[Reader-list] HOW SECULAR IS INDIA TODAY?

[Tapas Ray]

Britta,

Do not despair. You, I, and others who do not have to die in riots ...
at least that is how things have been for me so far, but who knows ...
can look at the lighter side. How desperate the writers of these posts
sound, going by their tone. I, and probably some others, have simply
filtered out some of these folks. But I have kept a few gushers keep
...ing (choose your body-function verb) into my mailbox to mark their
territory, so as to amuse myself with the sight, rather perversely.
When I decide I have had enough, I will shut out these too.

They know they can never win an argument, because they speak a
completely different language, which the rest of the members have no
intention of speaking. So why do they keep repeating these things ad
nauseum? I suspect their intention is not only to hijack this list as
you mention but also to *crash the server* if they can't. I think the
time will come when they will have to be shown the door so that the
list is not physically wrecked.

Till then, hold your nose and try to laugh.

Tapas


2008/10/16 Britta Ohm <ohm at zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
> I'm so so sick of this debate and of witnessing how this list has been
> hijacked and undermined by voices who bespeak how deeply the paradigms
> of Hindutva - that are by now means simple but painstakingly flexible
> - have become entrenched in Indian society. And by saying this I
> already know the - superficially varied - reactions that will refuse
> any responsibility, will advise me, under the pretext of 'not
> differentiating' and with the accusation of communalising, to go to
> Pakistan, to Rome, to consider the plight of the Kashmiri pundits, the
> injustice done to the 'majority community' and - to leave this list.
> Why don't I do it? After hope, is there really only masochism,
> subservience and silent suffering?
> Britta
>
>
> Am 16.10.2008 um 19:20 schrieb chanchal malviya:
>
>> India is secular:
>> 1. Muslims have personal law, but there is no Hindu personal law
>> 2. Christians have rights to convert the Hindus, but Hindus do not
>> have that.
>> 3. Muslims get subsidy, Hindus pay subsidy
>> 4. Hindus are in lakhs in other countries and they are not engaged
>> either in conversion, but the same can be applied on them in their
>> own motherland
>> 5. Hindus can talk in support of Islam and Christianity to be
>> secular, but talking about Hinduism is communal
>>
>> Not to say the last words..
>> If all Religions are equal, why don't you convert to Islam or
>> Christianity once for all. The problem will end. The problem lies
>> because we chose to remain Hindu.
>>
>>