Reassert the ideals of our country

WHITHER HINDUTVA? Religion Expressing Itself In The Spirit Of Jehad By RK DASGUPTA The author, an eminent scholar, is former Director, the National Library of India The Statesman July 13, 2002

In his article “Pluralism and Secularism: Lessons of Ayodhya” published in the Economic and Political Weekly of 19-26 December 1992 Rajni Kothari speaks of the Semitisation of the Hindu mind under the influence of the Hindutva doctrine of the Sangh. We are still waiting for a renovated Congress possessing both character and talent to repudiate the Hindutva doctrine of the Sangh Parivar and the BJP and reassert the ideals of our country as they were presented to us by Raja Rammohun Roy, Sri Ramakrishna, Rabindranath, Vivekananda, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. The spiritual and moral world which these great minds created is now being supplanted by the exponents of the Hindutva doctrinists.