The NewSense

February 3, 2010

Washington: Can you imagine Indian government headed by congress party releasing official Indian postal stamps having picture of Lord Ganapati on the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi? I know you can’t imagine and this is not possible in India at all. Our mind is politically secular and thinking of such act even in our dream is also a communal in India. We are the people of the country where we could not construct a temple for a lord Rama even at his birth place; forget about having these gods on our government postal stamps. We are proud for being Hindu and we boast our culture and tradition as most ancient one and we are among the first civilization to spread civilization throughout the world and the world acknowledges it with great respect. Yet we restrain to practice Hinduism with fear that it may hurt other’s religious feelings and they may not vote for us in the next election. In India politics is above the religion and talking religiously about religion is communal.

But this is not the case in United State of America. Atlanta based company in United State headed by an Indian American has launched a series of legally valid custom-made postage stamps. The first of these 44-cent stamps featuring SriKrishna, Shiva-Parvathi, Lakshmi, Lord Venkateshwara, Murugan, Vinayaka and Sai Baba were issued by usa-postage.com. Believe me it is not communal launching Hindu gods stamp in Christian dominated land but it is in Hindustan. After all it for the Indian community in US and don’t get surprised if you receive a letter with Lord Ventatesh stamp on it from your cousin from US. It must be from Texas not from telangana. “We are proud to serve the Indian community in USA with postage that reflects its culture, heritage and religious beliefs,” says USA-Postage.com. Of course our culture, heritage and religious beliefs are for foreigners to feel proud. We are ashamed even to flaunt it in Hindustan and if you try to do that then you are communal and you are trying to disturb the secular Indian society and its communal harmony.

We should be thankful to the USA Postage company for launching such postal stamps in US and keep reminding the Indian people in US about their gods. Otherwise our brothers and sisters who stay in America will only wish us on Christmas Eve. The youth of India are already attracted by western countries and if we keep neglecting our gods publicly then they will permanently settle in States. And what do we call these gods then? NRGI- non resident gods of India or non returnable gods of India.  Of course they will visit India once in Ganesh Festival and Deepavali as per their turn provided external affairs department of India gives them VISA. And if congress government feels that Lord Venkateshwar’s visit may add fuel to Telangana issue then they may deny the VISA on security grounds.  It is not a joke. That day is not far when we may have to search these gods in google to know more about them. Don’t get surprised if one day some other country takes patent for worshipping these gods and claim their rights on them. What we would do then? I don’t know about you but congress government would be relieved as opposition party BJP can’t use these gods in future election.

Believe me one day these Hindu gods will send request to Indians (Hindus) to become their fan at least (not devotee) in facebook and orkut. That is where god can find Indian youth. Facebook, orkut, twitter etc have become world for Indian Youth. Our world is our monitor and we come across god only when someday sends email containing gods picture in it and asking it to forward to fourteen people immediately otherwise it brings bad luck. We don’t give any damn about our culture and worry about cultivating in Farmville in facebook. We have forgotten our heritage yet we are member of world heritage group in orkut. This is what is fancying the present youth of India. Believe me if we don’t tweet HINDUISM for its culture, tradition, religion and heritage in the coming days, we will be logged out from “linkedin” connection with our mother land. Youth of India are beginning to feel that ethics and ideologies are irrelevant in the modern era but in reality these are the core constituents of our country. Let us log out from our virtual world and see what is happening in real world. Let us thank US for giving our gods berth in their postage but let us do not feel proud for it. Let our gods on their letter cover remind every citizen of US about Indian culture, heritage, tradition and religion. We are just sharing our gods with them as our gods are universal. And it is time for us to update our profile as a Hindu nation before our beliefs become obsolete. And that is not far if congress rules for another term.