The entire issue of Organiser this week is devoted to different aspects of the Ram Sethu controversy. M.D. Nalapat recalls Ram Rajya: “In the Knowledge Era, it is not geographical space that counts any more, but Thought Space. The nation whose people make the most significant contributions to Thought will emerge the greatest contributor to the future of humanity. It was not accidental that the British Empire was preceded by waves of invention and innovation in that small but lion-hearted country... It is in the context of mind space rather than geographic space that Lord Ram becomes important, for he ruled not through fear but through a mixture of love and respect.” In the kingdom of Ram, writes Nalapat, those who were given the rights of citizens were the beneficiaries of a system of governance that relied on the cooperation and consent of the governed. And that the preferred modes of societal behaviour were not enforced by armed gangs, but by a willing compliance coming from the heart “the only subservience that is real, and which in its purest form is meant only towards the Divine, whatever be the name given. Some may call the Supreme Being God, others Allah, others may worship sans a name to focus towards, yet all are as one, all are linked in a familyhood of faith and belief.”

Such a conspiracy

Gautam Sen rails against the political class. He writes: “The collective behaviour of India’s political class, including those who opportunistically jumped on the Ram Sethu bandwagon in its defence and India’s overbearing, self-styled Anglicised elites, graphically illustrates cynical contempt for Hindus ... It is a diabolical intrigue that threatens to subjugate Hindus politically as the prelude to a final solution that will impale them on the beliefs of their imperialist conquerors.”

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