In reply to comments

There has been a demand from my readers from time to time to change the design and style of my site (earlier one before change) as it was not easily legible to them, may be because of deep colours. Necessary change has since been made and hopefully this should be in consonance of the desire of my esteemed readers as the current site if plain and appears to be legibly clear. Body of text apart, the two side bars have been retained by changing their location to extreme left and extreme right. If it still fails to tally with the demand so raised by my readers, I shall definitely go for another change. I am extremely thankful to my readers.

It’s a virtual clash !

Many a views, many a comments on my posts on Prithviraj Chauhan/ Sanyokta are there which are violently directed against each other turning into a virtual clash. History knows Prithviraj Chauhan as a great Indian hero as Indians recognize him. He is described as the one too who miserably lost to Mohd. Ghori. Since it is a matter hundreds of years old, it is not easy to establish a fool proof authenticity of facts and naturally therefore difference of opinion on several counts is bound to be there. What is more embarassing is the mode of address in respect of certain comments where it appears like the commentators have developed a personal disdain against me as if all the comments talking ill of Prithviraj Chauhan and Sanyokta are made by me only ignoring that I am the author and am not supposed to pass comments on my own posts. Several comments I had to delete or mark as spam as they contained so much of an abusive language with explosive slangs retaining ofcourse several others which could be tolerable. All are free with every right to express themselves and I do admire the many commentators who came out with a powerful data and substance to prove their view point for or against Prithviraj Chauhan and such comments are certainly praise worthy as they help in studying the history more closely. I have regard and respect for my readers but at times feel some what guilty as if it is me who made my readers quarrel among themselves at times in too aggressive a manner. I am continuing to work at my best to study and find out the true facts making a note to elaborate them for my readers after I feel satisfied on their authenticity and hopefully they may appreciate my approach.

Which caste Lord Budha belonged to ?

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Lord Budha, ‘Light of Asia’ and most divine a figure, was never the one to be confined to a caste as the world as a whole was his domain and he was humanity incarnate. Born around 6th century B.C., Gautam Budha was a Kshatriya, more popularly known as Rajputs and being son of king Siddodhan, his upbringing took place in Shakyan traditions as his father was of a Shakya sect amongst Kshatriyas ruling Kapilvastu. Gautam Budha himself is referred to as Shakyamuni. Later when Budhism was pioneered by Gautam Budha as a Sangh abandoning princely status and becoming himself a bhikshu moving from place to place seeking alms, his father Siddodhan had an objection contending that he should refrain from doing so as a Kshatriya can’t be supposed to live on alms. Gautam Budha’s reply to this was that as a Budhist he was neither a Kshatriya nor any other caste whatsoever, he belonged to a world where there were no caste barriers of any kind. Great Budha was not for any discrimination between a person and a person. Now that it is a total scenario of political domination on all counts, there are people to describe Gautam Budha as a non Kshatriya and that he belonged to a scheduled caste. No harm in belonging to a scheduled caste but there is no reason to far fetchedly over twisting the historical facts. One is supposed to be honest to history and no political mileage should be allowed to overtake the factual reality. The  mission one leads is much more important than the caste which one belongs to. Those who aspire to honestly persue Budhism are the ones who practice equality based on a cause and not the caste. They are not to indulge in erasing history.

No abuses, please !

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Needless to reiterate that I am extremely thankful to large number of readers who go through my posts on and emerging from ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -an answer to Yashika Singh’s question’ giving their comments, most of them so elaborately running into several pages. These comments have enabled me to realise how the great hero of Indian History, Prithviraj Chauhan is still loved by the people. He was certainly a legend and continues to be so even now with strong potentials of being taken as such by the future generations till eternity. But there is no dearth of those too who take liberty to ridicule him and his love Sanyokta in whatever can be the worst possible manner. After all all are free to express themselves. There are comments supporting Prithviraj Chauhan as a kafir (a slang describing a person as anti religion) contributing lot many factors by way of comments coming out with parallel versions like Prithviraj Chauhan was a coward, that he was badly defeated by Mohd Ghori, that his beloved wife Sanyokta was raped infront of Prithviraj Chauhan himself and that Ghori took her away to Ghazni himself getting married to her. Such versions lack authetication and may be they are nothing more than concoctions. These are the expressions which certainly require more of research in the matter to ascertain as to what extent the author(s) of such comments could be justified in their narrations. I am to take up the issue more elaborately in a separate post on this very site.

A very large number of readers sumptuously covered the topic much more at length giving reasoning and facts against adverse comments on Prithviraj Chauhan/ Sanyokta. It was an indepth coverage but there are certain comments which are full of slangs and abuses of a worst order against those talking ill of the hero. Expression with anguish is OK, nothing wrong in opposing some one’s remarks but I humbly make an appeal to my conscious readers to take due care of the language. Any amount of thoughts can after all be abundantly exchanged without being aggressively offensive.

Prithviraj Chauhan -his last days (3)

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As I wrote in my post ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -His last days (2), I have been going through lot many versions of narrations on the great hero by different other authors/historians to meet numerous queries raised by my otherwise quite inquisitive readers on the subject quite frequently. Although it is not quite possible to meet all the queries on individual footing, I do feel it is incumbent on my part to cover salient areas on the last days of the great warrior in a summed up form. I am thankful to many of my readers who gave me much of feed back to me by way of their comments. When badly defeated in the first battle of Tarain by Prithviraj Chauhan, Mohd Ghori begged for mercy and most kind hearted as Prithviraj Chauhan was he just spared him not realising that the invader was of a mean type and could behave in most treacherous a manner later on when getting an opportunity. He connived, saw to it that there was again a battle at Tarain. There again the Indian King emerged thumpingly victorious but before he could settle down with the victory he was conceitfully overpowered by the herd of enemy army, captured and dragged to invaders camp from where he was hurriedly taken to Ghazni. The story that followed is awefully humiliating with a volley of tortures on the Indian hero. He was blinded and so was done to his all time companion Chand Bardai, his court poet. As planned and worked out with dexterity by Chand Bardai, Prithviraj had a chance to exhibit his chivalry in bow and arrow skill which chance he took to brutally attack Ghori. There are two versions on this -one that his arrow could pierce the heart of Ghori killing him on the spot and the other that he was severely attacked but escaped. An eye witness account narrated by S.C.Sharma is there in his article in the Indian Express nearly a decade back as to how his grave in Ghazni is deliberately looked upon with disgrace and indignity by the locals in particular with a managed message from the referees for the purpose that it is here where the infidel king of Delhi lies burried. Nothing but highly unfortunate it is that the Indian King who fought and had to die for the country was denied his burial in his own country nor even his Indian counterparts or later the very Government of India took any pains to bring back his remains to India.

Prithviraj Chauhan -his last days (2)

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Many a queries are there on my earlier article ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -his last days’. Infact this very article was written by me to meet queries of this sort only by my readers. Now that I have been able to collect some more astonishing material on this through some new additions to my library, feedback by my readers and certain features on the subject appearing in media channels, I am working on completing a new writeup titled as ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -his last days (3) which hopefully should meet different questions on the topic raised by large number of my readers. The article is tobe published shortly.

Patience, faith, friend and wife

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It is the different individual faculties of a person which control and command his/her activities. Such activities are further based on factors, besides patience and faith, like the company of friends one has and also the life partner. The great poet Tulsidas has elaborately highlighted these areas in his Ram Charitra Manas emphasizing that in the event of some crisis or the other a man has to test his own amount of patience, he has to trace the remedy to the problem in his religious faith, he has to see whether his friends are really faithful to him and that he has to try his trust in his wife. He said it in a particular context of the story but the narration holds good for every body. All may look good, friends or relatives, but the factor as to how serious they are in conducting friendship as a true relationship can be tried only in times of crisis. Reference of wife covers a woman associate and there again the real test takes place only when there is some grave problem confronting an individual. One’s own faculties like patience and faith intact, a person is lucky if he/she has a company of trusted friends.

Wandering with the puzzles

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I rely upon and relish interacting with my laptop, it is joyful. Problem ofcourse starts when it starts behaving erratic pointing out errors after errors and working on their solutions gets worse confounded as it hardly leads to any conclusion. I get confused. From compatibility angle I have to use some different internet browser which helps on many counts but results into several new difficulties. These difficulties mainly emerge for the reason that one browser doesn’t tolerate the other. Who is to blame ? Is it that after working on computers for more than three decades I am still an amateur. Search engines, help, support, customer service all fail to deliver me any results. My problem is that my laptop is directly linked to my health and I lose my form feeling uneasy the moment my computer goes out of order or starts behaving irritatingly. Possibly the universal truth that something that interests you so much has a full length potential to equally behave otherwise.

Prithviraj Chauhan -His last days

Questions are raised every now and then on my writeups on Prithviraj Chauhan on various aspects of his life and valour. It may help me if the questions are elaborate enough to give them proper coverage. I am thankful to my readers. The latest questions raised by Neerja Gupta, Ritika and Krupz are in relation to whether courtship between Prithviraj and Sanyokta was a take over from their earlier acquiantance or it was a sudden event and that how he died. These questions are joined by certain other readers putting their query more or less in the same manner. Historians differ on these points and theirs are the views contradictory to each other. Picking up all these varying versions together read in the context of events in totality, what is normally summed up is that (1) Both of them didn’t meet earlier but as Sanyokta had heard of chivalrous roles of Prithviraj, she developed a feeling of love for him which culminated into Prithviraj picking her up forcefully from the Swayamber that was organised by her father Jai Chand and (2) Prithviraj was a sharp shooter with a capacity to shoot his target with an arrow merely on hearing his voice. It was done at the instance of Chand Bardai, the court poet of Prithviraj. Mohd Ghori somehow escaped, took a revenge, got both him and Chand Bardai blinded, took them away from the country where they were killed. This is supposed to be correct in view of the fact that Mohd Ghori is said to have survived 6 years after the said shoot out. The other version is that Mohd Ghori was shot dead on the spot by arrows of Prithviraj.

Pensioners are nobody’s babes

Pensioners are nobody’s babes unless they assert themselves is what they are getting constrained to realise in the context of this community being denied their due continuously. Traditionally interpreted as some sort of an exgratia, pension issue is treated as such only by the respective powers that be always pushing back downward the very natural concept that it is as good a basic factor as any fundamentally strong issue. If welfare measures are to count, they are infact the ones who need and deserve more on that count. Resource wise whatever they get residually in the name of pension is too meagre an amount to meet their requirement at an advancing age demanding so much of medical care and liabilities that remained unattended during their period of active service. What is more a matter of concern is that pensioners themselves are not found offering the required assertiveness and they remain confined to looking up to those who have tendency to take the issue as a secondary matter. Strengthwise numerically the pensioners are in much bigger a number now, thanks to Voluntary Retirement Scheme, and they are quite capable of being counted as a force but mere force or numerical strength by itself is not enough unless the required activity is generated with an accelerated movement. Pensioners in general or those from Banking Industry or particularly those from State Bank of India may have to garner and mobilise their ranks not limpingly but vigorously to secure the rights which are very much otherwise due to them.Sustained struggle, and not an apologetic approach, is the answer to such problems.

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