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In this editorial episode, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin's defense of his son, Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, in response to the controversial remarks Udhayanidhi made about Sanatana Dharma.
Stalin clarified that Udhayanidhi's comments were not intended to offend any religion or religious beliefs but rather expressed his views on Sanatan principles that discriminate against Scheduled Castes, Tribals, and women. He pointed out that the term ""genocide"" was not used by Udhayanidhi in either Tamil or English, and accused certain quarters of spreading false information.
Stalin questioned whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had mentioned Udhayanidhi's remarks during a ministerial meeting, was speaking without verifying the facts. He also criticized Modi for focusing on the Sanatan issue while ignoring other pressing matters like Manipur and financial irregularities highlighted in the CAG report.
Stalin accused the BJP of using this controversy as a political tactic to create divisions within the opposition alliance and suggested that it was not genuinely concerned about discriminatory practices in Sanatan. He criticized Union ministers for not retracting their statements despite Udhayanidhi's denial.
Stalin emphasized that leaders with experience and commitment to the country should avoid engaging in divisive politics for political gain and should instead work to protect the country from the BJP.
He mentioned historical figures like Periyar, Mahatma Phule, Ambedkar, Narayana Guru, Vallalar, and Vaikuntar, who had spoken against regressive Varnasrama, Manuvad, and Sanatan ideologies that justified discrimination based on birth and the oppression of women.
Stalin also highlighted instances of individuals promoting caste discrimination and oppressive ideologies in modern times, using the term Sanatan to perpetuate the oppression of women. Udhayanidhi's remarks were directed at eradicating such practices.
Finally, Stalin asserted that the DMK's motto is about unity and promoting the well-being of the poor, and the party advocates for a peaceful life for everyone, regardless of race, language, or caste. He stated that the BJP's attempts to tarnish the DMK's reputation would be unsuccessful.
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In this editorial episode, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin's defense of his son, Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, in response to the controversial remarks Udhayanidhi made about Sanatana Dharma.
Stalin clarified that Udhayanidhi's comments were not intended to offend any religion or religious beliefs but rather expressed his views on Sanatan principles that discriminate against Scheduled Castes, Tribals, and women. He pointed out that the term ""genocide"" was not used by Udhayanidhi in either Tamil or English, and accused certain quarters of spreading false information.
Stalin questioned whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had mentioned Udhayanidhi's remarks during a ministerial meeting, was speaking without verifying the facts. He also criticized Modi for focusing on the Sanatan issue while ignoring other pressing matters like Manipur and financial irregularities highlighted in the CAG report.
Stalin accused the BJP of using this controversy as a political tactic to create divisions within the opposition alliance and suggested that it was not genuinely concerned about discriminatory practices in Sanatan. He criticized Union ministers for not retracting their statements despite Udhayanidhi's denial.
Stalin emphasized that leaders with experience and commitment to the country should avoid engaging in divisive politics for political gain and should instead work to protect the country from the BJP.
He mentioned historical figures like Periyar, Mahatma Phule, Ambedkar, Narayana Guru, Vallalar, and Vaikuntar, who had spoken against regressive Varnasrama, Manuvad, and Sanatan ideologies that justified discrimination based on birth and the oppression of women.
Stalin also highlighted instances of individuals promoting caste discrimination and oppressive ideologies in modern times, using the term Sanatan to perpetuate the oppression of women. Udhayanidhi's remarks were directed at eradicating such practices.
Finally, Stalin asserted that the DMK's motto is about unity and promoting the well-being of the poor, and the party advocates for a peaceful life for everyone, regardless of race, language, or caste. He stated that the BJP's attempts to tarnish the DMK's reputation would be unsuccessful.
#MKStalin #UdhayanidhiStalin #SanatanaDharma #TamilNadu #DMK #Periyar #BJP #PMModi #Stalin #Hinduism #SujitNair #Dravidian #SanatanDharma #HWNews
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00:00 Namaskar. Welcome to another episode of editorial.
00:04 My today's episode is on a subject that I have never spoken before in my life because
00:11 this subject has been very private to me. It is something that I hold very close to
00:18 my heart. So, it's a very, this subject was very private to me. So, but I am going to
00:22 share some of my point of views with you on that particular, on the particular subject.
00:27 But the topic of the day is MK Stalin comes in defense of his son. He says, "VJP is spreading
00:36 wrong narratives about Udayanidhi's speech." So, let's talk about it. Let's get right into
00:43 the show.
00:49 So after a long silence, Stalin has come out in defense of his son Udayanidhi. Now what
00:57 Stalin says is, listen, you know what he says, "Bharatiya Janata Party is spreading a lot
01:02 of wrong narrative." In fact, he went on to say that he, that is Udayanidhi, never used
01:10 the words genocide in either Tamil or English. Still lies were spread claiming so. If Bharatiya
01:19 Janata Party needs any further explanation regarding what the minister spoke, they should
01:25 go consult RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. So this is what he said. He went on to say that it
01:32 was disheartening to hear from the national media that Prime Minister Narendra Modi during
01:39 a meeting of ministers had mentioned Udayanidhi's remarks needed a proper response. The PM has
01:46 access to all the resources to verify any claim or report. So is the PM speaking unaware
01:54 of the lies spread about Udayanidhi or does he do so knowingly? Stalin went on to say
02:00 that Prime Minister who failed to fulfil any promises was attempting to divert attention
02:08 by invoking the Sanatana. He said, "Neither the Prime Minister nor his ministers has replied
02:15 to issues like Manipur to the 7.5 lakh crores worth irregularities highlighted in the CAG
02:22 report but conveyed a cabinet meeting on Sanatana." Can these leaders truly protect the backward
02:31 caste, schedule caste, tribal people, upliftment of movement? Stalin went on to say that India
02:38 alliance seems to have rattled Modi who has been proposing one nation, one election policy
02:46 out of fear. Stalin further hitting out at the Uttar Pradesh government for not acting
02:54 against Ayodhya priest who offered a bounty on Udayanidhi's head but filed cases against
03:00 the minister. So he said, "How fair is this? How fair is this that you are filing suit
03:09 against my son, the minister, but you are not filing any kind of police complaint against
03:15 the priest who said that give me the head of Udayanidhi, I will give you 10 crores."
03:21 Now DMK president also went on to say that leaders like Periyar, Mahatma Phule, Ambedkar,
03:27 Narayana Guru, Vallar and Vaikunthar had spoken out against regressive Varna Srama, Manuvath
03:35 and Sanatan ideology which justified discrimination on the basis of one birth and the oppression
03:42 of women. Now before I get to my analysis, let me also tell you one more interesting
03:50 thing which Stalin said. He said, "Notably a governor, which he is referring to his own
03:56 governor that is Tamil Nadu governor R N Ravi has openly supported child marriage and claimed
04:02 his own marriage was a child marriage. If we initiate legal action against those who
04:09 conducted child marriages, he defends them and lays stumbling blocks for the investigation."
04:15 This is what he said. He went on to say that Udayanidhi spoke against such oppressions,
04:21 ideologies and called to eradicate the practices based on those ideologies. He asserted that
04:27 DMK's motto of "One clan, one God. Let's find that God in the happiness of the poor.
04:33 We have promoted our ideology through enlightenment, eschewing violent means to achieve our goals.
04:42 If the BJP believes that they can tarnish the reputation of long-standing party like
04:46 DMK, they will find themselves sinking in quicksand." So these are things which Stalin
04:54 said. Now I have spoken about this earlier once. I did an editorial on this particular
05:02 subject once before a couple of days back. The reason I am doing this editorial again
05:08 or I am covering this topic again is because as a channel, as HW News Network, our identity,
05:18 the reason we exist is because we wanted to talk about religious tolerance, social harmony.
05:27 That's why we were there. We went through raids. Our journalists were arrested. All
05:34 because those girls went there and spoke about how one particular community was troubled.
05:42 They spoke about that. They had to go to jail. With our limited resource, we fought our case
05:51 and we stand in front of you. With our limited resource, we still run this channel and I
05:56 am there in front of you every night at 10 pm. The only thing that is keeping us going
06:04 is the fact that we are contributing whatever little, but we are contributing to bring about
06:11 religious harmony, to talk about religious tolerance. You see, the same vigour and the
06:19 same way we spoke about that particular incident in Tripura about the minorities, that same
06:27 vigour I want to talk about today when a majority or a religion is questioned. See, religious
06:35 tolerance is religion agnostic. Any religion you go against, it is against religious tolerance.
06:46 Any religion you go against, it is communal. This is point number one. My point number
06:53 two. My point number two is a lot of people I heard, I followed, I used to read, a lot
07:04 of people I realised change definition, definitions to suit an environment. So, if a particular
07:16 environment hints you or wants you to mould a definition to suit that environment or to
07:25 suit that audience, a lot of people do that. A lot of people do that. And I was shocked
07:34 to see so many definitions of Sanatana Dharma, therefore, floating. And each of these so-called
07:41 experts carving their definition according to which audience they wanted to put that
07:49 definition to, which I felt very strange. See, I am not a proponent of Sanatana Dharma.
07:58 I don't know anything about Sanatana Dharma. But what I am going to do today is I am going
08:06 to talk on a few points, I am going to put up a few definitions which are globally accepted.
08:13 And then let us look at a lot of the narratives that have been spoken about recently and then
08:19 you decide whether you find the narrative right or these definitions right. You see,
08:27 the point is, according to Britannica, Sanatana Dharma is defined as, in Hindu term used to
08:38 denote eternal or absolute set of duties or religiously ordained practices, incumbent
08:46 upon all Hindus, regardless of caste, class or sect. Different texts give different lists
08:56 of duties. But in general, Sanatana Dharma consists of virtues such as honesty, refraining
09:03 from injuring living beings, purity, goodwill, mercy, patience, forbearance, self-restraint,
09:13 generosity and ascetism. Sanatana Dharma is contrasted with Swayadharma, one's own duty,
09:23 Sanatana Dharma or the particular duties enjoyed upon individuals according to his or her class
09:31 or caste and stage of life. So, this is what Sanatana Dharma stands for.
09:38 See Sanatana Dharma focuses on virtues of honesty, virtues of not harming another life,
09:48 virtues on being pure, virtues of having mercy. This is what Sanatana Dharma stands for. The
09:58 point is, when a lot of people who define Sanatana Dharma, defines the Dharma, it focuses
10:07 on something called as Swadharma. Swadharma is part of Sanatana Dharma where they say
10:16 that regardless of your caste, class, sect, you have to do your duties. Now that's what
10:25 later went on to be defined as Varna Vyavastha, so on and so forth. But please understand
10:33 the concept of Sanatana Dharma. Sanatana Dharma is a grand old Dharma. Thousands and thousands
10:43 and thousands of years back, some people date it back to 4000, some 7000. At that point
10:51 in time, one normally saw a village economy. Every village wanted to be self-sufficient.
11:00 It was a village economy because between one village and another village, there was a large
11:04 distance and normally this distance was forest. So travelling was almost life threatening.
11:14 So every village wanted to be self-contained and for which it was important for the village
11:20 to have a doctor, important for the village to have a carpenter, important for a village
11:23 to have a cobbler, important for a village to have a priest, important for a village
11:27 to have a teacher, so on and so forth. Now imagine 7000 years back, there were no universities
11:38 and in a village structure, a university is not possible either. So there was no university
11:44 and therefore who is the best person to teach another person his profession? The best person
11:53 to teach medicine to another person is the father to his son because that's the best
11:59 person for a son to learn the profession from. So a doctor taught his son to be a doctor
12:06 or his daughter to be a doctor, a cobbler taught his son to be a cobbler, a teacher
12:11 taught his children to be teachers. So that's what it is. This ensured that the village
12:19 is self-contained and one fine day the village doesn't become doctorless or cobblerless or
12:26 carpenterless or potterless or priestless. This is why the concept of swadharma was priest
12:37 practiced in Hinduism. Now it's a different issue, it got metamorphosized. It got metamorphosized
12:44 where the brahmical society was formed to rule over others, to oppress others. All this
12:52 happened. But that was not sanatan dharma. Swadharma was horizontally distributed. The
12:59 duties were horizontally distributed. Nowhere in the religious books is it said that a cobbler
13:07 was viewed any lesser than a priest. Nowhere in the religious books. In fact to the contrary
13:12 which I will come to. The point is it was horizontally distributed. It is later on,
13:18 like I said, when we got metamorphosized, that horizontal became vertical. Then you
13:23 had the brahmins on the top and the shudras on the bottom. That was later, that was the
13:29 metamorphosis. Do not view both as one. You have to view them separately. This is what
13:36 was manifested. That is the original. You view the dharma for what it was, for what
13:43 it was made and not what it is. What it is, is a metamorphosis form. So because of a metamorphosis
13:49 form, because you have not practiced it right for all these years and decades and centuries,
13:53 are you going to blame the dharma for it? Are you talking about eradication of the dharma?
13:58 How fair is that? While brahmana was seen as or regarded as special as a priest class
14:07 possessing spiritual supremacy by birth, as a special manifestation of religious power
14:12 and as bearer and teacher of Veda, brahman have often been taught to represent an ideal
14:20 of ritual purity and social prestige. Yet, this has been challenged either by competing
14:30 claims of religious authority, especially from kings and other rulers or by the view
14:35 that brahmana is a status attained by the depth of learning, not of birth. Brahmana
14:42 is attained. You become a brahman because you learned, like you become a doctorate,
14:46 PhD because you studied. It is not because you are born doctor. You studied doctorate.
14:54 This was metamorphosized. This is exactly what I am saying. Now to prove my point about
14:59 the metamorphosis is, you see, Veda, Rig Veda for instance was supposed to be 1000 to 1500
15:07 BCE. Upanishads, 500 to 700 BCE. Manusmriti, 200 to 300 BCE. So look at how
15:16 things have changed from Veda which is 1500 to a Manusmriti which is 300 BCE. So there
15:24 has been metamorphosis. Now the second point about people saying that, oh Veda is different
15:30 to Sanatana and Sanatana is different to Hindu and all that. Listen, a normal Hindu is not
15:34 trying to do PhD here. A normal Hindu is trying to be happy in the faith that he or she is
15:40 practicing. That's the point I am saying. Brahmanical society is bad. No doubt about
15:46 it. No doubt about it. Because it's an oppressive society. Because any society that says that
15:51 one caste or one group of people are on the top, it is an oppressive society. But then
15:58 Brahmanical society is bad. Why are you blaming the Brahmans for it? There are so many Brahmans
16:04 who are fabulous, great guys. My point is, hatred to anything, towards anything is wrong.
16:15 Creating enemies out of anybody, any sect because they belong to that sect is wrong.
16:21 Regardless, regardless of what sect, whether it is minority, whether it is majority or
16:27 whether it is whoever, that's wrong. And as HW, that's precisely why I wanted to do this
16:33 editorial again. What is called for? What is called for is religious reforms. Religious
16:39 reforms. Reforming, being in the religion and reforming the religion. Not discarding
16:45 the religion. Not eradicating the religion. Like I said, nobody says no to religious reforms.
16:51 Everybody, any right thinking human being would say rest to religious reforms. Whether
16:56 Hindu, Muslim, whichever religion, every religion needs religious reforms. Every religion needs
17:01 religious reforms. And Hinduism is no exception. First, I think religion should be left to
17:11 religious experts. Politicians getting into religion is something that we have seen how
17:17 it is degenerating our country. It is not that targeting the minority is bad and targeting
17:22 the majority is good. It doesn't work that way. Targeting any religion is bad. Keeping
17:27 religion off politics is the best. If you really, really, really want to talk about
17:33 religion, if you have a view about religion, please express it. But please express it as
17:39 a reformist. Please express it and talk about reforms rather than eradication. A, you can't
17:46 do that. You will not be able to do that. B, you are doing nothing other than creating
17:54 communal disharmony. If the same thing was spoken as a reformist, from a reform perspective,
18:02 I think Uday Nidhi Stalin would not only have followers in his own state, Uday Nidhi Stalin
18:09 would have had followers right from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, including me. Because reforming
18:16 of religion is always a good act. Putting your point of view is always good. It will
18:22 be heard patiently. It will be heard respectfully. That's the point I wanted to make in my today's
18:31 editorial. Please do write down your comment. Let me know what you feel about it. And till
18:36 I see you next time, that's tomorrow at 10. Namaskar.
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