Tarun Vijay
Once famous actor Hrithik Roshan wrote an emotional letter to Aryan Khan, Shahrukh’s son, to boost his morale and express his support to him in a difficult time.
Hrithik Roshan is a Hindu and his support to a Muslim actor’s son shows how we think and act with a large heart, rising above the fault lines of religion, caste and province.
But I have yet to read a letter for Supinder Kour, Deep Chand, Virendra Paswan and Dr Bindroo, by any famous, infamous or lesser-known public figure or a Bollywood personality. Hrithik might have worked in a Mission Kashmir movie but he didn’t share the grief of Kashmir that is attacked by de-humanised Islamists.
Srinagar’s gruesome incident was a direct attack on the constitution, on Hindu- Sikh religious minorities, who were selected after checking their identity cards and then shot dead in cold blood by the cowardly Islamists.
I failed to see the furore over it in Kerala, Bengal, Punjab, or in Delhi, not to say of Jammu . I would have imagined a large condolence meeting for them in Lal Chowk, attended by all public leaders and challenging the Islamist Jihadis who act as thieves and dacoits, hiding their faces to kill women, children and armless, unprepared people of Hindu and Sikh faiths.
Nothing happened. Even the last rites of a poor labourer from Bihar, Virendra Paswan was a lone affair. None attended, none solaced, none came forward to help his mortal remains to be taken to his hometown. An insensitive, rude and thick-skinned India we saw in those moments of grief.
For more than two decades, after the nation saw mass exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the nineties, we are having a cursory look at the second post-independence exodus while watching IPL and participating in blank, shallow Navratri celebrations.
The hypocrisy of the Hindus, hurts more than the bullets of the coward jihadis.
Not a single Hindu god has ever pardoned an unrepentant wicked. When we worship Durga during Navratras, we worship Her image depicting killing a demon called Mahishasur. Our all Goddesses symbolizing Shakti are powerful icons of the annihilation of monstrous elements – whether it is Kali, Ran Chandi, Bhawani, Jawala ji, Mansa Devi, Naina Devi or Bengal’s Durga. We read everyday Durga Saptashati, Argala Stotram, Chandi path and in each word, we hail the Devi for saving the devotees from demons and wicked assaulters with Her sword. In not a single instance we adore a Devi for pardoning the wicked and having peace talk with monsters. A few days later we shall celebrate the return of Rama to Ayodhya and light Diwali lamps. The festival of Diwali is institutionalized since ages to welcome a victor who killed a wrong doer called Ravana , even though he was a Brahmin, and a great scholar. Rama is not welcomed to Ayodhya because he left Sita in Lanka and refused a war with Her abductor, espousing the fake ahimsa and peace. He is worshipped as a victorious king, who established a rule of justice and eliminated the negative attackers who violated humanity.
The world remembers and respects the victorious and not the one who celebrates the defeat.
When I see the pusillanimous reactions of some people on Kashmir ‘s religious killings, when political leaders weigh electoral benefits before opening their mouth on the grief of Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs, when it is the Kashmiri Hindus who have to organize a protest march in New Delhi and it is not an all-party, all religion affair, then I can understand who facilitated the Ghazanavis to destroy Somnath centuries ago.
Somanth represents the invincible spirit of the Hindus, who never gave up on Dharma and Rashtra and rose again and again defeating Muslim machinations and crookedness. But we never thought why was Ghazanavi successful in the first instance? Who gave him passage to come and return? He crossed a long distance from Afghanistan to Prabhas Patan. How come that inspite of having all Hindus in the way, whether small or big kings and satraps, he succeeded to return to Ghazani with Somnath’s lot and hundreds and thousands of Hindu men, women taken as slaves?
It is the self-centered Hindu, that we see today, who is disconnected with Kashmir but rushes to Lakhimpur for electoral campaigning.
India is saved only with the rise of a Suhel Dev, a Sardar Patel, a Dr Hedgewar and Subhash Chandra Bose who saw the dangers of an ostrich like life and rose to the occasion to fight and give the enemy a bloody nose.
This Navratra worship Mother Durga to become a Hindu like a Devi who never pardoned a wicked monster. The greatest idol that we can adore and get inspired in today’s atmosphere is Guru Govind Singh , whose immortal words adorn the campus of Indian Military Academy- Deh Shiva Var Mohe Ihae, shubh Karman Te Kabahun Na Taraun, Na Daraun Ari Saun Jab Jahi Laraun , Nische Kar Apnee Jeet Karaun.
Navratras are not for the cowards. It is a festival of the brave, courageous and just warrior.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel