Happened In The Past
2020年11月19日 日常The Prime Minister in one of his rallies in Bihar mentioned the gruesome pogrom against the Sikhs in 1984 as a means to corner those who are protesting the growing intolerance of today. When those in power begin to dismiss anything they don’t like as partisan, motivated, unrepresentative and irrelevant, one can be sure that the spirit of democracy is in danger. The net result is an increasingly brittle nation perpetually in danger of fracturing into violence.
The debate on intolerance will not go away just because the government can organise counter-demonstrations by its loyalists. This only further emboldens and encourages such elements. Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, and the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, are only examples of a new breed of right-wing Hindu evangelism that self-righteously believes that any opposing opinion or critical voice has no right to exist.
This form of competitive communalism is hardly the sign of a mature nation. But, what happened in the past, on either side of the political spectrum, cannot become a reason to condone what is happening today. Anyone who criticises this government is either accused of having a political animus, or is considered anti-national, or is seen through the prism of his/her religion, or is dismissed as part of the regressive forces https://www.mmtex.top/product/polyester-spandex-fabric/polyester-spandex-fabric-a510-1-1-1.html that are trying to sully the name of India internationally.
This is, to say the least, both undemocratic and rather silly. Unfortunately, this is precisely what is happening today. The militant, intolerant and illiterate Hinduism that such forces represent is a blot on the refined, eclectic, tolerant and sophisticated philosophical foundations of Hinduism. Of course, law and order is the responsibility of state governments, and the government of Akhilesh Yadav, for instance, must bear some of the responsibility for the Dadri lynching. But it is equally a fact that the lumpen religious fanatics emboldened by the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh represent a pan-Indian phenomenon.
In the context of the growing disquiet on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s nurturing of intolerance, I was surprised the other day when a well-known anchor asked me on a live TV show whether I prefer econIn the context of the growing disquiet on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s nurturing of intolerance, I was surprised the other day when a well-known anchor asked me on a live TV show whether I prefer economic growth to the agitation on tolerance. The equation is not either-or. This can be seen in the Upanishads, where even a shishya or pupil had the right to question the guru.
The debate on intolerance will not go away just because the government can organise counter-demonstrations by its loyalists. This only further emboldens and encourages such elements. Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, and the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, are only examples of a new breed of right-wing Hindu evangelism that self-righteously believes that any opposing opinion or critical voice has no right to exist.
This form of competitive communalism is hardly the sign of a mature nation. But, what happened in the past, on either side of the political spectrum, cannot become a reason to condone what is happening today. Anyone who criticises this government is either accused of having a political animus, or is considered anti-national, or is seen through the prism of his/her religion, or is dismissed as part of the regressive forces https://www.mmtex.top/product/polyester-spandex-fabric/polyester-spandex-fabric-a510-1-1-1.html that are trying to sully the name of India internationally.
This is, to say the least, both undemocratic and rather silly. Unfortunately, this is precisely what is happening today. The militant, intolerant and illiterate Hinduism that such forces represent is a blot on the refined, eclectic, tolerant and sophisticated philosophical foundations of Hinduism. Of course, law and order is the responsibility of state governments, and the government of Akhilesh Yadav, for instance, must bear some of the responsibility for the Dadri lynching. But it is equally a fact that the lumpen religious fanatics emboldened by the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh represent a pan-Indian phenomenon.
In the context of the growing disquiet on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s nurturing of intolerance, I was surprised the other day when a well-known anchor asked me on a live TV show whether I prefer econIn the context of the growing disquiet on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s nurturing of intolerance, I was surprised the other day when a well-known anchor asked me on a live TV show whether I prefer economic growth to the agitation on tolerance. The equation is not either-or. This can be seen in the Upanishads, where even a shishya or pupil had the right to question the guru.
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