![]() ![]() We are Indians, and sorry, we are loquacious in our salvation theologies. Then, Hindu nationalism-a comparatively new political force in spite of the ancient adjective- is an ongoing argument with the past, its guilt and glory.Īdd to that the official pedagogy of secularism and the farcical fulminations of social justice and the dialectical bunkum of Indian communists and you get the talking shop of a nation, whose instincts, though, are not always in harmony with its rhetoric. He had the audacity to argue, though he didn't have the courage to stand by his argument. Advani's disastrous Jinnah moment, in retrospect, was not without its rewards. Haven't we seen desperate pols in their identity crisis shuttling between mythology and history, talking with gods and ghosts? This Babelic tradition makes us less boring, even though we have that tendency to talk our circuitous way to nowhere-or to the wrong place. The diversity of argument unites us, its ferocity fragments of our mind. ![]() Does India, the noisiest of nations, need to be reminded? ![]()
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