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What does Hindutva mean ?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I have never really associated the term Hindutva with religion. Perhaps my aversion to 'theism' contributed to that. So I would not suggest to scrap Hindutva.
I have always proudly looked upto BJP as an organisation that was born to re-instill that nationalistic fervour into us nation. I wanted it to bring back the 'pride in the flag'.
I do not see it happening now which makes me think if this was all about religion and I was a fool to misread the ideology. Its probably not but, as I have always maintained, not much emphasis has been laid to make obvious the distinction between Hindu Rashtra and Hindutva.
I now realise it is more difficult to convince people about the system of governance such an ideology would bring. We run the risk of being a non-entity if and because people think we are Congress+Religion and nothing but. We as a nation are still so young and uneducated to understand the difference between the original concept of Hindutva and the religious angle attributed to it like Kulkarni mentioned.
It is time for us to follow a better approach than we have always been to put forth the ideas and sell policies and principles like people would buy them than to please our own egos.
3 comments:
Dont worry too much about the hindutva tag .... It isn't a matter at all .......
I think it does matter, as an impediment to the growth of the party in states like ours.
Particularly when people are being misled by wrong interpretations of it.
More than the people of the state it is the politicians and the media that think that BJP is communal . Deep inside every hindu is a hindu and does appreciate BJP for it's nationalism . Go to interior of andhra pradesh and ask them for their opinion about BJP .Ask them how many are not considering to vote for BJP and its allies as it's a communal party , the reasons are not its communal image but lack of charismatic leaders and ground workers .
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