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Support growing the reading habit among Goa's next generation of achievers Bookworm Library and Magazine Bluebelle, Tamba Colony, St Inez, Goa Contacts: Tel: +91 9823222665 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Voices of sanity outweigh that of Madness/to Anjali --- Anjali Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hindus don't have any place else to go > > accept > > to submerge into the Indian ocean if the situation > > detoriates further. > > > > It is the call of Dharma to make every hindu aware > > of > > the situation. > > Hope you will side with dharma and not the adharma > > > > Anjali ------------------------------------------------- > It frightens me no end that the > majority of Hindu voices on this forum tend to be > shrill and extreme and that only a handful are > moderate and discerning. That's not correct, Selma. It's only recently that we have had a few voices on this forum that have launched a veritable onslaught, posting extreme views very frequently. So it's a few people making a lot of noise, and it's a recent trend. By and large the other posters here (of all religious stripes) are generally quite reasonable. What is true of this forum is even more true of Indian society at large. If the vast Hindu majority thought along communal lines, we might as well forget about it and pack up, the battle is lost. But that is not the case, people want peace and harmony. People have enough trouble surviving from day to day and don't want to get involved in unnecessary strife created by political forces that want to use religion for political ends. Trust the masses, their good sense generally prevails! The worry is that the persistent attempts by the Hindutva forces to communalise and vitiate the atmosphere have been increasing and having some success -- as witness the case of the FACT exhibition. It is this kind of politics that must be resisted if we are to arrest the slide towards fascism, and protect the values of secular democracy in India. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx