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From: Naresh
Secularism has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists
By Dr Gautam Sen
Building the nation in a partitioned India required a bold programme
that Jawaharlal Nehru and his associates were neither able to
comprehend nor would they have been prepared to embrace had they been
able to do so. This India had to be a Hindu India. It did not need to
accord any special political or other privileges to Hindus.
The ideology of Indian secularism, misconceived from the very outset,
has become the backbone of Islamic jehad and fundamentalist
evangelism. The one committing mass murder, the other attempting to
transform India's cultural and political landscape in order to
reimpose foreign rule over it.
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The immediate contingency haunting India is the accident of the
marriage of one of the late scions of its quasi-royals. Stemming from
this piquant twist of destiny, the prerogatives of India's cabinet
government have ceased. The Prime Minister and most of his Union
Cabinet are subject to the extra-constitutional diktat of half-a-dozen
individuals, none of whom are Hindus. Other Cabinet offices have been
farmed out as private property to criminals in Parliament, who operate
with utter contempt for any notion of propriety because they exercise
a veto by virtue of the arithmetic of parliamentary seats. But worst
of all, the great offices of state, including Home, Law, and Finance
and most shockingly, the Prime Ministerial office itself, have little
authority, largely carrying out commands originating elsewhere. These
commands or orders are also subject to the covert influence of a
number of foreign governments and the Roman Papacy itself. The august
office of the Indian President, into which its present incumbent was
publicly hauled by the hand in an undignified induction, barely
possesses the self-respect to represent a billion Indians. And who
will guarantee that the nation's most vital secrets, the location of
its strategic nuclear assets, their targets and the identity of its
intelligence agents operating abroad, have not been revealed to
Washington and Islamabad via the Papacy? India is no longer a
sovereign independent country. The struggle for independence must
begin anew.
(The writer taught at the London School of Economics for over two
decades and now writes on international political economy).
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