I read with interest the comments regaring providing space for an RSS
ideologue to express his views. I have not read these articles, and so I do
not know whether there is anything in it that is objectionable. However, in
our fight against communalism of all types, we cannot allow our guard to be
let down.
However, instead of censorship, may I make a suggestion. Let this ideologue
put forward the agenda of the RSS. It then comes out in the open, and the
peaceful people of Goa will be to know of them. And then let the informed
opponents of the RSS write in response, logically exposing all that is wrong
that is being said. In this wayt the people will be able to get to know that
there IS an opposite view, which has much more merit and the perversity of
the logic of the RSS can then be exposed.
I often try and engage the sympathisers of the RSS in my circle of contact.
And often when I put the issues to them in a logical way, they do see the
merit. I am not saying that I have been able to reform them, but I hope I
have been able to make them think rather than accept what is told to them
without applying their mind. After all, not everybody is able to think of
all the things through properly. But people do have an ability to think and
understand.
My two-bit contribution in the debate.
Sachin Phadte
