India's Ex-president Mr Mukharjee's Speech At The RSS Headquarters: The Right, The Secular And The Victory

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But then, when Nehru, the loved chacha and a pundit, yet a socialist and the 'last English ruler of India', got a chance to be India’s first PM through unclean emotions rather than the democratic provincial voting, he did not want to leave. To this end, like him naughtily bestowing Bharat Ratna on himself, he opted for the addition of minority votes to retain his premiership - in addition to socialism - and disregarded Hindus. Secularism, thus, took birth in the Indian mind. But then, unlike its western cousin, Indian secularism is not only strange and contradictory, but has a dark side to it. It didn’t come out of the needed referendum or even a full quorum of parliament, but was brought in the parliament in the darkest time of Indian democracy- the emergency. Yes this so called national ethos of India was inserted into the constitution during the emergency imposed by Mrs Indira Gandhi, when most MPs were in jail! It is that shallow.Curiously however, despite that de jure status, India's de facto workings are still Hindu. This is because, to the detriment of the feelings of the Christians and the Muslims, officially it still uses namaskar; and lighting of lamp is done before official ceremonies. In addition, leaving aside Pakistan to name its missiles in the name of Muslim killers of Hindus - to add to a Hindu India - it still invokes the names of ancient Hindu personalities for its achievements like rockets and the rest. But then again, almost suggesting covertly done job is never perfectly done, a closer look at the constitution will reveal that even that de jure status is Hindu. For example, beef and pork in the British guns incited its 1st war of independence. But, disregarding Muslim sentiments and even 'respect of all religions' - as is very much trumpeted - its constitution still seeks ban on cow slaughter not on pig. Its direction to preserve Hindu culture doesn't show respect to Islam. And, preservation of Christianity is left to the Pope alone - who appoints all Bishops in India. However, irrespective of the above, the Indian intellectuals are still zapped by the buzz word 'secular'. This speaker could not remain aloof, and in addition not quite being an acharya the slogan, 'Hinduism is a personal faith' would grip him too. The fact is that Hinduism is neither personal - as the Indian' academics believe, nor a 'way of life', as the 'scarcely Hindu' Indian Supreme Court wrongly suggests. With rajdharma (duty of a ruler) under a guru being well prescribed in the religion, like in Islam, politics is, in fact, inherent to Hinduism. In addition, despite the gross twisting of secularism in India to wrongly mean 'respect of all religions' - which itself incidentally comes out of Hindu coffers - secularism isn’t Hindu at all - however hard it is twisted!Although Muslims and Christian cheer secularism for mundane gains, cheering absence of divine in the state simply amounts to promoting atheism in society. It, thus, becomes a sin in those faiths too. In addition, with India still being de facto Hindu, the Semitic faiths haven't gained much either. Incidentally, tracing similar history, secularism wasn’t good for Pakistan either; for it was an anticlimax to the built up of Muslim emotions, and Jinnah died a sad disrespectful death very early! It's not all bad for the Hindus, though. Supported by the reduction of minorities and ex Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan, the killings and forceful expulsion of Kashmiri Pundits and making them refugees in their own country, and the Christian North East offering heathen look at the rest and even seeking separation from Hindu India the Hindus at least got 'India is secular because of Hinduism'. India, thus is not secular in its practice. But then, does it have secular ethos as the grand old sire of the Congress Party with huge experience (He was regarded as the savior and the only thinker in the party) said in a few words, or did the believing Hindu, knowingly or unknowingly actually speak like a RSS man - in so many words? Let's see: For a start, neither Emperor Ashoka, whom he quotes, who sent Buddhist missionaries and who's chakra is in India’s flag secular, nor the Indian states of the 6th and 7th century that the Chinese travellers wrote so eloquently about were so. COMMENT AT BLOG

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