{"id":4017,"date":"2015-11-12T04:55:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T23:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2015-12-09T06:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:33:34","slug":"should-the-hindu-right-migrate-to-a-new-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2015\/politics\/should-the-hindu-right-migrate-to-a-new-country.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the Hindu Right Migrate to a New Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hindu Right is obviously upset. Recently, Girish Karnad got a death threat<\/a>\u00a0for saying something related to Tipu Sultan. Now getting a death threat is nothing special.\u00a0Everyone gets them, especially over the Internet – big deal. What’s interesting however is that so many people\u00a0are happy that he got a death threat<\/em>. Instead of condemning the atmosphere of fear, or at least keeping quiet, many are thrilled that someone is standing up for “Hindu sentiments”. According to them, the “sentiments of of the majority should not be played with”. They (wrongly) view India as a Hindu Nation.<\/p>\n

Why would you willingly stay and torture yourself in a land that\u2019s clearly\u00a0not suited to you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the one hand we have facts. The\u00a0fact<\/em> is that India is NOT a Hindu Nation. The Constitution forbids it. And India is defined by the Constitution. Whatever existed before 1950 – when the Constitution was adopted – wasn’t\u00a0India. Call it\u00a0“Bharat” or “Hind”, or whatever you want. That land is\u00a0dead<\/em>. The sad reality (sad for the Hindu right at least), is that our country can never be what they want it to be. The wistful longing for a “Hindu nation” will never find fulfillment within India’s borders.<\/p>\n

So the logical\u00a0question or solution is – doesn’t the Hindu right want to migrate out of India and found a new “Hindu nation” somewhere else? I mean think about it – why would you want to stay in a country that you are so deeply unhappy with? For example, I abhor\u00a0the idea of a “Muslim nation”, so I would never stay in Saudi Arabia even if I was born there! I know what Saudi Arabia is, and I won’t break my head\u00a0trying to change\u00a0it’s very nature.<\/p>\n

Instead, I will leave and find a country that better suits my taste. Is it time for the Hindu right to wake up to reality and gracefully leave India to form their own nation somewhere else? No one can force them to of course – I’m just proposing this as a logical\u00a0idea for their own peace of mind. They are welcome to stay and continue a\u00a0hopeless battle to change the basics of India, but surely that’s not smart? Why would you willingly stay and torture yourself in a land that’s clearly\u00a0not suited to you?<\/p>\n

Mind you, I haven’t thought this through. Where will they go? What land is available? etc. But in principle, shouldn’t the RSS, VHP etc be fighting for a few states to at least secede from India so that they can implement their “Hindu nation” idea? Something like what Pakistan went through – only this time, it’s a Hindu version of Pakistan. The rest of India can remain secular as it is.<\/p>\n

Obviously this isn’t as simple as it seems. We can’t forget\u00a0the violence of Pakistan’s partition, the bloodshed, and the continuing hatred. No one wants all of that – certainly not me. But I wonder why the hardcore Hindutva types\u00a0themselves<\/em> don’t want it. If you belonged to xyz religion and dreamed of a country where xyz is dominant and if you wanted xyz based laws, wouldn’t you prefer to get your own country?<\/p>\n

So what’s stopping the Hindu right from demanding a separation from India so they can achieve their goals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally when you don’t like the nature of a country, you leave it and settle elsewhere. I would never live in an officially Muslim nation, and I wouldn’t waste my time trying to change its basic nature. Similarly, the right in India seems to want a “Hindu nation”. Since the character of India is so fundamentally different from what they want, doesn’t it make sense for them to demand their own land outside India somewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rights-and-freedoms"],"yoast_head":"\nShould the Hindu Right Migrate to a New Country?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Hindu right wants a country fundamentally different from India. 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