The situation we today have in our country is mainly due to the narrative set by those people who distributes stamps of secularism. BJP came to power with the agenda of mainly development, and they themselves are partly responsible for playing into the hands of secularists. But why would secularists actually want polarization in the country?
. They could not tolerate people voting for someone irrespective of their religion, someone who they demonised for years. Considering all blame goes to the ruling party, it was a fairly easy decision they made. Ironic for them being secular, but sad reality. Things are really messy in our country since there are different kind of people. There are religious extremists, there are people who have genuine concern, some have political agenda while some are just
haters who take pleasure in getting hate back at themselves. They are the writers, the filmakers, the authors, the intellectuals and the common people. But they are mainly divided into two categories as we know, the right and the left (anti-majority right in actual). These people have their own idea of India and they do what they think is right for everyone according to them. Hence, coming to a common conclusion to debate on various things in our country is not an easy task. The polarization due to Hinduphobia among the group of people who are referred to mistakenly as intellectuals actually help spread Islamophobia, indirectly. The kind of Islamophobia which is present in India is no match of what is there in the Western countries
. There is extremely ruthless online trolling, making fun of Islam/Muslims by people who mostly happen to be Christians. Despite that you would very rarely see media there using the 'C' word, unlike media here which never hesitate using the 'H' word, and make even the smallest of personal dispute look like a religious one. They are aware that generalizing all the Christians for a few bigots will put them at the risk of forcing others towards religious extremism as well which they would not like to have in their countries. On the other hand they do not hesitate in posting articles about Islamic & Hindu extremism, which would be akin to Indian media posting about Islamic & Christian extremism, something considered strictly non-secular or right-wing to do here in India ironically. India and western nations being culturally different have different problems and solutions. There will always be problems as long as Indian intellectuals keep aping their western counterparts. Forget about thinking own their own (considering how much social studies department lacks behind, like the technological department), they can't even ape it correctly. Infact aping is way much more easier than reverse engineering. Although some have
finally started to acknowledge what common citizens have been saying for a long time, they still believe one extremism is tolerable. Good extremism bad extremism theory perhaps?
Nevertheless, one baby step closer towards living up to their title. Add to that, Indian liberals also act as catalyst in polarization process. The ones who are superior and masters of whataboutry. Basically a kind of upper caste.
Although some say liberals are those who eat, work, play, innovate, stay healthy and sing songs (LOL?). The most important question is, what is the end-game? Does this polarization really help the seculars? Its not like people will one day wake up and suddenly change. In Kashmir, just a change in religion can change their entire perspective of the Kashmir dispute, this applies in rest of the India as well. And unfortunately for the seculars, percentage of Hindus is not going down anytime soon.
P.S. Nothing aganst the genuine seculars, intellectuals and liberals of the world
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