{"id":20154,"date":"2018-01-28T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=20154"},"modified":"2018-01-28T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T17:20:59","slug":"hindutva-vs-hinduism-its-time-other-hindus-took-back-our-faith-shashi-tharoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/hindutva-vs-hinduism-its-time-other-hindus-took-back-our-faith-shashi-tharoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindutva vs Hinduism: It\u2019s time other Hindus took back our faith : Shashi Tharoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It has became more and more necessary to challenge the uncontested assumption that the only Hinduism is the Sanghiwadis branch of Hinduism which it is not said Shashi Tharoor during a session with Arundhathi Subramaniam at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday<br \/>\n\u201dIt has became more and more necessary to challenge the uncontested assumption that the only Hinduism is the Sanghiwadi\u2019s branch of Hinduism, which it is not,\u201d said Shashi Tharoor <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n\u201cHinduism is in danger. It is in danger from a belief, an ideology called Hindutva, which has divided Indians into Hindus and others,\u201d said Nayantara Sahgal, at the onset of a discussion on author parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor\u2019s new book \u2018Why I Am A Hindu\u2019. That set the mood of the conversation between Tharoor and poet Arundhathi Subramaniam.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThe author-politician admitted that while his book addresses issues that he has been thinking about since childhood and has written about before, \u201cincreasingly as political Hinduism in the form of Hindutva came front and centre of our public discourse, it has became more and more necessary to challenge the uncontested assumption that the only Hinduism is the Sanghiwadi\u2019s branch of Hinduism, which it is not.\u201d<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n\u201cI knew the vast majority of Hindus didn\u2019t share the politics of Hindutva or even some of the not-so-benign assumptions of Hindutva, whereas they are proud of their Hinduism and practice the faith,\u201d he said.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n\u201cThe acceptance of difference goes to the heart of Hinduism,\u201d Tharoor said offering an example of what he has seen being practiced at home by his own father. A devout man, he would go straight from his bath to the prayer room but never obliged anyone else at home to join him. \u201cIt was an early lesson in the Hindu idea that prayer or worship was between you and your idea of your maker. And if I wanted to pray or worship I had to find my truth,\u201d he said.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nTharoor believes that character of Hinduism \u2013 a religion that allowed one choice as well as the right to question \u2013 is the right one for a modern democracy. \u201cHow such a wonderfully capricious faith, so open, so liberal can be reduced by some into a badge of identity akin to that of the British football hooligans, I don\u2019t know, but I don\u2019t want any part of it,\u201d he said.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nReferring to the ideas of people like Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi, as well as some pioneers of the idea of Hindutva including MS Golwalkar and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, he stated: \u201cWe are living in a country where, on the one hand, the Prime Minister says the Constitution is his holy book and on the other hand, he extols as a hero and instructs his ministry to study the works and writings and teachings of a man, Deen Dayal Upadhyay, who explicitly rejects the Constitution and who says the Constitution is fundamentally flawed.\u201d<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nAmidst repeated applause from the audience Tharoor said that those who accuse him of advertising his faith for political reasons don\u2019t know that his book is a result of years of reflection. \u201cAt least for two-three generations of Hindus I knew, including mine, would practice the faith in private but would find it unseemly to depict it in public. That was the Hindu way,\u201d he said. As a result, space had been ceded to \u201cthose who were not only willingly to advertise their Hindutva, but claim it is the only way of being Hindu\u201d. Tharoor believes it is time for \u201cother Hindus to take back our faith.\u201d This, he stated, is what his book sought to do.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has became more and more necessary to challenge the uncontested assumption that the only Hinduism is the Sanghiwadis branch of Hinduism which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20156,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20154\/revisions\/20156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}