Hindu in 21st Century India – Time to rethink your strategy
What am I going to talk now? IS there a reason for a blog with this title. For friends who know me more (I think most people do) will understand why I am writing this. For others, one self confession, am a believer in Hindu right wing thoughts.
Question: What does it have to do in this blog space?
Answer: Am presenting some observations I have made in the past few months.
All are from offbeat stories and subtle messages that are spreading around. But they all imply one fact which I am trying to decipher. Might be at the end of this blog both of us will see the meaning. 
One news item I read provoked me to wrote this post now on Tuesday, November 25 and I did not want to post this but finally decided to post it.
Question: Who and what made this sudden provocation?
Answer: A news item in the Hindu (read anti – Hindu) paper read by majority of Macaulay educated (English speaking) South Indians (I stopped reading it a couple of years back).
I guess its readers include some of the people who read my blog too .
The news item read “Andhra government starts a new scheme Subsidy to Christians to travel to holy Jerusalem”. Why does this bother a fellow Hindu. Well the CM is Christian and has introduced a scheme for his people(read Followers of his religion). For those who think “Hey come one, why don’t guys like me leave us free”. The government of Andhra takes billions of rupees given by Hindu pilgrims in Thirupathi and spends on its projects including this. All temples are government controlled and the government can take money from them and spend on its schemes. But the churches are not to be touched and Mosques are not to be looked at. Churches can be run by the their followers but temples will be secular. Minorities can collect funds in the name of charity and hold billions in their trusts and the government will not sorry cannot not ask anything about them. But billions of rupees of Hindu temples will be used for government projects and also minority projects.
Hey why this hatred there has always been such happenings throughout the history. Kings favor the minority. But is 15 crore people a minority? A new meaning needs to be defined for who is minority. Aren’t the Hindus minority in some districts why aren’t they treated special there (e.g. NE States and J& K). Political humbug.
Worse the educated Hindus are always in a mode of self denial. What if some government gives funds to some communities. But the problem is the government never think of extending such schemes to Indians travelling on pilgrimage to remote places like the Kedarnath and Mansarovar. Is this secularism? People say it is. Does secularism mean subsidize or pamper only the minority? Does secularism mean always think of the minority at the cost of majority?
Let us take the secularism debate.
Indian Model : All religions are celebrated and cherished by the state. Have presented the actual facts of celebrating all religions above)
Turkish Model: Religion has no place in public domain. It should always be confined to private space only. No favors in the name of religion. (Irony Turkey is a Islamic country and India is a Hindu majority country)
Reservation meant to benefit the oppressed is extended to include the minorities also. And the drama on reservation is another story altogether I don’t want to get into that here. Does all this make being Hindu less incentivizing in the future. It seems so on the basis of above facts. In the new world of abject materialism is being a minority in India a better choice I guess. Thoughts on these the above are welcome.
