The Big Picture - Can Hindutva be the Indian identity?

Guests: Ashis Nandy (Political Psychologist and Social Theorist) ; Prof Pushpesh Pant (Political Analyst) ; Prof. Aditya Mukherji (Historian, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU) ; Baldev Sharma (Former Editor of the RSS publication, Panchjanya and a RSS activist)
Anchor: Girish Nikam
Air date: August 18, 2014

[@gauravlath19]

Debate too tilted on the side of Sickulars or those not agreeing with Shri Bhagwat!

[@rabinderkoul4708]

The argument of National anthem is ridiculous. The Sinddhu is not in India and Kashmir is not mentioned. If that is used as an argument against use of Hindu ins wrong. .He needs to be making some more serious argument. The frivolousness of his argument is obvious.

[@srinikandadai8269]

These secularists get in wendy donger, they also say if you debate more then you are creating more problems so we are supposed to bury the truth. Hinduism modern word of Bharateeyata, we got into places like indonesia and put our point of view and debated. These secularists give us some argument saying we were not a big hindu nation (Bharat varsh) their history lessons stoart from islamic invasion and colonial invasion, Before theat no one wants to go. Simple question to these sickularists, if this was not Bharath (India) Where there were emperors and states used to pay tax, I can go on. Did colombus tried to get India or some princely states as these sickularists talk about? Let me give you an example all the countries have been invaded by other countries and when got invaded, their demopgraphy their way of life their identitity have been changed. Only Bharath where all kinds of people invaded but the localcustoms and way of life (you can call religion) is still intact. These sicularists are trying to break and make the change. .ee they are scared to debate and if they want to debate they want to do from theirpoint of view and anything else is not allowed. They bring in doniger, no one burnt anything or as these people want to tell us or communal clashes hapenned, in a legal way they went about, if they had guts let them prove in the court of Law, see they run away. The simple issue is, whether you call Indian hindu or Bharateeya or anything, these people have been divided so long, from the british and these neo sickularists and false historians. In this age of information revolution people are seeing through things. Why I have studied in the same schhols of JNU propogated History, but now thank to information revolution I am finding more information and authentic. If Bhagwat say lts get united whatis wron should there be a debate. One of the statements if you see one of the sickularist was even against Swamy Vivekananda, how absurd can you become?