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How I Became a Hindu
(Reprinted with a Postscript),
by Sita Ram Goel.
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How I Became a Hindu (Reprinted with a Postscript)
by Sita Ram Goel
Chapter one startles with some revelations, particularly the unexpected disgusting behaviour of one Arya Samaj elder, something not expected from anyone brought up in Indian culture; and it would be disgusting regardless of place, except the appropriate place. Until reading this, one had never heard of anything negative about anything, anyone related to Arya Samaj! And that alone shows just how much tolerance of Hindu society's suffering in silence, for centuries, over millennium and half, has been.
The book nevertheless catches attention, and from then on, grips one, thus account of an inner journey threading through the external life that included intellectual growth and groupings of a soul, while he went through school, college, and intellectual movements of the time, especially political ones.
Sita Ram Goel was more fortunate, and truer, in escaping the traps of much of the typical dead-end movements he encountered, whether new or old, that many of his contemporaries or others were not fortunate enough to either escape or grow out of, or even be aware of the reality they were trapped in.
As one reads through, the personalities of the author and his mentors come through, chiefly those of his professor and his later friend, and one finds oneself wishing repeatedly that one's own growing years in Delhi were blessed with direct influence of these benefic personalities.
One realises with a start when halfway through the book that he's finished it at end of the previous chapter, that one is beginning what he calls postscript. But it's very vital, and in its blunt telling of truth, matches Ayn Rand in her works (- except, of course, she was necessarily incomplete, insisting as she did on seeing only and strictly one side of it all). It's hard to think of any other source, any other person setting forth truth quite so openly, publicly, in a political climate set by a Gandhian congress that wiped out or pushed under rug, or even abused, all other previous and contemporary great Indians, including freedom fighters; and that only got worse with the post independence era of almost seven decades of almost complete rule by congress, almost always ruled by one family, which was more often deserving of being set aside for better alternatives (which were obvious but set aside by Gandhi to begin with) than not.
As one reads the postscript, details of persona of the first PM that emerge are shocking, but not unbelievable, partly because the author has established his his sincere honesty and his impartial judgement as one has read so far, but also because he's mentioning things that are merely the extreme that wasn't publicised, not because it's not in character or because it was about events in private that can't be corroborated. Quite to the contrary, he's writing about very public behaviour of the leader. And what's more, it fits very well with the characters and behaviour of some of his less creditable descendents.
All this would be unbelievable, shocking, and heartbreaking, were it not for slow emergence of some details exposing fraud perpetrated by the party that governed India for most of seven decades after independence; but now, it's only the final fragmentation of false idols that congress had put up as demigods. One only wonders why the author saw Gandhi differently. Perhaps he didn't get to know details about his image that early post independence as we do now.
As one finishes, one is acutely aware of just how corrupt the so called intellectual scene in India has been, corrupted by lies imposed under colonial rulers of well over a millennium and half imposing their so called creeds while fraudulently badmouthing indigenous culture, knowledge and other treasures of India, including attempted destruction of every possible temple of India (successful in thousands of cases), and subsequently denial of not only the existence of the temples they bragged destroying, but of every bit of Indian history except those associated with invaders.
All this is a mirror image of the Aryan invasion theory lie propagated by West for convenience of pretending that rape and loot of India was perpetrated not only by them but by the very people whom they had looted and massacred. And places like JNU are the latest success stories of this murder of a living culture by salami tactics as per Macaulay policy of destruction of spirit of India.
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December 09, 2021 - December 20, 2021.
Paperback, 110 pages
Published by Voice of India
ISBN8185990050
(ISBN13: 9788185990057)
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4399065074
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