Bringing in the government whenever something goes wrong is a bad solution, and not in tune with the basic idea that religious affairs are not the business of the state.
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Ram temple has transformed India in its entirety. From party politics to cultural warfare, India or Bharat is undeniably Hindu today. Pluralism is just a colourful backdrop.
Hindutva needs several signposts and intermediate goalposts before we start believing that our Hindu identity is more important than the interests of our immediate social group.
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For eons, Hindu civilization is what defined Bharat. The fight for independence from British was accomplished not because we have had a constitution. It was the innate sense of freedom built into Hindu civilization. Ashok doesn’t cognize that…it is his failure. My sympathies.
The fact is temples and state need to be separated. The fact is Bharat is being forced to conform to western constructs of secularism of “church” and state.
Bharat’s history is evident that temples did not run the state but they are not secular places either to be controlled by state.
Anyhow, Mr.ashok, why do you remain oblivious when the same state does not control the Abrahamic places of worship? Did your secularism become take a vacation then?
Absolutely correct!!
Congress always wants excuse for govt involvement in every walk of life, esp if it is Hindu institutions. Autonomy is only meant for non-Hindus, according to pseudo-seculars.
What we need is better standards and processes of temple governance, similar to corporate governance, with regular release of financial statements.
At this rate, Congress would ask nationalization of private companies, because some private companies fudge their balance sheets, while non-removable sarkari babus do corruption all the time.
Let me rephrase this, sir. India is NOT a Hindu Rashtra. It is a modern, secular Republic, governed by a written Constitution. So will defer to the columnist on the second part of the proposition. My vote always for a firewall between church and state.
Author is right
Ashok is wrong.
For eons, Hindu civilization is what defined Bharat. The fight for independence from British was accomplished not because we have had a constitution. It was the innate sense of freedom built into Hindu civilization. Ashok doesn’t cognize that…it is his failure. My sympathies.
The fact is temples and state need to be separated. The fact is Bharat is being forced to conform to western constructs of secularism of “church” and state.
Bharat’s history is evident that temples did not run the state but they are not secular places either to be controlled by state.
Anyhow, Mr.ashok, why do you remain oblivious when the same state does not control the Abrahamic places of worship? Did your secularism become take a vacation then?
Don’t be tongue tied.
Absolutely correct!!
Congress always wants excuse for govt involvement in every walk of life, esp if it is Hindu institutions. Autonomy is only meant for non-Hindus, according to pseudo-seculars.
What we need is better standards and processes of temple governance, similar to corporate governance, with regular release of financial statements.
At this rate, Congress would ask nationalization of private companies, because some private companies fudge their balance sheets, while non-removable sarkari babus do corruption all the time.
Let me rephrase this, sir. India is NOT a Hindu Rashtra. It is a modern, secular Republic, governed by a written Constitution. So will defer to the columnist on the second part of the proposition. My vote always for a firewall between church and state.