A Talk on -“Demographics changes & it’s impact on Integrity of India”

Report on a Talk by Awakened Bengal, Bangalore on 17th, September at Mythic Society Hall

‘Demographics changes & it’s impact on Integrity of India’ – was the topic of an Intellectual Talk that happened last Saturday here in Mythic Society Hall, Bangalore.  The talk was organized by a group of Bengali IT professionals, authors, scientists and social activists called ‘Awakened Bengal’. Key speakers of the talk were - Sri Tapan Ghosh, Founder Hindu Samhati& Sri Sandeep Balakrishna, eminent columnist. The Talk was presided over by Dr. Giridhara Upadhaya, eminent Microbiologist & social worker.

The talk started in jam packed Mythic Society hall in the evening, with a nationalist song followed by speeches and finally, concluded with very invigorating question-answer session.  While opening the session, Sandeep Balakrishna highlighted the risk and the challenges that India is facing because of inorganic demographic change that is happening in the country not only from failed nations around India, but also very much from within. He pointed out that Indian modern society takes veil of ‘Secularism’ and refuses to respond to this challenge. ‘True nationalism’ that he describes as Hinduism must be cultivated and represented in different forms from literature, articles to research works to define the risk and to build meaningful resistance. Moreover, he emphasized - ‘just building & preserving Temples alone, Indian society will not be able to respond this eminent danger’.

Sri. Tapan Ghosh started his speech with roaring applause from the audience. He began his speech by giving a pretext to the problem of changing demographics and how it’s impacting India in 21^st century. The main reason as he defines ‘due to Muslim populationgrowth rate that ismainly contributed by ever expanding domesticMuslim birth rate and not solely due to infiltration through porous borders of rural Bengal or elsewhere’. The corrective measure that he decipheredas ‘total no of children per Muslim female must be capped instead of popular belief that proposes to cap total no Muslim children per Maleas polygamy in Muslims is legal in India’. The havoc of demographic change as he described as ‘worse than any riot or carnage’, because according to him organic demography if altered in a society the ‘whole non-Muslim population faces wrath of Muslim expansionism not a section of society or group’.

Dr. Giridhara Upadhaya in his own style described the demographics challenges with data and defined the problem with statistics that not only took the audience by surprise, but also put rational question mark on the immigration & population control policies of current and past Indian governments. He also emphasized on current situation of ‘Kashmir where due to demography changes, even in a small temple in Srinagarthe basic dailyritualsare not allowed to bepracticed’. Talk ended with wonderful rendition of ‘Vandemataram’ by Dr. Giridhara Upadhaya.

__________________________________________________________________________________________Author: Bhaswar Goswami(Technologist and Social worker). Email: goswami.bhaswar@gmail.com