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16 May 2005 08:58:03 PM |
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NO GOD BUT (MY) GOD |
No God but (my) God
By Sandhya Jain
Editorial
The Pioneer
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Though it is nearly two decades since the agitation for
the Ram Janmabhoomi questioned the meaning of secularism,
there has since been little serious discussion of the
concept. Growing Hindu unease over heightened pro-
missionary activism by Congress-led regimes in various
States, however, demands that the community's views be
articulated to facilitate mature public discourse on the
subject.
Secularism originated in the Christian West as a truce
offered by a denominational State to sister
denominations, whereby they could coexist in peace for
the larger good of the nation.
With time, the State ceased to be denominational (though
Britain formally remains so), and the offer of
coexistence was extended to other faiths that entered
Christian lands as immigrants. The rise of immigrant
groups in Western countries gave rise to the doctrine of
multi-culturalism, whereby non-Christian, non-European
peoples were permitted to live a separate existence
within the host culture. The rising tide of Islamic
fundamentalism, however, is tearing this tolerance apart
and voices are being raised in favour of the coercive
assimilation that was once the hallmark of the American
way.
Hindus, therefore, are not the only people in the world
to question the attitude of forbearance towards the abuse
of native kindness. Hindus are aware that while Islam
openly professes the unity of mosque and State,
Christianity detests the separation of church and State
and has, from the time the cleavage was forced upon it,
continued to use the state to secure its ends. The
Western reality, therefore, is that the State is
Christian at some level and the church in turn serves as
a political arm of the State. Hence the active interest
in evangelical activities by Western regimes.
India's secular State extends undue patronage to the
Church; as a result Hindu patience is beginning to wear
thin. The situation has deteriorated with the rise of the
Sonia Gandhi-led Congress in some states. So we have a
situation in which BJP-ruled Rajasthan has to change the
name of a colony named after the Goddess Sati, but
Maharashtra sanctions a Christian township!
Press reports suggest that former Australia cricket
captain, Steve Waugh, wishes to set up a 100-400 acre
"Christian township" in Mumbai. A rabid evangelist, Waugh
recently donated millions for the conversion of tsunami
victims. Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has already
appointed State Industry Secretary as nodal agency for
the proposal, no doubt scoring points with his party
chief.
In Karnataka, Congress Chief Minister Dharam Singh
shamelessly facilitated Benny Hinn's evangelical
blitzkrieg, which mercifully fell flat, causing
embarrassment even to the official church. Dharam Singh's
predecessor, SM Krishna, patronized HT Sangliana,
Director General of Police (Prisons), who openly supports
missionaries. A 1969-batch IAS officer from Meghalaya,
Sangliana became famous in November 2001 when he ordered
the arrest of Hindu activists protesting against mass
conversions in Doddabalapur (Bangalore Rural).
Sangliana and some senior police officers openly lecture
on the Bible at Bible College of India, Bangalore, at
weekends. While this is by no means a contraband
activity, one does wonder if the State administration's
tolerance of this display of religious freedom would
extend to a Hindu officer indulging in weekly Ram kathas.
Even if not openly victimised, such an officer would be
sidelined and derided as a bit of a 'crank.' Sangliana
however, suffers no such disability; he openly sided with
missionaries when the Ma Bhagavati temple in Devanahalli
(Bangalore Rural) and Shri Durgamba Temple in Banaswadi
(Bangalore) were demolished and churches erected in their
place in 2002. In both cases, the Chief Minister and
important Congress leaders supported the evangelicals. It
is hardly surprising to learn, therefore, that as many as
84 Churches have sprung up in this area in just the last
two years.
But the Chief Minister who takes the cake is Y Samuel
Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR) of Andhra Pradesh. A practicing
Seventh Day Adventist, Reddy reportedly had 350 farmhands
converted by the Adventists on his own farm, and is now
building a church for them. Reddy is openly pro-
missionary. Recently, when it was found that a church is
being constructed on lands belonging to the famous
Bhadrachalam Raam Temple, given to a Christian
organisation for setting up a school, the chief minister
prevented restoration of the land to the temple. So now
the church is coming up and conversion activity is in
full swing at an exceedingly sacred Hindu site.
Mandir lands are also being freely distributed in Naxal-
infested areas; a sub-inspector who opposed this was done
to death, allegedly by Maoist Naxalites. YSR has handed
over the distribution of mid-day meals to government
school students to Christian bodies and NGOs, who make
the children recite "yesu nama" before giving them the
food. This is not only tantamount to forced conversion
but also involves the psychological abuse of minors.
The worst offence, however, is the gifting of the
contract for procurement of materials for prasadam at
Tirupati Balaji to a Kochi Syrian Christian, GB Mathew
and his firm, the JRG Wealth Management Limited, three
weeks ago. Hindu activists suspect that Christians are
being smuggled into crucial areas of decision-making at
Tirupathi. For instance, some time ago YSR laid the
foundation stones for the construction of Vasantha
Mandapam in Tirumala, and construction of a new building
for Shri Venkateshwara Oriental College in Tirupati. It
is feared that the contracts for these Rs 109-crore
projects may be awarded exclusively to Christian firms,
thereby making mandir funds available for proselytisation
activities.
One week ago, YSR engineered a deal between the Shri
Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital
(SVIMS, which is owned and run by the TTD) and Dr
Cherian's Frontier Lifeline and Dr KM Cherian Heart
Foundation for a telemedicine facility. Dr Cherian is the
founder of Madras Medical Mission, a true missionary
hospital based in Chennai, and YSR inaugurated the
telemedicine facility through video-conference.
Personally, I have little doubt that Dr Cherian is a
thorough professional. But given the scale and audacity
of missionary activity in the southern states, Hindus
feel alarmed that a premier institution owned by one of
the most sacred Mandirs of the Hindus (the funds for
which come from ordinary Hindu bhaktas) should be made to
tie-up with a missionary organization by the State
Government. It is well known in Andhra Pradesh that there
are more than a dozen Hindu institutions that can match
and even surpass the facilities offered by Dr Cherian and
his team. In the unlikely event that YSR is not aware of
them, they include hospitals of the stature of Apollo
Hospitals; Shri Ramachandra Medical College and
Hospitals; Shri Sai Baba's hospital at Puttaparthi; Mata
Amritanandamayi's Hospital at Kochi; Narayan Hridayalaya
of Bangalore; Escorts Hospital, and many other super-
speciality hospitals in Hyderabad.
YSR has been equally generous to the State's other
monotheistic community. It is well-known that the Andhra
Government owes nearly Rs 100 crores to Tirupati Tirumala
Devasthanam as compensation for Mandir lands acquired for
the construction of bus stands and bus depots. Though it
has failed to remit even one rupee of this amount, the
Government recently demanded property tax dues from TTD
and on receipt of rupees six crores, instantly diverted
the sum to create an Idgah Maidan on railway lands next
to the Shri Venkateshwara University lands owned by TTD.
This, then, is secularism in one country.
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| Title: Re: NO GOD BUT (MY) GOD |
16 May 2005 09:32:39 PM |
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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
No God but (my) God
By Sandhya Jain
Editorial
The Pioneer
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Sangliana
however, suffers no such disability; he openly sided with
missionaries when the Ma Bhagavati temple in Devanahalli
(Bangalore Rural) and Shri Durgamba Temple in Banaswadi
(Bangalore) were demolished and churches erected in their
place in 2002.
How may these demolitions be verified? What are the names of the
churches constructed on the sites of these temples?
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