Intolerance is for Real

Their fears are indeed real. They are not lying for sure. But sadly, it is all nothing but their hallucination and that is arguably their self creation. For no fault of theirs, they have been made to believe since independence that RSS is out and out an extremist organization with a single mission of driving minorities out of India. The secular brigade led by the left-liberal ‘extra-nationals’ have worked over-excessively all through to somehow construct a perception that has no real foundation, strangely. Just notice the recent comparison that an eminent secular made between ISIS and RSS. The ISIS with only about 50000 members has kept the entire militarily-developed west on their toes with their mindless showcasing of terror incidents. But it goes only to the credit of our skewed-seculars who can still believe that an organization with 50 lac members having its presence at 50000 places as Shakha units in this country can also be as irrational as the ISIS. Surprisingly, they fail to notice the glaring contrast between the two. Only if someone in his senses would extrapolate the situation assuming the presence of 50 lac alleged ‘Hindu ISIS’ in India, even a counter argument would lose its worth. It is not difficult to recall their desperation during the built-up before the last Loksabha election. I remember several of these making chest-beating appeals to the voters not to support BJP. They were apparently more than convinced that their hate-campaign that they had carried out for the past more than half a decade would never allow an RSS supported BJP to come to the power. They thought that they have been successfully able to convince the peace-loving and inherently secular majority of India to identify RSS with the communal tag.

We must now realize that this left-liberal extra-national brigade did not want the BJP to come to the power not because they feared a regime of intolerance towards minorities but – they actually feared even worse. They feared that with this government at the centre, their more than half a century propaganda for branding RSS as a rabid communal organization would get thoroughly exposed. The source of their strength to keep on maligning RSS came only from a well-executed mis-campaign. They were losing their sleep on the thought of the voters accepting BJP finally as a truly-secular party. All hell broke for them when the inevitable happened. Modi became the PM. All fears that they had been spreading to the voters were suddenly put to test. The propagandists had no option left but to create a scenario to prove that whatever they had been warning us for was never hypothetical or imaginary. They went overboard by picking up each single case that had a potential to be blown out of proportion. They started filtering the news with their skewed-magnifying lenses. Initially all negative news on the churches were reported with only single flavor. The investigation results unfortunately failed their campaign completely. They looked for another spate of incidents and finally they got one – the barbaric lynching of a human being. They only wanted a single streak to swim the tide – and they got that. Even though the immediate responsibility was of another ‘secular’ government, ‘seciulars’ did not have the luxury to care for this contradiction. They could have hardly afforded to miss this glimmer-opportunity. They kept on pushing the ventilator of award-returning ‘oxygen’ to keep the issue fat and alive. A scientific analysis based on the available statistical-data would refuse to hint at any conclusion that can justify this ‘intolerance-hype’ bult-up, but when did they bother themselves to engage in an honest discussion on such serious issues. They have a habit of using situations, accidents and emotions as tools to fool and bluff us.

And I pity for Amir Khan and Kiran – for getting counted as the latest victims of this ‘manufactured’ fear campaign carried out by the left-congress-secular trio.

POLITICS ON CRIME - the Indian Phenomenon

Over the years since independence, India has developed a strange habit of classifying ‘gruesome crimes’ as - ‘hate-generating’, ‘communal clashes’, ‘religious fanaticism’, ‘class atrocities’, ‘gender suppression’, ‘reactionary outbursts’, ‘revolutionary unrest’ and recently as ‘media marketable’. To cover up the governance failures, administrative inefficiencies and other corrupt practices the administration has found it extremely useful and easy to play politics on crimes. To their relief, these classifications have helped the successive governments in setting up a trend where all other kind of crimes that are left ‘unclassified’ gets considered as ‘simple’ and therefore almost as ‘acceptable’. The information about the ‘character’ of a crime has become so important that we have got used to the news headlines such as ‘crime against minority’, ‘crime against child’, ‘crime against woman’, ‘crime against Dalit’ - so much so that thinking of headlines as ‘crime against men’, ‘crime against a majority community’, ‘crime against an adult’ or ‘crime against an upper caste’ are either likely to evoke laughter or no response at all. 

Not that the ‘classified’ crimes get any better or the desirable attention, but the government utilizes this politics only to pass the blame somehow on the majority community entirely. Being arguably one of the most tolerant and accommodating community existing in the world, this majority is then expected either to absorb the blame or to start hating itself. Under this ‘secular formula' we are expected to accept all the blame as ‘evils’ of our society and at the same time are also left to consider all other ‘unclassified’ crimes as natural, simple, normal (and therefore desirable??).

As its natural consequence the Indian administration wastes much of its precious time in ‘discovering’, ‘investigating’ and  ‘establishing’ the color and shade of a crime when it is actually required to act swiftly and efficiently. I am convinced that until this country stops taking interest in knowing the caste, gender, religion, faith and ideology of a victim – politics will continue to sideline our real administrative concerns. Instead of doing a political comparative analysis, the state must be extremely serious and ruthless in addressing all crimes and thereby punishing each criminal blindly. 

A Last chance for Development

The undeniable success of Modi in putting the issue of development right at the centre of all discussions in this country is lauded even by his adversaries. The country has got after a long time a leader who undoubtedly is able to generate positive energy and hope among the general mass. It goes to his credit entirely that he could generate positivity in majority of Indians who were feeling dejected, demoralized and were facing a bleaker future ahead. Continuous discoveries of cases of corruption, each followed by another bigger one, was breeding unrest among us and an impression that the then government was unable to take measures to arrest this dangerous trend was only blowing our woos and despondency to dangerous proportions.

Recently this newly discovered energy that was able to unite our country across all perceivable internal boundaries and reservations has started showing some real signs of strain. Modi had urged us to put all other issues on the backburner to ensure that India is placed on the right track of development. The opposition like behavior of a few outfits of RSS and BJP needs to show some maturity and restraints after they have acquired a status wherein now they are seen as having a say in the government. Before it reaches a disturbing level Modi needs to arrest the trend at once otherwise his herculean effort may meet a Kejriwali-fate. The failure of Kejriwal in controlling his own urge to behave as opposition leader had started the trend of his downfall and a similar display by those 'friendly' outfits that are perceived as favorable to the present government may do the same for Modi this time.

History and time is however is on the side of Modi. Just the way he had handled these elements in his own state he needs to repeat his performance at the centre and show that he can control this undesirable trend of some of his 'sympathizer' outfits without them feeling insinuated. If true secularism means an attitude where "India comes first" then true nationalists must give up all of their other concerns to pave a way for the real and possibly the last chance to put this country on the development track.