By fictionalizing Sri Rama, Rama Sethu and the entire Ramayana, the secularists at the helm obviously wanted to be granted a copious certificate of secularism from the politically hyperconscious non-Hindus. Also they were perhaps trying to be complaisant to Madam Sonia, given the latter's Christian faith. Sadly for them, they couldn't gauge the intensity of the avalanche of Hindu sentiments in the matter. The affidavit must have certainly been drafted on the specific directions from the political bosses; and it couldn't be the handiwork of any official, who don't have any independence in a sensitive matter like this. Making the officials a scapegoat is unfair. The political bosses should come out with a clean confession and an unconditional apology.
This rampant anti-Hindu psyche wells up from the distorted Indian history written by the Britishers, who wanted to justify their colonization, by cooking up a motivated theory of Aryan-Dravidian divide, of 'alien' Aryans and 'native' Dravidians, and by diluting the importance of the Hindus and their glorious culture of antiquity. It is unfortunate that many educated people of our country swallowed up that distorted history, without any question or demur. It is high time that our Indian history was reviewed and rewritten on the basis of subsequent massive evidence.
