In recent interview , leading lyricist javed akhtar had made a important and wonderful point about thinking pattern of fanatics all cross the globe. He cited example about tulsi das and another muslim scholar. Tulsi das who wrote Ramacharitamanas which is said to be avadhi version of Ramayana. It is not exactly the “Awadhi version”, but the original one of its kind. Now tulisdas had to face outrage of many scholars of that time who considered awadhi version as disgrace since sanskrit is known to be language of devas. Similarly a muslim scholar translated quran from arabic to urdu. He too had to face outrage from other scholars for de grading quran to such a language at that time. Religious fanatcis all across the globe and all across history have had similar thinking … Read entire article »