Sonu Nigam, who compared the self proclaimed controversial Radhe Maa to Ma Kali and earned the wrath of people on social media, took to facebook and in a long post, defended himself.
Singing sensation Sonu Nigam, raked up a controversy when he compared self-styled Radhey Maa to Goddess Kali, which became fodder for social media.But then, he didn’t stop there.
And in order to defend himself, the singer posed a question on Facebook asking people, “How does the number and length of clothes on a person define his/her Spiritual Quotient?”
He even pointed out that India has the Kumbh Mela where thousands of naked Naga sadhus roam around, a country that has Digambar Jains who don’t wear anything for religious reasons, but has issues with a woman merely wearing a short dress in her personal time. He even mentioned that he had never met her but in his eyes, she is someone’s wife, someone’s daughter and many others, who call her a mother.
He wrote:
To my fellow Indians… To the people who both do, and don’t have the honesty to read a message in it’s real context, interestingly … Over the years, we have created another kind of rowdy mob of hooligans, a Twitter Mob, that has no boundaries. That will mercilessly and pointlessly abuse and attack, you could be a senior actor, you could be someone’s wife or mother. They don’t care! But I put across my point in Complete awareness of the consequences .. I know that religious hypocrites go on offensive when they are cornered philosophically. Rational point of views , have always received brickbats initially before the wise of the society come together to empower it.
# Point 1, I have no clue who she is.. Never met her… But in my eyes, she’s someone’s wife, someone’s daughter, and many others, call her a mother.
# Point 2, if she’s proven guilty by the law, she’ll be punished by law. Before that, she’s as respectable a citizen as you and me. And more so since she’s a woman in a country infamous for it’s rapes and atrocities over women.
# Point 3, a country that worships Kaali Maa, who’s depicted in the least clothes, (and I’ve been ok all my life with it, so should everyone else be), has the galls to judge someone’s spiritual quotient by his/her attire! A country that has a Mela called Kumbh, where thousands of Naked Naga Saadhus roam around; a country that has Digaambar Jains who don’t wear anything, for religious reasons, has issues with a woman merely wearing a short dress in her personal time! How does the number and length of clothes on a person define his or her Spiritual Quotient?
# Point 4, we have issues with her dancing on songs, most dancers like Hema Malini, portray Durga ballet on stage regularly. So? Big Deal? If her devotees have no issues with it, why should we be bothered? They see their God in a dancing Guru, many others see their God’s in a Sai Baba Idol, or a Shiva Idol!! What then is a difference between those terrorists who call everyone else who don’t follow Islam as Kaafirs, and us? Where does religious freedom go?