Congressmen and their intellectual backers do not seem to realise that tectonic changes are taking place in Hindu society that perhaps even those who are participants in the change are but dimly aware of. The truth is that secular nationalism more or less divorced from the country's cultural heritage is seen to be no more a viable proposition ...

In 1947 when our forefathers worked on a Constitution their desire for a secular republic was honest. The trauma of Partition left them no other alternative but to talk of secularism in exalted terms. They willingly suppressed their inner urges to build a nation on the basis of their long-suppressed civilisation in order that peace is first established. These urges are now bursting forth with explosive vigour and they cannot be  suppressed. The task of our leaders should be to understand them for what they are and canalise them for constructive purposes.

We need a new Vivekananda ... to understand the dynamics of social action and explain it in meaningful terms. India is in the process of defining India in Indian terms. We are at a crucial point in history ... The larger emerging picture ... is one of an assertive Hinduism emerging triumphant and sweeping everything before it. But is it necessarily hostile to other religions and minorities ...

For the Hindu self-renewal was an impossibility under the deadening hold of the secular ideology. That ideology had to be discarded, lock, stock and barrel and the process has begun. One cannot renew Hinduism if one does not accept its reality. Secularism denied that reality. In consequence, secularism has had to be sacrificed. Belittling Hinduism, or Hindutva may constitute an amusing secular exercise, but the more it is belittled, the more condemned it will rise like the phoenix to haunt its torturers.

Islamic invaders ... suppressed cultural and religious practices, damaging the pristine vigour of Hindu religion, preventing the intensification of Hindu culture and ending the creative impulse in all realms of thought and action ...

What is currently being sought to be done is to reverse the process. It will be accompanied by some damage and some violent but hopefully it can be checked by an understanding and respect for the Hindu psyche ... An entire civilisation is crying to be born or reborn. We are its rightful heirs. Once India is liberated from the secular bonds that is presently tying it down to earth there is no knowing to what heights of glory it can rise, as once it did. The BJP is not the instigator but merely an instrument of social change. Indeed even the BJP may find itself pushed aside as the dynamics of change get into its stride. We are ... at a nodal point in our history ..                                                                    (Source: The Organiser, 15 February, 1998)