The Miracles of India August 20, 2006
Posted by Rahul Razdan in Media & Entertainment, Politics, Zeitgeist.trackback
Yessir! It’s happening once again!
If Ganesh idols were drinking milk then, it is sea water turning sweet in Mumbai now! (In between we had the ‘monkey man’ in India’s capital city!)
The ‘milk drinking’ is due to the phenomenon of ’surface tension’ where the milk sticks in a very thin layer — practically invisible to the naked eye — to the edge of the spoon and travels from there to the lips of the idols, to the chin and all the way to the floor. If need be, please pick up a high-school physics book, and you would understand it very easily!
The sweetness of the sea water is being explained as post-monsoon dilution of salinity.
Even though I believe the scientific explanations completely, for me that is just one aspect of this issue.
The other aspect is — WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?
So what if the idols were drinking milk, huh?
So what if the sea water is less salty than usual, huh?
What does this do for you? Makes your life less miserable, huh?
Yet we have people (urban, educated and economically better-off) in this day and age falling for, and willing to swallow this crap (literally too**), in double-quick haste and not waiting/wanting to seek a logical/rational explanation for that.
And that’s the miracle for me, sadly!
Even as I close this post, I see news on India TV that the idols drinking milk scam is back, and I can very clearly see this time around it’s not about injecting the opium into the masses in an innovative way, but in a competitive way.
** Mahim creek, the site for this sweet water ‘miracle’, is otherwise better known as the point where passengers on Mumbai’s western train line generally get up from their sleep due to an overpowering foul sewage smell, while passing by!
Tension to Dudd Aur Surface Main Hain Is main, Aaap Kahaika Tension lateey Hain :-)
Coz it nullifies everything that we’ve achieved as a civilization :-(
If that is the case who saw heaven and hell but all civilizations believe it???
agree: people shouldn’t blindly fall for such bull.. stupidity….
no harm done to anybody ………. bull.. stupidity has different connotations……..
Anin/Anon:
Perhaps I am seeing only the hidden dangers. For me this is not an issue about ‘faith/belief’ etc. but about how easy it is for anybody to manipulate people. That has potential for causing a lot of harm, no?
[...] Why are we so tolerant of them? Because we have been told their curses (which are nothing but filthy abuses) would strike us! Not surprising, considering we are the same set of people who so readily believe that Ganesha idols occasionally start drinking milk and sea water with sewage concentration starts tasting sweet! And therefore even after all the harassment they subject us to, we implore them to ‘dua karo‘ for us. [...]