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By: Apratim Verma February 20, 2006 Views expressed here are author’s own and not of this website. Full disclaimer is at the bottom. 
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Indian politics is dirty. We all agree over that. Indian politicians are corrupt. There is even more agreement. That national parties in India have indulged in sabotage and treason inspired by foreign ideological gurus (shall we refer to Mitrokhin, Volcker or anybody else?), and even governments have taken donations to fuel foreign ideologies in India, elicits an even louder ‘yes’ from Indians. That presents us with a black face of Indian politics. Doesn’t it? But wait! Things are not so bad. There is a purifier, an amrita, an ideological Ganga which washes away all the dirt of Indian politics. Guess what it is? Secularism. What else? Secularism indeed is the cleansing agent of Indian Politics. For 60 years it has washed away the sins of politicians. Some say that Indian Politics is very complicated. On the contrary, it is very simple. There is only one rule in the Realpolitik grammar of India. You want to commit a crime? No probs. Do it. But do it the Secular way. In India a crime is a crime, until it becomes a secular one. The moment a crime becomes secular, it ceases to be one. With the transforming touch of Secularism a crime mutates into the service of the poor, the masses and the nation, and in worst scenario it passes unnoticed. So, secularism in India is not just a purifying agent, it is an electron cloud with a minus charge on it. It reverses the direction of a particular event or deed completely. A crime in general becomes a favor to masses in Secular terms. About a year ago, an issue over the insult of Gandhi was raked up. The instigator was none other than Mani Shankar Aiyer, the secularist cum Communist par excellence of India. The new shining portfolio of Petroleum ministry, and the defeat of supposedly ‘non-secular’ BJP had added ammo to his Communist salvos, and boosted his secular morals. The issue was that of a slab with the name of Veer Savarkar engraved on it, which was displayed on a pillar in the jail of Andaman and Nicobar islands, where the leader had been imprisoned by the British. Mani Shankar Aiyer had charged that this was an insult of Gandhi. Now one wonders what an innocent little slab of marble with only the name of Veer Savarkar engraved on it, could have done to offend the Secular emotions. But Secularism is a touchy ideology and Secularists, sentimental creatures. Mr. Aiyer’s logic was that since the name of fanatic Hindutvawadi (an ignominious breed, ungrateful enough to be present in India) like Veer Savarkar was present on the slab, the absence of a slab with Gandhi’s name was a great insult to the Mahatma. Now, common human logic tells us that the names of only those freedom fighters must be engraved in the Andaman and Nicobar jail, who were really imprisoned there. But Secularism is not common, and human logic is unworthy of the lofty ideals of Secularism. Much hullabaloo followed the chivalrous deed of our Secular knight. But Mr. Aiyer being true to the Secular ethos, remained absolutely defiant and insolent in his obstinacy and got the slab removed from the pillar. So much for the victory of Secularism. Now we must turn to another recent event. The chief guest of this Republic Day Parade was none other than Saudi King, an autocrat ruling over an extremist Wahabi Islamic State, financing terrorism and producing terrorism at supersonic pace. While Indian Secularists and Communists leave no breast unbeaten in denouncing the Hindu King of Nepal because he has suspended democracy in order to combat with the Maoist menace, they have not even a single time implored the Saudi dictator to renounce his throne and bring democracy to Saudi Arabia. Moreover, while the Nepali King gets the regular bashing by our Secular Armada in all of leading Indian dailies, the Saudi King gets both an invitation to India on the Republic Day, plus a red carpet treatment by Indian media. The ‘doublespeak’ of our Secular Armada is quite evident with this partiality towards the Muslim dictator and the animosity towards the Hindu King of Nepal. Things would still be bearable for the infinitely patient Indian populace, but it did not stop over here. Saudi King while on his tour in Delhi with his counterparts skipped Rajghat, the samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi. Now by analyzing the history of Secularism and applying deterministic logic, one reaches to the conclusion that the disrespect of Mahatma Gandhi of such a great degree would produce an insuppressible din from the Leftists, Congressites, Secularists and Communists all of those who vouchsafe the legitimacy of all their actions by allying themselves to his prophet like charisma. But Secularism is not deterministic. It is chaotic in nature. Nobody can ever what predict what course it will take. The ever-screaming throats of our Secularists suddenly went quiet. Not a single howl was heard form our Teutonic Knights of Secularism. This act of Saudi autocrat was never considered as an insult to Gandhi. So, the lesson we learn from this episode is that you can insult Gandhi, but only through the secular way. These two events show us the extent to which our Secularists can perfect the ‘doublespeak’ and double standards. Now if one is trying to discover the truth about Indian Secularism, his search ends here. In plain terms Indian Secularism is an intense hatred of everything India and Hindu, whether it be history, culture, religion or literature. It is a cover for Islamic apologism and Muslim appeasement. It is a facilitator of the Christian Missionary agenda in India. Overall, it is anti-national in character. We need not go into the debate of genuine secularism or pseudo-secularism, or about the origin of secularism in Europe. By observing Indian Secularism, one can easily guess its aims and intentions. Even, the slightest observation reveals the ‘doublespeak’ of Secularists in India, their animosity towards ancient Indian culture and their partiality of Islamic fundamentalism, Christian proselytism, Maoist terrorism and every other form of subversive agendas and anti-nationalisms. But how great a specialist you may be of Indian Secularism it will always leave you gasping for breath by its U, M, W and Z turns. At last the clownish somersaults of Secularism elicit a laugh from Indians, and they wonder whether they must dispense with jokers, for a better replacement in the Secularists. According to the survey of an American daily, India is the happiest nation in the world, despite its social, political and economical worries. I wonder, whether Secularism is the cause for this happiness! Apratim Verma
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