Saturday, April 06, 2019

mitr8 (conclusion)



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With time running out, I am concluding the series with this post - so 8 instead of 10

Over the last 7 posts, various aspects were covered - economics (both macro and micro), security, foreign policy and much more. The one item pending was "hindutva". Has the govt done much to please the Hindutva brigade ?  This is a rather complex topic, and cannot be dealt with without going into the evolution of hindutva itself. In my opinion, hindutva itself has moved from 1.0 to 2.0 and is now evolving into a 3.0 - I will cover this in a later series

For now suffice to say that, in its own ways, government has done many things to restore the pride in being Hindu - starting with the very Gangamata Puja that PM did before swearing in and subsequently cleaning the Ganga and Varanasi. Giving Yoga international acceptance, supporting Hindu communities elsewhere in the world, and so on.



Its true that nothing much was done to retract a seemingly biased RTE scheme, but to say that because of that we will not vote for Modi, there by helping the very folks (ie Cong) who brought it in the first place seems suicidal. Ordinances were not passed for Ayodhya and Sabarimala, but then wasn't it always Modi's policy to not poke into things govt should not ? Isnt the Hindu society wanting to free temples from govt control, and with that logic, how can govt issue ordinance ?

Let me conclude by saying -- "Lets not lose the "best so far", for want of an imaginary "perfect"


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