Putting history’s onus on present is greatest barbarity: Prof. Rahmat Tarikere
Mangaluru, August 11: The increasing trend of putting the history’s onus on present society is the greatest barbarity. In such a scenario, reading books will reduce prejudices; commented Rahmat Tarikere.
Addressing as the chief guest of the function, he said that literary readings were dwindling. During this sensitive period, arranging these sorts of programmes based on history books is genuinely appreciable, he said.
“Our nation has also become one such wretched country, where a religion turns as a weapon and creates a war-like situation within the citizens. Killing writers or putting them on hit-list merely because of their ideas is a dangerous development.”
“When a group systematically attacks society in the name of religion, a small lamp kind of struggle is right in such circumstances,” he added.
“History is filled with thoughts like Brahmins are casteists, Muslims are cruel, and Dalits are dirty. We need to struggle to break these believes. Good and bad people are there in every religion and community.”
Books provide the truth of the history that people keep on changing in the society. Hence it is one of the most urgent needs to take a look at the fact. History should create a future in the present, instead of turning as a weapon to break the society.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
