Hindu Narrative

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<!--QuoteBegin-rishi+May 14 2007, 06:26 PM-->QUOTE(rishi @ May 14 2007, 06:26 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi Folks,
I was reading about JP Narayan, when I came accross the following piece:
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<b>Hindu Revivalism</b>
For some important sections of the Hindu community, piety or religiosity is only a means to obtain divine sanction for unethical behaviour, such as black-marketing, tax-evasion, profiteering, etc.
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Why is all this behavior unethical? I understand it is illegal, but why is it unethical? JP's problem was he was a socialist, one of that large number of idiots who managed to destroy India socially and economically.
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I think we will have to address this particular fear eventually - that Hindu society's existence is predicated on the political unity of India. I think this is quite unfounded, and quite counter-productive.