03-08-2008, 02:37 AM
One thing I feel about Gandhijis assasination and the linking of Savarkar and the Hindu Mahasabha was it killed the nationalist spirit and made the movement yield space to the seculars.The India we see now is a result of the removal/ banning of the Hindutva folks who had an alternate vision to the secular vision of syncretic India that is Bharat versus Hindutva's Hindusthan from Attock to Indian Ocean. The secular vision is also narrow in scope geographically and keeps out large areas of greater India and is thus a defensive posture versus and expansive posture of the Hindutva folks.