These are the dark spin-offs of the ultra-nationalist ideology. You keep parroting "Hindu Rashtra-Hindu Rastra" and it creates ripple effects. It inspires (wrongly of course) others also to do the same. If you talk of an over-swiping Hindutva, coloring the entire country in one color, minorities will feel justifiably threatened. The ultra-nationalist Hindu ideology itself is a reaction, an off-shoot, to the blind religious zealotry of hardline Muslim maulvis who have drilled a dangerous fact in Muslim masses that their first identity is that of a Muslim before any other lesser identity like citizenship, designation, role or responsibility. So the bully boys of Hinduism feel justified in raising a din in the name of their religion also. Originally, hardliner Islam has wrongly inspired fiery sentiments among other religions. A few of the peace loving sanatan dharmis are now trishul wielding mobsters. Main culprit is the fire of sectranism. It now burns in many Hindu hearts. But fiery Hindu hearts will inspire other religious hearts also. So as the shadows cast by the nationalistic sunrays fall over the Indian diversities, we have resurgence of Khalistan movement. If you overdo it, so will they. The wrong is far more effective in motovating the mobsters than the right. The policy of systematic discrimination against the Muslims has already sown the seeds of second wave of separatism along communal lines after 1947. And the din raised to the proportions of pralya whenever a Chriatian missionary converts a Tribal in forests will force the Chriatians of north-east to think along separatist lines. India is too diversified to be colored in one ideological color. The shiny nationalistic colorists may gain temporary benefits like forming governments but in the long run it will eat the foundations of India like termites. When Hindu youths go lynching over cows, of course the Sikh youths also get an itching to go on rampage on communal grounds and carry Holy Guru Granth Sahib into the police stations challenging law and order. The far rightist ideology colors the insanity of mobsters in patriotic colors. But then in India we have enough religions to bring down our castle. Let's talk of inclusivity. Let the elections be fought over the issues that concern the common man. Let's put the blinding colors of Rashtravadi revolution on the sidelines and pick up simple tools of nation-making.
Postscript: All excluvist principles draw their sustenance from an atrophied complex, the complex of superiority. If as a resurgent Hindu nationalist you feel justified in your exclusivistic ideology, don't you think others also feel the same way? Don't you think even a Khalistani will try to justify his/her belief along the same lines? Or do you think that your excluvistic right of narromindedness is greater than theirs because sanatan dharma is older than Sikhism? From this principle of seniority in years, the religion of animism followed by Dravadian Tribals deep in the forests of south India has even a bigger claim to hold the copyright over the faith of this particular geographical unit because they were already functioning as a human society with its distinct culture before the Aryans arrived and laid the foundation of what we now recognise as Hindu dharma.
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