Are Hindus really the victims in India? Of what, asks Barkha Dutt

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

In the first episode of News Ka Juice, journalist Barkha Dutt questions the idea of Hindu ‘victimhood’.

Are India’s Hindus — nearly 80% of the country — victims?

Do Hindus get the raw end of the deal from the judiciary, media or Parliament?

Hindus are anxious, why is the mandir in Ayodhya delayed, asks BJP’s veteran Ram Madhav…

The Supreme Court is anti-Hindu, suggests Rakesh Sinha… RSS ideologue…

And Right-wing groups are now demanding a Hindu Charter of Rights…

Protesting what they claim is institutionalised discrimination

So, is Hindu victimhood real?

The short answer: This is nonsense.

The long answer: This is just politics.

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Let’s start with Sabarimala.

Violent protesters brazenly defied a court order to allow women at the shrine.

Here’s what a leaked audio tape of the BJP state president confirms…

The party saw the issue as a golden chance and encouraged the priest to shut the shrine.

The Congress was no different. Its Kerala unit openly went against the court ruling.

So, when two major parties compete for the Hindu vote, who is the victim? The progressive rule of law… or Hindus?

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The Right-wing says liberal secularists are hypocrites.

Let’s assume this is true.

But what about their own hypocrisy?

When the Supreme Court set aside triple talaq…

And called it illegal, unconstitutional and against the Quran…

The verdict was hailed as historic…

When the same court said the exclusion of women at Sabarimala is not an essential religious practice…

The court is branded anti-Hindu.

Imagine, if Muslim groups had defied the court on triple talaq — an abominable practice, of course — what would they have been called? Anti-National!

When the court restricts loudspeakers for azaan at 5 am — we talk about noise pollution

When the same court restricts Diwali firecrackers because of lethal air pollution, we say it’s a matter of faith

So, again, where is the victimhood?

And who is the hypocrite?

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Finally, let’s come to Ayodhya.

The court’s decision to defer the hearing on the temple-mosque dispute…

Is, in fact, advantage BJP.

An issue with diminishing returns…

Has gained a brand new lease of electoral life…

And no one even remembers the Liberhan Commission any more…

Or the Babri Masjid demolition trial…

Or that Advani, Joshi, Uma Bharti, among others, are facing charges in the case.

The sweep of history has erased 1992.

In 2018, Hindus are not victims.

Hindus — or a section of them — are politically assertive. Aggressive. Emboldened.

Everything but victims.

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Interestingly, the Charter of Hindu Demands…

To be handed over to the Prime Minister after 10 lakh signatures…

Does talk of mob lynching… except that it calls it a lie spread by the “beef and meat mafia”.

The charter makes no mention of…

Mohammed Akhlaq, Pehlu Khan, Zahid Ahmed — just some of the men murdered over false beef rumours.

It ignores the data: 84% dead in cow-related violence since 2010 are Muslim; 97% of these attacks were in the last four years says an India Spend report.

No, we are not a Hindu Pakistan or Hindu Taliban — Shashi Tharoor, I vehemently disagree…

But I also disagree, just as strongly, with the universe of WhatsApp in which Hindus are hapless.

Thanks to its own corroded practice of secularism, the Congress today is playing catch up with the BJP.

The inconvenient truth is this: Indian politics is now Hindutva versus Hindu Lite…

And Hindu victimhood is fake news.

See you next week for more News Ka Juice


https://theprint.in/opinion/are-hindus-really-the-victims-in-india-of-what-asks-barkha-dutt/147362/

 

[ranjeet]

“News ka Juice”?

Is this what she’s been reduced to?

 

[padamchen]

The only people who victimise Hindus are other Hindus.

Truth be told, they are the only ones who can.

That's of course very different from saying Hindus are not victimised.

But such inyra-communal victimisation is a luxury not enjoyed by other minorities of India.

Eventually the crush of numbers asserts itself. And you will find a Hindu hand.

Let's be honest about Kashmir as well.

We allowed Kashmir to happen under our noses.

Hindus got butchered in a Hindu majority country.

So while the violence was Muslim, it happened because Hindus did not act.

And must therefore take the lions lion's share of the blame.

Cheers, Doc

 

[Jackdaws]

She is right. This is no different from daft Trump supporters who are told that Mexicans are rapists and the Christian white way is under threat. Unfortunately there are enough idiots who buy this hogwash.

 

[padamchen]

We have had 5 years of a Hindu government.

The second term they've gotten at the center.

The Hindu Pandits still remain refugees in their Hindu country.

Irony.

At least the Christian and Muslim and Parsi loving Congress gave Pakistan a suitable riposte for Partition.

The BJP can't govern. And they sure can't fight.

Cheers, Doc

 

[El Sidd]

Religious Hindus are constitutionally oppressed in India.

 

[padamchen]

Religious Hindus are constitutionally oppressed in India.

You've got to be kidding.

Reservations across spheres across the nation from the time of independence have been constitutionally enshrined and guaranteed.

On the basis of caste and not religion or economic status.

Caste and it's inequalities, which reservation attempts to right, is a Hindu construct.

Yet reservations are foisted on the entire nation.

What do I as a Parsi have anything to do with how backwards a dalit is?

And why should other minorities have to suffer and not get the same reservations when ironically their forefathers were probably the same downtrodden classes of Hindus who saw conversion as an escape from.their social plight that perpetuated by birth regardless of what they did or did not do in life?

I repeat.

You've got to be shitting me.

Cheers, Doc

 

[El Sidd]

You've got to be kidding.

Reservations across spheres across the nation from the time of independence have been constitutionally enshrined and guaranteed.

On the basis of caste and not religion or economic status.

Caste and it's inequalities, which reservation attempts to right, is a Hindu construct.

Yet reservations are foisted on the entire nation.

What do I as a Parsi have anything to do with how backwards a dalit is?

And why should other minorities have to suffer and not get the same reservations when ironically their forefathers were probably the same downtrodden classes of Hindus who saw conversion as an escape from.their social plight that perpetuated by birth regardless of what they did or did not do in life?

I repeat.

You've got to be shitting me.

Cheers, Doc

They feel that a minority is ruling over them imposing their self righteous understanding of democracy and human Rights.

 

[padamchen]

They feel that a minority is ruling over them imposing their self righteous understanding of democracy and human Rights.

Regardless.

Reservation is the biggest such program anyplace on earth.

Going on for the longest time.

We all go along because we're all Hindu technically.

But it pinches Hindus the most.

And it kills excellence.

Cheers, Doc

 

[samv]

Yes Hindus are victims in India. Trampled under the feet of Muslim rulers for centuries.. then under the British and the Portuguese (in Goa). Their temples plundered, their culture debased and degraded. Chased away from areas like Kashmir. Their tolerance has been taken for granted. This is not to say that there are no Hindu extremists, but by and large the Hindus have been trampled upon and their faith is ridiculed like no other. People like Barkha Dutt are hypocrites; they only see one side - whatever the Hindus say or do will be a source of criticism. You can't win with people like her. You can't blame the Hindus for trying to reclaim their heritage and their place in their country.

Not an Indian nor a Hindu here.

 

[El Sidd]

We all go along because we're all Hindu technically.

Yet those who claim to be the witness of this sentence are marginalized in India.

Sad. Isnt it?

 

[padamchen]

Yes Hindus are victims in India. Trampled under the feet of Muslim rulers for centuries.. then under the British and the Portuguese (in Goa). Their temples plundered, their culture debased and degraded. Chased away from areas like Kashmir. People like Barkha Dutt are hypocrites.

Not an Indian nor a Hindu here.

How many centuries you want to cry?

Those you're kicking are also Hindus.

Want to get revenge, wage war on Britain, Portugal, KSA, and Turkey.

Cheers, Doc

 

[samv]

How many centuries you want to cry?

Those you're kicking are also Hindus.

Want to get revenge, wage war on Britain, Portugal, KSA, and Turkey.

Cheers, Doc

How long do you want to cry over Palestine?

 

[padamchen]

How long do you want to cry over Palestine?

Lol.

Palestine stands as a shining light in this world of how you need to reclaim.what was ancestrally yours.

Cheers, Doc

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Muslims are 20% of India.

1 Muslim = 10 Hindus

So the ratio is 200 Muslims to 75 Hindus.