His case proved once again: good cartoons never fade away, they just re-connect.
Old Lady: “Had you written a leader in 1982? He has come with an arrest warrant. For doing the writing that provoked people’s passions…”
Artist: वसंत सरवटे (1993) "सरवोत्तम सरवटे" संपादक: अवधूत परळकर, लोकवाङ्मय गृह 2008
Vasant Sarwate "The Best of Sarwate" editor: Avadhoot Paralkar, Lokvangmay Gruh 2008
Sorry about extracting an inference from a post that was referring to an entirely different context. However, I don't see how you could defend this post in the light of the cartoon you used to point the delays in securing justice in India.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't reply to the comment I posted there. However, sometime before that post you had published a post suggesting that Sant Ramdas' contributions were being unfairly denigrated for casteist reasons. Some time after that post you have written glowingly about Mahatma Phule's literary contributions.
As you might be well aware Mahatma Phule was instrumental in denigrating Ramdas' contributions. It was he who suggested that Ramdas might have been responsible for keeping Shivaji away from a Shudra saint like Tukaram. It was again Phule who in order to further his political agenda, which I think was necessary during the time of Brahmin hegemony, tried to whitewash the contributions of Dadoji Kondadev by writing in his powadas something to the tune of a fish does not need a coach (guru) for swimming. Given that Phule did all this with a blatantly partisan and mischievous agenda, I don't understand how you can write about Phule glowingly (and I assume defend his freedom of speech to write about Brahmins the way he preferred to) and yet castigate Hussian, who for all of Durga Bhagwat's mischaracterisations has actually studied the epics that he has supposedly denigrated for furthering an agenda which is purportedly no different in context than the one furthered by Phule.
I have not read what you say but it's likely that Phule said all that.
ReplyDeleteAnd may be he was right.
He was great and so too was Samarth Ramdas. Maharashtra is blessed to have leaders like them in the past. What is good about Marathi culture is thanks to giants like them.
V K Rajwade lambasted Marathi saints but it does not reduce importance of either him or the saints. Read Vinoba's book on the subject.
Great men are not right about every-thing, every-time.
For me MFH has not read even basic Ramayana. And he just is a mischief monger.
nice article. I would love to follow you on twitter.
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