It is regrettable that an unbridled smear campaign against Hinduism is going on in a section of English press, which has not been able to exorcise the ghost of Indian brand of secularism.  A spate of senseless, wild comments, tinged with lunatic outbursts against Hindus have been surfacing signalling a crescendo of a well-orchestrated campaign of hatred with innuendo and half truths for quite sometime.

Amid the furious swirl of an intemperate language, the Hindus not unoften feel if patience for their faith is being tested in the land of their own.  It is devastating them psychologically except those who are fed on a brand of secularism, which breathes venom for the majority community.

The resurgence amongst Hindus over a period of last few years has obliterated all dividing lines of caste, region or language about which several secularist scribes, domestic or foreign, were never tired of reminding again and again and rubbing the entire Hindu community.  It is to their great discomfiture that over-arching Hinduism today enabled Hindus to submerge their narrow distinctions of caste, creed, language and region into a larger awakening.  This indeed has made so-called secularist intellectuals mad and off – balance.  This is the reason why they are vituperative, and malicious in their ranting against Hindus.  We are shocked at the gutter language used in a few prestigious national dailies and periodicals in our country and abuses heaped against Hindus, often wondering whether we lived in a Muslim country.  The choicest abuses hurled on the majority faith, unparalleled as they are in scope and content and the reticence of educated people whose forefathers’ faith is being trampled upon and spat on ceaselessly is bewildering.

Why does the very mention of Hinduism arouse negative feelings amongst our Anglicised elite?  Why does their blood-pressure rise when the word Hinduism is mentioned?  What are they ashamed of?  What is the root cause of their cynical view?  The Indo-Anglican press has the same mindset, which the fanatical drum-beaters of single-track secularists have been exhibiting.  The omnibus theme is that BJP is a Nazi Party with Hindu Ghazis and murderers ravaging the nation.  Thundering rhetoric of secularists sadly ignores realities today.     

Will someone stem the degeneration of our misguided media moghuls in the country whose transparent hostility for Hindus is going on unchecked.  We present a sample of venom purely illustrative, being dished out by a section of English press in the sequel.  Those who loathe anything that seeks to be constructive and unifying in Hinduism only indulge in their ravings, which lead them no where.

The efforts to nail the canard by a few perceptive scribes have to effective even to face those who have opted to have a blinkered view.  Walter K Anderson in his book ‘The Brotherhood in Saffron’ says: “there are significant differences with the European expressions of Fascism that should caution one to handle comparison (between European Fascism and the RSS) carefully.  RSS never sought to destroy or to seize control of all existing centers of social-political and economic power like fascists do”.  An American sociologist, Matthew A Cook says that if Hindu is an inclusive term, referring to the entire cultural mosaic of modern day India “then the correlation between the BJP and the Nazi party in Germany which revolved round the exclusion and persecution of minority groups is baseless.”  He further said this comparison is malicious because Nazi political philosophy was what could be called “unity without diversity” But the BJP did not actively seek to establish a pan –Indian straitjacket.  The BJP – Nazi correlation mischievously propagates a media mischief belching out hatred for Hindus.  Let us examine the extent of such mischief this secularist elite is capable of. Shri. M.V. Kamath calls this elite excelling in abuses on Hindus “a conglomeration of shallow men who think that self – flagellation is co-terminus with secularism and who desperately seek the plaudits of the minority in their search for intellectual legitimacy”.

Those hostile to Hindus are never short of arguments.  Sometimes they are critical, at other times they want to tell us what good Hinduism should be like, which is rather different from what Hindus think of it.  First it was ‘modernisation’ then it was ‘secularism’ and now it is ‘semitisation’.  Under each argument the anti-Hindu theme is presented with a variation.  The intent is to keep Hindus at bay, to debilitate them in their struggle for a place in the public realm and to deny them an honourable future. Only in India, with its monstrously alienated intellectuals, is such self – hatred possible.