Ram
Jethmalani had on Thursday called Ram, the protagonist in the epic 'Ramayana',
a bad husband. Jethmalani was attending the release of a book on man-woman
relationship when he made the remark. Responding to a query, Jethmalani said
that Ram was a bad husband as he sent his wife Sita to exile for no specific
reason. "Ram was a bad husband. I don't
like him at all. Just because some
fisherman said something, he sent that poor woman (Sita) to vanvaas (exile).
Lakshman
was even worse. When Sita was abducted, Ram asked him to go find her as she was
abducted under his watch. Lakshman simply excused himself saying she was his
sister-in-law and he never looked at her face, so he wouldn't be able to
identify her."
In
this regard, I would like to say that the whole of Ramayana teaches nothing but
immorality, unethical practices, patriarchy at its worst. There is vrtually
nothing we can learn from this holy text or epic. It just depicts a very low
standard of culture and values so degraded as to send a pregnant lady to a
forest, as to cut a nose of shurphanakha so on and so forth. He killed Shambuk
without any reason.. His mistake was only praying and doing meditation. As per Vaidik
books, Shudra (Forth varna) should not have right to pray, meditate and read the holy book. There is no such thing
as gallantry or chivalry in ramayana, Ramayana is Indian hypocrisy at its best…
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