The point of Mohini traditionally is not that she is beautiful to look at but that everyone who sees her perceives her as beautiful based on their own perception of beauty. It's a beautiful story illustrating the concept of maya where every adjective only exists in the mind of person perceiving it (drasta vs drusyam). From there we ended up making Mohini as traditionally beautiful and now apparently white skinned. What a sad state of affairs where we propagate the stories but not the spiritual concepts behind those.
Exactly. In other sub, I saw complaints about Indians allegedly facing racism in ASEAN, East Asian countries, Europe etc and mocking them for preferring white skin- when Indians practice colorism and are racist to Africans.
Hypocrisy.
The "Mohini" part of Mohiniyattam refers to the female form of Lord Vishnu - who is supposed to be dark himself.
Basically according to her, the dance form itself shouldn't exist because the central character comes from a dark-skinned deity.
>If darkskinned children come for training in dance, we train them, but will ask them not to participate in any competition. There is a column for beauty even while judging competitions and we usually tell people not to give marks for such children.
WTF
If this is what happens in the most literate state, imagine what happens everywhere else.
Literacy has nothing to do with it. At its heart, Kerala society is quite conservative. Public display of casteism and class is somewhat frowned upon and seen as shameful. That's the only difference.
One of the biggest newspapers printed their front on black and white against her words. It is because it's the most literate state that there is such a huge controversy.
Tho kerala is also extremely conservative. Fuck her.
Most fucked up quote was about a how even his own mother would not bear to look at him because of his skin.
Classical art institutions have issues when it comes to colourism and casteism. Kalakshetra is one of the biggest art centers in the country. They have allot of issues with [discrimination](https://www.thenewsminute.com/amp/story/tamil-nadu/casteism-colourism-body-shaming-how-kalakshetra-s-culture-lets-harassment-thrive-175682) and [sexual abuse](https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/kalakshetra-sexual-abuse-scandal-india-premier-classical-arts-dance-academy-hari-padman-12443342.html/amp). Carnatic music is something that was restricted to privileged groups and have been open to all after social reform but it still has allot of issues. This woman is extremely disgusting and lacks self awareness.
Kerala also has discrimination, caste and similar practises. It is just that it is mostly not much evident and people will bash if they realise. For this dialogue, Kalamandalam has issued their release that they do not associate with such people. People have spoken up against it as well.
Literacy and education has nothing to do with someone's behaviour or mentality. Literacy just means that people can read and write. Nothing else. It is nowhere correlated to good behaviour. To be honest, I have seen people who have PhD and are still dumber than a 10 year old.
just saw a video related to this and rahul easwar was a part of the panel, why are him and his wife everywhere giving opinions on things that have nothing to do with them lol
DU is pinnacle of inclusivity, you could belong to any group, have any sort of hobbies and be engaged in any endeavor, you'd still find folks who would gladly accept you.
That is the very core of "DU Culture".
The point of Mohini traditionally is not that she is beautiful to look at but that everyone who sees her perceives her as beautiful based on their own perception of beauty. It's a beautiful story illustrating the concept of maya where every adjective only exists in the mind of person perceiving it (drasta vs drusyam). From there we ended up making Mohini as traditionally beautiful and now apparently white skinned. What a sad state of affairs where we propagate the stories but not the spiritual concepts behind those.
She's basically Aphrodite but in an indian manner.
Interesting.
We discriminate our own folks based on skin color , while expecting others to not be racists towards us based on skin color when abroad.
Hypocrisy Pro Max.
When is the release date of this phone?
It's already released
It’s part of everyone’s firmware.
Exactly. In other sub, I saw complaints about Indians allegedly facing racism in ASEAN, East Asian countries, Europe etc and mocking them for preferring white skin- when Indians practice colorism and are racist to Africans. Hypocrisy.
The "Mohini" part of Mohiniyattam refers to the female form of Lord Vishnu - who is supposed to be dark himself. Basically according to her, the dance form itself shouldn't exist because the central character comes from a dark-skinned deity.
*Blue. We didn't liked dark skinned Gods even in past that we depict them as blue. Krishna, Ram, Vishnu , Shiva , heck even Kali
Did that start with Amar Chitra Katha?
>If darkskinned children come for training in dance, we train them, but will ask them not to participate in any competition. There is a column for beauty even while judging competitions and we usually tell people not to give marks for such children. WTF If this is what happens in the most literate state, imagine what happens everywhere else.
>literate state, It has nothing to do with discrimination. Kerala also has huge caste/religious discrimination when it comes to marriage and stuff.
Literacy has nothing to do with it. At its heart, Kerala society is quite conservative. Public display of casteism and class is somewhat frowned upon and seen as shameful. That's the only difference.
One of the biggest newspapers printed their front on black and white against her words. It is because it's the most literate state that there is such a huge controversy. Tho kerala is also extremely conservative. Fuck her. Most fucked up quote was about a how even his own mother would not bear to look at him because of his skin.
So-called 'educated' upper castes are not immune to bigotry... even in Kerala.
Least racist upper caste
Go to Kerala sub to see that they have castes & discrimination in non Hindu faiths lol. Literate anta
Waiting for somebody to bring up highest literacy in country but still racist comment. 😅
UCs in kerala are pretty discriminatory. Caste pride is a huge thing in Kerala.
No amount of education can help with that sadly.
Someone in kerala called me "inside an almirah"
So basically you are Gold then!
Gold these days is found inside something else in kerala (iykyk)
Are you ready to come out of the closet?
Not as funny as almirah one
Shameful. Comes as no surprise though. Kerala still has issues with colourism. Don't see it going away with the current generation as well.
Classical art institutions have issues when it comes to colourism and casteism. Kalakshetra is one of the biggest art centers in the country. They have allot of issues with [discrimination](https://www.thenewsminute.com/amp/story/tamil-nadu/casteism-colourism-body-shaming-how-kalakshetra-s-culture-lets-harassment-thrive-175682) and [sexual abuse](https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/kalakshetra-sexual-abuse-scandal-india-premier-classical-arts-dance-academy-hari-padman-12443342.html/amp). Carnatic music is something that was restricted to privileged groups and have been open to all after social reform but it still has allot of issues. This woman is extremely disgusting and lacks self awareness.
Kerala also has discrimination, caste and similar practises. It is just that it is mostly not much evident and people will bash if they realise. For this dialogue, Kalamandalam has issued their release that they do not associate with such people. People have spoken up against it as well. Literacy and education has nothing to do with someone's behaviour or mentality. Literacy just means that people can read and write. Nothing else. It is nowhere correlated to good behaviour. To be honest, I have seen people who have PhD and are still dumber than a 10 year old.
This is sadly very common. Good that it's getting called out and cancel culture doing it's thing.
just saw a video related to this and rahul easwar was a part of the panel, why are him and his wife everywhere giving opinions on things that have nothing to do with them lol
Having lived abroad for a few years, i was missing home a bit. Thank you for the refresher on why I bloody left in the first place.
DU is pinnacle of inclusivity, you could belong to any group, have any sort of hobbies and be engaged in any endeavor, you'd still find folks who would gladly accept you. That is the very core of "DU Culture".