Agree with most of what @_YogendraYadav says but not this.

To be progressive & liberal minded ia not a rejection of culture & traditions.

To know English is not a rejection of the mother tongue.

In fact, some of the worst bigots are fluent in English, in & outside India.

Secularism is being defeated by manufactured victimhood, vile politics and industrial scale propaganda.

Many of us grew up speaking & reading both Hindi (in my case) & English, participating in rituals, eating Indian food, wearing traditional clothes (then & now!) & also studying about the world (in Eng!).

We had religious myths & stories told by devout bhajan-singing grandmas..

... as well as parents encouraging us to question & read not just the texts but also multiple interpretations (feminist readings of Sita & Draupadi were among the favourites!).

We had school, neighbourhood & family friends across faiths, and we thought nothing of it!

We followed certain traditions & rituals and questioned, discarded or updated customs & practices that seemed anachronistic & plain wrong (menstruation related taboos, the notion of kanyadaan, keeping non Hindus out of temples etc).

Above all, faith was a personal thing.

To many of us, this was and is the essence of being a secular Hindu!

In fact, that being a Hindu could mean different things to different people, that it is not rigid, is its strength!

This militant, my-way-or-highway version is not the victory of an idea...

It is the victory of sustained brainwashing - aided by a sophisticated propaganda machinery of social media & tons of money - that first makes people feel that they are victims and then claims to offer a simplistic ‘solution’ - blame the minorities- to them.

Yes, we need to reclaim the faith from the pretenders profiting from peddling hate in the name of faith.

We need to clearly & unambiguously call out those responsible for mutating a faith into this grotesque avatar.

But to pin the blame on secularists would be self defeating!