Who Is A Liberal Hindu

[Capt M Kumar]

The only instance from recent memory which had across-the-board Right unity was the conundrum over NCERT textbooks — the so-called ‘saffronisation’ debate of the early 2000s. It was sparked off by an innocuous government decision to play a tape of the Saraswati Vandana at an education ministers’ conference held in October 1998, something quite usual with state functions. When the so-called ‘secular’ political formation created a ruckus, their move backfired — because people not ordinarily connected with the RSS-BJP asserted the right of Indians to show public respect to a national tradition. Over the next two years, the Left-intellectual establishment took its worst hammering since its foolish 1962 position. Not only did the Vajpayee government succeed in ejecting the foul ‘history’ books planted by Leninists, it also succeeded in introducing its own, accurate pedagogy.



The unique juxtaposition today of economic and national security miseries offers the Indian Right another opportunity to rally. The Right should shed a lot of its baggage, and be prepared to take on a new one — the cause of the Indian poor.

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