Post Independence, Poison of Psedo-Secularism, Vote Bank Politics kept us apart as Indians. We have been waging war against each other in the name of religion, caste, language, region etc. for past Sixty Years. Remember the sacrifices made by million Indians during our struggle for Independence from British Rule for TRUE FREEDOM-SWARAJ & SURAJ. After, 65 years of Independence that SWARAJ & SURAJ is still illuding us as WE FAILED AS A NATION!
What are we? How do we define ourselves? We are just “Minority” Moslems, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis, Jains, Buddhists, “Majority” Hindus, “Caste & Sub-Castes”-OBCs, Dalits, Dalit Moslems, Dalit Christians, SCs, STs, Backward Castes, Yadavs, Jats, Kurmis, Thakurs, Harijans, Nairs, Aiyers, “Language & Region”-Malayalis, Keralites, Tamilians, Assamese, Bengalis, Oriyas, Biharis, Punjabis, Haryanavis, Marathis, Kashmiris EXCEPT INDIANS/BHARATIYAS.
We are passing through a difficult phase as Individuals, as family, as group, as community, as a region, as a Nation. Don’t you think, it is high time that we redefine our understanding of self, family, group, community, society, religion, caste, language etc. and also our common Goal. Ask yourself as an individual, family, community, society about a common goal. Do we have a common goal, if yes, what is that Common Goal? OR what should be that common goal. To me, our common goal should be to put INDIA FIRST, INDIA ABOVE ALL.
Whilst passing through some old papers, stumbled upon following paragraph from Hindu Maha Sabha, 1930 that “We do not hate our Indian brothers, Mohammadans, Christians, or whatever they may be; we have no grudge against them. The only thing we hate is anti-national religious fanaticism, from wherever it may come. We know that we have shared, in the past, the same eternal Indian culture with those who have since then, become the Indian Mohammadans and Christians, and, in the same spirit and with the same earnestness as we preach India above all sects to the Hindus, we urge those Indians who believe in so-called world-religions to put India above them. We call them back to our common national culture and civilisation, for the sake of the Nation. If they love the Nation, let them come and join us. They are welcome. But whoever does not care for India and her culture,whether he be born a Mohammadan, a Christian or even a Hindu, should have no place in the country but, at most, as a temporarily sojourning foreigner. We would be only too glad to see our brethren at peace with us, and we are sure that it is not impossible for them to unite with us in view of our highest common interest. This is indeed possible, provided they put India above everything, and we too; provided they are prepared, with us, to push all religious quarrels at the background and make the culture of India their culture, and the love of India their worship”.
Eighty Four Years ago in 1930, Hindu Maha Sabha urged all youth to join together to put India first. Today in 2014, history has once again given us the rare opportunity to realize that dream, that goal to put INDIA FIRST, INDIA ABOVE ALL.
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