Perverse Secularism and India's Future
The definition of Secular
THE HINDUTVA JUDGEMENTS,THE DISTANCE THAT REMAINS
CRISIS IN THE PSYCHE OF INDIA
The Societal Stockholm
Syndrome
interview with Dr.Koenraad Elst
"Hindutva may be
defined as the nationalistic movement that insists that the
geography of India is connected to Hinduism and Hindu culture in a
fundamental way, and that every resident of India is a Hindu, regardless of
what their actual religious practices may be. In my opinion, this concept
of, for example, "Mohammadi Hindu", has some intellectual problems: it is
not the case that only foreigners were anti-Hindu. It is true that Babar, an
Afghan, was keen on massacring Hindus; but then so was Malik Kafur, a
converted Indian Hindu. There is a clash, I think, between a secular,
geographical definition and a religious definition.
Zaheera Sheikh revisited
"No secularist or even a human rights
organization would embrace the cause of the victims of the
Godhra train horror or their survivors because there is no
percentage in espousing the cause of the majority community. The
payoff in being a bleeding heart secularist is almost always
quick and can take the form of both Indian rupees and petro
dollars. "
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