Don't Hide From Our Roots--the Vedas Accept and proclaim India's
Hindu substratum, while still allowing all faiths to flourish
All Hindus have a moral and spiritual obligation to remind
themselves of their cultural heritage in the Vedas and be proud
of it, while rising above sectarian narrow-mindedness. Being in
the West for the past thirty-six years, I am more and more aware
of this deficiency among many of those who are born in the Hindu
tradition, and specifically so at all levels of the Indian
diplomatic corps. After independence, in 1947, the Indian
government's policy became biased in favor of a half-baked,
distorted form of secularism, when just the sense of being a
Hindu became something to be reticent about among the third-rate
imitation of Westernized intelligentsia. It still persists.
There cannot be a more secular nation than Britain or the United
States. Yet, the British are not ashamed to call themselves a
Christian nation, where many other faiths flourish in liberty--
the Queen still being the d