Pkl. Afternoon 3.50pm, Monday, 24th Dec. 2007 Mr B. Raman is right on the Dot as far as the demonisation of Modiji is the staple diet of very many Audio-Visual Anchors and other Pseudo-Secularist pen-pushers and the class of gadflies ,NGOS or Chatterati of page 3, variety in our bustling Metros. The significant thing Raman has pointed out,however, Quoting Bhartiyar the Tamil Poet that we Indians (80% are some sort of Hindus ,any way) Should stand up and be counted as Men &Women ,no less than a Japanese , Arab, Mandarin , Russian , or WASPS, without any self-consciousnes or sense of being ashamed of being heirs to a civilization that is as old if not older than Pyramids by the Nile... Quiet flows the mother Kaveri ,Sindhu and Ganga in the spiritual imagination of any Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist even a Pathan, or Ahom of this subcontinent.We should not be overtaken by the western denigration of our Heritage, or our ability to walk as Tagore would have wished with our Head held high.There is no chauvinism in Tagore , even the socalled Secularists should agree, India and Indians and if even a Modi pleads for this cannot be demonised as a chauvinists , Fascist or worse as we have heard in media for past few yrs. Mr. Raman deserves praise for hitting the nail on its head.D. Goel
