Tolerance

(Above two pictures are by Aaditya V )

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... putting to the ultimate test, intolerance

If India and Hinduism can be so tolerant, to put up with all sorts of depictions and games with its gods, from frivolity, triviality, to downright desecration, how does one explain the outrage that we show at every nook and corner of the smallest of events in print, in speech, in song, in literature -- in fact, in everything. What is more aggravating is that the display of outrage is always unpredictable and violent in the extreme.

Our gods are so kind, thank you, but then, why don't they wake up from their slumber and luxuriant, sumptuous hedonism, to admonish and punish the perpetrators of either the revolting treatment to them before, or after; or to bless them to be equally tolerant of the right to expression an opinion, so long as it does not trespass on Constitutional admonitions and the judiciary.

Also, please visit my earlier post: Ganesh