Wednesday, January 01, 2003

What we want

To tell the truth, we, the bourgeois care two hoots for the morality and ethical responsibility that secular liberals preach, as also for the intangible sense of pride that vhp thugs are offering us. Hindu pride lies not in the pallufication of our women, nor does it lie in some Thakur exercising his so-called 'god-given' right to oppress Mallaahs.

What we want is something that can be experienced and passed on to subsequent generations as history without feeling shame or regret. We dont want the truth. Isn't the fact that Bollywood still manages to pull in money clearly illustrative of this state of affairs?

In summation, communal strife has to be ended, and not by the suppression of a particular community. The message should be loud and clear. "There are no individuals, there are only Indians. We are a collective. We are a nation. There is only one perspective, the Indian one. A Hindu, Muslim or a Kashmiri perspective has no place in the scheme of things." So be it, and so it will.

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