Why the RSS’s Vishwaguru Vision Collapses Under Its Own Hypocrisy |
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Hypocrisy is inimical to scrutiny. It demands surrender and obedience. If you persist with inspection because reality is more precious than pretense, skeletons start tumbling out.
Some cupboards are full of skeletons. What’s the time required to understand this simple truth? Aren’t one hundred years more than enough? The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), busy in 100th anniversary celebrations, needs serious introspection about its character, philosophy, performance and achievements.
It needs to look within to find the alarming gap between its words and deeds; to discover why it is grappling with a crisis of legitimacy despite such enormous power and wealth. After all, something must be fundamentally wrong if the cupboard has more skeletons than laurels.
Speaking at the concluding function of its training camp in Nagpur this week, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said only India could give a uniting vision to the world driven by conflicts and self-interests. He explained how countries not directly linked with the war suffered and how brutal powers captured or devastated smaller nations, and bombed civilians, because of narrow self-interests. “Apna vikas aur shristi ka vinash (destruction of one’s own development and creation)” – Bhagwat used these poignant words to condemn nations that attack others, lamenting that the world listened to brute power, not the voice of conscience.
He said India can impose the voice of conscience and harmonise economic and moral contradictions when it really becomes the Vishwaguru. He claimed the RSS so sincerely worked on individuals to build such committed characters who could achieve these national and international goals. He stressed the virtue of “global fraternity” while defining the role of a world leader.
That will sound credible if the RSS hypocrisy is not scrutinised. Isn’t it true that their government, led by Narendra Modi, stands in a loving embrace with Israel, the country that symbolises self-interest, violence and conflict today? Hasn’t the Modi government failed to speak what is right in front of Donald Trump who has wantonly bullied and humiliated India? Where was the “voice of conscience” when innocent women and children were massacred in Gaza and Iran? Has the Modi........