Sunday, November 29, 2015

Pseudo-Secularism, Pseudo-Communalism & The Real Fear

...and this1 cited no "intolerance"...... It has been continuing since 1988. No one has questioned it in the way in which the current central government is being questioned by many intellectuals.
Ambedkar said that the majority is responsible for constructing minority. How much relevant this thought still is, we should ponder over it. When people oppose the government which allegedly supports intolerance of one community, and the same people when they favour the other government which supported intolerance of another community, this can never be termed as being secular.
I have seen and talked to many non-violent common people from majority groups who used to say during the congress rule that may be after a few years we need to migrate to Nepal or Mauritius. There were large number of illogical and logical reasons they used to cite. Right now, again I am listening to the statements, similar to what Aamir Khan made and can see the similar sort of fear. We can go ahead and compare, contrast, debate, discuss, conclude and judge all these statements. But the core truth is that these types of religious sentiments are initiated by political classes with an intention to get them further percolated to the general public in their even more horrifying deformity.
Can someone define the term "Secularism" for me.

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