(Published in the August 16, 2015 issue of Organiser and can be visited using this link http://organiser.org//Encyc/2015/8/10/Opinion---%E2%80%98Left%E2%80%99-and-their-Art-of-Provocation.aspx)
I often get amused at the fact that although leftists have always remained in hopeless minority in India but still they manage to influence and occupy the decision making instruments of this country. Fortunately for them, the overwhelming majority in this country is rational, liberal and have always remained against all kinds of victimization. Leftists use the 'politics of victim-hood' to influence this rational and liberal majority. They use different methods and tricks to project themselves as victims. They have mastered the 'act of provocation' and have evolved it into an effective weapon in this regard. Using apparently-patient and cunningly-academic techniques they provoke nationalists and force them in breaking the fine line of socially acceptable behavioral norms. Then they use those incidents to paint the nationalists as hooligans and goons. They efficiently abuse the 'freedom of expression' and stretch the limits of 'human rights' to provoke nationalists to force them in committing legal-lapses. To succeed in their evil designs, they go to any extent to provoke the nationalists forces. They would not hesitate in calling a social and peaceful organization producing nationalists for the country as a terrorists' organization and would also go to the extent of not only blaming an arguably progressive community as repressive and conservative but instead would also project the other community, that needs reforms urgently, as better. To provoke the nationalists they not only never hesitated in creating a hero out of Aurangzeb but also painted the greats like Sikh gurus, Rana Pratap and Shivaji in poor light in the same breath. They would not only ignore an entire carnage incident altogether but keep on reminding us the incidents that took place after that. They would not only ignore the exodus of a particular 'Pandit' community from a state but would also not stop from asking the army to leave the state. They would resort to support a terrorist waiting to be hanged and they can even show that community as communal who is the reason for secularism in our country. They keep on producing and screening films that would project only nationalists as rioters. The list is huge and they have built this up in the last century with the help of British before the independence and the Congress thereafter. The only factor that favored the nationalists till now and was completely underestimated by the leftists was the fact that Indians have always felt a positive influence of religion and our faiths have an overwhelmingly progressive outlook towards our thoughts and beliefs. This striking feature of our religious behavior and spirituality, irrespective of our worshiping styles, did not allow leftists to spread its influence horizontally but with the help of the rulers they have been able to spread their roots deep in our soul wherever they could.
I often get amused at the fact that although leftists have always remained in hopeless minority in India but still they manage to influence and occupy the decision making instruments of this country. Fortunately for them, the overwhelming majority in this country is rational, liberal and have always remained against all kinds of victimization. Leftists use the 'politics of victim-hood' to influence this rational and liberal majority. They use different methods and tricks to project themselves as victims. They have mastered the 'act of provocation' and have evolved it into an effective weapon in this regard. Using apparently-patient and cunningly-academic techniques they provoke nationalists and force them in breaking the fine line of socially acceptable behavioral norms. Then they use those incidents to paint the nationalists as hooligans and goons. They efficiently abuse the 'freedom of expression' and stretch the limits of 'human rights' to provoke nationalists to force them in committing legal-lapses. To succeed in their evil designs, they go to any extent to provoke the nationalists forces. They would not hesitate in calling a social and peaceful organization producing nationalists for the country as a terrorists' organization and would also go to the extent of not only blaming an arguably progressive community as repressive and conservative but instead would also project the other community, that needs reforms urgently, as better. To provoke the nationalists they not only never hesitated in creating a hero out of Aurangzeb but also painted the greats like Sikh gurus, Rana Pratap and Shivaji in poor light in the same breath. They would not only ignore an entire carnage incident altogether but keep on reminding us the incidents that took place after that. They would not only ignore the exodus of a particular 'Pandit' community from a state but would also not stop from asking the army to leave the state. They would resort to support a terrorist waiting to be hanged and they can even show that community as communal who is the reason for secularism in our country. They keep on producing and screening films that would project only nationalists as rioters. The list is huge and they have built this up in the last century with the help of British before the independence and the Congress thereafter. The only factor that favored the nationalists till now and was completely underestimated by the leftists was the fact that Indians have always felt a positive influence of religion and our faiths have an overwhelmingly progressive outlook towards our thoughts and beliefs. This striking feature of our religious behavior and spirituality, irrespective of our worshiping styles, did not allow leftists to spread its influence horizontally but with the help of the rulers they have been able to spread their roots deep in our soul wherever they could.
Nationalists however, need to realize now that they are in a position to spread their influence in this country after a very long era and they must now counter this age-old
left strategy by refraining from falling into their trap again and again. Nationalists forces have an opportunity to construct a trap for them that would help in exposing the anti-national mindset of the 'left-leaning intellectuals'.
