Sangh Parivar’s Swachh Bharat: Why Macaulayputras cannot escape anymore

Since the Sangh Parivar is on a weighty Swachh Bharat mission of its own and all its elements are working overtime to cleanse the Indian society of social and cultural impurities deposited over centuries, it’s not fair to burden them with more responsibility. Yogi Adityanath has just said that he won’t stop the ghar wapasi programme till all the Hindus who were converted to Islam or Christianity came back home. That’s a lot of work.

The VHP has said that the entire population of the world was Hindu once. Christianity and Islam kicked in to disturb Hinduism’s wonderful hegemony over the spiritual and temporal spaces. Now, they have to undo the damage, brick by brick, trick by trick. The work has to begin in India but go global over time. It’s a long project, requiring a lot of energy and dedication. It’s no easy job.

However, since cleaning campaigns does not work well in bits and pieces, this piece of suggestion is in order: why not have a ghar wapasi or at least a purification plan for the Macaulayputra types, who go by the funny, oxymoronic description ‘Hindu liberals’? The Marxists are harder nuts to crack; so simple hamans and a few shloks won’t work for them. They need something like a Hindutva’s equivalent of exorcism. Till the parivar makes up its mind about that, it can focus on the liberals.

The Macaulayputras are an incorrigible lot. They claim to be Hindus, but are the first ones to attract and catch all kinds of moral and spiritual impurities floating around and bring these home. These are people would justify the pollution through the arguments reeking of rationalism. They would demand scientific explanations to everything that should be considered ‘given’ from the Hindutva point of view. For example, does the fact that Lord Ganesha, with the head of an elephant and body of a human, was a product of highly advanced plastic surgery in ancient times needs to be questioned?

This is what Macaulay’s education has done to the country. It has created a culture of doubts, suspicion and unnecessary question, which Macaulayputras would call the spirit of scientific enquiry. What the heck is scientific spirit? Take these remarks (taken from The Indian Express) of speakers at a rally of Bharatiya Gau Kranti Manch, an organization spearheading a movement for protection of cows, in Bhopal, and some others.

• Lord Krishna looked like a 12-year-old even at the age of 120 because he used soap made from cow dung.
• The country won’t have any crime or corruption if people drank cow milk daily.
• Cow urine is a surefire medicine for several life-threatening ailments, including cancer.
• Lord Rama would not have been born had his mother Kaushalya not taken kheer made from cow milk.
• Ancient Indians invented the television. They also invented aircraft and conducted nuclear explosions.

These are immutable truths of our existence. How can the Macaulayputras be suspicious of these? That firangi got the idea of education totally wrong and spoilt many generations of Indians. What the youth of the country needs is indoctrination. Catch them early, erase their ability to think or question, pack their heads with iron-clad dos and don’ts and when they grow up they make perfect, incorruptible Hindus. That’s true education. When our ancestors have done all the thinking for us and put theses down in texts, is there any reason for us to think more. Thinking creates doubts, clouds clarity of thought. This is ultimately dangerous for any society. That is where Macculay went horribly wrong.

His kind of education does not produce people with character or fidelity to the faith, which indoctrination does. Ever since the Hindutvavadis started making themselves loud and visible, this bunch has gone into hiding. The liberals usually do that at the first sign of danger. Put some pressure and the Macaulayputras would be seen learning the Vedas in no time.

It’s extra work, but when the cause is supreme extra work should be no burden. Swachh Bharat needs it, doesn’t it?