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, My advice: sit back and enjoy the show. It’ll last a few more days and then we’ll all go back to our respective foxholes.So what makes me think that the whole Ramdev business is a Mount Kailash made out of a pimple and that this silly government has overreacted in giving the yoga instructor so much importance? As an amateur anthropologist with a TV remote control, I have ventured forth many times into the zone known as ‘devotional channels’. This is where I first encountered rather spiffy telecasts of bhajan sandhyas and religious discourses. This is also where I first met characters such as Swami Ramsukhdasji, Avdeshanandji Maharaj, Munishri Tarun Sagarji and Yogrishi Swami Ramdevji.
It isn’t the religious bits that makes me go to these channels. What interests me is the parallel universe of mofussil culture and entertainment they contain. This is another chunk of the Real India, inhabited by people better off than the one always cited by the usual critics of neo-liberalism, and yet a more familiar version of Real India than the one we only get to read about.
While the media seem to have become besotted with their discovery of a yogi taking on the ‘secular’ world of nation-running, the fact is that these ‘devotional’ gatherings, many of them tailored for back-to-back TV programming, have never refrained from venturing into the world of ‘forgotten values’, ‘western influences’ and ‘rotten politicians’. It’s not only Geet Govind and bhakti ras dharas that we hear here.
Mixed with the live telecast of Gau Katha and awakenings of Brahma Kumaris, there have always been discourses about how a woman should behave, the value of hard work, as well as the need to rid corruption from ‘our heart as well as society’. If there’s been a purdah between the religious and secular, it’s been only in our minds, children of Nehru and watchers of news TV debates — not in this space that would have been familiar to Gandhi and Vivekananda alike.
So to consider Baba Ramdev’s ‘entry’ into politics as something radical is akin to believing that Columbus was the first man to discover the Americas.
While watching the Ramdev Show on Aastha televised from the Ramlila Maidan — remember, the grounds are as much host to Ramlilas as they are to political rallies — I found little difference from the programmes I see on Sanskar TV, Zee Jagran and Aastha.
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There he was, the yogi instructor, winking away and smiling, listening to other worthies on the stage. Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari broke into an open-mic remix version of 'Raghupathi Raghava Raja Ram' segueing into a speech about Bharat Mata.
Tiwari began with Mahatma Gandhi's favourite bhajan 'Raghupati Raghav Rajaram' and also sang other patriotic songs. A young sadhu, who claimed to be a Bhuddhist yoga teacher, was seen recording the performance on his Blackbery. Ramdev earlier began his
He was seen singing bhajans like 'Raghupati Raghav Rajaram' (a Mahatma Gandhi favourite) and patriotic songs on the stage. Before launching the “satyagraha against corruption”, Ramdev held a yoga and bhajan session during which he told the gathering
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There's been a whole lot of hullabaloo over the raunchy, in-your-face lyrics in the above mentioned song (and some others, particularly the one where the beautiful Deepika manages to look like a character from Evil Dead ). Frankly, if you don't like the lyrics, just don't listen to it. Lots of people are bothered by the fact that there will be 6-year-old kids who will go around singing this song (I'll be a treat to watch the expression of horror on the parents' faces though). Then again, kids see a lot of material on television which, when we were kids, was considered taboo. And if the kids want to sing it, let them. It's not like they know the intended meaning is it? Anyway, kids have been singing songs that are much more offensive than just an expletive. Don't believe me? Go back to your innocent childhood and try to remember some of the nursery rhymes you were taught. Ring a ring o'roses ? Brings a smile on your face? Can you see your little self whooping with joy, holding someone's hand (possibly a girl, let's make it even better) while going around in circles? You've been singing about the Great Plague. The Great Plague in 1665 threatened to wipe out half of Europe (the next one was called Hitler) and this song is a reference to the plague and its symptoms . You know what the 'ring of ros(i)es' are? They are the red rashes that used to appear on the body of the victims. Posies were herbs used to ward off the smell of the disease (they didn't have super qualified doctors or Munnabhai in those days). Nor was there Ashok Kumar . The husha husha (or whatever sound effects that our teachers taught us) are sounds of the final coughing and sneezing. You can guess what the 'all fall down' means. London bridge is falling down is perhaps one of the sweetest tunes that my muddled memory can recall. History suggests that it's about the burning bridge of London after the Vikings set fire to it. There is also another, more morbid angle. Apparently there was a superstition that a structure wouldn't last until a human sacrifice was made and used in the construction material. London Bridge seems to have children underneath it, but there is no evidence as such. So we have been happily singing and dancing away to murder, pillage, burning and we're worried about a song? If you're thinking, "Hey, I didn't even know this, so it doesn't count", think again. Remember 'Aand paand teri maa ki ****d? Remember what came after?
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