Kaberi Dutta ChatterjeeDirector, KAA Media · Narrative Architect | Director, KAA Media Inc.

What is this "Hindutva"? #hindutva #hindutemple #hindutvashorts Watch the full video in the channel

28 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker critiques the contemporary Hindutva narrative that equates devotion to Hindu deities—Ram, Krishna, and Shiva—with Indian national identity. The speaker argues that this conflation labels non‑worshippers as "anti‑national" and denies them a sense of belonging. To illustrate the deep cultural roots of such religious symbolism, the speaker introduces the mythic origin of the Kamakhya temple, describing it as one of the 108 Shaktipeeths and recounting Shiva’s angry thunder‑dance, thereby linking ancient mythology to present‑day political discourse.

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We have to acknowledge our religion, so it's become Hindutva instead, you know. And worshipping Ram and Krishna and Shiv has become like the must thing to do. If you are not— if you do not worship them, then you're not an Indian. Then you don't even have nationality. You don't even have a nation, it seems. You are anti-national. You don't even have an identity if you do not worship these things and you do not cry, Jai Sri Ram. So the temple of Kamakhya is in all Hindu mythology a very interesting bedtime story, okay, of its origin. It's one of the 108 Shaktipeeths. Now we all know that the story of how Shiv went, was angry and he was in a thunder dance. So let me just tell you the story in