ARE WE TRULY INDEPENDENT?

Neha Siddhwani
6 min readAug 15, 2020

INDIA; an independent country where we are free to live, express, share our thoughts and whatnot. This is the country where nature enhances its beauty, monuments speak their history, temples showcase their culture proudly, mountains give our thoughts wings and rivers connect us with our roots.

Today with all the proud, we are here celebrating our 74th INDEPENDENCE DAY in this pandemic thinking that we have all the freedom and we can do whatever we want to but are we really Independent? Do we have Freedom of Speech? Can our Hindu women walk freely? Are Hindus safe and free? Pakistan was created on a religious basis where in India ever religion resided without any restriction. Still, Islamists in both country are prominent enough that they’re harming the other religion people. We’re still the victim of Secularism.

Woke culture who keeps talking about minorities who are the second majority in this country but never talks about what the Hindu majority is going through, how brutally they’re treated and how easy it is to brainwash Hindu people. They never talk about the lynching of Hindus but keep glorifying Muslims and their culture. So no, today we’ll question, as a majority are we rightly exercising our rights?

Kids in the school are forced to read the malformed version of our Indian history, where Mahatma Gandhi’s role is portrayed much bigger than Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel. Even though its quite evident that Nehru is miles away from a personality we want our children to become, still the schools teach our kids to idolize him and love him. Mughals, who were well known for their cruelty have been depicted as heroes who formed our New India. Nobody tells us that what harm they did to our community, how they harassed our women, looted us and tarnished our culture but all they glorify Mughals and whitewash their cruelty. Millions of people know this truth. You can raise your voice, you can shout about it. But liberal minds will turn a deaf ear towards you.

MUGHALS WHO GAVE OUR SIKH BROTHERS THE GORIEST DEATH.

Women in our Hindu culture has a very high position, they are either treated as Laxmi or Durga in their family but when we talk about the Muslim community, women are treated like a sex slave or a baby producing machine. But we here raise a question, “Are Hindu women safe?” Every other day, we hear, a Muslim man raped a little girl, a Muslim guy enacted as a Hindu, had sex and then killed the lady or converted her. A recent case of a guy named Riyaz was arrested for raping a Hindu woman, how? That guy first posed as a Hindu man and then had sex with the lady and circulated that sex tape.

There are many incidents where Muslim men have faked their identity or tried luring Hindu women in different ways. Once they start believing them, they make fake promises of marrying and use them. Either they will convert these women by marrying or will kill them as they don’t want them to be a hurdle for them. Minorities in Pakistan are going through the same or the worst phase where they abduct the Hindu or Christian girl and rape her and then forcefully convert her.

Hindus and Hinduism is the most abused religion in India. Being the majority of this country, we are defamed, mentally tortured by a single community and lutyen media who fear to take the names of Muslims but is ever ready to defame Hindus. It’s like an agenda for them where they are determined to bring down Hindus and defame the concept of Hindutva or Hinduism. Lutyen media shows people as Islamophobes but in reality, they are the people who are Hinduphobic. With time, media houses like the wire, the print, ndtv has tried to suppress Hindu community and we as always has ignored these facts.

Freedom of Speech, as an independent nation we have this right and we exercise it in the best way we can but few states in our country which are in the liberal hands, the government there turns fascist and intolerant when a civilian raise a voice against them or ask logical questions or mock them for the way they handle the state. So where is our Freedom of Speech? Well, these states are ruled by extremely Hindhuphobes who prioritize Muslims and turn a blind eye when Hindus suffer. They cant take a little mockery but are ever ready to call names to our Prime Minister and they are not even taken into custody because only Hindus have to be tolerant or a party supporting the cause of Hindutva. Bengaluru riot is one of the recent examples where a Dalit man was suppressed by the Muslim community and his retaliation over a post led the peaceful people to burn half of the city. So Hindus, are we correctly exercising our rights?

late IB officer Ankit Sharma

Hindu Lynching is so common nowadays that nobody even bet an eye to what happened and which peaceful community did this. Nobody raises a question over them but everyone points fingers at Hindus who are a villain for everyone. And we call ourself independent, we can’t even fight for our rights but we are independent. We lost Ankit Sharma, what was his fault? Nothing. Palghar lynching happened before police, what was our innocent sadhus’ fault? Nothing. Every other day we hear the news of a BJP worker who is a Hindu losing his life in West Bengal, what is their fault? Nothing. But you know their major fault according to many are, they belonged to the Hindu community, they wore saffron proudly, were dedicated to their country and NOTHING else.

palghar sadhus

After reading this, do you feel Independent? Don’t you feel that we are still the slave of Secularism? Don’t you feel suppressed by the second majority in this country? We have come a long way, throwing Mughals out and showing Britishers their real place but we have to walk a long way dealing with these communal hatreds we receive on daily basis, saving our women and culture and showing the extremists their real place.

We’ve revoked Article 370, fought with a devilish act like Triple Talaq, construction of Ram Mandir is about to start, with CAA Hindus living as minority getting their rights back in India but we still have to deal with the problems mentioned above and many more like that. Maybe then only we will be able to sense what real freedom looks like.

HAPPY 74TH INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL. Jai Hind, Jai Bharat!

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Neha Siddhwani

A social media trend observer whose passion lies in writing, blogging, fashion and art. Also, a self proclaimed chef.