Bad Examples....

A couple of days back, i had a chance to go via the Marina Beach road. There i noticed that the statue of Kannagi stood with all its glory. After all the controversies about the presence / absence of that statue, the Tamil Nadu government has atlast managed to place it back there. Infact, this is one of the main action items that the new government has mentioned in their election manifesto and they have promptly executed this one. ( very useful to the state!!!?? ). Now they can feel proud and boast about their great achievement !!!.....

The new government talked as if the whole image and the growth of the state lies only on this statue and by placing it in its original location, they have regained the lost image and purity of the tamil tradition. This seems to be absurd. They created a lot of problems when the statue was removed from its original location during the reign of the previous government. They behaved as if a great sin has been committed to the tamil culture and that TamilNadu will face lot of problems when this status is removed. But, no such bad effects was found to haunt the Tamil people after the statue was removed. Now, it should be nearly 2 months since, the statue was placed in its place. No significant improvement to the tamil culture, tradition or the lives of the people was found ever since this statue was placed.

This amuses me a lot as to how our bad politicians can play on each and every move carried out by the opposition government. I wonder whether all these are important?? Whether that statue of a lady can change so much?? Will it change the face of TamilNadu?? How rudiculous the political parties are to wait for a small opportunity to blame the opposition?? How ignorant we people are to stil follow these leaders and talk high of them, inspite of all these childish stuffs they do?? Are they concerned only about this statue when there are lots n lots of problems remain unattended??

On thinking more on these lines,...Does the statue deserve all these respect..???? leave alone the statue.. does the lady KANNAGI deserve all these respect???? is she worth so much??? what significant thing she did in her life to gain such a big name in our tamil literature??? the answer that i got for all these questions is a BIG NO.....

Infact, she has set a BAD EXAMPLE for the generations to come. Let me not describe her story again. But, it was very crude and unhumanitarian on her part to destroy the whole of the Madurai town for the loss of her husband. The Pandian king being the real culprit in giving out his judgement, how come its right on her part to burn the entire Madurai thereby claiming the lives of thousands of innocent citizens?? Is claiming the lives of the innocent people is a great bravery act to be placed in the history books??? She could have punished the king alone or did anything else not to affect the poor people. For all her lunatic behaviour which deserved a punishment, she was given a great honour.

Its even more disheartening that her life has been taught to the young school students as a part of their curriculum. They are mislead by this behaviour of hers and made to assume that, its fair to affect the lives of the civilians just to get thier work done. No wonder, nowadays there are lots of clashes, strikes and terrorist activity. Even the most recent Dharmapuri bus immolation incident is similar to what Kannagi has done. Dont blame them. They have been brought up in that way.

Not only kannagi, even most of the personalities in our so-called epics and godly tales have set a bad example for us. If its Rama in Ramayana to doubt his wife after all the struggle to retrieve her from Ravana, its the turn of the Pandava brothers to gamble over their wife. Lord Krishna is said to have lots of wives, the forerunner of existing custom of polygamy.

The worst act was performed by Lord Shiva. The poet Nakeeran was reduced by flames by him. The guilt of Nakeeran is being honest?? For finding the fault in the poem composed by the Lord and saving his King from awarding the prize to a poem that doesnt deserve the prize, he was punished. From that period, it has been considered as a sin to be honest. Nowadays, many of the rare honest officials are being punished for being honest and discharging the real duties expected of them. The fore-runner behind this is the Lord himself.

In all, our fore fathers have mislead us by telling the stories of people who have played with the lives of others just for their selfish motive. This way, we were made to praise and follow someone, who doesnt deserve such a treatment. All the ancient stories and personalities has set real bad examples for us.

Dont know where all these will lead to??????????????????