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Lack of National Patriotism
by Anwar Shaikh |
The Hindus are not lesser sinners than the
Muslims in partitioning their Motherland because they failed to match the Muslim
hatred with their love of Bharat Mata. If they were the least patriotic, they
would have resisted this most diabolical act with the force of arms. History
demonstrates clearly that motherland is the goddess that always demands a
sincere offering of sweat and blood from her proud devotees, but the Hindus
failed miserably on this count. They did not fire one shot to save the integrity
of Bharat Mata. Gandhi bragged that India would be partitioned over his dead
body, but when the time for sacrifice came, he showed a dishonourable conduct.
Instead of dissuading his colleagues as he had pledged to Abul Kalam Azad, he
withdrew his opposition to partition before the Congress Working Committee. Far
more shabby was the role of Nehru, who was intotoxicated with the dream of
personal power, though at a devilishly high cost to the Mother India. Gandhi
gained his "National Sainthood'' and Nehru achieved his ambition of Prime
Ministership.
The fact that the Hindus have been reluctant to fight
for the honour of Bharat Mata for the last one thousand years clearly
demonstrates that lack of national patriotism is the real Hindu malaise. Unless
they rcnounce the anti-vedic principles such as Ahimsa and caste system, they
will never make a bold and united nation fit to serve the cause of Bharat Mata,
which is the ony way ahead.
However, I do not preach narrow nationalism, which in
its extreme form can rank as a subhuman cult. The Indian Muslims may class
themselves as the children of foreign invaders to nurse their inferiority
complex but the truth is that 95% of them have the same Indian blood in their
veins as all other Indians such as Hindus, Sikhs or Christians. The remaining 5%
have certainly become Indians by the long domicile in this country. Have they
got anywhere else to go? Never mind other Islamic countries, even Pakistan,
which was created for all Muslims of the subcontinent, shall not take them in.
It is high time that they sober up to the reality, and being Indians, start
living as Indians, their participation in singing the Vande Matram, shall be a
step in the right direction.
Reproduced from:
Voice of
Jammu Kashmir
June-July 1996, No. 14
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