Guest guest Posted September 2, 2002 Report Share Posted September 2, 2002 If the concept of Hidutva is narrow, as some secularists think, the concept of secularism is even narrower. As B. G. Verghese writing again in 'The Tribune' (14 August) has noted, all 'isms' tend to ossify and so it is with secularism which Henry Cox in 'Secular City' recently described as "an ideology, a new closed world view which functions very much like a new religion" which "menaces the openness and freedom 'secularisation' has produced and must therefore be watched carefully to prevent it becoming the ideology of a new establishment". Further, Cox noted, secularism "clips the wings of emancipation and fixes a society on the pins of another orthodoxy". That is exactly what has happened in India. What happened in Gujarat was not Nazism, howsoever defined, but a revolt against Islamic violence and a determination to put it down for all times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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