Dear Senthil,

You say as a Hindu you have  the right to recliam your land. Please tell me 
what you mean by being "Hindu" so that I can understand your position better.

I am also a Hindu and I don't want to reclaim the land in question. As a Hindu 
I also want that people of other faiths will not dig up history to detsroy 
Hindu places of worship, or any places of worship for that matter, anywhere in 
the world. Why do you think you have the right to speak on behalf of all 
Hindus, or even a majority of Hindus?

In history kings practising particluar religions have detsroyed places of 
worship belonging to other religions - of course there are exceptions such as 
Akbar and Ashoka and there must be many others. In 1947 we threw out the kings 
to have a democratic form of government. Don't you believe the intolerance that 
marked the reign of kings should also be thrown out. If you really want to go 
in to history and want to allow people revenge for things done to them in the 
past, India will be torn in to a million pieces. Should people in the South 
fight against the people in the north for having equated them to Monkeys in the 
Ramayana? Shoud people of Orissa fight against the people of Bihar to avenge 
the killings during the Kalinga war? Should Hindu people of the Mughal kingdom 
fight against the muslims for the misdeeds of Aurangzeb? Should people of 
central India fight against the Marathas for the plunder they committed in much 
of Central and Eastern India? Should people of Andhra and Bihar fight against 
the Oriya people to take revenge against the attacks made by Kharabela against 
these people? Should people of Jharkhand kill all white skinned people they see 
to take revenge for the martyrdom of Birsa Munda.

Dear Friend! You will never reach any where if you open the Pandora's box of 
historical revenge. But in case you want to start please go in order. Either 
start by throwing all foreign companies out from India to take revenge against 
the misdeeds of British East India Company or start by asking all people other 
than the Adivasis and the Dalits to leave India and go back to the place they 
came from. But the problem you'd face in case of the latter would be that you 
would never be able to know who are the original inhabitants, of the land that 
has subsequently come to be known as India, and who came afterwards.

with warm regards

Manas

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