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In the midst of the tiranga yatra, which has now acquired controversial overtones, Anurag Thakur, president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), speaks to FE’s Nistula Hebbar on why the yatra is necessary. Excerpts: 

TIRANGA YATRA IS MY NATIONAL DUTY_ANURAG THAKUR

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SANJAY KAUL

HINDUISM IS NOT A RELIGION
It is a way of life.
(Hinduism is actually the mixture of many religions like Shaivaites, Vaishnavs, advaita, dwaita, brahmos etc etc. The combined mass that we call Hinduism today, is but a way of life that teaches tolerance to the world).
HINDUS CANNOT BE CONVERTED AND OTHERS CANNOT BE CONVERTED TO HINDUISM.
This is because Hinduism is beyond the rituals and pujas and yagnas. One has to achieve Hindu thinking by way of purification of the thinking process with tolerance, renunciation of bigotry etc. Once a Hindu - always a Hindu
A HINDU CANNOT BE A BIGOT - because the very essence of this way of life is tolerance for others. A Hindu takes pride in feeling that Buddhists and Sikhs are specific sects of Hinduism. The other essence of the Hindu way of life is to get involved in other cultures and learn more.
My friend JokerReturns ... try to evaluate yourself against the above three core points of Hinduism and ask yourself whether any of these traits are visible in your blog. If not - please shut the fcuk up and do not portray yourself as our representative. I definitely do not vote for you as the face of Hinduism.
ALL PEOPLE BORN TO HINDU PARENTS ARE NOT HINDUS - but that does give you a headstart because you are in a habitat where hinduism can be understood easily.
Not all Hindus understand the true meaning of this religion. I have seen Rickshawallahs that are more Hindu than many Brahmins that I know. Dear JokerReturns - please look INside for the kingdom of heaven. Outside, you will only find turmoil. Pledge your life to yourself and take care of yourself. Only if you are strong, can you look after others. Your blog definitely does not show the true strength that probably lies inside you. Find it first - then come back to discuss Hinduism. Please.Why I'm Proud to Be a Hindu.
Hinduism is the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion.
Hinduism is uniquely a religion without fundamentals. We have, after all, an extraordinary diversity of religious practices within Hinduism which have no single sacred book but many. Hinduism is, in many ways, predicated on the idea that the eternal wisdom of the ages and of divinity cannot be confined to a single sacred book and we have no compulsory injunctions or obligations. We don't even have a Hindu Sunday, let alone an injunction to pray at specific times and frequencies.
Instead, what we have is a faith that allows each believer to reach out his or her hands to his or her notion of the creative Godhead of divinity. A faith which uniquely does not have any notion of heresy in it--you cannot be a Hindu heretic because there is no standard set of dogmas from which you can deviate that make you a heretic. Here is a faith so unusual, so unique, that it is the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find that incredibly congenial. For me, as a believing Hindu, it is wonderful to be able to meet people from other faiths without being burdened by the conviction that they are embarked upon a wrong path.

Hinduism believes that there are various ways of reaching the ultimate truth. To me, the fact that adherents of this faith, in a particular perversion of its tenets, have chosen to destroy somebody else's sacred place, has chosen to attack others because of the absence of foreskin or the mark on the forehead, this ultimately makes me, as a Hindu, deeply sorrowful and, in a very fundamental way, ashamed.
"Build Ram in your hearts" is what Hinduism has always enjoined. If Ram is in your heart, it would matter very little what bricks or stones Ram can also be found in, but this is a pluralist notion of Hinduism, this eclectic tolerance, which was very much in the minds of the believing Hindus in the nationalist movement as well as of those emerging from this Indic civilisation, who shared this pluralist national conviction.
That this notion of Indianness has somehow been reduced to a sectarian notion of so-called Hindutva is, to me, a travesty of what Hinduism really is. I too, as a Hindu, can say when people tell me garv se kaho ki tum Hindu ho, that I'm proud to be a Hindu, but in what is it that we are to take pride? I take pride in the openness, the diversity, the range, the lofty metaphysical aspirations of the Vedanta; of the various ways in which Hinduism is practised, eclectically, tolerantly, that is what I take pride in.
Unfortunately, there are those who take pride in Hinduism the way in which one might support a football team--as a badge of identity, rather than as a set of values, principles and beliefs, and so Hinduism becomes reduced in their retelling to nothing more than a label.
The word for Indian has almost become Hindu. All the latter meant was the people living across the river Sindhu or the Indus. Of course, the Indus now flows in Pakistan but nonetheless, the fact is that the notion of Indianness and Hinduness is very much caught up in what Dr Radhakrishnan so memorably spoke of as a way of life. That way of life has very little room for intolerance, for dogma, for attacks on others because of what they don't believe.

PARVEEN PANDEY_O Hindus, know the pitiable state of Hindu Temples in Muslim majority Pakistan. Even in India, where Hindus are in majority, Temples are not safe from Anti-Hindus like Secular Government, Muslims and Anti-Hindu miscreants. This is the outcome of non-unity among Hindus. Now it is need of the hour that all Hindus should come together to establish 'Hindu-Nation' !

कुछ विचित्र परन्तु चिंतनीय तथ्य आप सभी मित्रों से बांटना चाहूँगा, पाकिस्तान की ५१ प्रतिशत जनसँख्या महिलाओं की है, हालाँकि इस से कोई फरक पाकिस्तान को नहीं पड़ता है परन्तु ये हमारे लिए सोचने वाली बात है की पाकिस्तान जैसे जटिल बुद्धि वाले देश में कन्या भ्रूण हत्या नहीं होती है, ये भारत के लिए शर्मनाक स्थिति जैसी है, तो मित्रों, आप सभी लोगों से ये अनुरोध है की यदि किसी गरीब के घर लड़की पैदा होती है, तो आप उस बालिका की शिक्षा का व्यय वहन करने की चेष्टा करें, दहेज़ प्रथा का बहिष्कार करें, आज के युवाओं को समझायें की दहेज़ प्रथा उन सबसे जटिल समस्याओं में से है जो देश को अवनति की गहरी खायी में परस्पर धकेलने का दुस्साहस करती रहती है... आज के बालकों को नैतिक शिक्षा देनी चाहिए जिस से की वो लड़कियों को छेड़ने जैसी ओछी हरकत न करें....

PARVEEN PANDEY

HOW TO WE POOR

WHEN THE REAL POSITION OF OUR COUNTRY IS.............भारतीय गरीब है लेकिन भारत देश कभी गरीब नहीं रहा" ये कहना है स्विस बैंक के डाइरेक्टर का. स्विस बैंक के डाइरेक्टर ने यह भी कहा है कि भारत का लगभग 280 लाख करोड़ रुपये (280 ,00 ,000 ,000 ,000) उनके स्विस बैंक में जमा है. ये रकम इतनी है कि *भारत **का **आने **वाले 30 **सालों **का **बजट **बिना **टैक्स **के **बनाया **जा **सकता **है. **या **यूँ **कहें **कि 60 **करोड़ **रोजगार **के **अवसर **दिए **जा **सकते **है. **या **यूँ **भी **कह **सकते **है **कि **भारत **के **किसी **भी **गाँव **से **दिल्ली **तक 4 **लेन **रोड **बनाया **जा **सकता **है. **ऐसा **भी **कह** सकते **है **कि 500 **से **ज्यादा **सामाजिक **प्रोजेक्ट **पूर्ण **किये **जा **सकते **है.**ये **रकम **इतनी **ज्यादा **है **कि **अगर **हर **भारतीय **को 2000 **रुपये **हर **महीने **भी **दिए **जाये **तो 60 **साल **तक **ख़त्म **ना **हो.*यानी भारत को किसी वर्ल्ड बैंक से लोन लेने कि कोई जरुरत नहीं है. जरा सोचिये हमारे भ्रष्ट राजनेताओं और नोकरशाहों ने कैसे देश को लूटा है और ये लूट का सिलसिला अभी तक 2010 तक जारी है. अंग्रेजो ने हमारे भारत पर करीब 200 सालो तक राज करके करीब 1 लाख करोड़ रुपये लूटा. मगर आजादी के *केवल 64 **सालों **में हमारे भ्रस्टाचार ने 280 लाख करोड़ लूटा है. एक तरफ 200 साल में 1 लाख करोड़ है और दूसरी तरफ केवल 64 सालों में 280 लाख करोड़ है. यानि हर साल लगभग 4.37 लाख करोड़, या हर महीने करीब 36 हजार करोड़ भारतीय मुद्रा स्विस बैंक में इन भ्रष्ट लोगों द्वारा जमा करवाई गई है. भारत को किसी वर्ल्ड बैंक के लोन की कोई दरकार नहीं है. सोचो* की कितना पैसा हमारे भ्रष्ट राजनेताओं और उच्च अधिकारीयों ने ब्लाक करके रखा हुआ है . हमे भ्रस्ट राजनेताओं और भ्रष्ट अधिकारीयों के खिलाफ जाने का पूर्ण अधिकार है. हाल ही में हुवे घोटालों का आप सभी को पता ही है - CWG घोटाला, २ जी स्पेक्ट्रुम घोटाला , आदर्श होउसिंग घोटाला ... और ना जाने कौन कौन से घो टाले अभी उजागर होने वाले है ........ *आप **लोग **जोक्स **फॉरवर्ड **करते **ही **हो. **इसे **भी **इतना **फॉरवर्ड ** करो **की **पूरा **भारत **इसे **पढ़े ... **और **एक **आन्दोलन **बन **जाये