Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi. Who, in his sanity, would have ever thought, far remotely imagined, that India, the eternal land of Hindus, would stand aienated from them, just to accommodate the preposterous Nehruvian Secularism to earn certain brownie points; to give a ‘feel good’ factor to those from other communities that, India, as a true loyalist of a colonial power, if not its lackey, would blindly ape the colonial traits so much so, that the Prime Minister of that time, in his unwarranted zeal to promote the outrageous vision of Western secularism, had sought to suppress majoritarianism to the best of his capacity. Significantly, Hindu urge and aspiration to call India as their motherland, was brutally strangled in the deluge of slogans such as ‘ Ishwar Allah tero naam, sabko sammat de Bhagwan’, ‘ Ganga, Jamuna Tahjeeb’ blah, blah! Regrettably, Jawaharlal, an iconoclast, despite being a Brahmin, had spectacularly sought to muzzle Hindus; pulverising their existential strength to the best of his capacity: The great betrayal of Jawaharlal in distastefully ignoring the reconstruction of Somnath as the nation’s raison d’etre and its summum bonum, was an utterly disdainful dereliction of Prime Ministerial obligation. India, being the eternal land of Hindus, which took to its bosom, one and all, who ever sought asylum with it. Had it not been the case, Swami Vivekananda, the first Indian to showcase the glory of Hinduism in the world forum, should have desisted from highlighting Hinduism alone as India’s summum bonum and its raison d’etre. Unequivocally, Jawaharlal Nehru, in his own Himalayan omissions and commissions, perpetrated the humongous fraud upon the nation by removing the photographs of Sri Ram, Shri Krishna, great Adi Shankaracharya from Indian Constitution. This was the irreparable damage that Nehru did to Hinduism in the long run. And all this to masquerade his lopsided vision of a faulty secularism to alienate Hindus from the nation’s raison d’etre and its summum bonum. Regrettably, Jawaharlal, in his own myopic vision of nipping in bud the Hindu sentiments, their urge and aspiration, in order to make the 7 percent of Muslims then and 2 percent of Christians ‘feel good’, was Nehru’s unpalatable contribution to Hinduism in India. Worse still, the first Prime Minister by default, not by choice–Sardar Patel was the unanimous choice of the Congress provincial Presidents then, who alone had the voting rights to appoint their President, or the first Prime Minister–sought to trample the eternal dream of Hindus to call India as their motherland.
The Jews, in the wake of the holocaust brought about by Hitler, too, prior to the 2nd World War, found the fulfilment of their urge and aspiration adequately accommodated when Israel, an independent nation was born. Unfortunately, for the most ancient race on earth, the Hinduism, because of its inherent quota of contributing traitors and iconoclasts, almost in every age and era, were helplessly rendered nationless; they were the most degraded race to have lost the right to call India as their exclusive motherland; and, all this because of Muslim appeasement policy of Jawaharlal Nehru. As if these were not enough, the history book was deliberately fudged to incorporate all the nuisance, where the truth was the biggest casualty. Muslim invaders and destroyers of temples, like Malik Kafoor was unscruplously depicted as the robber and bandit who invaded temples because a treasuretrove of wealth stored there. Such a Machiavellian attempts were made and, that too, for no tangible purpose: The only agenda was to appease the Muslims; to keep them in good humour, even if the sanctity of truth is given a decent burial in the land of its origin, so be it. Satyameb Jayate, India’s core conviction, since the evolution of Sanatan civilisation, confronted an avalanche of deceptions and shenanigans to defeat the eternal Sanatan doctrine. Worse still, the iconoclasts like Prof D.N.Jha, Romilla Thapar, Irfan Habib, had tried to disdainfully rubbish the ancient Hindu glory by smudging and smearing it with the accumulated curse of an avalanche of its shameful subjugation and repeated invasions, over a millennium. D.N. Jha’s book The Myth of a Holy Cow, is the vindication of secular historians’ complicity in trashing and writing off Hinduism as a superstitious and obscurantist religion.
The advent of Narendra Modi in Delhi Durbar had an ingrained boon for Hinduism in the land of its birth. Whereas the omissions and commissions of his government have been of an immeasurable degree and magnitude, the daring steps too, brought about by re-steering the nation towards its raison ‘detre and its summum bonum, has been commendable and exhilerating steps: The new Education Syllabus speaks a volume about India’s unequivocal return to its roots; to its moorings: The resurrection of Vedas and Upanishads, the glory of ancient India, the citadel of learning like Nalanda and Taxilla –all this and much more find their manifestation in all their resplendence in the new syllabus, yet the traitors galore who resent the Hindu renaissance, are up in arms against this bold innitiative. Significantly, Hindus, albeit for the first time, found their voice resonating with the corridors of power. And all this was possible through the Hindus voting Narendra Modi enmasse. But then, whereas India, being the land of Sanatanis, its infinite glory should reverberate across the length and breadth of Bharatvarsha, the new found resurgence of jingoism should stop forthwith. None should be discriminated against on the basis of religion, caste and creeds. The brutal rape and murder of a nation’s daughter in Hatrash by few so called upper caste Hindus, was the digrace to the nation. Thus It is the time to build up an inclusive society where Hinduism should remain India’s eternal raison d’etre and its summum bonum. Moreover, India should follow the eternal Vision of Adi Shankaracharya as its core national identity.
Alas, Narendra Modi were Jawaharlal Nehru, the very trajectory of India would have been starkly different: The grandeur vision of Sanatan Dharma, in its pristine purity, would have been institutionalised. Significantly, Narendra Modi, unlike Jawaharlal, who shied away from his religion, would have taken the pioneering initiative to revive Somnath; to resuurect Shri Ram Lala temple in Ayodhya, Shri Krishna’s in Mathura, and Lord Shiva’s in Benaras. This apart, India, the eternal land of Sanatanis, would seldom have any inhibitions in calling India as the Pitrabhoomie of Hindus which accommidated all its stakeholders as equal citizens. Also, much vaunted vision of modernity of Nehru in building IIT’s and IIM’s would have fructified with greater magnitude than it happened. Most importantly, Hindus, being an overwhelming majority, would seldom have been allowed to languish as the inconspicuous citizens which they were paradoxically were reduced to: ironically, in their own country, Hindus lived like apologists; to call themselves as proud Hindus in public was an ostensible sin. But then the providence had chosen a different political trajectory for the nation, where they were invariably made to share their nation with the insignificant proportion of 8 percent people who, ironically though, were exerting their supremacy at the cost of an overwhelming majority of almost 90 percent. Unequivocally, this trend cannot be reversed, yet the future of everyone, especially Hindus, who had nowhere to go, had to be secured forthwith. Consequently, The Population Control Bill should be brought on an alarminng pace to stabilise the spiraling population. Significantly, if Modi were Nehru, even Nepal, which switched over from the resplendent path of Hindu Rashtra into that of a secular republic, would never have happened at the first place, if the giant nation next door, India would not have been afflicted with secular perfidy for decades. India and Nepal, as two Hindu republics, with secularism as its ‘Parmo Dharma’ would have walked confidently together. Moreover, Hindus have secularism ingrained in their veins; to crush Hindu sentiments and their innate aspirations in the name of secularism was the biggest secular perfidy perpetrated in India, for decades together. No wonder, the mushrooming of political dynasties today, too, is the outcome of this Himalayan secular perfidy. All this could have been avoided if Modi were Nehru, India could have been spared the travails and turmoil going on for decades, if India unambiguously, without the least of equivocation and an iota of vacillation, had reconciled to give primacy to Hinduism, with Vision of great Adi Shankaracharya chosen as the nation’s raison d’etre and its summum bonum, the Jagatguru status of India, for which it is struggling today, would have long been its prerogative.
Vivekanand Jha is an author of an upcoming book A Journey From Rajneeti to Lokneeti. He is an Author, Academician and a Public Intellectual. He is also the Convener of Education pe Charcha.
