ON THE TUNES OF FASCISM

Modi government’s announcement to use Hindi as the sole medium of communication for government information on social media was just an initial attempt to test the waters. Amid wide-spread opposition, the Union Home Ministry immediately withdrew the announcement and said it did not seek to impose Hindi on states which do not speak this language. But even after its withdrawal, there were reports, especially from the southern states, that warning memos were issued to central government staff who did not attend the Hindi coaching classes. In continuation of this, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a directive to its affiliated schools and letters to the state boards urging them to promote the celebration of Sanskrit Week from August 7 to 13.

The circular, filled with utter lies and brahmanical fraudulence, is audacious-enough to proclaim that Sanskrit is “the mother of all languages”; it doesn’t stop there – it also claims that “Sanskrit and Indian culture are intertwined”, and goes on to say that most of the indigenous knowledge (!?) is available in this language. The circular also directs to increase awareness about ‘close relationship’ between Sanskrit and other languages and cultural heritage of India.

Inviting eminent Sanskrit scholars for interacting with students for promoting daily use of Sanskrit, encouraging students to develop Apps and Games for Sanskrit learning, screening of a Sanskrit films such as ‘Adi Shankaracharya’, ‘Bhagvad Gita-the song of the Lord’, ‘Mudrarakshasa ‘etc. are some of the ways by which Modi government has asked schools to celebrate Sanskrit week. Just by looking at the circular, we can easily understand Modi government’s attempt to impose religion in the name of language.

When the circular says that ‘Sanskrit and Indian culture are intertwined’ it clearly refers to the brahminical-Hindu culture – because literatures of none of the other religions including Jainism and Buddhism are in Sanskrit. Moreover, screening of films about Adi Shankara, Bhagwad Gita, and Sanskrit slogan contests etc are obvious acts of religion imposition. By asking schools to increase awareness about ‘close relationship’ between Sanskrit and other languages, Modi government is trying to establish and strengthen the deceptive claim that Sanskrit is the ‘mother of all languages’.

But, never in history has Sanskrit been an official language of communication either of the governments (kingdoms) or of the people. Religious literatures of anti-Vedic religions such as Buddhism and Jainism are in Pali language; Ashoka’s inscriptions are also in Pali. Many researchers have established that Sanskrit is not an original language – but a mixture of many foreign languages. Researchers have also proved that languages such as Greek, German, and Gothic are sounding similar to Sanskrit.

We don’t deny the fact that Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages. Not only Vedas, Puranas and Itihas are available in Sanskrit – but a number of anti-Vedic, atheist and anti-idealistic literature are also available in Sanskrit. Only by learning such materials, was Ambedkar able to expose the tyranny of Hindu-brahminism; researchers like Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay were able to establish beyond doubt that “Indian philosophical tradition is not just brahminical Hindu tradition – in fact, most of our philosophies are anti-vedic and anti-idealistic”; historical researchers like DD Kosambi were able to liberate our history from the fallacies of the puranas. They were also able to bring out the fact that a great number of Sanskrit books which had anti-brahmanical ideas were destroyed en-masse.

Modi is now asking us to celebrate Sanskrit week; but, it is none other than Modi’s fore-fathers who paved way for Sanskrit’s destruction. A language can survive and develop only in the “tongue” and “ears” of the people. Many of the ancient languages that are surviving to date are able to do so only because they became “Language of the masses”.

But as brahmanism denied right to education and right to worship to the working majority of this country. It proclaimed Sanskrit as ‘deva bhasha’ and banned common people from learning it. The Brahmins even made stringent laws which were used to severely punish any person from ‘lower’ castes who dared to learn Sanskrit and read the Vedas. “if the Sudra intentionally listens for committing to memory the Veda , then his ears should be filled with (molten) lead; if he utters the Veda, then his tongue should be cut off.”(Manusmriti). It is not surprising that these fellows, who created Sanskrit, also created the extremely evil caste system, which has set the Hindus of different castes and sub-castes at war with one another for ever. Brahmins used Sanskrit as a secret weapon to exert authority over the people. It also created a theory that the stone idol in the temple would get divine powers only when Brahmans recite Sanskrit mantras; no other language has such a power it proclaimed. It is only because this discrimination that milllions and millions of the working majority are not being allowed inside the sanctum of the temple thus distancing them from the language itself. Those Brahmanical forces who destroyed their own language in this way and now are attempting to spend millions of rupees of people’s money to revive it.

Now Modi’s Government says it is going to teach Sanskrit to the common people, who have been left out of the Brahmanical 'tradition of knowledge', and wants to link the language to their everyday life. In fact, majority Brahmans who recite the Sanskrit mantras do not know what it means. When those who use the mantras day-in and day-out do not know its meaning, government’s plan to teach it to common people is absolutely ridiculous!

Modi government’s imposition of Sanskrit is nothing but continuation of its attempt to impose Hindu-fascist ideology of ‘Hindu-Hindi-Hindustan’. It is a brahminical cultural aggression to demolish and destroy the identities of diverse traditions and nationalities. This is next weapon they have taken in their hand, in line with Ayodhya, common civil code, imposition of Hindi and Hinduism in text books. Hindu fascism is doing everything to spread its roots.

What are we waiting for?