Never Was Secularism In India!

When we think of secularism & go after the word –SECULARISM! - we find out without even having a shade of doubt that, in India, it is a word invented by the post partition politicians who wished to have ‘Something Never Achievable’ to show the easily gullible people of India & move ahead to PROFIT ONESELF, ETERNALLY!

When we move further in search after the word – Secularism! – we come to the final & shocking conclusion that, in actuality, there was nothing like Secularism ever existed in India, from ancient times! Till Independence we, the Indians, never heard of it! Then, from where did this word CREEP into Indian Life, after the so called Independence?! It was something which was CREATED in the illusory belief that it will make vanish the numberless tumultuous problems which came into existence by the time of partition! Partition itself was one of the huge & vexing problems which the political leadership of that time failed to have any grasp on! Even Gandhi failed to see & understand it – Partition – coming!

It became the sole duty of the wily politician to describe what Secularism is, in Indian Life, in post independent India! Later on, somewhere along the way, the wily politician also allowed religious leaders to do the interpretation of the word Secularism! And, thus this Politician-Religious Leader Nexus became the sole proprietor & interpreter of the word Secularism in Post Independent India!  

Secularism in India has become Irresponsible Practice Of One's Religion In Whatever Way One Wishes To Do It! Secularism in India entitles anyone to have all the Secular Rights without ever having any of the Secular Responsibilities! Here, nobody is held responsible for whatever one does in the name of ‘Secularism that is the other word for Religion’ in Independent India! Here, in India, one can do anything & go scot free in the name of religion as False & Non Existent Secularism is the State God!

From ancient times, there were divisions & clashes between Hindus in India; they fought hard against one another taking the names such as Shivaites, Vaishnovites etc; the kings who were devout followers of Lord Vishnu attacked & destroyed Shiva temples & changed the defeated Shivaites into Vaishnovites & the Shivaites did the same when they were powerful enough to do things against the Vaishnovites! And, Brahmins always treated Buddhists as their eternal enemies & Buddhists never even recognised Brahmins! All this continued for centuries, which means there was Secularism flourishing in Bharath –Modern Day India!-  in those centuries or millennia!

Then in 1198, Muslim Invaders destroyed Nalanda & killed thousands of Buddhist Monks – Almost 10000 Burned Alive!- erasing invaluable things from the face of the earth & human history, In The Name Of Religion! The so called Cultural Biggies of India, The Moguls, discriminated against the Hindu majority & made their life insufferable with the Secular things like the religious tax Jessia etc! And, who can forget ‘the Hugely Religiously Secular’ Aurangzeb, who did GREAT THINGS TO ESTABLISH & MAINTAIN SECULARISM IN BHARATH?! Large scale ‘Secular Conversion’ too was initiated in Those Secular Days! Rajputs of Rajasthan were always at logger heads with the Secular Moguls due to the Muslim Secularism executed by the latter! The Great Marathas (Who came into prominence with Chatrapathi Shivaji) fought against the Moguls because of the latter’s Secular Credentials; the Brave Marathas also fought, tooth & nail, against Tippu of Mysore as Tippu was ‘the Monolith of Religious Secularism’!

But, ‘When Bharath became Independent India’ all these Secular Things Of Bharath got white washed & Secularism started to rule – A New & Non Existent Ruler! As Independent India stood naked at the midnight stroke of August 14, 1947, the Weavers of Secularism started to weave Secularism for a Naked & Independent India! They started to gather whatever valuable –whatever valuable were left over by the Greedy British!- they could get their hands on from the Secular Independent India to weave the cloak of Secularism! All these 64 years since Independence they have still been weaving the Wonderful Cloak of Secularism, taking all the valuable things the Indians possess! The Indians have been Ungrudging Givers, all these years, wishing arduously to dress India, which has been standing naked for all the 64 years post the so called independence!  

We, the So Called Secular Indians have been waiting eagerly to see the invaluable cloak of Secularism the Secular Cloak Weavers have been weaving all these 64 years! Crores of So Called Secular Indians have passed away waiting for this Secular Garb to be finished! But, till date it hasn’t got finished! It is heard that the cloak weavers are still working hard to finish it, taking whatever valuable is there in the Secular Indians’ coffers! The media have been talking about it all these years; the higher ups have been talking about it all these years; the politicians & the religious leaders have been talking great about it & the hard work spend on the weaving of the Cloak of Secularism, all these years!

All these people mentioned above have been talking volumes, non stop, about the great design of the cloak, incomparable material from which it is made, the jewels & rubies woven onto it, the dexterity of the weavers etc, all these years! It is heard that all these people, who regularly commented on the Great Secular Cloak In Progress, have been ceremoniously taken to the House Of The Secularism Weavers & The Great Unfinished Cloak Has Been Displayed, a number of times! There have also been a very large number of discussions going on the length & breadth of the country about the colour of the Secular Cloak, all these years! It is also heard that there was a union defence minister in UPA I who went all the way to identify the colour of Secularism & found out it was the colour of the Secular Pakistani Cricket Team - GREEN!

It is only the Common Man who hasn’t had any of the ideas about what’s going on in the Secular Weavers’ House! He doesn’t understand why the weavers take this long to finish the Cloak which they have been - as is stated time & again by the various official sources!- supposedly weaving taking everything from his pocket, all these years! He also doesn’t know what to do with all those who ceased to exist in Independent India, waiting to see this cloak when it is finished, despite they giving whatever valuable they had when they were alive - including their lives!

But, the Perennial Problem with the Common Man is that HE never read or even heard of Hans Christiansen’s World Famous Story ‘The Invisible Cloak Of The King’, where the king comes to know that he was walking among his people Completely Naked - thinking that he was wearing the most beautiful & grandest of the dresses ever woven in the world, duped by the wily & treacherous weavers, who decamped with whatever valuable things they wished to have from the king & his kingdom! - only when a child screams from the crowd that the KING WAS NAKED!