Thursday, 25 October 2007

From Amrit Shah, Stanmore

Queen Victoria was in a dilemma as to how to rule the 300 million Indians. She sent a person named Macaulay to find out as to how this people can be ruled. After long considerations he wrote back to queen Victoria with three major observations:

* distort their history
* make them forget their language
* make them forget their religion

This is exactly what the British did. We began to believe that we did not have a history, a culture and that we did not have one language - that is why at times Indians are known as Macaulay children or to put it crudely "coconuts" - brown from outside and white from inside.

Faith can move mountains. If the billions of Indians believe that Ramayana and Mahabharata are not a myth but a reality and that it is part and parcel of our culture - no matter what others think - then and then only we will be able to survive and also help our history survive. We have been divided for thousands of years now it is our turn to prove to ourselves that 21st century is the Hindu century - RAM SETHU WILL SURVIVE if we do not deviate from our beliefs and take assertive action.

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