His statement is ignorant of the fact that wounds of many Hindus are still not healed. Recently Shashi Tharoor gave his opinion on the petition which was filed to scrap the Places of Worship Act he asks on Twitter why is there a need to dig old graves, why do Hindus want to slit open healed wounds. The author then questions whether any such apology or even acknowledgement has ever been given by Muslims. Hindus did acknowledge the oppressive acts that they projected and in terms of repentance have always upheld statutes which now guarantee representation to each and every successor of an oppressed class. I always had an answer that every religion has its uneventful past, but that should not make us reject the religion in totality. Here the author asks us questions through the story such as why did the Muslim invaders destroy our temple? Why were they bent upon propagating their religion? Does Islam and its religious text in itself portray something so horrible that it is conveniently put aside just as a unwise interpretation instead of analysing the theories which promote violence? It made me think about all those instances wherein I was being told that Islamic texts overtly talk about killing non-muslims as a way to reach god. Even though her father is no more, with his books and notes he is successful in convincing his daughter of the destruction that the Mlechhas (foreigners who invaded Bharat) had caused to the whole of Bharat. She visits her ancestral home after fighting on ideological stances with her husband to find loads of material collected by her late father on the history of the conflict between the two cultures- Hinduism and Islam.
SL BHYRAPPA KANNADA BOOKS MOVIE
A typical movie plot, right?īut it takes her no time to see behind the curtain of liberalism that her husband had covered his face with. It starts with a Hindu woman falling in love and eventually marrying a Muslim man against her father’s wishes. In spite of being a novel it will surely give you a glimpse of the history of the glorious civilization- Bharat.
The first question I had in mind after reading Aavarana was whether I was blinded by the Maya that not only people of other religions, but my own religion had forced upon me.Īavarana is written by the famous Kannada novelist SL Bhyrappa and its English version is translated by Sandeep Balakrishna. When they occur at the level of a group or the world, it is known as ‘maya’. Act of concealing truth is known as ‘aavarana’, and that of projecting untruth is called ‘vikshepa’.