Those who care about India should read today's article by Shri M D Nalapat in the editorial section of the daily Times of India titled 'Hindutva helps Jihad'. It is a succinct, crisp and spot-on analysis of how we are aiding the nefarious plans of the country's enemies by carrying on behaving in amateurish manner about the religions and regions in India.
Today everywhere you see, we are either fighting with our own brothers either for religion or then for region! We call this country our house. Then why are we fighting to wrest control of every room from the others? Is a 'house' made up of rooms or people? The Muslims eternally complain of partisan treatment (not entirely wrongly). The Dalits complain and struggle for more! The Bodos struggle for their land. A certain Raj Thackeray for Mumbai and Marathi. Abu Azmi for God knows what! Karnataka with Tamil Nadu for water. North East for independence. Jammu for Amarnath Shrine board. Naxalites for communism (in spite of the fact that they should be grateful India has tolerated them for so long!). We have now been at eternal strife for more than a decade!
If we see closely, none of these strifes merit attention. We are a free country with right to live and behave as they please to its citizens. But our laws and particularly, the politicians in the country really need some soul-searching to be done. Have they not made every effort to make sure that the country is kept simmering? Have they not made the heinous crime of taking lives for their selfish gains? So-called leaders have always seen their own good and no one else's! They have not bothered about the country at any moment. They won't ever - at least till we start demanding better things and better deals from them. We need to start speaking out.
Take the case of Hindutva and conversions to Christianity. It’s an open and shut case that the tribals and illiterate poor will convert to Christianity because the gullibles realise that they will get help in money and food from the church. Can the Hindu temples not start taking care of the locality? Why can the Hindu temple not become an institution to start making this society a better place to live? Why cannot the purohit at the temple start preaching to one and all how encompassing this wonderful religion is? Why can he not start propagating the fact that WE ARE ALL HINDUS! Hinduism is NOT a religion but a WAY OF LIFE and we all are hindus by that definition. It is the narrow minded selfishness that has trickled down to the lowest levels in this society and the utter lack of a bond called 'nation' that is taking us down.
We need to make our voices clear and call out in one voice that we are not Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Marathi, Dravid, Assamese, Bodo, UP walas, etc! We are Indians ... nay ... we are Bharatiyas ... that's the name of our nation, ain't it? For that, the new social order needs created. We need to break the shackles of reservations and compartmentalisms that the politicians have forced on us. Once and for all. This will in turn ensure that we stand up against the enemies and that they don't find easy support for targetting us amongst us!
Let us stand up for our nation. If only we want to survive with our heads held high...then NOW is the time.
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