What colour are you?

We appealed to everyone we knew in the state and Centre: the Planning Commission, various ministries, the PMO; but they were all busy with their Aadhaar bribes and NREGA seductions, announcing plans instead of results, and harping on the dynasty. That is what led me to create this poster. It’s born of a citizen’s anger and disbelief. And now, the usual pseudo-secular intelligentsia are going on about how we have all become ‘saffron’! What is wrong with that? India has been ruled by two monotheisms for 1,000 years: for about 700 by the ‘green’ lot and for 300 by red-and-blue-flag-flying colonialists, both of whom had terrible records on tolerance. Why should anyone feel insecure under a democratic regime of the most passive and tolerant religion the world has known—unless they have such a guilty racial memory that they feel Hindus will give back what they received in those days? Collectively, Hindus are far too evolved for that.