Tuesday, November 24, 2015

How Intolerant are we really?

Of late there is a lot of noise going on in media about raising intolerance in India.  Lot of bashing from 'celebrities' (குண்டூசி விக்கிறவன், புண்ணாக்கு விக்கிறவன் எல்லாம் செலிப்ரிட்டி), #Awardwapsi stunts, lectures on tolerance from  #AamirKhan,  countered  by   #AppWapsi   and Anupham Kher.  I started wondering if we are really intolerant and the answer is NO. 

·        When we tolerate Jaya's response to Chennai floods (#Jayafails)

·        When we tolerate flood waters entering our living room

·        When we tolerate people dying at hands of negligent govt officials  (#Velachery)

·        When we tolerate Kejriwal joining hands with Lalu

·        When we tolerate #Pappu pushing democracy deeper in to our country

We are indeed very tolerant. Sometimes, too tolerant that we look stupid to the eyes of many 'tolerant' people. Seriously people have too much to worry rather than being intolerant towards minorities.

All the media #Presstitutes keep propagating this absurd campaign ever since #Modi has taken charge.

A request to all the tolerant, intellectual people who lecture us on Intolerance:  Please do not provoke the really tolerant people, for one can only be so much tolerant.

Sivaraj Subramanian