This is an article published in Kannada Daily Newspaper “Vijay Karnataka” by its editorVishweshwar Bhat ji on June 3^rd in Kannada language.

Article link –

http://www.vijaykarnatakaepaper.com/svww_zoomart.php?Artname=20100603a_008101002&ileft=259&itop=51&zoomRatio=130&AN=20100603a_008101002

This is translated to English by one of our RSS orkut community Senior member Mohan Chitale ji…It’s a worth reading article….Pls read to it….more and more realted to us....

Dhanyawad Mohanji for doing excellent translation…

Pls forward this mail to all…..

INTERNET HINDUS

A new group of people have a group and they have named this group as “INTERNET HINDUS”, Oh don’t get Panic they wont possess Trishul, or they apply Tilak on their forehead and wrap saffron shawl on their shoulders. Their language does not match with those so called fundamentalist or Hindu radical leaders, They don’t believe nor support the idea of Hindu Rashtra, even having said this  still big Media Houses and so called elite journalist have developed a sense of fear of this group, and they have started opposing this group of Internet Hindus.

WHO IS INTERNET HINDU?

This phenomenon of Internet Hindu has cropped up through various social sites on Internet like Twitter, Face book, Orkut, blogs, chatrooms. The day star studded media personality and political editor of famous news channel of India CNN/IBN Political editor Sagarika Ghosh who described these Netizens as group of fundamentalist Internet Hindus and further she made a statement stating she will try to block this internet Hindus. From that movement the Terminology INTERNET HINDU came into existence.

            Basically Internet Hindu is not a particular Website but it is the group of people who feel proud to be called as Hindus, and these people don’t hide their Identity. They express their viewpoints on various websites and social sites like Face book, Youtube, Orkut etc., these netizens holds maximum share in internet and they are a undoubtedly educated people. Hence before these internet Hindu formed this group we used to have one sided communication that of T.V. channels (specially News Channels) But now with induction of internet Hindus the situation has immensely changed and hence the media fraternity had a big task ahead of them, how to stop this menace? Hence personality like Sagarika Ghosh described this group has blind folded, radical Hindu fundamentalist, But before coming to conclusion on Sagarika’s statement let us analyze the true facts and some interesting figures regarding these internet Hindus.

This group of internet Hindu, does not believe in regionalism and casteism and this group consists of educated people.

v There is no ambiguity amongst these group to be called as Hindus and they feel pride in calling themselves as Hindus, and they try to  up hold custom and traditions of  Hindu society & further they never claim that the Hindu religious is spotless, and in the mean time give respect to other religion and faith. They never claim that India only belongs to Hindus but they confirm that it is a secular country.

v This group strives hard to get rid of evil rituals of Hindu society & welfare of India is their sole motto.

v This group does not appose modernization and modern culture. They don’t do hue & cry to ban Fashion TV etc, they consider it as a trivial issue, But in the mean time they oppose from bottom of heart the soft corner shown by electronic media for Muslim and Christen fundamentalists. They oppose out of proportionate reporting against Hindus in any violence occurred & defy one sided targeted reporting.

v This internet Hindus oppose tooth & nail in twitter, face book and in orkut the idea of Barkha Dutt that the marriage between Sania & Shoaib will improve the relations between India and Pakistan, and in the same breath they apposed the Hindu fundamentalist who were opposing this marriage with an opinion that it is just a personal issue between two people and it has nothing to do with the politics.

v These netizens oppose including BJP and all political parties for their approach towards minorities for their personal benefit by doing minority appeasement and vote bank politics.

WHY THEY ARE SO SPECIAL & INNOVATIVE?

Normally the term Hindu is allergic to most of the media houses specially English media establishments, they always felt Hindus & word Hindu reassembling as fundamentalist, backward and there is a greater sense of displeasure expressed through their writings, and reporting more ever maximum members from media fraternity are either have leftist mentality or they are in the clutches of left wing parties, and which has resulted blockade for Hindus to express their view point, as they were denied the access to media & there they had the great opportunity in the form of internet to put forth their views and ideas about Hinduism and here the calculation of leftist centered media houses went wrong.

Internet Hindus now has started to put counter questions to them over articles and media reporting in twitter, face book, orkut and in U-Tube.

WHY MEDIA IS ANNOYED ON THESE NETIZENS?

As expressed above with leftist inclined media which though they have sole right to express and telecast the news which they thought it as  their birth right and no body else will question them suddenly had to face these netizens who started defying the false version, away frown truth media reporting through counter articles there these media personalities started making blame game on these Hindu internet people as Hindu fundamentalists. Hindu Taliban’s, Hindu terrorists etc., further they also tried to crack the moral of these internet Hindus as they will not put any effect on society but Kanchan Gupta in an article ruled out that the morale of these groups is so high that, they it can not be dented.

Sooner any news channel start telecasting the report of any communal violence erupted in the country, with one-sided story, these netizens immediately start reporting factual matter of the case as the news channel is wrong, as I am the witness to that incidence and the story is different & hence the report telecasted in the TV as away from truth. For eg MIRAJ Ganesh puja violence or latest BAIRELY INCIDENCE.

Here became the problem for these news channels and print media as there mere integrity was at stake and they had fear of losing TRP due to false reporting, for this very reason Internet Hindu became their enemy No-1. !!!!

A ONLINE SURVEY CONDUCTED BY INTERNET HINDUS:-

This group of people called Internet Hindu conducted a survey amongst them selves to find out certain facts and figures. Following is the result of that survey.

v Whopping 88.9% agreed that without any ambiguity and problem they feel proved to be called as internet Hindu.

v Out of which 4% were less than 20 years 55% were of or less than 30 years 40% were of or less than 40 years of age and mere 10% were either 40 years of more than 40 years of age, It clearly indicates that this group can be called as Young Indians.

v Further, in the survey report, the education qualification was asked response was 43% were graduates (with majority persons from Doctor, Engineer Fraternity)

v 46% were PG holders namely from MBA CADRE

v 11% were holding PHD Degree.

v And all these people were holding sound economic status.

WHAT WAS THEIR RESPONSE IN SURVEY ?

• Maximum of these people were BJP haters, and they clearly told that they don’t attach to any political group and it is not necessary to criticize Muslims & Christians to be called as Internet Hindus.

• As they are intellectuals and society conscious, they are aware of the factual happenings of the nation.

• When media can support ARUNDHATI ROY on her alleged support to Maoists, and when they publish her articles why not we strive hard to maintain our HINDU IDENTITY 

When left inclined media fraternity from day one has crushed the HINDU sentiments ,with resurgence of INTERNET HINDU, THE RULES OF THE GAME HAS CHANGED is the version of these netizens.

To conclude we can not now neglect these netizens , as they have formed their own pressure group , in the society .