HINDU SUPREMACY? ... 1

HINDU SUPREMACY? ... 1

What is meant by Hindu supremacy? Getting back suppressed Hindu rights? Installing the Uniform Civil Code and thus setting the nation on an equal footing for all where there will be no special laws for specific communities? Repealing of Articles 370 and 35A to integrate Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of India and allowing for the Indian Parliament to pass laws that will be valid there and the Indian Constitution in totality to be valid there as well and for commercial activities of all kinds to be possible there also as ought to be the case? Abolition of the triple talaq?

Of course vandalism of all sorts and criminal activity in the wake of these changes cannot be condoned. The law enforcement agencies must not be tampered with by the Government and they must be allowed to function in line with the very Constitution it so espouses so vocally.

Is India to lose her Hindu civilisation by persistent political appeasement of the major minority community? Resisting this dangerous activity of erstwhile political dispensations which have thus worked against Hindu interests -- is this the Hindu supremacist attitude? Is continuous giving in to dangerous demands by the minority community right from pre-partition days the correct political approach for India? Is succumbing to communist agenda that caters more to foreign interest aligned to its ideology the way ahead? Or, is adopting a nationalist stance in real earnest the proper path for onward India? Is doing so to be interpreted as being a Hindu supremacist?

Hinduism alone recognises the validity of all cultures and religions but the ones that accuse it of being otherwise are themselves exclusive. Let them do some introspection and come to terms with their narrowness first before they point fingers at the Hindus for being supremacists. It is they who are by scriptural sanction supremacists and cannot bear the Hindus getting to live it their way in their homeland. I say so because Hindus in all Islamic nations are denied the rights that Muslims rightfully enjoy in India which is their homeland as well, and this must be well understood in every sense of the term. Let the Muslims raise their voices against Hindu oppression and/or denial of rights in theocratic Islamic states like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, to name but two of the 50 odd Muslim-majority states the world over. Then there will be greater trust between the two communities.

And do not forget intolerant language-loving Bangladesh which got its independence from persecuting Pakistan with the military and civil help of India, only to repay in ungrateful terms by continually persecuting the minority Hindus there till they are vastly reduced in numbers. Hypocrisy has its limits.

Now brood on.

Written by Sugata Bose