On 17/07/07, Vidyadhar Gadgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is becoming repetitive and hence rather tedious, so I will have my say on the matter one last time and then drop the matter. I am against all types of communalism and fundamentalism (as various posts of mine on this forum in the past will show, your protestations notwithstanding). But given the situation as it stands in India today, fundamentalist Hindutva as preached by the RSS and its front organisations is the biggest threat to secular democracy in India today. The harm that communal Muslim or Christian organisations can do is limited in that sense, because they lack the numbers (this is not to condone the harm they do). But with the overwhelmingly majority of the Indian people being Hindu, if they fall prey to the RSS' fundamentalist Brahminical ideology, there is a very real threat to the country as a whole. So given a group of organisations which preach communalism, the focus tends to be the one that is the biggest danger -- which is why I often focus on the RSS and the Sangh Parivar. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx
RESPONSE: That indeed, was to the point and precise. I am not sure, though, that people inclined towards the RSS, would be able to make sense of your post. They just see it as they want to. Increasingly we have too much of fundamentalists or all hues and all religions. USA, in which, our RSS man lives in, has become an intolerable Christian fundamentalist country. The RSS should take care, that they are living in a society where a knock on the door could mean a one way ticket to Guantamano! The USA could have easily given Modi a visa then locked him up. India would have protested to no avail! -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
