A Temple and a Mosque

 Dear Shri Gandhi,

 

 

Just read your article ( A new temple, a new mosque ) in today’s Indian Express , where you write

 

“ A new temple and a new mosque rising as a result of a Supreme Court direction for justice and reconciliation would lift everyone’s spirits. At this testing time, the Supreme Court may be in a position to add significantly to India’s peace and India’s honour “

 

I have been advocating a similar approach for past few years and have sent following email to the Cabinet Ministers , and the Supreme Court , last week

 

With regards,

 

Hemen Parekh  /  www.hemenparekh.in  /   www.3pConsultants.co.in

 

 

 

Thursday, 31 January 2019

 

 

Let Ram’s Ayodhya be Secular

 

 

 

 

This is exactly what I suggested some 6 years ago in my following email to our Policy Makers  :

 

Reach - Out Time ?    [   20  Sept  2013  ]

 

-      where I suggested as follows :

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At the disputed Ayodhya site , creation of a “ World Peace Complex “ comprising of :

 

 

·         Ram Temple    ( for Hindus )

 

·         Mosque           ( for Muslims )

 

·         Church            ( for Christians )

 

·         Temple            ( for Buddhists )

 

·         Synagogue       ( for Jews  )

 

·         Akshar-Dham    ( for Jains )

      Gurudwara       (  for  Shikhs  )

 

 

·         University for Comparative Studies of World Religions

 

·         Hospitals ( like Netralaya / Hridayalaya )

 

·         India Heritage / History Museum

 

·         Business Convention-cum-Industry Exhibition Centre

 

·         Tourist Complex

      

 

 

·         And right in the center of the complex , a giant statue of the “ Father of the Nation “

 

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Over the past 6 years , I made the same appeal repeatedly to :

 

 

#    All political parties

 

 

#    VHP – RSS – Sunni / Shia Boards – AIMPLB etc

 

 

#     Supreme Court

 

 

 

Then yesterday I came across the following news report :

 

 

“ Maharashtra ex-vice-chancellors propose ‘secular’ solution to Ram Mandir issue “ 

-       which reads as follows :

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“ The size of the disputed land is very small .

 

 However, there is a barren plot of land, measuring 67.7 acres, which was acquired by the government in 1993

 

 

We are writing an open letter to the Prime Minister that the government should construct ,

 

 

#  the Ram temple on that plot , and should build

 

 

#  mosques , churches, and places of worship for other religions as well,

 

 

#  besides facilities for pilgrims , and

 

 

#  a library

 

 

 

 

----- said , S N Pathan , drsnpathan@gmail.com

former Vice-Chancellor of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University and the founding president of “ The Vice Chancellors’ Collective “

 

 

 

Pathan added that this could be an “ acceptable and secular “ solution to an emotive issue and complimented the government for having appealed to the Supreme Court to release the plot of land for temple construction

 

 

 

“ Ours is an open letter; it is just a proposal on our part. We hope to gain support for this from various stakeholders “ , said Sharad Nimbalkar ,{ dgicm_nagpur@yahoo.com }

 

 

- former VC of Punjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University

 

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Dear Presidents of all the Political Parties ,

 

 

 

 

Even as you may be anxiously waiting for Shri Piyush Goyal to read out the Budget speech in the next hour , I urge you to remember that the Vice Chancellors are our GURUs

 

 

And, in India we have a tradition of ,

 

 

#  revering them as “ Guru Devo Bhava “

 

 

#  offering “ Guru Dakshina “

 

 

 

There can be no better Guru Dakshina than to treat their wishes as our “ Agnaa “

 

 

 

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01 Feb  2019

 

 

Rsvp :  hcp@RecruitGuru.com