Date: Tue Jun 2, 2009 6:36 pm
Subject: Have We Really Arrived?
I often wonder if time travel was entirely possible what our ancestors who made a perilous journey across the Atlantic ocean henceforth we are here. would think of us now.
To begin with I firmly believe we are the architects of our destiny and we shape it daily. When one would traverse the length and breadth of this land we would realize how disgusting and lewd our so-called Indians behave. On several occasions I had to ask people attending a Hindu wedding at a temple not to consume alcohol on the temple premises to which the response would be one of vile and contempt sneers and responses, "Arrived Indians".
When you drive through the streets and villages you would see all the rum shops wide open and well patronized by whom?,"Arrived Indians".
When any right thinking individual listens to the average conversation amongst East Indian young men their biggest achievement is how many bottles of liquor they have consumed.
Ask them to attend a Temple or a religious function; that is like asking them to amputate a limb. Mind you, there are some who join the pentecostal and open bible faith and suddenly become Holiest of them all. They suddenly know the Lord but when you were a Hindu they were godless.
The most disgusting is at the Chutney shows where the most vile and demoralizing behavior is on full display. I once remembered attending a wedding at the Chinmaya temple at Reform near Gasparillo where there were two Indians, like myself, Wining and gyrating in a most vulgar manner in front of the murtis of Lord Shiva and Mother Durga. When I asked them to stop they wanted to fight. Brothers and sisters these are a few observations of my own of the behavior of our own people.
The issue goes even further - in the village where I live the most famous event is Ramleela. It is well attended but when one takes a closer look at the behavior of these people involved, the participants display a chutney carnival behavior surely not becoming of an event like Ramleela.The same vulgarity is displayed at Phagwa.
The most amazing fact is the leader of this group is a Teacher at a Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha school. His behavior is the worst of all yet he is rubber-stamped by the SDMS.
Looking deeper we hear the great Sat Maharajh saying that Gopio should not get funding from the government. Who is he to decide? Why doesn't he tell the nation the reason for this is sour grapes over the exit of Devant Maharaj from Gopio.
I admire Deo Bisnath for returning the check to the PNM. Why did Sat not be as honorable and do the same since you are a mouthpiece of the COrPse.
Brothers and sisters my point is simple when we can behave in a manner befitting respect we attain such but in the meantime as long as the Chutney Rum culture continues we are going on the wrong path.
The first and foremost institution of learning a child has to attend is the home and when the younger generation of Indians are totally unaware of our rich heritage and culture Indian Arrival is only a state of mind.
Always remember "When we forget where we come from then we don't know where are going."
Maneesh Dhanoo.
Proud Indian and Hindu
