Hinduism vs Hindutva!
This may look like a Grade 10 student's exercise:
In the picture, given Column A, give its meaning in Column B, and state in a single word, the quality (set of attributes, behaviors) of being Column A.
While a high school student can easily complete all the words correctly, the last word in the exercise has turned out to be a big challenge for many of the opposition politicians in India! Though what is meant by the words Hindu and Hindutva are quite clear for the students and ordinary folks, these politicians refuse to accept them and are vying with each other to come up with weird new meanings.
The Congress leader, in his insipid style, comes up with simple one liners in his daily morning tweets, to confuse the ordinary voters and himself. His illustrious follower, standing at the other end of the intellectual spectrum, has written a whole book, 'Why I am a Hindu', of 310 pages, expressing in an annoyingly pompous and opinionated style, the subtle distinctions between Hinduism and Hindutva, with the same objective of obfuscating the issue, while elucidating his own religious convictions.
RaGa's laughable one liners include:
While a high school student can easily complete all the words correctly, the last word in the exercise has turned out to be a big challenge for many of the opposition politicians in India! Though what is meant by the words Hindu and Hindutva are quite clear for the students and ordinary folks, these politicians refuse to accept them and are vying with each other to come up with weird new meanings.
The Congress leader, in his insipid style, comes up with simple one liners in his daily morning tweets, to confuse the ordinary voters and himself. His illustrious follower, standing at the other end of the intellectual spectrum, has written a whole book, 'Why I am a Hindu', of 310 pages, expressing in an annoyingly pompous and opinionated style, the subtle distinctions between Hinduism and Hindutva, with the same objective of obfuscating the issue, while elucidating his own religious convictions.
RaGa's laughable one liners include:
- This is a country of Hindus, not of Hindutvawadis.
- Those who bow to PM’s wrong decisions follow Hindutva.
- Those who confront challenges are Hindus and those who run away from problems out of fear are followers of Hindutva.
- 'Hindu Congress' Vs 'Hindutva BJP'
Though Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor often contradict each other, both of them are ardent followers of Truman's Law:
'If you can't convince them, confuse them'.
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