Left and Congress have become common bogey for people trying to subdue the inherent secularism of India that made Republic of India possible. I don't understand which post of mine gave people the impression that I'd like to associate myself with a failed ideology such as Communism, and I thought I'm intelligent enough.
All I asked what philanthropic works are Hindu institutions doing to counter the missionaries, and the Hindus in the forum failed to come up with a single example apart from their usual excuse of making the seculars a scapegoat of their inability, such informed our Rig Vedic Hindus are! But wait, it's the left-extremist Abir to rescue, he cited the example of RamKrishna Mission, ironic isn't it?
Coming from Calcutta, you must know about Missionaries of Charity. Would you explain to us why the biggest missionary in India being present in Bengal for 70 odd years, failed to Christianise Bengal? Why did people from Calcutta needn't burn Mother Theresa to save Hinduism?
Abir, first things first:
a) Your rebuttal to my comments are misplaced. My comments were related to some of the earlier posts by you. Trust me, with comments like "You Hindus", "Not a single Hindu came up", do NOT prove your secular credentials, but rather makes you suspect in the eyes of the common man. Quite similar to the "Tsarina" of the Indian Liberal English Media aka Sagarika Ghose who suddenly wakes up one day and writes in Twitter something like "suddenly the Internet Hindus come swarming .........hiding behind their mummyjis' sarees, while conveniently forgetting the fact that they themselseves are Hindus to start with.
b) If "Secularism" is/was/has been inherent in minds of People of India, what was the need to introduce the word in to the Constitution of India by a legislation? And I am sorry the people of India would not like to "give credence" to the version of "Secularism" the Cong and the Leftists want the Indians to believe in.
c) I am afraid Communism is just not a political ideology, there are many things to it apart from the politics part. Most importantly it is also an economic ideology. So all the Bengalis who hav been voting them to power all these years necessarily need not believe anything and everything the cadres say.
d) I see, that there is a tendency of Bengali nationalism in you, which is not much different from the political party/ies that you hate. But again that is a separate discussion.
I sense there is an attempt to brush the revered RKM as a Bengali Institution, and this is something not new. The Communists have been basking unnecessarily in the glory of Bengali Nationalism, whether real or surreal.
And RKM is just not the only one, I think it is quite churlish to ask that question even , "what are the Hindu" organizations doing social work. It is above reportage and ofcourse it is a sin to report or educate the masses about these.
e) Since you mention RKM, please let your fellow "secular religionists" also know that unlike other organizations, this does not ask you your religion, nor bars you from entering the premises, nor does it not permit you to sit for the evening bhajan, nor does it ask the religion when admitting patients to the Ramkrishna MissionSeva Pratisthan...
Can the same be said about World Vision or even the Missionaries of Charity? The jury is out on this.