Comments on: India Today: Cultural Intolerance among Fundamentalist Hindus

By: Hari

Hari — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:40:42 +0000

Agreed … I also believe that there is nothing wrong with getting blown away by other cultures also.

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:41:33 +0000

I am reminded of Gandhi’s words — “I keep my windows open because I want cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as poosible; but I refuse to be blown off by any”.

By: Hari

Hari — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:16 +0000

Bhagwad … India is going through an interesting phase. There is a lot of economic growth and millions of people are joining the middle class. There is a thirst for information and knowledge. Unfortunately at this time we do not have very many leaders (political or spiritual or otherwise) to point people in the right direction. This is where the “platform orators” come in.

They fill the void and teach the people what they want to hear and not the truth. India’s history is very complicated and complex but the Hindu leaders of modern India simplify things and paint a picture of how great India was before the Muslims and Christians. There is an yearning among certain Hindus to take India back to those Vedic times. It is important that voices of everyone else is also heard.

By: Bhagwad Jal Park

Bhagwad Jal Park — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:55:48 +0000

No – you’re not the only one at all. It’s been a major concern for me too that a very vocal group of people thinks that Muslims, Christians etc are not part of India.

I was quite shocked actually when I tried commenting on their sites – shocked by the amount of venom they seem to have stored inside them. In one breath they say things like “Hindus are the most peaceful, tolerant etc…” and they follow it up by saying “All other religious must be wiped out!”

And they feel they’re under direct threat from everyone. The US, Pakistan, China, the “West” (whatever that means), “Intellectuals” (as if that’s a bad word) etc.

As an aside, there’s something wrong with the captcha. It never works the first time for me. Gonna pitch for the awesom “Akismet” wordpress plugin again here :)

By: Hari

Hari — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:50:31 +0000

Thank you for supporting me on this one Indian Homemaker. I thought I was the only one concerned about a very small section of the Hindu society controlling the agenda for the rest of us.

By: Indian Homemaker

Indian Homemaker — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:50:16 +0000

Agree with most of what you have said… I fear regionalism only when it talks about changing city names, changes the language on the bill boards, or bans people from moving freely within the country.