Friday, September 17, 2010

Ayodhya-sense and sensibilities

For this blog, I am going to get a flack from both Hindutvadi brigade and pseudo secularist clique but as a fierce nationalist I care dam. This is my space and I am going write exactly, what I want to.

After wasting lot of time in the legal wranglings, lot of blood on the streets and having futile debates in the newspapers and channels, our judiciary which will put even snail to shame has finally has arrived at some conclusion. Now we have to wait only for few days before our nation once again reaches boiling point.

I am proud to be Hindu but a Hindu who is agnostic (I don't need a certificate from anyone to be called Hindu and it doesn't matter whether I am believer, agnostic or atheist, nobody can question my right to be called as a Hindu, this feature of Hinduism makes me proud about my religion) feels that, I had my revenge against invading warriors like Babar with the destruction of the so called Babri Mosque.

Now it doesn't matter for me whether, you have there Ram temple, casino or brothel at the site.
But as a fierce nationalist, I believe, if we have to avoid the bloodshed which happened in the wake of Ramjanmabhoomi agitation in the late eighties and early nineties and keep the nation's growth story rolling on, more importantly we can't afford to have another internal strife when Kashmir is boiling, nation is fighting grim war against red terror of Naxals and we are being besieged by the neighbouring countries like China.

Then the only option we have is to create some kind of national monument as once suggested by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thckeray.

The monument paying homage to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Chandrashekhar Azad, Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaqullakhan and such other revolutionaries or a monument paying a tribute to the martyrs of 1857 will be also the apt one as Ayyodhya which is part of the Awadh province which was hotbed of the first war of independence or even idea of world class hospital like Delhi's AIIMS providing much needed health care facility to all communities of UttarPradesh who hardly have an access to such facilities is sensible.

I know this suggestion is idealistic but as an optimist I hope, this solution which is honourable to both the communities will be embraced by the both communities in larger national interest.