Inner Metamorphosis

As we near the prana prathistha of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, the usual suspects are wailing hoarsely and unabatedly. It’s pointless to argue with those wearing ideological blinkers.  However, for the sake of fence-sitters and believers, I would like to respond to some of the rhetoric doing rounds.  BJP has strategically placed the inaugural date to win Elections 2024.  An observation so brilliant that even a school kid can guess that!  Everything a political party does is motivated by the desire to win elections. They build roads, infrastructure, and public facilities for this very reason. They promise subsidies, and free bus transport (eg, Karnataka and Telangana) to win elections.  Are you going to condemn these welfare schemes just because they’re politically motivated? Are you going to stop using roads built by a party you dislike?  BJP is dividing the nation for political gains. It’s the other way round. People used BJP to achieve their goal of Ram Mandir...

Kancha Ilaiah’s tirade against the trading community in his latest offering “Samajika Smugglerlu Komatollu” (Vysyas are Social Smugglers) is a unique blend of misplaced Marxist lens with blinding Hinduphobic tint. Which precisely explains why his theories, each competing with the other in the race to logical abyss, are lapped up by the left-liberal world and Christian missionaries alike.  Eyelids become heavy when he refers to himself as a successor to Buddha, Phule and Ambedkar in the recent spate of interviews to Telugu media. If only he had bothered to research a fraction of what Ambedkar did, we would have had a less pompous, but more measured ‘intellectual’. Speaking of ‘intellectual’ (that’s how he refers to himself!), it is instantly clear to any objective viewer that what passes on as a social scientist’s observations are actually nothing more than Hindu hatred in its purest form.  Since he repeatedly refers to his “Why I am not a Hindu” as some sort of m...