i have seen many such instances. as young boys we used to play night cricket & in the night sit on a local temple verandah & drink water there. one fine day, a christian (pentecostal) boy in our group, who till then was an ABSOLUTE normal guy, refused to sit on the verandah & drink water there. he said, he had learnt that he should not be doing so the sermon he had attended the previous sunday. we were 18 years old at that time. slowly, the friend stopped mixing with us & stopped even talking us. thats when, i realized that we Hindus take pride in mocking our religion. i am not impressed by this friend of mine. but yes, only in india can you see the majority religion being subjected to official ridicule & permitted mockery on TV, Ads, Movies everywhere.
how else can u imagine the CM of Maharashtra presiding over a ceremony of conversion to Buddhism? agreed, hindus consider Buddha as a Hindu God but today Buddhism is nothing but a face of s0-called Dalit Politics. in which country can the head of a state dare to do so? only in india, because hindus are either Gujjars, Brahmins, Meenas, Rajputs & so on.
we ONLY have ourselves to blame. its time we put the barriers of caste behind & integrate as a one proud, rich cultural entity.
