Seventy Years of Secularism: Unpopular Essays on the Unofficial Political Religion of India

by Sandeep Balakrishna

India’s secularism in fact has been colonialism, not in disguise but in a bold new aggressive and intolerant form, propelled not by foreign rule but by the rule of foreign mindsets by Indians themselves.

our cultural amnesia is too widespread and deep-rooted and we are deracinated to the extent that we are unaware that we are deracinated.

If the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Dharmashastras provided the philosophical, moral, ethical and societal foundations, and the Epics (Itihasa) and Puranas, the rich literary framework to sustain this foundation, it was the Temple Culture that spawned, incubated, nurtured, sustained, and spread Hinduism’s cultural and social milieu over centuries.