Talibanization of India

This is with reference to the recent spate of events where people, even the CM of a state, have started setting standards for Indian Culture. I'm very sure that all these people are just a bunch of illiterate thugs who don't even have the intellect to assess the depth of the Indian Culture.

Firstly there's nothing called a Hindu Culture or Hinduism. It's just Indianism - the traditional way of life of the Indians - influenced greatly by the thoughts and traditions of the Aryans and updated and modified number of times through the ages, assimilating the cultures and thoughts of people from round the world. That's what we vaguely refer to as Hindu Culture or Hinduism. Even the term Hindu is not present in the literary works of the Vedic Age. Hinduism and Indianism are just synonymous and that's what make our religion or our way of life perhaps the most flexible and also tolerant in the world. It's no one's business to teach the Indians about the dos and dont's of our culture. 

We're perhaps the only people who worship a God named Indra who is known to be addicted to Soma, a form of intoxicating drink. We've Gods for love, sex,  passion. We've worshiped sex for thousands years. Even the Shiva Linga that we worship is actually Shiva's genital dipped in Parvati's vagina. It fascinates me how without the knowledge of Engineering Drawing, that we read in our first year Engineering, some one could conceive the idea of Shiva Linga as a cross section view, as seen from within Parvati's body, of a moment of intercourse. Kamasutra speaks of fashion among women to expose love-bite marks on their breasts as prestigious signs of their lovemaking. The walls of Konark Sun Temple, Ajanta/Ellora Caves and many other places have extremely artistic pictures of sex and nudity because we never associated any taboo with any of these things ever in our culture. We had our Gods of love and sex long before Valentine's Day came into being and we had the most revealing dresses even before the French Fashion gurus exhibited their traits. India has been advanced in all spheres of art, culture, science and education ever since civilization started in the world. This was possible only because of the all inclusive, free and tolerant atmosphere of India without any policing and restrictions. It's not that everyone had the same ideas or ideologies. There were always contradictions and counter views. But the unique part of Indian Culture has been that it had space for all ideas and contradictions. There was Kamasutra and also there was severe austerity and abstinence. There was atheism and also religiosity. There was Kalidasa and his classical romanticism and and also Meerabai and Surdas with their Bhakti. Indian Culture doesn't belong exclusively to anyone. It's the existence of everything that makes our culture so vibrant. We've been a diverse nation for ages and we've preserved each ethnicity with great care. Unification doesn't mean imposing a common code for all, but to give space to all the diverse elements and allow them to mingle with each other and co-exist together with peace and prosperity.

Personal behavior or choice or things of interest have nothing to do with the culture. Swami Vivekananda himself never gave up drinking and smoking. Does that make him a lesser Indian? Yes, Mahatma Gandhi did lead a different life, full with austerity and renunciations, but then he never disapproved of anything that's different. Even Tagore wrote in favor of and against renunciation at different phases of his life. Our Indian Culture includes all these contradictions and differences. That's what have made us so unique and we should go all ways to ensure that the all inclusiveness is never lost!! 

Anyway who talks about restrictions in Indian Culture actually don't know what the culture is and we should just ignore them.