It Just Means Being Hindu - Blog Posts

Hindutva is simply the word 'Hindu' with a suffix (Sanskrit) -tva which means 'being'.

Hindutva means - being Hindu. That's all it is.

I'm Hindu, so my spiritual existence is that of Hindutva.

I also have literal family members, people my immediate blood has married and had kids with, who are Sikh. No one hates them. No one tries to subsume them. My family traces its bloodline to Brahmins and follows spiritual rituals and practices today that match those Brahmins. We don't give a shit about what their social philosophy was. However, unlike the popular villainous characterisation there is no abuse of any caste by my family. I'm married to someone who is not from the same caste. My family had exactly 0 problems with the marriage. My sister-in-law, also a practicing Hindu, is married to a practicing Christian.

My Karavali in my wedding (like a Bridesmaid + Flower Girl) was my best friend's daughter. My best friend who is Benne Israeli, which is a particular group of people in India who practice the Jewish faith.

Admittedly, no one in my family is married to a Muslim. That is fear-borne, we lost my grandfather in a riot where some specific Muslims lynched my grandfather. This fear doesn't stop us from being perfectly normal colleagues to Muslims. I've worked for 7 years now with a team where 40-45% of my colleagues have been normal patriotic non-extremist Muslims. I tend to get pangs of anger whenever I hear about Hindus being further victimised by extremist Muslims and I ensure I talk about it with my therapist so there is no spilling of these anger towards people who didn't do anything to deserve it.

I live in a part of the country where there aren't many people of faiths other than these.

I'm not mentioning any friends of the family etc because that is very "oh but I'm friends with black people" vibe. I'm only telling you about people my family has had a reason to love or fear and how that has affected us till date.

Hindutva has nothing to do with being an extremist.

Pakistan is directly targeting civilians in India.

Fuck Pakistan.