner I was disappointed by the under-researched, mediocre & at times offensive coverage of the same.
At the outset I would like to thank you for covering this great festival that brings people from every walk of life together but one would have hoped that BBC would have come out of its colonial hangover by now after ६० years. River Ganges, really? Can someone from BBC please show me that on map of Bharat? I have seen Holy River Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari and we Hindus have now found proof of Holy River Saraswati. History about existence of Holy River Saraswati was denied & whitewashed by, if I may use the now infamous words of Gordon Brown, bigoted British colonizers & Leftist historians. But where is this Ganges you talk about? Please address it as Holy River "Ganga".
Your reporter Chris Morris said "...where Hindu Mythology says drop from a pitcher containing the nectar...". I wonder when will westerners especially Abrahamic Desert religion followers will grow out of their impunity of offending anything & everything else as a "Mythology" (collection of myths) due to their Holier than Thou intolerant attitude? For sure Hindu "Scriptures" document our "History" but if it is "Mythology" as per you, then we should be in agreement that,
"splitting of Red Sea by wave of hands", "fire from sky wrote ten commandments on stone", etc. is Jewish mythology,
"walking on water", "turning water into wine by dipping finger", "resurrection from dead", etc. is Christian mythology,
and lets not even get into Islamic Mythology. It all sounds like a one-man show. An imaginarium of someone who was at the very least suffering with acute satyriasis, "woman is worth 1/4th of man", "women are made from rib of a men", "on judgment day earth will eat sun", "satan sits in nose at night", etc. http://www.faithfreedom.org/wordpress/?p=8070
If you don't agree then lets not get into this offending business. Hindus are not sitting ducks anymore at whom you can take potshots at will. Please learn to respect if you wish to be respected. If there is one principle I would expect a radio service of a Christian nation like UK to follow is Bible Leviticus १९:१८. It talks something similar to "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you".
By the way Sanatan Vedic Dharm (moniker: Hinduism) says the same & more: "One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self. This, in brief, is the rule of Dharm. Other behavior is due to selfish desires." Bhagwan Brihaspati, Mahabharat (Anusasan Parv, Section ११३, Verse ८) http://www.mahabharataonline.com/translation/mahabharata_13b078.php
I hope BBC takes my views into account and amend its biased ways in which it approaches topics on Sanatan Vedic Dharm, Hindus & Hinduism. Thank you for your time.
With Regards,
Prateek
From: Prateek Arora
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
As much excited I got after hearing at start of your BBC World Service program on २८ April २०१० (http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/newspod/newspod_20100429-1557a.mp3) that there is a news piece on commencement of Hindu Holy Festival of Kumbh Mela, the largest Spiritual & Religious congregation of Devotees, Pilgrims & tourists alike in the world, the sooner I was disappointed by the under-researched, mediocre & at times offensive coverage of the same.
At the outset I would like to thank you for covering this great festival that brings people from every walk of life together but one would have hoped that BBC would have come out of its colonial hangover by now after ६० years. River Ganges, really? Can someone from BBC please show me that on map of Bharat? I have seen Holy River Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari and we Hindus have now found proof of Holy River Saraswati. History about existence of Holy River Saraswati was denied & whitewashed by, if I may use the now infamous words of Gordon Brown, bigoted British colonizers & Leftist historians. But where is this Ganges you talk about? Please address it as Holy River "Ganga".
Your reporter Chris Morris said "...where Hindu Mythology says drop from a pitcher containing the nectar...". I wonder when will westerners especially Abrahamic Desert religion followers will grow out of their impunity of offending anything & everything else as a "Mythology" (collection of myths) due to their Holier than Thou intolerant attitude? For sure Hindu "Scriptures" document our "History" but if it is "Mythology" as per you, then we should be in agreement that,
"splitting of Red Sea by wave of hands", "fire from sky wrote ten commandments on stone", etc. is Jewish mythology,
"walking on water", "turning water into wine by dipping finger", "resurrection from dead", etc. is Christian mythology,
and lets not even get into Islamic Mythology. It all sounds like a one-man show. An imaginarium of someone who was at the very least suffering with acute satyriasis, "woman is worth 1/4th of man", "women are made from rib of a men", "on judgment day earth will eat sun", "satan sits in nose at night", etc. http://www.faithfreedom.org/wordpress/?p=8070
If you don't agree then lets not get into this offending business. Hindus are not sitting ducks anymore at whom you can take potshots at will. Please learn to respect if you wish to be respected. If there is one principle I would expect a radio service of a Christian nation like UK to follow is Bible Leviticus १९:१८. It talks something similar to "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you".
By the way Sanatan Vedic Dharm (moniker: Hinduism) says the same & more: "One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self. This, in brief, is the rule of Dharm. Other behavior is due to selfish desires." Bhagwan Brihaspati, Mahabharat (Anusasan Parv, Section ११३, Verse ८) http://www.mahabharataonline.com/translation/mahabharata_13b078.php
I hope BBC takes my views into account and amend its biased ways in which it approaches topics on Sanatan Vedic Dharm, Hindus & Hinduism. Thank you for your time.
With Regards,
Prateek
1 comment:
wah, i will modify this and send it again to them :)
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