Epic Crimes and Hindutwa
by I.K.Shukla
A troglodyte of RSS has shown once again that he suffers from visions. Beginning with his call for an epic war, like Mahabharata, against non-Hindus, he has gone on progressively becoming soft in the brain. Now he has given a brutal call for the dismemberment of Pakistan. Too, he enjoined New Delhi to ask the Christian missionaries ã to pack up and go. He ordered Christians to have a national church as in the post-Revolution China. He would have history of India rewritten to incorporate its Vedic lineage. And, this fabricated history, he decreed, would be the basis of ãvalueä education, in the country, to spread which, he would unleash on the nation the RSS hordes. That is, majoritarian gangsterism, hatred and hubris, thought police, Hindu hegemony, heinous hierarchy, massive deprivation and economic disparities will be maintained and enforced and hold sway. No dent in this divine dispensation will be allowed or brooked.
The grand vision÷of a bloody-fiery millennium that RSS would usher in Bharat. This grandiose project of Akhand Bharat is, unfortunately, too bloody, and alas, too stupid. Its incoherence is colossal. After Pakistan is dismembered, and implicitly, absorbed in Bharat, RSS, consistent with its agenda and ideology, will issue the ukase for Muslims to pack up and go. And, if Muslims refuse to oblige? If Christians reject the demand? Then, why load Mother India with a national church at all? Do Bharatis have anything to learn from the Chinese, our Enemy No.1? Why would not the Western nations give the order of the boot to the immigrant Swamis and Hindus? And, would Vedic overlay of our projected history advocate reversion to the primitive mode of life prevalent in those pristine times? If not, why? If yes, bravo.
This Neanderthal's rodomontade on Oct. 3 in a Delhi jamboree of 21,000 RSS men, is significant for several reasons. The elections to the state assemblies are approaching. Some winning gambits have to be invented. To that end some slogans are necessary to fire the mobs and enlist the lumpens. Therefore, missionaries must pack up, Pakistan must be disappeared, and history must go Vedic. This is calculated to render Bharat 'pure' by avenging 'wrongs of the past'. Quite appealing, quite inebriating for mob mobilization. The recent setback to Hindutwa in the Gujarat elections adds urgency to the choristerâs call to the faithful. He is angry and anxious: why have Indian people in districts, talukas, and municipalities, started thinking and asserting their will? Can a fascist and totalitarian Hindutwa let this virus of democratic sanity become nationally pervasive? Fat chance.
As for tricks and ploys, it is their season. The Oct.13 siege of Agra (Fatehpur Sikri, Taj Mahal, and Mathura mosque) by 75,000 RSS cadres in a three-day coven, ostensibly to discuss ãnational securityä, is Kargil redux. Since Kargil cannot be repeated and cashed in short order, and elections are distressingly so close, Agra will be a declamatory Kargil. Call from here will go to the ãcultural nationalistsä and ãpatriotsä for the annihilation of our Enemy No.1 (China), demolition of Pakistan (that symbolically began in Ayodhya eight years ago), liquidation of ISI (Indian Muslims, and all dissenters), and elimination of ãforeignersä (Christians, and progressives).These are long-range plans. Their immediate dress rehearsals, cued in the parentheses above, are in order for the immediate gains in the electoral arena. (A democratic government in New Delhi would have arrested him and his cohorts for sedition, as it would have clamped Presidentâs Rule in Gujarat which has been gripped by carnage and anomie for so long).
There is too much brouhaha these days over countering terrorism. India is entering international arrangements to meet the menace. But the Hindutwa terrorism laying waste to the nation, rampaging with impunity with the connivance of the state, making mince meat of human rights, alienating millions upon millions with its tribal blood lust, seems not to have bothered the ãcivil societyä or the media at all. That the parochial and sectarian saffronites call themselves nationalists (and obediently, the media acquiescing) is the most egregious oxymoron of our times. Anti-social and anti-national, they pose a serious threat to national unity and national security. With them on the prowl all over India, ISI can relax. Sanghis are wedded to dismembering India. Their bid to communally hack Kashmir in three parts is in line with their old ideology. And, adept at creating communal flashpoints, they would have the sub-continent burn permanently. They, as ãvolunteersä of the imperialists past and present, are pledged to destroying the historical India.
Why have Muslims suddenly been discovered to be 'flesh of our flesh' by the BJP president? He coyly admitted, because of vote bank politics. And, he invited them to join the BJP. This is an invitation from the shark to the sardines. Sardines are small, but are they stupid too? The stick didn't deliver. Now try the carrot. Demolition of Babri Masjid, Rakt Yatra of AdVani heralding it, ethnocide in 92-93 Bombay, and in Maliana-Meerut- Hashimpura-Surat, battering of students in Jamia Millia, mayhem in Shibli College (Azamgarh), atrocities and lawlessness in Orissa-Gujarat, destruction of property-arson-rape-murder, denial of jobs in proportion to their numerical strength, oppression and torture through the corrupt and communalized administrative apparatus, ghettoization and massive terrorism (the stick)öproved less effective than planned and desired. Hence, now the carrot: ãblood of our bloodä. But when did carrot become the staple food of Muslims?
While the caveman puffed 'no one religion for all', in the next sentence he hectored Hindutwa was the sole religion for all humanity. While denouncing imperialists, the West, and Marxists for the Aryan invasion theory, he obsequiously quoted the Westerners in support of his position. This urge for validation from the West seems pitiable and servile, betraying low self-esteem and feebleness of mind, at odds with the fervid tone and tenor of the shrill war cry the belligerent Sanghi screamed against the 'aliens'.
He again alluded to Western scientists, on DNA, to the effect that there is no similarity in the genes of the Indians and Europeans. He didnât name the scientists. By naming DNA he was pretending that Hindutwa is not autistic and retarded. However, he is totally false, as the following from the New York Times/Aug. 22 would show:
Scientists have long suspected that the racial categories recognized by society are not reflected on the genetic level. Most researchers are convinced that the standard labels used to distinguish people by 'race' have little or no biological meaning.
While it may seem easy to tell at a glance whether a person is Caucasian, African or Asian, the ease dissolves when one probes beneath surface characteristics and scans the genome for DNA hallmarks of 'race'. 'Race is a social concept, not a scientific one' said Dr J.Craig Venter, head of the Celera Genomics Corporation in Rockville, MD.'We all evolved in the last 100,000 years from the same small number of tribes that migrated out of Africa and colonized the world'
Traits most commonly used to distinguish one race from another, like skin and eye color, or the width of the nose, are traits controlled by a relatively few number of genes, and thus have been able to change rapidly in response to extreme environmental pressures during the short course of Homo sapiensâ history. So, equatorial populations evolved dark skin, presumably to protect against ultraviolet radiation. Traits like intelligence, artistic talent and social skills are likely to be shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the 80,000 or so genes in the human genome, all working in complex combinatorial fashion.
The possibility of such gene networks shifting their interrelationships wholesale in the course of humanityâs brief foray across the globe, and being skewed in significant ways according to 'race is a bogus idea', said Dr Aravinda Chakravarti, a geneticist.
But such facts or findings donât faze the H-warriors. Nor are they deterred even by Veda. Releasing on the occasion a book on the Atharva Vedaâs Prithivi Sukta, a neo-Hindu gave it a meaning totally contrary to its immanent message. The Sukta, well known for its poetic charm, has been called by Bloomfield ãone of the most attractive and characteristic of the Atharvanä:
Janam vibhrati bahudhaa vivaachasam naanaa dharmaanam prithivi yathoukasam [The earth holds]( people professing many religions, speaking many languages, like those living in a house).
Read with Kalidasa's first verse in Kumara Sambhava, in which he calls Himalaya 'the measure of the earth', not Bharat, (sthitah prithivyaa iva maan dandah)ä it constitutes a paradigm, both grand and noble, which hasn't been equalled anywhere in reference to humanity at large. RSS and its tribal kin repudiate this paradigm. Their rejection of everything noble, viable, humane, rational, and authentically and anciently Indian, began with their assassination of Gandhi, and continues with the serial assassination of all those he is deemed to have embraced-Muslims, Christians, Dalits. That is, the murder of the Gandhian paradigm, and that of the Prithivi Sukta.
These enemies of reason pose the greatest danger to our polity, our society, and universal humanity. The fascist monsterâs bellicose bark is relentlessly piercing the eardrums, its blood-soaked claws tearing up the horizon of the sub-continent. It must be exorcised forthwith before it devours India. Let the Left wake up.
Oct.7, 2000
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