Liberal Hindus, arise: Reclaim your faith from extremists - TOI Blogs: "The brutal Dadri lynching, the unspeakably tragic, numbing, and horrifying death of the innocent Akhlaq and the grievous injury to his 22-year-old son Danish should make every Hindu bow his head in shame, to cry out loud, to scream in anguish and demand to know, what is happening to Hinduism? Where is the philosophy of Bhartrihari, of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, of Meera, of Krishna Chaitanya and of Gandhi? Where is the glorious tradition of vaad, vivaad and samvaad? Where is the tradition, that if there are differences, the impulse to dialogue and argument enshrined in every Hindu text?
Does the heart of every Hindu not break when we hear the soft spoken Sartaj, IAF engineer, elder son of Akhlaq, solemn and dignified, asking only for justice for his father, a father killed because he had apparently organised a feast on his holy day? Does collective guilt and remorse not wrench our insides when we see young Danish lying unconscious after two brain surgeries simply because he happened to celebrate his festival? Who are these mobs who are acting in the name of Hinduism? Why are they killing in the name of Hinduism? Why are they seeking to monopolise the majestic philosophies of Hinduism?
Every liberal Hindu, every legatee of Vivekananda and Tagore, of Ram Mohan Roy and Sri Aurobindo, must stand up and seek an answer, must shout out loud: why are you killing in our name? As the late veteran journalist Prabhash Joshi cried out after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, “Yeh to Raghu-kul nahin.”"
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Does the heart of every Hindu not break when we hear the soft spoken Sartaj, IAF engineer, elder son of Akhlaq, solemn and dignified, asking only for justice for his father, a father killed because he had apparently organised a feast on his holy day? Does collective guilt and remorse not wrench our insides when we see young Danish lying unconscious after two brain surgeries simply because he happened to celebrate his festival? Who are these mobs who are acting in the name of Hinduism? Why are they killing in the name of Hinduism? Why are they seeking to monopolise the majestic philosophies of Hinduism?
Every liberal Hindu, every legatee of Vivekananda and Tagore, of Ram Mohan Roy and Sri Aurobindo, must stand up and seek an answer, must shout out loud: why are you killing in our name? As the late veteran journalist Prabhash Joshi cried out after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, “Yeh to Raghu-kul nahin.”"
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