Hindu hatred of Muslims will not allow united India

This refers to DV article on “United India with Pakistan & Bangladesh” (DV Dec. 1, 2009 p.22) a long neglected urgency. The article by T. A. M. Nurul Bashir of Bangladesh is worth pondering about but I don’t think Hindus will ever agree to the proposal. You know how much they hate the Muslims. The birth of Pakistan and Bangla Desh is an all-time good riddance for them and they are now repenting on their blunder of not transferring the entire Muslim population to Pakistan at the time of partition. But it is different with the Dalits. We very much want Muslims but Hindus want them as their slaves, bonded laborers, servants, scavengers, toilet-sweepers, shit-bearers et al and live in perpetual luxury. You can recall M.K. Gandhi’s steadfast stand and ‘fast unto death’ drama on. Dr. Ambedkar’s demand of ‘separate electorate’ and then only imagine the demand for separate ‘Dalitstan’. They will never, ever allow Dalits to secede and will never allow Muslims to join and reunite with them. With the changed image after the 9/11 horror and post-Babri retaliations, the Muslims have become pariah, the new Untouchables for the Hindu. They are afraid to know these ‘new Untouchables’ can react violently unlike the meek and timid Dalits. And, therefore, I would advise Brother Bashir to stop his wishful thinking, howsoever rational and well-intentioned it may sound. Forget about the nostalgia of re- unification and think instead of the neglected, persecuted nationalities denied their human rights as our Editor so loudly advocates through the masthead of Dalit Voice. Although I am an idealist like you and would very much wish to see the world as a real global village, I am pragmatic enough to understand that it will not come into existence without bringing in practice the idea of universal brotherhood. Sadly, the current campaign of globalisation doesn’t include in its agenda the ideal of global brotherhood.