There are several church bodies which have perfected the art of slandering Hindus with finesse. They cloak their motives by putting up a false concern for the Indians and in this game a section of English print media offers its services, as if, without any hesitation.

An outfit in the US which depicted Hinduism as an exploiting religion and extolled Christianity as the only way of salvation for Indians is named ‘Dayspring International’. This is Virginia-based organisation and in a two-hour programme on Manhattan’s cable television network called Hinduism as a religion that has ‘perpetrated extreme prejudice and bigotry’.

This organisation has called India as a land of ‘division, despair and death’, and wants Indians to embrace Christianity. In its TV programme, Hinduism was ridiculed for having millions of gods and having no fixed system of worship. They live ‘without spiritual hope’ and according to it were ready to embrace Christianity. The organisation sought donations from all over the world for spreading Christianity in India. It also wailed over the fact that though ‘Christianity has been in India for more than 200 years but we have less than three percent of the population Christian’.

It is a pity that this upstart and brash Christian organisation has grossly underrated the intelligence of Hindus. Instead of showing respect for the faith of the majority, such senseless attack has been made by those who know least about this country or our religion. Dreaming of conversion at the bidding of dollars, this perverse Christian zeal and this superiority complex could have been directed to tackle contradictions in their own society first.

How our own newspapers, sometimes acting as conscious tools for spreading Christianity, can attack our religion can be seen from one of the articles published in the ‘Telegraph’, Calcutta giving a profile of Constant Lievens who was the king-pin of conversion at Ranchi a hundred years ago. Giving a profile of this missionary, opportunity has been utilised to slap Hindus. Quoting him, the article states: “Then the Hindus came and robbed them (tribals) of their land and laid landlord service upon them”. Those who foisted alien faith by allurement or patronage of British rule are still admired by lackeys in media. Seeing the pattern of attack on Hinduism by the lobbyist of Christianity any one can easily identify submerged antagonism for Hindus which surfaces in myriad ways.

Dom Moraes was commissioned by MP Government and a book was published entitled “Answered by Flute; Reflections from Madhya Pradesh”. In a very subtle manner, the book aims to destroy the very roots of our culture by repeating that tribals have little to do with India’s history and it need not be foisted on them. Anything with a touch of the Hindu past has been anathema to the liberal. People like Moraes build their secular edifice on exclusion of the Hindu past.

The author who takes as his birthright preaching of an alien faith to these very tribals finds everything wrong if non-tribals attempt to settle there. The obvious aim is to put emphasis on the elements of disintegration in the country. Moraes abhors the idea that the tribals should sing Indian songs, which, according to him, have no relations with their traditions. He also bemoans the idea of tribals taking inspiration from Indian heroes and heritage. Indian culture is alien to the tribals, because “tribals belong to a separate race”. Preaching of Christianity and converting them, to such dishonest intellectuals, does not amount to influencing them by alien faiths. Moraes says : “Tribal children are taught Indian history which concerns people whose activities had nothing to do with them”.

This unconcealed provocation signals that such intentions ultimately would be converted into a bid to balkanise the country. Moraes, we cannot forget, renounced his citizenship, writing that he was ashamed to be an Indian, when Indian troops had marched into Goa and liberated it.

The blatant betrayal of Hindu society by secularist writers and social and political bigwigs has netted their positions, awards, wealth and success. On the other hand elitist approach of Hindus lends them a guilt of being communal if they work for their own society, lest they are dubbed small minded. They would like to be perceived cosmopolitan, modern and secular. They have to change their entire mental make-up shedding despair, self-pity, smugness, and self-deprecation.

Malvika Rajbans Sanghavi in Sunday Midday (December 23, 1990), for example, in her most venomous piece ‘The Triumph of Godse’ says that she hung “her head in shame and was embarrassed to be called Hindu” because of Ayodhya movement. Khushwant Singh called Indo-Gangetic plain as ‘Cow-belt’. He goes on to comment on the mass wearing of white-skull caps by Muslims, including their children, as natural because according to him they have to maintain their separate identity ‘surrounded by hoards of Hindu fanatics’      

Rajeev Gandhi, while on a visit to Syria, had thanked their country for sending Mohammed Bin Qasim to invade Sindh in 712 A.D. with a message of Islamic brotherhood. What more guilt-ridden society can achieve when it exalts Islam and Christianity to the status of almost State religions. Let Hindus in their stupor today not repent when it becomes too late.