We have written on the topic often and from different point of view. The most recent violence at Bhima-Koregaon is very upsetting and is forcing us to write again on the topic. Interacting with other on twitter using our handle @NetHindu1 we see that discussion on this sensitive issue tends to bring out the worst in all of us. Dalits are playing the victim card (and rightly so). Brahmins are bragging about their ability, reach and influence despite of smaller numbers. Other upper caste members are complaining about reservation. It is downright ugly. Fissures are turning into chasms. We as Hindus are playing right into the hands of Leftists, urban naxals and jihadis who are very effectively using morons like Jignesh Mewani. All you have to do is to read the twitter page of this jihadi Shehla Rashid and see what I mean.
Hindus have always fallen prey to the divide and rule ploy that is the only piece of history that matters here. Who collaborated with whom in what war is old news and often does not take into account local and selfish factors of that time is not doing us any good except these “I am smarter than you and know more history than you” arguments. Clearly, we irrespective of our castes are not learning anything from history.
I am of the opinion that if you pit two people who are identical in every aspect, they will still try to find a way to exert their superiority over the other. I have seen that in India and I have seen here in the US. An ocean away, people still make Polish or Italian or Irish jokes even though they are multiple generations away from the old country. One-upmanship is a human phenomenon. Hindus are made it more structured and killed for it.
The choice in front of as Hindus is: are we going to rise above casteism and take back our country from Naxals and Jihadis or stay beholden to either our pride or victimhood, stay divided and lose the war to the “Bharat tere tukde honge” jihadi gang. Pakistanis are probably rubbing their hands in glee at this windfall due to our stupidity.
What can we do? All of us need to realize our collective responsibility. Dalit leadership needs to be taken into confidence and reassured by upper caste leaders. They need to realize that joining hands with Jihadis will result into mass forced conversions as seen in Pakistan. Our political leadership needs to crackdown one the naxal-jihadi nexus, go after their funding and pre-emptively keep them out of potential hotspots i.e. better than our current Home Ministry is doing.
After reading these people on twitter, sometimes I feel that I don’t know as much as them. But I do know that we have a serious problem. A solution, more practical than finger pointing needs to be found. Our future depends on it.
An article we had written on collective responsibility can be read at.
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