From: mohans@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (mohan.sekhar)
Subject: TIME FOR CHANGE ....
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:30:39 GMT

The buzz word "HINDU FANATICS" has been used and abused excessively
over the last month in most of the articles addressing the "Ayodhya Issue".

Having read scores of articles from our dear NRI's (the future politicians
of the like's of V.P Singh, Congress (I), etc.) who have taken every
opportunity to put down hindu's, I have a few thoughts of my own:

Overview of Indian History: (for the forgotten ones ONLY)
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In the olden days the country was called BHARAT and HINDUSTAN.
History says, the country was ruled (in reality plundered, looted, massacred)
by our friendly INVADERS from our neighboring countries for many centuries.
Later on, we continued to get the same treatment from the BRITISH HIGHNESS.
Finally in 1947, a country named INDIA, a "SECULAR" state was installed.
People who did not want to, were given a choice to migrate to a MOSLEM
country called PAKISTAN.
Today the country has approximately 80+% Hindus (also called FANATICS) getting 
second hand treatment from our politicians, media, and our enlightened NRIs.
Any party that has the word Hindu, Bharat, Shiva, etc., are branded terrorists.
Anybody who says he or she is hindu is branded anti-national, communal and
off course my favorite FANATIC. The Moslems in the country get special 
treatment at anything and everything at the cost of the average Hindu. 
Today, millions of Hindus have been driven out of their homes in Kashmir and 
Punjab due to the lack of support from the Indian government in power. 
The sufferings continue ...

The World around us:
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There's wars of some kind being fought everywhere in the world.
IRAQ's getting bombed, Somalia, Croatia, etc., are burning, Isreal and the 
PLO's continue to have their love affair. There is either civil unrest or 
dictatorship regimes in most of the world.
The Saddams, Ghaddafis, Hassads, Ayotollahs in some form continue to rule ...
The church is still very strong in most of Europe and the Americas.
RELIGION continues to be a VERY STRONG and SENSITIVE issue everywhere.

CONCLUSION:
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I am not supporting the violence in India over "AYODHYA" issue, everybody
knows it has to stop.
However, "AYODHYA" did not happen overnight. For centuries now the Hindus have 
been taken for granted. When the entire world around us has been different we 
have assumed and expected the Hindu's to be different. For centuries the 
Hindu's have been used and abused excessively by anyone who could lay their 
hands upon them.  The Hindus have been submissive all through history.
"AYODHYA" is just a start ... More importantly, the message coming out of
India is that the 750+ million Hindus cannot be taken for granted any longer.
The very fact that BJP did so well in the last elections is a good indicator
of things to follow. I am pretty sure that if elections are held today in
India the BJP and other parties who have openly canvassed for the Hindu vote
will win by a landslide. 

The RUSSIAN EMPIRE has collapsed, Communism is fast fading away, The Monarchy
in LONDON are in its final days, The GREAT WALL of Berlin has come down.

I think the message coming out of India is more INDIAN than our pseudo
intellectual "NRIs" (NRIs- NO RESPECT for INDIANS) who cry foul every time
a moslem gets hurt and turns a blind eye to day-to-day killings of innocent
hindus in Kashmir, Punjab, etc.

THE TIME TO CHANGE HAS COME, ITS NOT UNREALISTIC to expect a "NEW INDIA" 
For the HINDUs, By the HINDUs, Of the HINDUs.
 
A country where Hindus can be proud of their religion and a 
government/constitution which protects their needs first.
Like an ITALY where a non-christian can live, A SAUDI ARABIA where a non-muslim
can live, India can continue to be a home for non-hindus.

IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE A COUNTRY WHERE HINDUs COME FIRST ......

Mohan
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