[BJP News] Hindus are their own enemy

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>[bJP News] Hindus are their own enemy

>Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:18:35 -0800 (PST)

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>Title: Hindus are their own enemy

>Author: Tarun Vijay

>Publication: Hindustan Times

>March 22, 2003.

>

> Whether it is a Savarkar, Bhojshala or Ram temple issue, Hindus seem to

>be at loggerheads with Hindus so severely that it shames even a communal

>hate campaign between Muslims and Hindus.

>

> There are Hindutva-vadi organizations on one side. The other side is made

>of those who are influenced by a spectrum of Communist ideology expressed

>through innocent looking names and supported by `once upon a time

>nationalist' Sonia-Congress and sundry political parties. But the majority

>of them have Hindu leaders, pre-dominantly Brahmins. Parliament has a

>predominant presence of Hindu members and this government runs on a major

>share of revenue collected from Hindus.

>

> Still Hindus feel they are threatened and Hindu organizations behave as

>if they are a minority. Those who take up Hindu causes like banning cow

>slaughter and building Ram temple or entering Bhojshala are rebuked and

>attacked by Hindus.

>

> Recently, Prithvi theatre in Mumbai celebrated its annual festival and it

>began with Sadat Manto's comedy. Theatre represents our times, our pain,

>our joys, agonies and aspirations. Devoid of surrounding realities it

>becomes a dead ritual conducted in the wilderness of escapism. Having a

>look at the overall presentations of the Prithvi theatre celebrations, it

>was saddening to see a total absence any depiction of the Hindus'

>sufferings at the altar of Islamic terrorism.

>

> This is a typical example of a religious and a highly respected Hindu

>family totally disconnected from the contemporary realities of their

>co-religionists' pain and anguish. In a nation, facing worst ever

>terrorist attacks, which has witnessed 61,000 innocent children, women and

>men killed brutally by Islamic Jihadis in two decades, not a single play

>has been enacted by the theatre wallahs on it, who otherwise impress

>western audiences with their synthetic `down to earth' mannerisms.

>

> Sir Vidia rightly calls it Hindu amnesia. We fear even remembering our

>dead. How many textbooks in India tell our children about the sacrifices

>their ancestors made to retain and protect the culture and Dharma of the

>nation?

>

> More than a million Hindus were killed during the partition of India.

>They paid the price of their leaders' weaknesses and defeatism. They

>didn't demand the division. Muslims wanted it and got it at the cost of

>Hindu lives. We celebrate 15th August with a fanfare and gaiety that

>matches a New York carnival. Not a single reference is made to the

>barbarism faced by the

> Hindus.

>

> Laboratory of non-Hindus

>

> The North East has become a laboratory of all non-Hindu forces. In the

>neighboring countries Hindus are gradually being eliminated, harassed and

>converted. Bangladesh and Pakistan have shown extraordinary fall in the

>Hindu population post - partition and in

> Sri Lanka Christian proselytizers are having a field day `harvesting'

>poor and war torn Hindus.

>

> The worst opposition to a Hindu cause comes from a Hindu alone. In 1947,

>India got a truncated independence but Hindus, who bore the brunt of

>subjugation for centuries have yet to get the fruits of it. We have had

>many faithful Hindu heads of state who performed all sorts of yajnas and

>pujas to stay in power, and yet cow slaughter continues and Hindu temples

>are taken over by state governments. A faithful Hindu is still a target

>of jokes and mockery, and gets contemptuous references in the so called

>mainstream media. A Hindu leader declares with pride enhanced grants for

>the haj pilgrims but in the same breathe denies a single paisa increase to

>the grants for Kailas Manasarovar pilgrimage.

>

> K.M. Munshi has given an example of a Hindu priest, Shivrashi, in his

>famous novel Jai Somnath. Shivrashi brought Mahmud of Gazni inside the

>sanctum sanctorum of Somnath driven by his personal ambition to become

>chief priest. Gazni desecrated Somnath and then beheaded him too.

>

> We have lost more wars because of the enemy within. Can any Hindu leader

>remember when was the last time we won a war? After browsing six or seven

>or eight centuries we may reach 1971. That alone makes Indira Gandhi one

>of the greatest Hindu leaders ever. But we opposed her tooth and nail.

>

> Ram Janmabhumi was and is being opposed by more Hindus than Muslims.

>Abrogation of Article 370 is opposed by Hindus and so they oppose the

>common civil code and a ban on conversions, though all these issues have

>a direct bearing on their survival. But Hindus love opposing Hindus and

>making fiery speeches which mean nothing. Hindus getting killed and raped

>in Bangladesh has had hardly any echo in Hindustan. In Saudi Arabia,

>25,000 Hindus have been converted to Islam, but no one wrote even an

>editorial on it.

>

> Our hypocrisy hurts us. We are good at brandishing swords and trishuls

>but can't clean the neighborhood temple or stop demands for dowry. We

>worship Durga during Navratras and Puja, but kill a girl-child in the

>womb because Devis are for temple and sons are for the family. Our

>pilgrimage centers look pathetically unclean with pandas looting the

>harassed pilgrims and conducting pujas in filthy ghats with improper

>chanting of mantras. The moment you say something about reforming it,

>the high priests of our Hindu organizations declare you a dharma-drohi, or

>`secular'. We are awakened only when a Meenakshi Puram or a Jhajjhar

>happens. But how many of us celebrate Diwali with those Dalits whose

>`conversion' pains us immensely? How many of us go to their homes during

>Holi or take them to Bhagwat Katha Yajnas, so popular these days? How

>many so called `low caste' people are our friends in the normal way? We

>and our Sadhus, divinities in ochre robes, speak volumes about equality

>of humans and the need to love plants and stones alike. But we hate humans

>with `wrong' caste suffixes and bar them entering our homes and ashrams

>till they convert and change names to some David or a Khan. In UP, the

>`Hindu nationalists' could do nothing to improve the holy cities of

>Varanasi, Hardwar, Ayodhya or Prayag. Jagmohan gave several millions for

>Varanasi but all the money remained under-utilized and badly managed. The

>ghats at Rishikesh do not speak of the glory of a great Dharma and Ganga

>and Yamuna remains maili, because throwing filth in these holy rivers is a

>common Hindu karma and cleaning it is considered the government's Dharma.

>

> No Muslim invader is ruling these places but we Hindus have not cared to

>use the best in our Dharma for the betterment of our own society and

>environ. We love cows and worship them. But more than 90% of cow-

>Slaughter houses are owned and run by Hindus. Hindu industrialists and

>business men give more money to non-Hindu organizations to get fame as

>true `secularists' than they donate to Hindu organizations, and

>newspapers run by Hindu millionaires are the worst campaigners against

>Hindu causes.

>

> Will this continue for ever?

>

> We have come a long way and survived wonderfully, facing the onslaughts

>of invaders and our own hypocrisy for millennia. The undercurrents of a

>Hindu renaissance are becoming visible now. This is not only reforming

>Hindu society but is also preparing it to take on the united challenges of

>Islamic Jihad and aggressive Christian prosylitization campaigns.

>

> Hundreds of ochre robed sanyasins are working in the remote rural areas

>running schools, dispensaries and adult education centres. They have

>converted their temples into centres of modern awareness including free

>computer training for the poor. Not sufficient, but

> not insignificant either.

>

> A new Hindu is rising, full of energy, compassion and love, yet un-

>compromising in matters of nation and Dharma.

>

>

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