beware customized history

So finally a handful of Muslim longbeards, the thinking class for the community, have decided that singing Vande Mataram is haraam. Which legally is no problem at all. As long as Muslims don’t jump, laugh or sing any other song when the song is being sung, it is fine.
That is something the Supreme Court has already stated in the Biju Emmanuel versus Union of India case. As long as you stand in silence- and respect- for the national anthem- which also extends to the national song in this case- you are doing just fine.
The problem begins when this kind of history-changing militancy takes more serious and problematic turns.
What if the Muslims of Maharashtra say they will not read Shivaji in their history books? What if the secular Congress government allows them to read ‘Tribal Justice and Navigation of Camel Caravans in the Arab Peninsula during the Medieval Ages’ instead of reading Shivaji?
What if tomorrow the Sikhs say that modern history from the period of the ascension of goongi gudiya Indira Gandhi to her death in 1984 be deleted from history books in all gurudwara schools in Punjab?
What if Mayawati and her BSP bunch ask for the deletion of Gandhiji and his works among the Dalits- at the time called Harijans- from history books prescribed for the downtrodden? To be replaced by the ‘Ideals of Kanshi Ram and Behen Mayawati’.
What if Karunanidhi says no Ramayan will be taught in Tamil Nadu and it be replaced by ‘The Dravidian Adventures of Kalaignar, Kanimozhi, Stalin, Azhagiri and the Marans’? I hope I have not left out any of the bespectacled Tamil patriarch’s brood?
Being born Hindu already bestows on the vast majority of Indians a stupidity we just cannot shake off. Hindus can go and feed a cow after buying the grass from the owner of the cow itself and think that it is going to do massive good to them. There is another bald fellow on India TV who wears velvet maxis and comes up with shit like ‘look towards the west and feed three pieces of puffed rice to a black cow to bring about peace between you and your estranged wife/mistress/neighbour/bai’ etc etc. Hindus lap it up and the ratings of these programmes go through the roof enough to make Aaj Tak, Star TV and Zee TV follow them with inane amounts of idiocy masquerading as Hindu occult.

If we allow our history to be customized by longbeards, saffron robes, cross-bearers, priests, nuns, jokers, clowns, secularists and pseudo-secularists, then we will grow up into a generation so idiotic that we would actually go to our grave thinking popstar Madonna invented Ashtang Yoga and we scratch our balls in tribute to Michael Jackson’s crotch grabbing act or that kids stammer as a mark of respect to Shah Rukh Khan’s k-k-k-k-kkkirran.
Because any other history in our schools would just be too hot to touch even with a barge pole.