We, concerned Indian citizens, support the overturning of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law dating to1861, which punitively criminalizes romantic love and private, consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex.
Hindutva is pseudo-Hinduism. It can triumph only by hijacking and degrading our religion. The stormtroopers of Hindutva, of course, want to look like Hindus. It is like terrorists wearing army uniforms while attacking an army camp.
No religious community should be granted the right to pit its regressive practices against constitutional mandates. But securing a uniform civil code cannot be a Trojan Horse of cultural homogenisation.
Anyone who has seen trishul-wielding Bajrang Dal or VHP activists in the context of communal outbursts will find it difficult to regard the trishul as a religious symbol.
For us today, only deaths due to cross-border terrorism matter. We are callously apathetic to deaths resulting from State apathy that outnumber by far the victims of terrorism.
It is a great pity that the radical spiritual legacy that Swami Dayanand enunciated as the Arya Samaj movement more than a century ago could not be nurtured into a source of empowerment for the Dalits.
The lynching of the five Dalit youths in Haryana is not a local event. It is a symbolic pointer to the degeneration that is overtaking the country. <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=179 target=_blank> More Coverage </a>
Cults are driven by falsehood; spirituality, by truth. Cults are allergic to debates; true religion, being an unending quest for truth, welcomes it. .
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