BS Murthy

  Told God man In Genesis One Him He created in form of His Not when asked as how He did Thought He fit in Genesis Two To tell He used the dust for that But to change tack after that, So in time Muhammad told Made Jibrail recite him In the name of One who makes Man on earth from clot of blood, Failed as he then to enquire Wherefrom He gets all that blood And since God hath sealed His mouth Knows not man the true roots of his.    

  When the Semitic free run on the Hindu turf under Sonia’s proxy watch ended with the ascent of Narendra Modi onto the Delhi gaddi, the Indian agendas of the Christian west and the Muslim umma faced impediments resulting in the brouhaha over the growing religious intolerance of Hindus towards India’s minorities. Given the racial biases and the religious prejudices of both against the Hindus and that the world media, by and large is controlled by them, a critical appraisal of their propaganda with objective lenses is called for. Hence, as the accusation is on the religious ground, it is imperative that the theocratic credos of Islam and Christianity as well as the philosophical ethos of santana dharma aka Hinduism, the only surviving ‘way of life’ of yore on earth, are to be reckoned with. The pristine precepts of Hinduism are - Nar ō Nārayana Man is but God,     Vasudhaiva kutumbakam Holds world all in one household, and ekam sadviprā bahudhā vadanti . ...

In the 11 th Century C.E, when the Muslim marauders first set foot on their karma bhoomi, the Hindus, as noted by Al-Biruni, were wont to proclaim that “there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, and no science like theirs”. However, eight-hundred years of Islamic consolidation in their land followed by nearly two-hundred years of  Christian colonization of it that eventually led to its partition saw the Hindus fall from those heights of self-belief into the valley of doubt. Thus, it was no wonder that in their freedom struggle to wriggle out of the British yoke, more Hindus preferred to head towards the gaols as pacifist Gandhi’s satyagrahis rather than to enter the battlefields as Netaji’s sainiks to kill and get killed. What is worse, India’s Macaulay Machine minted Gandhi as the peaceful conqueror of the mighty British Raj never mind Clement Attlee, who facilitated the change of guard, attributed their withdrawal to ...