South India!
Amazing food.
Beautiful cultural diversity.
Home of giga-chads
like Rajaraja Chola and Pazhassi Raja;
who was the custodian of Indian culture in the medieval ages,
a time when North India was under foreign occupation.
Be it the Vijayanagara Empire,
or gurus like Adi Shankaracharya,
or the most beautiful temples in India.
But unfortunately, in independent India,
India's cultural heritage has quite declined in Southern status.
Case in point, is what happened in Kerala this week.
Welcome back. In the name of secularism,
the Kerala government has banned Saffron.
Temple in Kerala has been asked
to remove saffron decoration.
You have to put up multicolored decorations,
not of a single color.
To use multicolored decorations for temple festival
instead of using the complete saffron color decorations.
So, let's talk today what happened in Kerala?
How has the South Indian culture
been suppressed
and how perhaps the cultural revival of South India is going to happen again.
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Hello, hello.
A very warm welcome to you in this episode of The Sham Sharma Show.
I am Sham Sharma, CEO of Secularism
and a secular salute to all of you.
So, there is a temple in Kerala
called Vellayani Bhadrakali Temple,
where every 3 years,
Kaliyoottu festival is performed for Mata Bhadrakali.
This is a very ancient temple
and the special thing about this temple
is that the priests and mahants here
are not Brahmins
but come from the blacksmith community.
But this year a controversy has arisen around this temple
because the Kerala Government and the Kerala Police
have asked the devotees of this temple
not to put saffron decorations around the temple during the festival.
With the local police
asking the temple authorities
not to use the saffron color alone
but to use multicolor
as it could lead to clashes.
The Communist Party of India
has also said the same thing on record in Kerala.
It is a great system
for communal clashes to not happen,
you don't fix law and order,
but start punishing innocent people,
as to why are you making a festival?
Now if carry your body and roam outside--
So, naturally the criminal will slaughter, right?
Instead of controlling jewelry theft, ban gold itself.
Instead of controlling drunk driving, ban the vehicles.
Instead of working hard to win the election,
ban democracy itself.
It's an awesome plan.
And this condition has not ended here either.
Police is saying that instead of doing saffron decoration,
do multicolored decoration.
They said we can't tie saffron,
but should be multicolored.
Sir, there's no party happening. Puja is going on here.
I have heard that Kerala Police hates saffron so much
that they are even thinking of banning the sunrise and the sunset.
They have also announced
that if you want to sell oranges in Kerala,
first you have to color them red or green.
We have such bright people with us.
Who knows, one day these bright people
may even declare the saffron of the Indian flag as illegal.
Now the police and the devotees of this temple say
that the police is not doing this.
It is basically the Government of Kerala,
which is trying to get this done through the police.
Police is merely listening to government.
CPI is saying that we want to put our flags there.
Political parties had put up their flags in this area
and after that when these decorations were put up,
there were complaints and that is why they had decided.
Now buddy why does atheist CPI
want to put flags in front of the temple?
Now you have left religion, now move on.
Hey bro, what's up?
Get lost from here. Get lost.
This seems just like Salman Khan standing 24 hours
outside Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal's house.
It's pathetic buddy, move on.
And see, unfortunately, this is not even the first time
that Hindu organizations or Hindu temples
are being interfered with, in this way.
You may remember the case of Sabarimala,
when a court case was filed
against the traditions of Sabarimala.
Let us tell you that Kerala's famous Sabarimala temple
controversy over the entry of women
has been going on for a long time.
Hindu organizations like RSS and BJP
are often attacked in Kerala.
A Sangh worker was again attacked in Coonoor.
A Popular Front of India leader has been arrested
in connection with the killing of an RSS worker
in the Palakkad district of Kerala.
PFI has gone on a violent rampage
and their target here, is the RSS and BJP functionaries.
So, in states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra,
the condition of Indian culture is very bad,
whereas at one time in the medieval age,
these were the states that had kept the Indian culture protected.
The Vijayanagara Empire not only preserved the culture of India
but also greatly enhanced it, at a time
when North India was under Islamic occupation.
According to the Portuguese traveler, Domingo Paes,
the city of Hampi was almost as big as Rome.
The Persian Ambassador, Abdul Razak even says,
that he has not seen any other city like Hampi in the whole world.
We find ourselves at the entrance
to the magnificent temple in the center of the city.
Iconic traditions and the jubilant celebration
of Tirumala Brahmotsav.
On top of that, spiritual teachers like Ramanujacharya, Adi Shankaracharya,
who further developed our culture.
So, what happened in the Southern states?
So see, there are many reasons behind the decline
of Indian culture or at least Hindu culture.
At least in Tamil Nadu a very big reason
is emergence of Dravidian politics.
Which started with a positive goal.
They wanted the caste discrimination
happening in Tamil Nadu to be stopped.
But unfortunately,
while trying to remove a bad structure,
they put in an even worse structure in Tamil Nadu.
Just like the way, to remove injustice from the world
many violent revolutions take place,
but often a worse structure is installed instead of the old bad structure.
For example,
when the Bolshevik Revolution took place in Russia,
after removing the Tsarist structure,
an even worse Communist dictatorship was installed there.
After removing the Shah of Iran in Iran,
an even worse i***mic dictatorship was imposed.
Similarly even in Tamil Nadu,
in trying to remove caste discrimination,
a very discriminatory system was put in place,
which was clearly anti-Brahmin.
The Tamil Brahmins of Tamil Nadu,
they are literally Jews.
1971, 75, 77,
a Tamil Brahmin says I am a Tamil Brahmin in Thanjavur,
take it from me,
the DMK will do something to you.
They come and deface your house.
They will bring Lord Rama outside your Agraharam,
put a chappal garland to Lord Rama.
In Salem, they've done it.
They have done it in Thanjavur.
They will do the most idiotic of things, to chase them away.
That is why some of the greatest talent of Tamil Nadu,
-is outside Tamil Nadu. -Fled Tamil Nadu, yes.
And an anti-Hindu movement was also formed.
The Dravidians are all influenced by the Church.
Bishop Ezra Sargunam.
Ezra, has close ties with the DMK
and has on several occasions supported them.
So, when DMK gets supported by bishops
there is more than just vote bank politics,
there is ideological-vested interest
in the form of promoting a racist Dravidian ideology.
On top of that, the British in Tamil Nadu,
also planted the Aryan and Dravidian theory,
that brothers Aryans have come from outside,
Dravidians are the native population of India.
Aryans forcefully pushed the native Dravidian population of India
and sent them to Tamil Nadu.
Despite this, modern scientific evidence
clearly shows that the people of India
are genetically very similar.
There is no Aryan-Dravidian divide.
There has never been a more diabolical hoax
in the history of this country
than the invention of the Aryan invasion theory.
In the same way, even in Kerala,
the communist movements developed.
Radical *** movements developed, like PF,
on which many allegations of ter***ism were made,
which got many attacks done on Hindu organizations
and because of those attacks,
they were also banned recently.
Another reason could be that the Southern states
have not been subjected
to Is***mic occupation for a very long time,
as it has happened in North India.
So, it is possible
that they don't clearly understand the danger of extreme **** ideology
as clearly as the North Indians probably understood.
And its political and cultural disadvantage,
today the Hindus there have to face,
is that especially in Kerala,
their population has dropped so much
that they have become politically quite irrelevant.
And those who are Muslims and Christians,
they often vote like a block.
So, the political demands of Muslims and Christians are considered,
the political demands of Hindus are not considered.
That's why the religious practices of Christians and Muslims,
go without interference
but there is interference in the religious practices of Hindus.
Be it Sabarimala, be it Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple,
be it Vellayani Bhadrakali Temple,
be it Kodungallur Bhagavathy Temple,
where efforts are being made to interfere with the traditions
because animals are sacrificed there.
There is one more religion where animal sacrifice is done
but because they vote like a block,
their animal sacrifice is not interfered with.
This is not only in Kerala,
it has also been happening in states like
Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka.
Political parties also interfere
in the temples of Tamil Nadu.
The priest of Tamil Nadu
has to give 60% ticket share to the government,
it does not remain with the temple.
In states like Tamil Nadu,
Christian rituals go without interference.
So, this is the condition of discrimination
in Southern states at this time.
And it seems that perhaps finally the Hindus of the Southern states
have started releasing
that there is a need to fight seriously against this discrimination.
Because just as the winds of Bollywood
are slowly changing,
in the same way it seems,
Hindutva is slowly flourishing in Southern India too.
Because see, the government of Kerala
is taking action on Bhadrakali Temple
because it is in an area
where the Hindutva movement is very strong.
This area was won by BJP in 2016
and in 2021,
there was a very strong competition between CPI and BJP
where BJP lost by just 4,000 votes.
In fact, the members of this temple
are elected from the Kalliyoor Panchayat,
a panchayat which was won by BJP back to back in 2015 and 2020.
And as I said, this temple also shows the power of Hinduism,
because the priests of this temple are not Brahmins
but come from the blacksmith community.
So this temple promotes the Hindu community
to come out of the caste barrier and unite.
And the Hindus here, despite the government's restrictions,
are not giving up on their traditions.
In fact, the police
which was trying to stop them from putting up saffron,
the pandal of the same police was turned into saffron by them.
And when the police stopped them from hoisting the saffron flag,
the women there decided that it is okay,
we all come wearing saffron blouses,
how will you stop now?
And see, despite the actions of the police and the government,
how many people have come out carrying saffron?
Despite the police instructions,
they have not removed the flags yet.
So, the police had given a notice in that regard
and temple authorities,
the managing committee of this festival,
they have not agreed for that
and they went ahead with this.
Means after watching this scene,
I remember this dialogue from the movie, Tanhaji,
''How will you destroy that saffron,
whose declaration is made by the sky itself.''
''Twice a day, before sunrise and after sunset.''
And in other states also, Hindutva is growing like this.
If you see in Karnataka, there is BJP government there.
At the time of the Hijab issue, you remember
how strongly the Hindu community came out
and how strongly even the RSS supported them.
Recently in Tamil Nadu, a young BJP leader Annamalai
is becoming very famous,
both at the state level and at the national level.
Very big crowds are coming in his rally
and he has also given very bold predictions for 2026 election.
150 is what BJP will get in 2026.
-2026? -Not one seat less.
This is the hope of the BJP
and the hope of the people of Tamil Nadu,
that he is going to emerge as a big Hindutva leader in Tamil Nadu,
in the same way as Yogi Adityanath came in Uttar Pradesh
and Himanta Biswa Sarma came out in Assam.
If you look at Telangana also,
it seems that BJP is getting stronger there too.
Big rallies are coming out of them also.
If you look at Hyderabad,
even in their Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections,
BJP has given a very good performance.
TRS was at a comfortable 99
without even bothering to campaign much,
This time they are decimated by 44 seats.
And seeing this rise of Hindutva,
the so-called secular
or anti-Hindu parties
are also changing their tactics.
Dravidian parties are also going and meeting Hindu Mahants.
A secular party like Congress
is calling itself a real Hindu.
Atheist communists are celebrating Shri Krishna Jayanti.
The Congressmen of Kerala are saying
that the government should not interfere in Hindu festivals.
Savarkar ji had rightly said that on day Hindus unite,
that day, even the Congressmen
will be seen wearing janeu outside their coats.
So, if the Hindus of South are watching this video
and if they think that bro,
how can we save our political interest and our cultural interest,
then see there is only one way,
you will have to unite politically.
Be politically united and start voting for such parties
which will take care of your interest.
If you make yourself politically relevant,
if you make yourself so powerful
that yes bro, elections can be won or lost by our votes,
then all political parties
will start obeying you.
It's important for the Hindutva parties also to show to the Hindus of South,
that yes brother, we can protect you from ****.
We can protect you from communists,
and anyone who wants to bully you.
Along with protection,
we can also get development done in your states
and along with that, we do not want to impose any Northern culture on you,
nor do we want to impose any Hindi.
If the Hindutva parties are also be able to give such a guarantee
to the Hindus of the South,
then it is possible that the Hindus of the South
and the Hindutva Party together
can again raise the Hindu culture in the Southern states
and develop Hindutva.
And I want to ask you
that according to you,
how Hindutva can be developed in the Southern states?
Do tell me your answer in the comment section below.
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