Hindu or Open Category

Remaining or uniting only as Hindus is not sufficient in the current world – and this is a sheer fall out of “divide and rule” principle. I would not again blame British folks for sowing those seeds, those always existed and only beneficiaries have changed over the time. Now we have to identify ourselves and others in terms of new caste categories according to Govt. of India. There would be always an aspiration to move towards the privileged class. In olden days, it was towards Brahmins and nowadays it is towards any reserved class. That’s why we are seeing appeasements like amendments in the OBC category and Gujjar agitations. That’s why sensor board removed Budhha from the film Dashavatara. Keeping it brief - the need is to unite under an umbrella of Open category than Hindu. After all we unite together only for some selfish reasons – we need to fight for our rights and become a vote bank. While education has taught how to write to the under-privileged class, the culture what we are talking as “Hindus together” is too difficult thought for these folks to digest and it would takes not just years, but lives of many people before such an umbrella could be established.