Arun Vaidyanathan’s letter, "Parallel faiths in India" (Asian Voice dated 7-11-2015), stating that India's Hindus will be a minority in 50 years’ time is a harsh fact.
This shrinking of Hindu population is not new but has occurred since advent of Islam and later, infiltration by Christians.
After independence of India from British rule in 1947, India committed cardinal mistake of declaring itself as secular state instead of Hindu state.
Another mistake was to allow sizeable amount of Muslims to stay behind in India. They have grown from mere 7% in 1947 to 15% today.
Pakistan created massive demographic imbalance by pushing thousands of Muslims into Kashmir to influence plebiscite.
Millions of illegal Bangladeshis have also caused massive increase of Muslims population. Another obstacle is absence of uniform civil law to stop proselytization and polygamy, practiced by Christians and Muslims which has increased Muslim population and has shrunk Hindu population.
As per prevailing conditions of the country, demographic imbalance is unstoppable. Home grown and international meddlers can overturn any pro Hindu action. Now only history will tell what will stop this demographic shrinkage of Hindu population.
Ramesh Jhalla
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