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Post by Guest Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:35 am

Naqvi says Advani had Doordarshan telecast a 1950s film, Swayamsiddh, the theme of which has a sharp echo in today’s India. He writes, “The story in a nutshell is this: a Hindu woman, whose husband is deaf and dumb, is urged by the village purohit to evict a group of Christian missionaries from the village because that would cure the husband. The Hindu wife gets the villagers to attack and expel the Christians and the husband is healed.”

The film’s theme no longer sounds fictional today: it constitutes the menacing reality of Indian Christians, hounded in isolated hamlets of, say, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. Is Advani asking us to tolerate a point of view premised on violence? No, not today, judging from his recent statements that drip with common sense and, yes, humanity.

But 25 years ago, when he was the principal architect of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, all those who thought its very foundation was hatred and violence were simply tagged pseudo-secularists and derided. A deconstruction of that movement indeed reveals violence was inherent to it.

http://scroll.in/article/762271/lk-advani-the-harbinger-of-violence-is-today-evangelising-about-tolerance

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