By Syed H. Hashmi
We are witnessing a country sinking into savagery and even cannibalism. It’s a pity to say that it is our own country. Where are the feelings of glory and pride in our freedom? Do we still enthuse about our triumph over the British subjugation of our land? Do ‘we the people of India’ still sing the paean of the people’s liberty? Rejoiced and gratified in our dream of a nation of diverse creeds, tastes and aspirations. The soothing feeling of communal harmony and a shared sense of achievement, however, proved evanescent and deluding. There were at least two strains of hidden desire in the psyche of the majority community. One was a long cherished dream of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and the other was an expansionist ambition for an ‘Akhand Bharat’.
Whereas the founders of the new independent India as a ‘secular, democratic republic’ had intended it to be an institutional polity to serve as a means for promoting the welfare of the nation and progress of the country along enlightened principles of a liberal society, a countercurrent of retrogressive thinking was running through the veins of our body politic. These were the people who preferred to call themselves, not secular-democratic Indians, ‘Hindu nationalists’. They had a well-grounded conviction and belief that India had a long heritage of Vedic provenance which was interrupted by the entry of foreign elements first in the form Muslims rule and culture and then in the guise of the British Raj. They began to treat these foreign elements as if they were some abnormal and morbid excrescences on the visage of our national identity.
Their diversivolent tendencies systematically stirred passions of strife and hatred towards the ‘foreign’ presence in the land of their ancestors. Schemes of pathogenic hatred, malice and bigotry began to supplant our habits of courtesy and mutual comity. Surreptitious dismantling of our heritage of civility and consideration towards each other was/is on the rise. It is inconceivable to hope for a healthy pluralistic society to thrive in an environment of distrust and suspicion.
When people are swayed by inflexible credal convictions their natural charitable disposition and their feelings of brotherhood atrophy and their moral suppleness attenuates. This vitiates and ruins our communal prosperity and peace. The society that is continually emerging is woefully divided along lines of communal prejudice and distrust. This is further aggravated by a partisan media that churns out tendentious news coverage to corrupt the mind of the general public.
Rampant malfeasance, corruption and venality in the public services promote ill-will and animosity between people. This reflects adversely on the government of the day. Such obnoxious trends further stoke divisions among people and they cease to exist as a unified community. The prevalence of moral decadence in all fields of life is sundering the bond of mutual care and respect among the people. This has resulted in an irreconcilable rift at the heart of the Indian society.
All these trends of moral decadence and negativity have pushed the Indian society towards the edge of the cliff. The saner voices, although in minority, have been trying to salvage the pluralistic and amicable texture of community as a whole but all their efforts appear so tenuous in the face of such hostile formidability.
During the past several years we have witnessed the unsettling ascendancy of communal belligerence of the saffron clan. Human logic fails to understand this phenomenon of gratuitous violence in the name of holiness and faith. The indefensible savagery of mob-lynchings, communal riots inflicted on defenceless hapless people, and destruction of sacred places. This is the newly acquired impulse of unmitigated revanchism that incites people like Suraj Pal Ammu of Karni Seva to stand in support of killers of an innocent youth in Haryana. Karni Seva is a caste-based militant group of sanghi stock. A young Ram Bhakt Gopal, who shot at a peaceful assembly of people at Jamia, Delhi protesting against the iniquitous legislation of CAA, was recently seen in a reprehensible mood of acharnement and saffron machismo at a mahapanchaiat gathering. Yet another fautor of bhaktdom is a lost man from Hyderabad. His name is Raja Singh. They have all self-assigned the task of stoking animosity between communities.
Such bigoted characters are victims of deviant behaviour. Perhaps in a mood of aberration they have fallen into folly. They need sympathetic intervention to rescue them from the abyss of moral degradation. We should not lose hope and continue our efforts to reclaim them through persuasion and concern. A day will come when they will see the light of knowledge and wisdom and mend their ways of ignorance.
The Indian nation a rich blend of faiths, culture, customs, languages, habits, and aspiring ambitions is the pride of the Indian heritage which must be protected, perpetuated and preserved for our posterity to cherish and curate in the annals of world history. My Indian brethren of all hues and creeds, of all inclinations and aversions, of all tastes and appetites, of all fortes and foibles, of all manners of dress and food let’s come together and build a unified nation of peace, enlightenment, prosperity, national pride, charity, respect, mutual concern and love. Let us shed all our prejudices and distrust and build a nation ‘of hammered gold and gold enamelling’ to keep our name alive in the history of the world
You call to shed all our prejudices and distrust. Also to build a unified nation of peace, enlightenment, prosperity, national pride, charity, respect, mutual concern and love. Yet, you use words like Hindu nationalist, saffron clan, sanghi stock, bhaktdom and saffron machismo. What would your reaction be if these words were replaced by their Muslim equivalent i.e Islamist, desert clan, jihadi stock, mullahdom and muslim machismo. Do your indian brethren of all hues and creeds, of all inclinations and aversions, of all tastes and appetites, of all fortes and foibles, of all manners of dress and food, also include the people whom you call the very same names ??? If you are a liberal, stand for true liberalism, not an oft-reapeted claim that India is in danger and needs saving, and the idea that only an Islamo-Leftist can save this country.
“Secular Hindu” aka lying Hindu gutter rat
Shut your lying smelly Hindu extremist ass reposting the same garbage nonsense in all comment sections, RSS sh1t eater. You don’t believe in India, you don’t believe in the Indian constitution. You don’t believe in equal rights for all Indians. You’re a traitor who wants a terrorist Hindu rashtra. Muslims made India great, gave it its national identity, and made it the number 1 world economy…Hindus turned the country into a failed fascist sh1thole.Your hatred of Islam is a reflection of your jealousy, filth and inability to do anything right. Yet you rent your mothers out to make enough money to get work visas to go to Muslim countries to clean our toilets. You even rely on Muslims for oxygen.
Ungrateful haram khor Hindu bastards are disgusting hypocrites. Waiting for that 3rd Covid wave.
Did you even read what I said ??
Stop talking about fairy dust out of your smelly ass.