Sure, Satyameva Jayate. But if it's taking a tad too long, 75 years and counting, giving the process a push cannot hurt. Sometimes the easiest way to help someone get a better view is to take off their blinders. As in such cases, the early moments of the blinding light tends to hurt. But it's good in the long run. Hindutva is somehow offensive because it has the word fragment Hindu in it? It is no different from Bharatiyata. Would you as an original Bharatiya be more comfortable with that? If so recognise then that your angst is unnecessary and targeting a faith that you do not accept as yours and do not wish to allow preeminence to in our Indian context. But India and Hindu are synonyms. You cannot seperate them. We are all Hindus and that is the simple message of Hindutva. There is zero resistence in Hindutva to Hindus worshipping Allah or Jesus. But recognise first that you are ancient Hindus of this ancient land and civilization who are now worshipping Allah or Jesus but that we are all children of the land of Lord Ram. That cultural civilizational identity is the plinth of our modern nation. Those who did not believe in that made their decision in 1947. Then re-examined it in 1971. But those who stayed behind, did so in the express belief that we were one. Or un-negotiable acceptance thereof. And that each of us owes our primary loyalty to this land and it's people above all else. If that truth is not evident still, Hindutva is here to remove said blinders. And Lord Ram would approve. About the Mahabharata and the Battle of the Ten Kinds before, once again, the Iranics have their Arya Vaeja the Indics have their Arya Varta now. No use fighting over milk spilt a long time ago. The Indus will remain the hardstop. Regardless of the epochal ebbs and flows of empires and confederacies and nations.
And they got it. Two in fact, as things turned out.
Having got it, those who wanted it should have made their choice in 1947. I understand the gates for population transfer remained open for quite some time after that too. But once the Hindus allowed those Muslims to stay who chose not to move (never mind what they supported in the run-up to Partition), the express understanding was that such Muslims bought into the idea of India and rejected that of Pakistan. The pushback of Hindutva over the last 3 decades is because the sons and daughters of those Muslims who chose India started pushing back on the original terms of engagement and nation building. Some or most of them at least, the peak coming in and through the 80s, in my teens. The heydays of the sordid love affair of Indian Muslims with Pakistan. One pushback deserves another. Invites another. It's part of nation building but we will have the nation our forefathers envisioned. And which we want. Overwhelmingly. There will be zero compromise on that. Zero adjustment.
