Ma Bharati Beckons

2014 was a watershed year in Bharat’s post-1947 history and not because Narendra Damordardas Modi had become prime minister of this country that year.

The epoch-making reasons of that development lay elsewhere: the silent majority of Bharat had spoken, decisively, without fear, or acceptance of favour. Without fear of not making it through to that ‘secular’ grade that had been thrust on our people in 1976, and without having to acknowledge the ‘favour’ that colonialism had apparently done the modern-day Indian, both of which servile political parties had for decades said were an imperative for the Bharatiya to be modern-world worthy.

2014 was the year when the civilisationally Hindu way of life, that had for long been derided by the elite of ‘modern India’, was restated through the ballot. Thomas Babington  Macaulay’s 1835 ‘Minute in English’ dream that Ma Bharati could be shackled into producing a class of Bharatiyas who were “Indian in blood and color, but English in tastes, opinions, in morals and in intellect” had died a dishonorurable death.

The responsibility of restating Bharat’s position as a civilization that had since time immemorial ruled the world in tastes, opinions, morals and in intellect, Macaulay’s self-claimed area of dominion, was given to the Bharatiya Janata Party and its sister organisations. And Narendra Damodardas Modi, the country was convinced, was the best person to be entrusted with the responsibility of being the standard bearer of the nation-rebuilding endeavour that Bharat was embarking on.

Tejasvi Surya, a 34 year old BJP MP from Bangalore, puts it succinctly, regarding the “perverted” brand of secularism that had been thrust on this country, under which “A Muslim can be Muslim, a Christian can be Christian but a Hindu had to be secular”. It was incumbent upon our people both morally and politically to set right this wrong that had been inflicted on Bharat, for the simple reason that this involved not just a religion or a way of life, but the evolutionary path of an age-old civilization.

That development in 2014 sent the emotional and nationalist stocks of the country soaring, while at the same time sending many of the other parties, many of them dynastically entitled they thought, into a tizzy, a political shock they are yet to come to terms with. Punished by the people for their misdoings and singular opposition to the Bharatiya way, they decided to hit back with desperate acts of anti-nationalism, sabotage and wilful disruption, orchestrated from both within the country and abroad.

The political maturity of those who had been entrusted with Bharat’s rebuilding was marked not just by remarkable achievements on the economic and political fronts but also a certain political sobriety and farsightedness that involved taking forward the good that the country had achieved till 2014, discarding the rotten, and setting goals that would till only recently have been considered unachievable. Barring a few inconsequential neighbours, the world responded; the Indian passport became more valued and respected than it was ever before, the pride of being Bharatiya—and a Hindu representative of the Bharatiya civilisation–began to successfully reclaim its place in the world. While Hindu pride was being restored, the country, despite all efforts to the contrary by some, spoke as one, no matter what the religion or cultural denomination. Operation Sindoor is proof.

The dividends that Bharat has reaped in recent times are there for all to see, on all fronts: wars won, food self-sufficiency further built on and taken forward, the emergence of Bharat as an international technical hub and a hub for military development and hardware, its space programme, its strides towards achieving green energy targets, its position as an international centre for medical research and development, its never-before dimensions of infrastructure and connectivity development, its renewed position as a giant among the countries of the world politically, economically, culturally and spiritually. Milestones have been erected, rather quietly, while Ma Bharati’s call that her position as Vishwaguru be reclaimed by her children, is a national objective that is now well within reach.

In all of this, there has been a seismic shift in the way Bharatiyas now express themselves, putting their Bharatiyata first. Be it newspapers, television channels, news portals or social media, there is now a stated position that much of this country’s media takes: that progress has to keep in mind our civilizational context, that it is the history of defenders that matters and not that of pillagers and conquerers, that the majority religion of this country is inherently inclusive and nurturing of all faiths and religious practices and does not require an elitist ‘secular’ stamp of approval, that our Bharatiya identity is the only identity we have, one that the world has known, recognized and respected through the ages, that to be reinstated as Vishwaguru, the only way forward for the Bharatiya people is the civilisationally Bharatiya way.

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