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The Janata Party President Dr. Subramanian Swamy, and presently teaching economics at Harvard University in the summer term, today advocated the concept of Brihad Virat Hindutva to bring about a renaissance in the current secular India's value system and thus create a unified patriotic and spiritual society. At present, he said, the Indian nation is slowly but surely sliding into a crass one-dimensional society of material pursuits which can lead to the nation's Balkanisation.
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Dr. Swamy said that Hindu civilisation has lasted so long, in fact the longest, is because it was a society that had found a blend and harmonisation of material pursuits with spirirtual values.
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Elaborating he said: "In the 19th century, Swami Vivekananda had propagated the concept of Brihad{Greater} Hindutva, while Sri Aurobindo and Veer Savarkar who had spoken from different perspectives, advocated a Virat[virile] Hindutva. All these revelations were made to the people in pre-political de-colonised India. But unfortunately after becoming free, the academia and political power went into the hands of Marxists and Macaulayists who were determined to reduce the Hinduness of Indians to a minimum of acceptability labelling it as obscurantist and politically chauvinist, or communal and fundamentalist, and make out the concept as a danger to secularism.
