Kanchan Gupta, editor of Niti Central and associate editor of The Pioneer, speaks to Madhu Trehan on his journalism, being viewed as a “bigoted fundamentalist”, the Hindutva movement, his disillusionment while working with the government and how Narendra Modi would never want to fuse faith with politics. – News Laundry, 22 May 2012
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BHARATA BHARATI 
As soon as Hindus begin to reciprocate the “kindnesses” visited on them by Muslims and Christians over the centuries, the followers of both asuric prophet cults will back off. The problem is Hindus always want to be seen as the good guys, not realising that that is more self-righteous egotism than anybody needs. Sometimes appropriate action must be taken to remind the chronically aggressive other side about the true nature of the people of Bharatavarsha. The Gita teaches us the following principle (though usually only the first half of the sloka is quoted piously): Ahimsa paramo dharmaha, dharma himsa tathaiva cha » Non-violence is the greatest dharma, so to is all righteous violence.
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I fail to understand why the so-called Hindu politicians like the fading Advani and so-called Hindu intellectuals like Kanchan Gupta never get tired of terming the the demolition of Babri Masjid an unfortunate incident. To me its a matter of great pride for Hindus that they razed to ground a mosque that was a symbol of blood-soaked Islamic invasion of India. Similarly, I am not at all remorseful of Gujarat riots. It was great to see in Gujarat that the Hindus had learnt the art of retaliation. Unfortunate train burning incidents can be stopped once the Hindus start retaliating.
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Madhu Trehan is a poor inquisitor in this video, attempting to insert her most mediocre secular views into the dialogue. Kanchan Gupta is also inarticulate at times, a poor show for a Hindu public intellectual. He appears to resort to old Leftist formulations when at a loss for words.
It is a curious fact that many Hindu intellectuals are retired Leftists. Are they sincere in their ideological u-turn? Have they really realised the futility of their left Leftism? Or have they just switched sides to stay in show business?
Kanchan Gupta is reported to be a Brahmo Samajist i.e. a monotheist a la Christianism. This commitment, if true, does not do him credit either as an intellectual or a Hindu (of whatever make or kind). It also makes him something of a Brown Sahib.
But there are some good points made in the video too and it is worth viewing.
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