THE GRAND ATTEMPT AND THE FAILED MISSION

THE GRAND ATTEMPT AND THE FAILED MISSION 

Christianity and Islam have a common failed mission, 'Mission India'. They have for tens of centuries failed to Christianise and Islamise India wholly. But do not be hard on them in judgement. They have tried hard and are still at it. Persistence pays but we have been niggardly in our Semitic engagement. Where we have been generous in keeping with our grand old principle 'Atithi Devo bhava' ['Guest is God'], we have succumbed to their snares with wholesale alienisation of our provincial polity post-perversion and eventual dismemberment of our motherland. But where we have seen through the demonic camouflage [reference: Raavan], we have restricted our movements within the bounds drawn by Lakshman to save ourselves for a future day when we can with increased vigour, altered circumstance and added arsenal wage a wider war to reclaim lost territory and influence, and restore our civilisation to pristine proportions. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose