Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vasudeiva Kutumbakam (Universal Brotherhood) is different from his predecessors. To put bluntly without any ado, there is no (fake, artificial, pit-on, false, wrong, damaging, anti-country) appeasement of any kind in his Universal Brotherhood. He does not want to show off. He wants to be of real assistance to all those who genuinely adapt themselves in India. For instance with the Indians or others in India as residents albeit without any count when they cam in here. Yet, he wants to be genuinely helpful to her. Like he promises equal rights to Pakistani Hindu refugees
The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendara Modi, has said that Pakistani Hindu refugees will be treated like (all) other Indian citizens.
He said: “When Bangladeshis (primarily Muslims masquerading as Hindus) infiltrate (in West Bengal), the contractors of vote-bank politics lap them up, break all rules … but those refugees from Pakistan who come here only for saying Bharat Mata ki Jai … nobody cares about them. Shouldn’t they get rights? Shouldn’t they get the love of Mother India? It will be the responsibility of the government in Delhi to end the injustice being done to you all these years.”
“But I want to tell friends (in the Congress) that the lotus has bloomed and the more muck you splash the more the lotus will bloom.”
Modi presently is deeply engaged in ensuring genuine, valid, credible immigrants making India their home are not kept at an arm’s length by those who ‘belong’.
He wants to change the ‘impression’ that there is a demographic group in India not quite recog¬nised, mostly seen as an enigma, as a temporary and not terribly significant phenomenon: they are your immi¬grants, your neighbours who have chosen to make India their home, temporarily or forever, because they like it better than the places they came from. But many who have moved here consistently report that in India, one re¬mains an ‘outsider’ forever. The question arises: can one possibly ever become Indian? There are certain ethnic groups (Parsis come to mind, and the ancient Jewish group ‘Bnei Yisrael’) who have come to be ‘fully Indian’ after many generations, but we speak here of those who have been arriving as individuals—mostly from Western countries—in a constant trickle since Indian Independence.
‘India is the most difficult country in the world to relo¬cate to and in which to assimilate with the local popula¬tion,’ according to a recent media report that quoted a study done by HSBC Bank, polling 4,000 expats in 100 countries. Before you roll your eyes and exclaim, ‘Oh no, those foreigners complain too much,’ let me put this forth: although the angst of the immigrant who feels ex¬cluded may not be as pressing as our other major social ills, the strength and vibrancy of a society rests, among other measures, on its ability to absorb and assimilate ‘outsiders’. Yes, India was once colonised and is, therefore, suspicious of ‘outsiders’ and their motives but that’s over now, no?
(There is another small matter while we are at it: non-Indians in India dislike being called ‘foreigners’. We re¬alise it is apparent from looking at us—and at our skin co¬lour—that we are not originally from here. We know it is obvious from listening to most of us that Hindi, or any of India’s 17 official languages, is not our mother tongue. And yet, we wish we were not being reminded, on a con¬stant basis, that we are seen as and thought of as foreign (like a ‘foreign object’ stuck in a patient’s throat). We long to belong to the place where our heart is. We wish to place a ban on the F word.
Modi, according to yet-unpublished-reports, is full fledged engrossed into creating ‘comfortable space’ for ‘outsiders’ wanting to adopt India as their MotherLand, say Vande Mataram, adapt to Vasudeiva Kutumbakam.