Sunday, October 11, 2015

Dear Mr. PM, please vow to leave no room for religious intolerance in India

Modi Ji, it is time for you to speak up. Whatever is happening in India right now in the name of Hindutva warns us that the one thing that we feared when we supported your Candidature as the Prime Minister of the world's largest "Democracy" is actually coming true. Please stop this religious intolerance before it is too late.
Hinduism is a pluralist religion that openly accepts and encourages various forms of worship of the Supreme Being (if any) and even is open to criticism from atheists and agnostics... If you are trying to defend the interests of the adherents of this beautiful religion, then please do us all a favor and let India be pluralist as it has been since time immemorial. We all take pride in our pluralist country… please let us not hang down our heads in shame.
Here is a story from the Mahabharata about a ascetic who had to learn a lesson on Dharma from a Butcher...

http://literature.syzygy.in/mahabharata-rajaji/chapter-38-i-am-no-crane

1 comment:

Social Activist said...

Thank you for this Brilliant open letter. Hope such letters open the eyes of our rulers who keep them closed. 'Unity in diversity' is one of the unique beauties of our great country only.