INTERNET HINDUS

THE INTERNET HINDUS

                 Contrary to the common understanding,  the term ‘Internet Hindus’ is given by the handsomely paid old breed arm-chair leftist intellectual- writers, with  impressive university degrees to flaunt, to the lesser-off, who they, in their misplaced arrogance, despise and ridicule in the mass media.  These lesser-off are Internet savvy, average educated Indians mostly Hindu- techies, mobile –wielding 24x7ers, students,  employees in the private sector companies and corporate houses, and   the  educated  youth belonging to the much-troubled and far the more stressed middle class urban India, whose main claim to fame is their being Internet-savvy. Despised by the elicit creed and the mainstream mass-media, all through these years, their deliberately suppressed thoughts, views and sentiments, now find volcanic explosion on  various free web-sites, where they pour their heart out, through blogging ,chatting and social networking. In the cyber space these poor souls share their views, sentiments, frustrations, love, bickering, romance, virtual and real life experiences, in short almost every shade of human feelings and emotions,  with other similarly placed persons-called ‘friends’( in the web’s own lexicon and vocabulary). To them, for the first time in the history of free India, the constitutional  Right to freedom of speech and expression, is now leaping out of the law books to take the shape of reality. In the cyber space they, not only  now uninhibitedly express and share their hitherto suppressed views and sentiments through blogs and articles but also venture out to expose the fraud, hypocrisy, games and gimmicks that the self-proclaimed saviours of our so-called democracy play on the nation.  They  now question the authenticity of the out and out pro-establishment so-called mainstream media-both print and electronics, which, in the most despicable show of atrocious arrogance, has so far and so long  denied  them the media-space, which they desperately needed and richly deserved , to ventilate their grouse and grievances mainly against the establishment.  Their number runs in millions.

                Goes without saying that the emergence of this new tribe of rebellious youth brimming with  meadow-dew fresh thoughts on everything, under and over the sun, out to reject and rubbish the status-quo and bent upon giving practical shape to the Socrates’  famous exhortation: “An unexamined life is not worth living”, is sending shudders and shock-waves down the delicate spine of those who have been manipulating  anything and everything to their advantage in the safe believe that no one could question them. On the other side the visibly disturbed elite class,    actively supported by the mighty establishment, and  mainstream media with the help of  whole army of  handsomely paid writer-intellectuals on their pay-rolls, is up in arms against these Internet voyagers to defend the status-quo, establishment and the despicable entrenched vested interests.

                The new generation of Internet activists, do not have the matching qualifications of their counterpart intellectuals in terms of highfalutin degrees and awards who,  for a long time now,  have been active on the electronic and print media.  The all-powerful establishment is also bent upon making the life and living of these Internet activists, more and more miserable and stressful to stall their purposeful romancing with the Internet;  enfeebling them by denying them the level playing ground.  In-spite of so many handicaps, hiccups and hindrances, they have been acquitting  themselves well- doing all that that can be done for their cherished cause- braving all the odds and obstacles wilfully imposed on them by the conniving establishment which dreads the word ‘change’ and roots for the meaningless misleading jargon: ‘development’- a battered hat which has lost  its shape  on being tried on so many  heads.

watch with abated breadth, as the hitherto much-maligned and derided tag-Hindu- instantaneously turning into much coveted trophy of honour and achievement. While all this fails to dent their reputation as intellectuals, and  continue to be handsomely remunerated  for writing all such pro-establishment, hackneyed stuff,  appear on their favourite T.V. Channels participating in talks, discussions and other intellectual activities- mostly as invitees and experts, it has certainly exposed them for what they are- downright hypocrites.

                Goes without saying that these blue-eyed boys of both the print and electronic media, can not afford to stray away from the pre-structured policy of the either- except for some inconsequential deviations now and then designed only to project (obviously faked and pretentious) objectivity and impartiality of the concerned journals or the T.V. channels. Sometimes, it does bother their conscience, but money matters more, and hence triumphs.

                 As stated above, these worthies, in a carefully designed strategy, associated the Internet activists

with the hitherto maligned word ‘Hindus’  with a view to denounce, decry and degrade them and to project them as ‘communal’. However, in their anxiety to paint these  Internet activists with the communal dye, they conveniently overlooked the fact that Hinduism stands for all that is good,  great , beautiful and  pure in secularism as against the officially touted secularism, which at its best is pseudo-secularism, and at worst a contrivance devised for minority (read Muslim) appeasement aimed at cultivating, nurturing, nursing and fostering the minority (read Muslim) vote-bank for the purposes of gaining political mileage over the rival parties in the elections. Thus the ploy to defame and degrade the Internet-savvy urban middle-class India by appending the word ‘Hindu’ to them got misfired, and the cult is going from strength to strength, and  in the process  glorifying Hinduism to the huge chagrin of this so-called elitist class of intellectuals and the mainstream media.  Hinduism gained the respectability it so richly deserved, but persistently denied all these years by  the vested interests and the pseudo-secularists, entirely for political reasons which have got absolutely nothing to do with the ground realities. Secularism in it’s pure form is synonymous to Hinduism. No wonder, the class called’ Internet-Hindus’  comprises  of entire  Internet-savvy educated middle-class India, with the people of every religious persuasion proud of being associated with it. And, without exception, they all are extremely happy and delighted with the tag, sorry “Trophy”.