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Ali is a research scholar in Delhi University. Difficult to appreciate his article with fully biased views. If India is to become a strong power in the world under BJP rule in next decade, would it be a Hindu nation that has become so? If so, just to prove otherwise, can India afford to remain weak just to satisfy a few ? Minorities should generally support BJP and create a constituency and vote bank for them instead of sulking and opposing it. Otherwise majoritarian politics will automatically take over by default. BJPs core issues are well known and there is general consensus on them. Every Indian has constitutional rights well protected by its Supreme Court. So no one has to be worried on this count. If minority wants to be counted as a political force, it must go beyond usual hard attitudes. Otherwise, BJP has rewritten the usual appeasement rules of Indian politics of divide and rule. It is time scholars like Ali create positive atmosphere for minorities rather than isolating them from mainstream.
Why should any minority support the BJP/RSS government? They do not treat them as equal!
Right-wing in India is not a monolith, there are 50 shades of grey in divergence 🙂 RSS thinks that change needs to be bottoms up, society needs to change first to initiate the needed change at the top, how much ever long it takes. Whereas VD & Hindu Mahasabha aim was always political power first, then change the society with that power. VD probably was influenced by the October revolution when a handfull of fanatics took over the reins of a mindbogglingly wast country; a proof in his mind probably, that structure & organization is secondary to will to power. But when both views start to converge, as we are seeing now, we get something thats very difficult to resist.
Dear Mr. Ali,
As stated in many of the comments above, it is necessary you to read Veer Savarkar’s books and also study the material available on him.
It is very disheartening and very much atrocious to state that any execution to achieve Hinduism, Savarkar allowed or appreciates raping of women to ultimately achieve the goals by any means. I am sure, you are carrying the blood of mughals who dare to state such utter lie.
A great analysis of the strategy. Savarkar was undoubtedly an intellectual giant one need not agree with him on all counts but to run him down on all counts is not a display of intellect. Two books make fantastic reading A Long Walk to Freedom and Mazi Janmathep. 26 years in jail stating in 1960 and 11 years in Andamans staring in 1911. The first under the glare of international pressure and second in absence of it.
People of all religions and beliefs flock to US even at the cost of being humiliated and looked at with suspicion at airports, that is because US offers something more than other countries and once in US all of them fall in line. To get there US has had it’s problems and still has some and that is a sacrifice a Nation has to make. Complaints vanish on a full stomach religious or otherwise.
All the thinking leaders want their country to give its people corruption free governance and prosperity. Did we get that over last 70 years? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcome is status quo that is another theory of Einstein. so it is obvious that only the beneficiaries and vested interests will want a status quo.
Mr ali…u ve not been doing ur studies properly..and ur research is inadequate….please read some more on savarkar his books..savarkar was a big proponent of ONE india..not on religious lines but EQUALITY of all..this nation of bharat was for everyone…but he was a pround sanathan..
Please read his views his struggles..and then make an informed judgement….
Are u really 3 articles old for the print?
U need to grow up a lot…and ve a long way yo go…a lot of thoughts…perceptions..and ideologies were based on the bedrock of the british and freedom movement..india and the enviornment were different then…todays india is vastly DIFFERENT..a true statesman and a leader will try to absorb the best points about savarkars thoughts..and try and inculcate it “in and to” todays times ….and there is nothing WRONG in the PM trying to do that…
Ali is a research scholar in Delhi University. Difficult to appreciate his article with fully biased views. If India is to become a strong power in the world under BJP rule in next decade, would it be a Hindu nation that has become so? If so, just to prove otherwise, can India afford to remain weak just to satisfy a few ? Minorities should generally support BJP and create a constituency and vote bank for them instead of sulking and opposing it. Otherwise majoritarian politics will automatically take over by default. BJPs core issues are well known and there is general consensus on them. Every Indian has constitutional rights well protected by its Supreme Court. So no one has to be worried on this count. If minority wants to be counted as a political force, it must go beyond usual hard attitudes. Otherwise, BJP has rewritten the usual appeasement rules of Indian politics of divide and rule. It is time scholars like Ali create positive atmosphere for minorities rather than isolating them from mainstream.
Why should any minority support the BJP/RSS government? They do not treat them as equal!
Right-wing in India is not a monolith, there are 50 shades of grey in divergence 🙂 RSS thinks that change needs to be bottoms up, society needs to change first to initiate the needed change at the top, how much ever long it takes. Whereas VD & Hindu Mahasabha aim was always political power first, then change the society with that power. VD probably was influenced by the October revolution when a handfull of fanatics took over the reins of a mindbogglingly wast country; a proof in his mind probably, that structure & organization is secondary to will to power. But when both views start to converge, as we are seeing now, we get something thats very difficult to resist.
Leiftist and Isslamiest are angry great
Dear Mr. Ali,
As stated in many of the comments above, it is necessary you to read Veer Savarkar’s books and also study the material available on him.
It is very disheartening and very much atrocious to state that any execution to achieve Hinduism, Savarkar allowed or appreciates raping of women to ultimately achieve the goals by any means. I am sure, you are carrying the blood of mughals who dare to state such utter lie.
Comment: I think he should do research on savarkar again so he know how much wrong he is about him
A great analysis of the strategy. Savarkar was undoubtedly an intellectual giant one need not agree with him on all counts but to run him down on all counts is not a display of intellect. Two books make fantastic reading A Long Walk to Freedom and Mazi Janmathep. 26 years in jail stating in 1960 and 11 years in Andamans staring in 1911. The first under the glare of international pressure and second in absence of it.
People of all religions and beliefs flock to US even at the cost of being humiliated and looked at with suspicion at airports, that is because US offers something more than other countries and once in US all of them fall in line. To get there US has had it’s problems and still has some and that is a sacrifice a Nation has to make. Complaints vanish on a full stomach religious or otherwise.
All the thinking leaders want their country to give its people corruption free governance and prosperity. Did we get that over last 70 years? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcome is status quo that is another theory of Einstein. so it is obvious that only the beneficiaries and vested interests will want a status quo.
Very difficult to run such a large, diverse country with such a unitary vision.
Mr ali…u ve not been doing ur studies properly..and ur research is inadequate….please read some more on savarkar his books..savarkar was a big proponent of ONE india..not on religious lines but EQUALITY of all..this nation of bharat was for everyone…but he was a pround sanathan..
Please read his views his struggles..and then make an informed judgement….
Are u really 3 articles old for the print?
U need to grow up a lot…and ve a long way yo go…a lot of thoughts…perceptions..and ideologies were based on the bedrock of the british and freedom movement..india and the enviornment were different then…todays india is vastly DIFFERENT..a true statesman and a leader will try to absorb the best points about savarkars thoughts..and try and inculcate it “in and to” todays times ….and there is nothing WRONG in the PM trying to do that…
Bastard! Why are you still stuck on Babar and Jinnah?