We are all Indians today. What a nice sentiment to share, and what a unifying thought on the day when three judges in Lucknow put gods in their rightful place and men in their platitudinous best. A triangular judgement on Ayodhya has taken the dispute --about deities and real estate--from contested histories and exaggerated mythologies to the realm of national identity.
So what is India post-Ayodhya?
So what is India post-Ayodhya?
a) The idea of being Indian is not an idea manufactured by professional secularists or their left-liberal collaborators or those mullahs and mahants.
b) Maybe you need an idol to take you back to the vandals of civilisation.
c) It's politics that pits the aggrieved Hindu against the persecuted Muslim.
d) Even if they don't get a Nehruvian character certificate, idol worshippers can be secularists as well.
e) Maybe Ram no longer needs BJP-and vice versa.
f) Will the Indian Right now seek other gods and build their shrines in the marketplace? The Right should get it right and regain India.
g) And hopefully, we'll be spared more secular (the official variety of course) and religious triangulations after the triangular judgement.
b) Maybe you need an idol to take you back to the vandals of civilisation.
c) It's politics that pits the aggrieved Hindu against the persecuted Muslim.
d) Even if they don't get a Nehruvian character certificate, idol worshippers can be secularists as well.
e) Maybe Ram no longer needs BJP-and vice versa.
f) Will the Indian Right now seek other gods and build their shrines in the marketplace? The Right should get it right and regain India.
g) And hopefully, we'll be spared more secular (the official variety of course) and religious triangulations after the triangular judgement.