I am always a bit flabbergasted reading tweets or hearing people saying “I am proud of being a Hindu” or “Garv sey kaho hum Hindu hain”. It is by accident of birth that one is born a Hindu. One really had no choice in the matter. Converting to Hindusim is not really easy. So how does one claim pride in something that was fate or fortuity?

But many sane and sensible people puff up their chests and claim to be very proud to be Hindus. Actually in the same breath, they say “proud to be an Indian”. Again not many exercised the choice to be Indian after 1947. Most of us were born here. Just as we were born a male or a female. One didn’t really exercise a choice to be born either, right?