Intolerance.

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing great.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
-Patton Oswalt.

From past one week there is this buzz (intolerance) going around everywhere in our country. We are not getting into the details of what exactly is that buzz because it has already done so much of talking.

At first, let us understand what does intolerance mean? The word intolerance is derived from a Latin word in- meaning “not” and tolerantem meaning "to bear, endure.” It is an unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs.

So the buzz we are talking about, it started after the recent beef episodes in India which we are sure most of you are aware, we agree what happened was unfortunate and should not have happened.

But soon this issue shifted from page to page and from one topic to another and now has become page one media speak up in all forms.

Let us analyse are we the people of India intolerant? We have almost every faith in this world followed here and Indian constitution has given the freedom to practise your tradition and custom without asking many questions about it.

We are not to trying to quote that this whole thing is a media TRP winner.Defintely not but, we can tell that we do not know the whole story and we are just believing what the media says.

Have we ever thought about any possible proof for what is being telecasted in the prime time in media channel for that matter, we just sip our cup of coffee and enjoy the news and mind our own business there is another trend in the town which is discussed about what happened in the primetime yesterday and just forget about it the next morning.

We must also accept that even the news channels or the media as it is called holistically is a business.So the better you present the better you sell your news.

The speeches.

We would like to share a great person’s speech which happened way back in 1893, we all consider him as our guru and we admire him for his determination and purity Swami Vivekananda, yes he was the man who could see way ahead of time.

In a rare audio clip which we listened which was his speech in the world’s parliament of religions which happened in Chicago, We were amazed how his speech is matching this current discussion of tolerance and intolerance, he actually describes India as the mother of all religions and the most tolerant place in this earth which gave shelter to millions of Israelites' after their capital was taken over by the Romans.

He mentioned about fanaticism and the artificial intolerance waves that were created and would be created in future and he confirms these are the true enemies of people who depend in freedom.

Imagine when this great man faced these problems at that point of time; fronting the same problem now is very logical and natural.

Regarding this topic just two days back we listened to our defence minister Manohar Parrikar talking about this sensitive issue he says “here no one has to be blamed situation is the villain” and he also suggested some very good points he says that we must decide what media should telecast and not we seeing what they show. So based on the user ratings a news item is prepared and repeatedly re- telecasted that we all know.

We agree that some corners of the governing bodies are responsible for these debates and doubts to raise which is caused due to their unprofessional views and acts but we as citizens instead moving with the flow should evaluate the situation and stop spreading this mindless fire.

“Vasudeva Kutumbakam” is the slogan in the scriptures where we consider this whole world as a family that was the maturity that existed in India.

Let us be tolerant as how we were all these years and start thinking prospectively and lead a productive life.

Thanks for your time have a nice day.

Living with hope

Tejus R.S and Harish Murthy.