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Hindu Resurgence: Need Of The Hour
Venkat Sarma
General Secretary, KHNA
 
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo
yatra pārtho dhanur-dharaḥ
tatra śrīr
vijayo bhūtir
dhruvā
nītir matir mama
In these concluding words of
Shrimad Bhagavad-Gita, Sanjaya says, “where there is Krishna who is the master of
mysticism, and Arjuna, the carrier of the bow and arrow; there will
certainly be opulence and victory”.
After so many years of foreign aggression and distorted
History, Hindus have lost the ‘Kshatra Veerya’, represented
by the bow and arrow of Arjuna. This is the same fighting spirit told in
the numerous stories of the Puranas. In spite of worshipping deities
who are adorned with various weapons, Hindus still remain apathetic. For
centuries, this sacred land has been raped and plundered by invaders who
came from all over the world. Hindus have always taken it meekly, as a
lamb goes to the slaughter house. In fact, during its long
history, Hinduism has been one of the most peaceful faiths in the world,
accepting the reality of different beliefs, never trying to invade or
convert any one. But, the Muslim invaders were so certain that they were
doing their holy duty by razing temples and killing Hindus, that they had
recorded down carefully and proudly their deeds in their own archives.
Christian aggressors believe it is their godly duty to convert. They prey
on poverty and on any family feuds that exist in any corner, like
bacteria infecting a sick body. They wear a façade of service and
humanity, recruiting the poor sections of the society to preach and
convert more.
We as a society have lost the ability to react. We always
talk of Mahatma Gandhi to justify our spinelessness and narrate the story
where he shows the second cheek while slapped on one. We conveniently
forget to highlight his persistent fight against mighty imperialist
forces of oppression and injustice. Inactiveness and cowardice are
considered love and peace! Any resistance to the aggression and assault
is interpreted as religious intolerance and violence. “Muslims are bullies and Hindus
cowards”, Mahatma Gandhi once said. He was right – at least
about Hindus. As a result Hindus are
denigrated, humiliated, forcefully converted,
and in many parts of India are facing elimination.
Kerala, the holy birth land of Sri Adi Sankara witnesses the worst of this assault. Hindus who constitute
87% of the population in India are only 56% in Kerala and heading south. It is a shameful
chapter in the history of independent India that an exclusive revenue district, Malapuram was created
for Muslims on religious lines in Kerala. In case of Tsunami relief
efforts, Hindu institutions have been ignored and sidelined by the
Government while the majority of the licenses to build houses have been
given to missionaries who are notorious for mass conversions. Lieutenants
of these conversions are elevated to the sainthood, where as any service
rendered by the Hindu Sadhus and institutions are ridiculed and termed as
extortion. Any attempt on the part of Hindus to unite above the dividing
lines of caste and destructive segregations of economic inequalities are
viewed with suspicion and subjected to post mortem. People of Indian
origin have no problem in forging coalitions with Pakistani terrorists
and communist pseudo secularists to tarnish Hindu leaders in the
international arena.
There is a saying you
can only wake those who are sleeping and not the ones who pretend to
sleep. It will be too late if Hindus don’t wake up and regain the
‘Kshatra Shakthi’ and fight against the evil blitz over us.
It is my hope that these Hindu conventions help to assert that resolve.
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Are Hindus doomed in Kerala?
(courtesy
of International Hindu Think-Tank Bulletin http://www.vivekajyoti.blogspot.com/)
Hindus of this land had a population share of 61.5%. Today it
progressively and gradually declined and now it has reached at the level
of 55%. The chief constituent jatis of the Hindu social fabric of Kerala mainly
consist of approximately 11% of SC/ST castes, 20% Nairs and 24% Ezavas.
The communist movement once interlaced them (the SC and ST), was able to
wipe out their innate Hindu feeling and transplanted in its place a class
feeling. But they continue to be in the same position as they were.
At the same time the history of
past assaults on the Hindu community like putting fire on the Sabari Giri
Temple in 1950, Liberation Struggle of 1958 (against first elected
communist ministry), construction of a church by destroying a Siva temple
near the birth place of Jagath Guru Sankaracahrya's birth place,
occupation of Kottiyoor Temple land, belittling of Hindus and obstruction
at the Tali Temple Renovation, construction of a church at the Sabari
Giri temple's holy garden, etc are highlighting/pointing to the absence
of a Hindu sense of unity to fight and a sense of insecurity feeling
accumulated amongst the various jatis through decades.
NRK (non resident Keralite)
remittances as well as the income from commercial crops are the main
source of the income of the state. Who controls this income? The number
of the NRKs during the period 1998-2002 was 365,293. Of which, 82.5%
are in the Gulf countries. Out of these 82.5% NRKs in the Gulf countries
during the reported years, 49.5% were Muslims and 31.5% were Christians.
The Hindu share in this sector is
only 19% (See Economic Times 19 May 2003). 60.5% of the total NRK
remittance was the contribution of the minority communities (See K.C.
Zachariah & others, Study, report in 'The new Indian Express', Kochi, 22 July
2003).
Again the total NRK remittance is 18,465 crore rupees and it is
equivalent to seven times of the state government receipts as central
budgetary support or fifteen times of the earning from the cashew export
or nineteen times of the States Marine Export. The annual average
remittance per house hold has also shown wide imbalances. A Marthoma
Christian share is Rs. 26,098/-, a Muslim is Rs. 24,000/-, a Hindu is Rs.
6,134/- and a Hindu SC is Rs. 725/-. (K. C. Zacharia & S. Irudayarajan, CDS Study, New Indian Express, Kochi, 16th
July 2004).
A prominent Malayalam weekly named as 'Malayalam Varika' in its editorial
clearly mentioned in strong terms the inherent danger in this growing
imbalance of foreign remittance. (See Malayalam Varika, Editorial, Vol.
VII, No. 12, 25 July 2003). This one single aspect, i.e.,
the imbalances in the foreign remittance is sufficient to prove the fall
of the Hindu community in the near future.
The accumulated money amongst the minorities
are mostly invested in lands. This ultimately
reduced the Hindu share on the land holding considerably. In the land
holding pattern also numerically ever shrinking unorganized Hindu
community is getting highly marginalized. Through the pressure tactics
exerted by the minorities, they are usually compelled/forced to discard
their land holdings at a throw away price. "In certain specific
districts the purchase of land is the exclusive right of a particular
community. The intermediary in this deal is also their religious
institutions" (See Malayalam Varika, op cit). Annihilation of Hindu
land ownership is started from the days of land reforms. All this
happened because of a lack of sense of Hindu feeling and numerically ever
shrinking position. The rate of the last decade's population growth of
the state is 9.42%. The Hindu majority Pathanamthitta district has shown
the lowest rate of growth, i.e, 3.72%. On the
other hand the Muslim dominated Malappuram district shown 17.22% growth
in the said period is the highest in the state. (See Kesari Annual, 2004,
pp 98-101).
Through generations Hindus are
worshipping cows. The one and only state in India which legitimizes the cow
slaughter is Kerala. According to the official data available with the
government, 500,000 cows were slaughtered in the state during 2002 and
sold out 249,000 tons of beef. (See The New Indian Express, Kochi, 13
August 2003).
In reality the statistics of cow slaughter is far different from the
official figures. It is true that a conspiracy is going on here to make
the younger generation of Hindus to be beef eaters. In the name
friendships the minorities are compelling the Hindu boys to share beef
preparations with them in the name of secular feelings and in the Hostels
where the substitute for a plate of fish or chicken curry happens to be a
pappad!!. All these are the indications of Hindu
alienation from their cultural domain.
A powerful field which can control
the society is education. Now the education sector in the state is under
the control of minorities who are politically influential and
economically sound through NRK remittance. While minorities manage 3340
schools in the state, the entire Hindu jatis altogether are in possession
of 194 schools only. The Muslim and Christian communities altogether
manage 223 arts and science colleges, against it
all Hindu jatis together manage only 42 colleges. (See Mathrubhumi Daily,
28 September 2002). Out of the 433 professional
colleges only 86 are government owned, 89 are Hindu managed while 258 are minority
managed. (G.K. Suresh Babu, Kesari Annual, 2004). While all minorities
are permitted to do religious instructions in their respective
educational institutions, this right is denied to Hindu institutions.
Here Hindu students in the minority institutions are not spared and
forced to study morale classes which inject anti Hindu ideas amongst the
Hindu students. This is the best known Kerala model of secularist
democratic paradigm.
Out of the state's 199,000 school
teachers, all class of Hindus' (inclusive of SC/ST) share is 38% only;
the rest is minorities. As per the 1997 statistics Kerala has 14,200
college teachers; 76% of the college teaching communities are hailing
from minority communities. (G. K. Suresh Babu, op cit). All this are some
aspects of the balance sheet of an unorganized demographically ever
shrinking Hindu community of Kerala. Possibly many might remember that
the Brahmin and Nair communities were the sheet anchor of the teaching
community in both schools and colleges, but about 40 years back.
The whole Hindu community has only
ten hospitals as their own contrary to 928 for the minorities.
(Matrubhumi daily, op cit). "Two or three multi specialty hospitals
are functioning in every town. Who is controlling this multimillion investment
sector?" (Malayalam Varika, op cit).
Similarly Hindu share in the
industry, agriculture and commerce is 28, 24 and 22 percents
respectively. At the same time Muslim share is 30, 23, 40 percents and
Christian is 35, 40, 36 respectively. (Matrubhumi daily, op cit). I
think, like the Hindus of Kerala no other section in the world is
marginalized like this.
In several sectors Hindus are the
last but in the case of suicides they are at the front. Kerala's suicidal
rate is above the national average, i.e. 30.5 for every lakh. A recent
NGO study reveals that 92% of the total suiciding population is from
Hindus, 6.5% is from Christians and 1.5% is from Muslims. Insolvency is
the main reason of the mass suicides of Kerala.
Kerala government's allotment of new
self financing professional colleges turned as a rude shock to the
marginalized Hindus of Kerala. Due to the economic backwardness of the
Hindus it is difficult to compete with the minority communities for
starting professional colleges. The result will be the kick out of those
who are now living as socially and economically backward in the Hindu
society. In medical education field alone these people (Hindus) will lose
250 seats every year. Those Hindus who come under the purview of
reservation will lose 3800 engineering seats and 100 MBBS seats every
year. After two decades the SC/ST sections alone will have a shortage of
74,000 engineers and 2000 doctors at the present condition.
In 1947 Muslims of India were a
minority community with a 24% share. But that much strength of the
Muslims led to the division of India. After partition they were reduced
to 7 percent in Indian Union Today they are about 14 percent. In another
15 years they would be at the stage of 1947 prior to partition demanding
another partition. The Hindu population in Pakistan was 15 percent in 1947. It is now
1.5 percent. In Bangla Desh ( East Pakistan ) it was 25 percent in 1947 now it
is only 10 percent.
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