IN INDIA EVERYONE WANTS TO BE COUNTED AS A MINORITY.

Her actual name is MENAKA and NOT MANEKA as she was renamed by Indira Gandhi as she was allergic to her original name. Menaka is 100 % correct when she states that Sikhism was founded to defend Hindus from the wrath of Aurangzeb who beheaded his father Guru Gobind Singhji the 9th Guru in exchange to sparing the lives of Hindus of Kashmir. The Sikhs are also called Keshadri Hindus after they were commanded by 10th and last Guru, Guru Govind Singhji to adopt the five Ks of Sikhism for the first time in their history which they observe till today. It was started with each Hindu family of the Punjab nominating the first born male child to the Khalsa Panth or the path of the Pure with the title of Singh or Lion. They are also called the sword arm of Hinduism being a martial race which was forged in order to protect the otherwise mild Hindu.

The Parsi faith does not accept anyone from outside its fold just as Feroze Gandhi ceased to be one after he married Indira Gandhi a non-Parsi. Hence both Rajiv and Sanjay were not Parsis and by the same analogy neither is Varun, as he did not under go the initiation Navjote Ceremony that all Parsis have to compulsorily do in order to be included into the fold.

Moreover, any human being who calls himself a Hindu is one as there is no ritual to induct him/her into its fold with the exception of the Brahmans, called twice born or Dwija who have the sacred thread ceremony solely meant for its male members as an initiation ceremony.

In India all want to be labeled as a minority as it pays material dividends to avoid being counted within the Hindu fold. But the truth is that barring the alien faiths all Indic religions are offshoots of Hinduism and their adherents cannot therefore consider themselves something unique and distinct like those of Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism.