The last week was an eventful week- it brought into sharp focus, two ideas which Hindutva has been championing. It brought them out in different ways though. Mayawati won UP elections on a plank of sarva-jan samaj instead of just the bahujan samaj. The media which so likes to display its stupidity, they celeberated it, when they loathe the same phenomenon if championed by the BJP but beyond all that, something happened- an important even in Hindu social history. As Arun noted, here was the first time when jati unity has been attempted at the promtpings of the dalits instead of the other way around. Doesnt happen unless the Hindu jatis have begun to understand that ultimately social cohesion alone paves the way forward and not tension and hatred.
Then, it was the anniversary of Pokhran blasts on the same day - May 11th. that was a seminal event in bringing India out of the isolation of outdated socialist ethos into the select group of major world powers. that too was a BJP achievement. media lampooned them for it then too- and today when their darling Congress is embracing the fruits of that through the 'n-deal', they are all with them.
So whether BJP directly achieved all this or not, it is definitely triumph of the Hindutva ideas - the fact that others are willing to take their ideas up shows that their ideas are not backward or irrelvant but infact inevitable.
That said, the Savarkarites (and Golwalkarites) have a lot of thinking to do. Why do they always snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory? Why are they so pessimistic oftentimes? Why do they become channels of violence of a crude kind to manifest? They also need to study their goals again. Hindu nationalism is not about world-domination or even an exclusivist Hindu nation. It is about removing the ills and fending the challenges facing the Hindu society, so that those values which are special to it can be put forward before mankind. That this apparently solid world around us is as much a projection of the waking mind as it is of the dream mind - which are the same- and that this mind itself is the universal mind, that hidden in the recesses of its perception, is that immortal Self, the sole witness, that this witness is one in this manifold appearance, this is the message of Hinduism. Not caste, not exclusion, not superstition, not elaborate ritual.
So if the events of the last week appear like defeat to Savarkarites, the clear message to them is 'go back to school'.
