Today’s India is rapidly developing in terms of infrastructure, Information technology products like AI, geopolitics, etc. But as a citizen who is part of India’s Hindu majority, I tend to think that can wonders like AI be of any help towards my community’s civilizational interests? News reports of communal unrest from Nuh in Mewat have disturbed me as a Hindu.
It’s not that I’ve read about Hindumesic unrest for the first time. It’s just that now I’ve realized even more that whenever our surrounding non-Hindu demography crosses the half-way mark, it only makes the social environment quite hostile for us Hindus. Our temples turn vulnerable, our deity worship is mocked as idolatry and our festive culture is trivialized as superstition.
Leftists across India, including some HINOs (Hindus In Name Only) expect that we, the Hindu Majority of India should practice one-sided Secularism with Non-Hindus. They feel that our festive processions (Shobha Yatras) faced stoning by locals not because they were hostile but because we have the audacity to pass through their areas.
Leftists also feel that non-Hindus should be able to carry out their festive processions through Hindu majority areas in any city peacefully. Non-Hindu festive processions are carried out peacefully because we Hindus as a community are law-abiding and are inherently pluralist by nature. But does asking for a reciprocal from non-Hindus makes us communal bigots?
Hindu temples aren’t safe in our hostile western neighborhood since it was created by partitioning our nation in 1947. It is understandable due to the demographics of that region from the mountains of Pushkalavati/Purusapura to the beaches of Kurrachee/Kolachi. But when I read about news reports regarding a Hindu temple under siege by a mob coming from adjoining hillocks in Nuh, it only gives a feeling that the untimely halting of total population exchange between both the nations made for an incomplete partition.
As a Hindu, I can’t even demand from the state that they declare such unrest as an Anti-Hindu genocidal misadventure. What if we Hindus are slapped with Section 295A? I and many of us Hindus across India are now living in an environment which reeks of the Communal Violence Bill which thankfully hasn’t seen light of the day. The onus is always upon our shoulders.