the ARYANS: redacting the scriptures

A dazzling narrative of the people of Kerala, a southern state in India, during the nineteenth century to the present - a compelling read as the pages turn.The reader glides over the landscape amazed by the life of the working-class under the overlords of the earth, their conflicts, their tender hearts and brutal forces, their inevitable destiny by birth, the alienation from reality by gruesome superstitions enforced on them through their own Vedas to keep them like cattle so the lords get a luxurious life without doing any work other than praying to the hundreds of gods in Sanskrit (away from the eyes and ears of the slaving folk) for the sake of the toiling slaves. Then comes the swell of awareness that ‘all are equal before the law’, and ‘equal justice for all’ spilt over from the late waves of post-renaissance Humanism in Europe, brought in by the missionaries that followed the British business establishments that sided with one king against another eventually India in one hand becoming a slave depot for the British empire where the sun never sets and in the other a nation whose educated strata got inspired by the works of British philosophers.The humorous fallacy of a Sanskrit chanting group doing nothing else, claiming nobility bestowed on them by the God of the working class is narrated scene by scene with vivid images. Mary Astell's theory on 'bad customs' and oppression is in action in this real-life example. And how the nation struggles against that oppression - how human compassion and romantic love become actors in aiding the society towards democracy. Read more