Hindutwa - True Secularism

Secularism! What a fabulous word in Indian Democracy!! But, when you ask someone what it means, most of would answer Secularism is being neutral in terms of religion. But does that explain the basics of Secularism?

In my school days I had learnt in the books of History and Civics which said – Secularism is tolerance, and respect towards other religion and people following particular religion. Secularism is something which India has been following from the Vedic period. There has been a saying that India believes from ages – “Vasudeva Kutumbakam”, which means the world is a family.
The name “India” was inherited from the word “Sindhu” one of the sacred epic river. People from this part of the world were called “Hindus”. Gradually, the Greeks, the Mongolians, the Mughals and many of the foreign invaders entered India and set their base in India. They also bought religious leaders into the country, who introduced Islam to the Indian soil. Many weaker section of the country got converted to the Islam and followed the preaching of Mohammed Paigambar.

The era of East India Companies started with the entry of Portuguese, French, Dutch and the British. In the course of time the Companies tried to set a monopoly in the market. Then, they discovered the invaluable wealth that India has and fell in the greed to conquer it. Gradually, they started conquering the small states that prevailed in India and finally became the Kings of India. As always, Darwin’s Theory – “Survival of the Fittest” showed its existence again. The British became the undisputed Kings of the Great India (Other than small parts of India like Pondicherry which remained in the hands of French and Goa in the hands of Portuguese) – Thanks to our impotent rulers of that era. Gradually, the Christian Missionaries stated flowing into the country and started their preaching by Jesus.

The 2 paragraphs above show how we respected and entertained other religions which were not originated from India (though there are different schools of thought who still believe Christianity and Islam are one and the same, Christianity is another version of Buddhism – but none have got a solid proof yet). India adhered to the belief it had on “Vasudeva Kutumbakam”, currently known as Secularism. It is also called “Dharma Sahishnu” which means tolerance towards other Dharma or Religion.

But, what is Secularism today? Where it stands in India today? It has just become a game plan to create Vote Banks for most of the Political Parties to win the race of General Elections. A country which had driven the thought of “The World is a Family” is not able to make itself a family. People are fighting on the grounds of religion, caste, creed and what not.
What is the reason for this? The Christian Missionaries and the Masjids who are frequently trying to attack the ancient Hinduism, if not physically but playing mind games. Secularism says tolerance to other religion. But the Christian and Muslim leaders are not tolerating the existence of Hinduism and trying to convert people to their religion and they as well as the people who support them are called the Seculars. Any effort to stop this or protest this is called communalism. The organization like VHP, Bajarangadal and organizations which support these like RSS and BJP are called communalists. These organizations are just trying safeguard and correct mishaps that have happened in the past.

The day people understand this truth the Secularism finds its true meaning. Our nation can progress to the level it deserves. It’s time for every rational citizen to decide what is right and what is wrong. The Secularism should be the key to unity and not divide and rule. People who have read and understood the Indian History in the right sense will know the consequences of Divide and Rule policy of the rulers. Dear Indian, wake up and give the call of unity and support the person (physical or virtual) who aims for Unified India, Vibrant India, Glorious India!!!

Rann – A Review

“Rann” by Ram Gopal Verma is a fabulous work and shows the reality of the Media World. In the Indian Film world you hardly find any movie which has no songs (duet or romance), extravagant action, fights. But, in the movie “Rann”, you find how RGV has confined himself to the subject matter and has set Indian Movie industry a new standard. The upcoming star of Bollywood and renowned actor, director, script writer, producer of Kannada movie Industry, Sudip has shown his atmost talent against the Big B, Amithabh Bacchan who has played the role of Sudip’s father.

If I am to give the ratings on a scale of 5: Story – 4, Direction – 3.5, Music – 4.5, Camera Work – 3, adherence to the subject matter – 5.

I am sure this movie would not be a success in a country like India where you scarcely find people think about the truth behind the news they receive from the media which is controlled by the missionaries, and bureaucrats.

RGV has made a point in every other scene of this movie to show how business minded is today’s media. Just to win the TRP Race, how a News Channel tries to hide the truth and showcase the lie in a way that the dumb people believe it.

If you closely watch the movie and day to day news coming up in the News Channels, you will realize the truth that RGV wants to bring in front of that world. A dialogue in the movie represents today’s media. “Film Makers and Media are not too different. Film Makers make a movie with Songs and Fights and Emotions for 3 hours of entertainment. But, Media makes a 5 minute movie just to tell the truth or to make people believe that they are showcasing the truth”
Another scene in the movie which shows the mean mind of Media where Purab (Ritesh Deshmukh) a journalist in Amitab and Sudip’s TV Channel, goes an shoot an exclusive interview of Mohan Pandey (Paresh Rawal) who is the Proclaimed candidate for Prime Minister’s post. In the course of Interview, Purab insists Pandey to give one good course of action that no politician has made till date. Pandey says there are several problems in the Country to solve and Purab says give a solution to it. This upsets Pandey and he declines to continue with the interview.
Jai Mailk (Sudip) gets upset with the attitude shown by Purab and sends Rajpal Yadav to take the interview. The first question by Rajapal to Mohan Pandey is “what would you do once you become the PM?”. Pandey says, “Ganga Snan”. That’s it. The breaking news would be “Future PM Mohan Pandey has told that he would take the Ganga Snan once he becomes the PM”.

This is the true face of Media. Media runs on the strength of money, politics and hypocrisy. I just want to say “Kudos to Ram Gopal Verma for his effort in setting a standard to the Indian movie industry and an alarm to the Media industry to come out of the hypocrisy.

War in the Name of Love

“Love Jihad”!!! This is a new way to spread terrorism in India. Here there are no militants, guns or bombs. There is no loss to any life, property or social peace. However, this is a systematic racket to attack non-Islamic communities in India. This issue has been dealt seriously in Karnataka these days.

What is “Love Jihad”? How it works? Who is behind all this? To get an answer to all these we have to penetrating and reach the core of the shell of this worm. As the name itself says, “Love Jihad” is using Love as a weapon to attack non-Islamic philosophies.

Let’s now try to understand how it works. A selected youth of Muslim Community are provided sufficient funds to look smarter by wearing branded clothes, sophisticated accessories, motor bikes and what not? All these done just to attract girls and flirt around with them. The target age group of girls is around 16 to 20. At this age, the youth in India, influenced by the Bollywood, start searching for their soul mate. This is just craze and infatuation towards opposite gender. In India, we can hardly find any child getting a maturity before the age of 20. Hence this is the age group which is targeted by the Love Jihadis.

The young girls look at these boys who are well-dressed, riding a high end bike, acting smart like their favorite Bollywood Star and fall in the trap of “LOVE”. These boys spill so much of money to make sure that these girls believe him more than their parents. One fine day, these love birds run away from the family and convert the girl to Islam, get married in front of some “Great Personalities” and our “Loving” Media giving hype to this and supporting this. In Most of the cases the couples are still isolated and the family members are unable to track their daughters. If you watch closely, most of these boys come from families which are below poverty line and work in garages, cleaners in buses or trucks, in shoe shops. Those who do not have an economic stability or independence can spill out thousands of bucks to flirt around, imagine how big this racket is.

Recently in Karnataka an incident got a major publicity throughout the state. A boy who works in footwear shop named Irfan and a college student named Ashwini fell in “love” with each other. One fine day this couple ran away from home and got married in the presence of renowned journalists and media. In the meanwhile, girl’s parents filed Habeas Corpus against Irfan and he was forced to send her back to her parents. I agree that there was a “love” between them, but how mature was that love is the question that everybody has to look for. If you are expecting a boy who does not even have a secondary education certificate to gain a job in today’s world, other than a sales person in any of the shops.

Today, the media, one of the renowned journalists and a lawyer along with a huge mob of people from Muslim Community in front of the court pose to the camera and act as if they have won the Third World War. As I have mentioned in the above paragraph, a person who does not have a Secondary Education certificate with him, how he can gain a job in the market, how he can gain respect in the eyes of society, and how can he take care of his wife or future children. This concern bothers only the girl’s parents and not the media, journalist mentioned above or the society.

With reference to the law for Islamic Community, a Muslim can marry 4 women in his life time. What is the guarantee that Ashwini is the only women that Irfan is going to marry? What if he marries another 3 women and start ignoring the girl he has married now? Who is responsible for the injustice to that girl? Will the same people come and give justice to her? No, only her parents will come to help in those bad times.

Just forget what all happened till date. “Jo hua So Hua”. We proclaim ourselves as Secular country and talk of equality. If that is the truth, why there is a need for Ashwini (or any Hindu Girl) who marries a Muslim has to convert into a Muslim. Why can’t the boy convert to a Hindu? Or both of them remain in their own communities. This clearly depicts that this just another way to attack and misuse Indian sovereignty. This particular case came into picture because; the parents took a rigid action against this shameful act. Usually any parents would not go to police and complain about such things with a fear of losing the goodwill they have in the society.

Another renowned journalist fought for the parents of this girl and gained the respect of rational group of people. He received several calls which included threats and appreciations. One of the call he received (as he mentions his blog), same kind of the incident was above to happen in another part of Karnataka and the intelligence of the parents in this case, enlightened their daughter. Here goes the story of this girl.

The girl from a Jain family was going around with a Muslim boy and the girl’s family got to know about this. Soon they decided to arrange her marriage with a boy from their own community. On the day before her marriage the girl planned to runaway with her boyfriend, which her family had foreseen. They took her to the neighboring town and made her understand what she was doing was wrong and would spoil her future. When she was not ready accept it, the family members decided to act according to her wish on a condition. Accordingly, they asked her to call the boy and the conversation between them goes like this.

Girl: Hello… Do you really love me?
Boy: Yes dear, I love you a lot and can do anything for you.
Girl: My family has agreed for our relationship and has decided marry me to you. However, there is a condition that you have to agree to.
Boy: What is it?
Girl: Nothing big. You will have to be a Hindu to make this happen. Will you convert?
Boy: How can that happen? Wo kaise ho sakta hai?

Girl just drops the phone and agrees to her parents wish. She understood the motive of the boy early in the life and got a better life. If every girl in India gets enlightened by this incident then India has got a glorious future. Otherwise, as the census says, in India Hindu population would come down to 50 or 40 per cent from 65% (76% post independence). This is the right time to think and act.