“Ram Mandir construction shows a wounded civilisation healing itself. Muslims will gain from it”, The Print, January 22, 2024:
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance,” said Jawaharlal Nehru in his famous ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech. One may ask, how long did he mean when he said, “when the soul of a nation, long suppressed?” Did he mean only 190 years of British rule from 1757-1947? Or was he alluding to a much longer period during which India’s soul was crushed into a lifeless slumber, from which it was emerging into “life and freedom”?
What was suppressed was India’s soul, her ancient spirit, and not the modern idea of India. Therefore, freedom would mean the revival of that spirit from which a thousand ideas of India could flow as they did before being suppressed.
The famed diversity of India, both the Vedic and non-Vedic traditions, is a legacy of that past, and not a gift of the conquerors. Using the idea of India to negate the spirit of India has been a bad idea. If India was subjugated for its religion, its resurgence, too, had to be religious. The freedom that, in the name of secularism, kept Hinduism out of public space, was half freedom…..”
Read the full article at Theprint.in
