In Hindutva Genes:Treason and Moral Turpitude
By I.K.Shukla
23 June, 2003
Depravity is not aberrational or one-time affair. It is as much cultivated as calculated. Crime and wanton bloodletting raised to the status of a "national" ideolgy is fascism. When Muslim women in Gujarat of Narendra Modi were gangraped, mutilated, and burnt alive by rampaging Hindu hordes, and the state police was ordered to help the holocaust, it was nothing exceptional or random. It had a pedigree. It had a well-plotted political purpose. It was in fulfillment of a project long revered, long formulated,
long incubated.This realisation would dawn on anyone reading Dhananjay Keer's biography of Savarkar referred to in a recent article by Dr Ram Puniyani. Which will make one wonder how tendentious iconography mangles and misleads.
A clemency-begging, cravenly, collaborationist, and traitorous Savarkar was invested with the honorific of Veer (brave) by his acolytes. And, in a final assault on logic and ethics, the portrait of an enemy of India's freedom was installed in the Parliament, facing Gandhi's. Far from irony, it was infamy gone wild.
Naming the Andaman cellular jail after a traitor, Advani again distinguished himself as crass.The Shivaji, whom local Brahmans would not anoint as a king for he was a shudra, is today misappropriated as the savior of Brahmanism! And, the Shivaji who installed measures of social justice, abolished discriminatory practices in revenue collection, instituted laws guaranteeing egalitarianism and equality, and ordered women of all faiths protected and respected whether in peace or war, the Shivaji whose courtiers, administrative
officers and generals were nearly all Muslims, is the Shivaji shunned and viciously sought to be excised out of all historical record and collective memory of a nation. Here too, Savarkar bobs up as a stinking lump in pellucid waters.Savarkar, crowning his inhuman and subhuman streak, disapproved of Shivaji sending back with escort and full honours, the daughter-in-law of Kalyan's Muslim king, against whom he had just fought and won a battle. Savarkar wanted her to have been used for teaching the mlechchhas a lesson.
It was this "unfinished business" of teaching a lesson to the Muslims, long postponed and long due in their book of unhistory and immorality, prescribed by Savarkar to his Hindutva homonids, that was gleefully and lethally staged in Gujarat, Modi directing the show for the benefit of his depraved and despicable Hindu men, women, and children. It was Savarkar the sadist writ
large all over Gujarat.That treason came to Savarkar naturally and reflexively is proved by another historical scandal. Sir C.P.Ramaswamy Aiyar, the Dewan of Travancore, had declared the state independent of India! The perfidy did not stop there. He gallantly and speedily appointed an ambassador from Travancore to Jinnah's Pakistan, thus affirming once more his credentials as an inveterate enemy of India free and whole.
And, for this treason, who lustily applauded Aiyar in all of India? Who else but "Veer" Savarkar?
Savarkar should have been tried for treason. He was let go in those days of national euphoria. It only whetted his passion for more treason and grosser crime, culminating in Gandhi's assassination.
A.G.Noorani, in his review of two biographies of C.P.Ramaswami Aiyar in the latest issue of Frontline, a Hindu publication from Chennai, furnishes the sordid details.
No wonder, with this patrimony, Hindutva could be nothing less than perpetually criminal and anti-national.