Who has created this segmentation, and why?Ĭolumnists often face the impossible task of balancing the forbidden (not everything can be written) with the forsaken (not everything can be ignored). But the slogan of “Jai Shri Ram” has become an enigma for most Indians as its content and spirit do not match. This community village market is a cultural space for embedded normative exchanges which highlight the most pristine national inclinations. A shopkeeper greeted them delightfully with “Jai Siya Ram”, but surprisingly, the sadhus appeared highly displeased and shouted back angrily, “Say ‘Jai Shri Ram’, ‘Jai Siya Ram’ is wrong.” There was a bit of a tussle and the sadhus, who were perceived as a nuisance, were made to flee by a united front of shopkeepers. On the morning of 6 April 2021, in Gurugram’s Nathupur village market, three young boys in their early thirties, clad as sadhus, went from shop to shop, asking for money with thunderous slogans of “Jai Shri Ram”. A worrisome incident that left many from metropolitan areas appalled is a recent encounter which shows an emerging power semantics of public space. A genie that had been throttled in a bottle since 1947 appears to have been released.
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