I admire Bhupendra Gandhi’s, Kapilji’s and C.B.Patel’s euphoria/eulogy about Hinduism. Ground realities against Hinduism as religion are realistic. Hindu leaders must envisage methods to entrench Hinduism now and its survival in future. Living in and praising the past is unpragmatic. Hindus’ meek ways are not reciprocated by non-Hindu faiths, thus making Hinduism crippled/ disabled puppet.
Sadly, tragic absence of collective unity of thought and thundering voice makes precious Hindu teachings and values irrelevant.
Sound and fury of two major religions threatens Hinduism. In some countries Hinduism is not recognised at all, even as a religion. It is used to differentiate Indians from India and Red Indians from South America.
US based Pew Research Centre ignores Hinduism by describing it as “unaffiliated” religion! It also mentions that:
Muslims have demographic advantage via marrying young and polygamy.
By 2030, UK will be a Muslim-majority nation. With Islamic assertively aggressive attitude and vote bank politics, fate of minority and their religions is easy to predict.
By 2050, India will have more Muslims than Indonesia. Hindus will meet same fate as in Pakistan and Bangladesh!
Flitting from temple to temple and baba to amma is not sign of Hinduism’s strength and guarantee of survival.
Ramesh Jhalla
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