I am writing here with all my humility and respect to humanity.
It happened with me yesterday. I was in the market to buy some grocery when I met one of my close family friends. He asked me whether I have joined BJP (Bhartiya Janta Party). He was referring to my recent posts on Facebook ‘FB’ (anti-congress and seemingly pro-BJP). Then, I had an about an hour long chat with him. After we finished the discussion, I returned home with his question still spinning in my mind – ‘whether I have joined BJP’. I felt this question must be a reflection of view of many from my FB fraternity, and so thought to share my view with them.
I am born in a Sanatan Vedic Dharma family (we know it as Hinduism today), and so a natural follower of this religion. I express my belief in Hinduism openly. Now this must not be construed as support to a political party. My identity as an Indian and a Hindu is more important for me, and this is the right given to me by the constitution of India. Conversely, no party has been given absolute right-of-representation of Hindu thoughts. I respect every individual irrespective of the religion and belief. I belong to family where association with muslims has been very-very strong. My father narrates about a muslim family near our native village who would be inseparable part of any event like marriage or festivals in our family and vice-versa.
As regards the posts shared on FB, yes, I have shared many of the posts belonging to a particular party. Those have been shared purely on the basis of the intent of message (issue based). At the same time I do not subscribe to all nasty comments that people have made on those shares. I support only the sensible comments. But why I shared these at all? Simply because of ‘ease of access’ to readymade material.
Over the years, as I tried to understand the influence of system on a citizen, I experienced many anomalies with respect to rights given by constitution. I have noticed various events of bias in the behaviour of rulers and a section of media; be it a matter of corruption, issue of interest of a particular community or anything else. Therefore, I have been increasing uncomfortable with the word SECULAR used for NON-SECULAR motives. Some of the examples are:
• Why the people who bow their head before the SAMADHI of Mahatma Gandhi and highlight his last words ‘Hey Ram’ question the whether Shri Ram was born or not? Why the SECULAR forces question the existence of RAM SETU when there are physical evidences?
• Why censor board allows such movies that makes fun of Hindu gods. The makers of the movie may not believe in Hindu Gods, but there is a large section of society which has strong belief in these Gods, and its a constitutional right. Don’t such ‘entertainment events’ amount to blasphemy? What is purpose of the censor board then … to promote SECULARISM?
• Why a political party publicly declares its decision to appoint police officials on the basis of caste and community only and no SECULAR party opposes it? Is it not a COMMUNAL DIVIDE?
• Why and how a party involved in communal clashes becomes flag-bearer and ‘symbol’ of SECULARISM today?
• Why a SECULAR party in India should be asking for a hospital meant only for a particular religion/community? Why the facility has to be created on the basis of religion? Is this not a COMMUNAL DIVIDE? Where are the SECULAR forces now? I am definitely not against the Muslims of this country as they have every right as an Indian citizen. I am against the politics of division under the pretext of SECULARISM.
• No community in India has been alleged for terrorism except Hindu? Why the allegation on religious lines? What is wrong is wrong. Why this should be ascribed to the believers of a particular religion?
• Why the ringing of bells in temples is not allowed in particular area of India because a particular community objects to it? Does the Indian constitution allow this?
• Why native of Indian territory should be labeled as terrorist for protecting themselves against illegal migration? I do not favour armed rebellion but the approach to solution by SECULAR government is also not holistic.
• Why there are only a few ‘CELEBRATED/CELEBRITY’ Freedom Fighters in the list of SECULAR government? What about others?
The list is endless. I try just to share and highlight these as and when I can. My shares may be immaterial for many, but still these are the facts.
What difference would I make? May be nothing. But surely I wish to highlight this as a ‘sensitive’ Indian citizen.
It happened with me yesterday. I was in the market to buy some grocery when I met one of my close family friends. He asked me whether I have joined BJP (Bhartiya Janta Party). He was referring to my recent posts on Facebook ‘FB’ (anti-congress and seemingly pro-BJP). Then, I had an about an hour long chat with him. After we finished the discussion, I returned home with his question still spinning in my mind – ‘whether I have joined BJP’. I felt this question must be a reflection of view of many from my FB fraternity, and so thought to share my view with them.
I am born in a Sanatan Vedic Dharma family (we know it as Hinduism today), and so a natural follower of this religion. I express my belief in Hinduism openly. Now this must not be construed as support to a political party. My identity as an Indian and a Hindu is more important for me, and this is the right given to me by the constitution of India. Conversely, no party has been given absolute right-of-representation of Hindu thoughts. I respect every individual irrespective of the religion and belief. I belong to family where association with muslims has been very-very strong. My father narrates about a muslim family near our native village who would be inseparable part of any event like marriage or festivals in our family and vice-versa.
As regards the posts shared on FB, yes, I have shared many of the posts belonging to a particular party. Those have been shared purely on the basis of the intent of message (issue based). At the same time I do not subscribe to all nasty comments that people have made on those shares. I support only the sensible comments. But why I shared these at all? Simply because of ‘ease of access’ to readymade material.
Over the years, as I tried to understand the influence of system on a citizen, I experienced many anomalies with respect to rights given by constitution. I have noticed various events of bias in the behaviour of rulers and a section of media; be it a matter of corruption, issue of interest of a particular community or anything else. Therefore, I have been increasing uncomfortable with the word SECULAR used for NON-SECULAR motives. Some of the examples are:
• Why the people who bow their head before the SAMADHI of Mahatma Gandhi and highlight his last words ‘Hey Ram’ question the whether Shri Ram was born or not? Why the SECULAR forces question the existence of RAM SETU when there are physical evidences?
• Why censor board allows such movies that makes fun of Hindu gods. The makers of the movie may not believe in Hindu Gods, but there is a large section of society which has strong belief in these Gods, and its a constitutional right. Don’t such ‘entertainment events’ amount to blasphemy? What is purpose of the censor board then … to promote SECULARISM?
• Why a political party publicly declares its decision to appoint police officials on the basis of caste and community only and no SECULAR party opposes it? Is it not a COMMUNAL DIVIDE?
• Why and how a party involved in communal clashes becomes flag-bearer and ‘symbol’ of SECULARISM today?
• Why a SECULAR party in India should be asking for a hospital meant only for a particular religion/community? Why the facility has to be created on the basis of religion? Is this not a COMMUNAL DIVIDE? Where are the SECULAR forces now? I am definitely not against the Muslims of this country as they have every right as an Indian citizen. I am against the politics of division under the pretext of SECULARISM.
• No community in India has been alleged for terrorism except Hindu? Why the allegation on religious lines? What is wrong is wrong. Why this should be ascribed to the believers of a particular religion?
• Why the ringing of bells in temples is not allowed in particular area of India because a particular community objects to it? Does the Indian constitution allow this?
• Why native of Indian territory should be labeled as terrorist for protecting themselves against illegal migration? I do not favour armed rebellion but the approach to solution by SECULAR government is also not holistic.
• Why there are only a few ‘CELEBRATED/CELEBRITY’ Freedom Fighters in the list of SECULAR government? What about others?
The list is endless. I try just to share and highlight these as and when I can. My shares may be immaterial for many, but still these are the facts.
What difference would I make? May be nothing. But surely I wish to highlight this as a ‘sensitive’ Indian citizen.
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