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One thing I don't understand about such events is -

Everyone toes the same line!

If you want a "super" discussion on AIT, please call someone who holds the opposite view as well
What the H-Right is deficient at is a temperament to hear out the opposing view (be it on a partisan political matter, or a technical matter like AIT)

You can be as intransigent as you want. But hear out the other side. And respond / debunk calmly
Many people on the Right say - "Hey...the Left is just as bad. Why should we hear them out"

Actually no.

NDTV invites people like Sheshadri Chari, Swapan Dasgupta, Chandan Mitra etc

Maybe as mere "tokens". But they're there nevertheless
H-RIght must learn from the American Right in this regard.

Watch the old shows of conservatives like Bill Buckley, Milton Friedman

There is always representation from the other side. And they are usually heard. Patiently
Some classic shows that come to my mind -

Bill Buckley's interview with Gore Vidal

Or his interview with Noam Chomsky

They are television classics. Precisely because Buckley was gracious to hear out a view diametrically opposite to his own
Here's the link to the legendary Buckley talk with Chomsky

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Śrīkānta Kṛṣṇamācārya
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Interesting list

An Indic "Canon" is more problematic given that the works are often encyclopedic and a single work may not appeal to any single reader in its entirety

E.g. You can recommend Mahabharata. But v few are going to read it from cover to cover
If I were to come up with a "reading list" on Indian civilization then that would probably include smaller texts that are a part of larger works

E.g. Bhagavad Gita (from Mahabharata
Sundara Kanda (from Ramayana)
I dont think it makes a lot of sense to tell a foreign reader -
Go read the Mahabharata..

He will feel lost. It's just way too big and diverse a text
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Was browsing through Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order in a bookstore

A key thesis of his -

China has traditionally had a strong state, but a weak society

India the opposite

"It was the tyranny of cousins that allowed Indians to resist the tyranny of tyrants"
I found this a tad problematic

It is true that "social actors" have reined in the state more effectively in India relative to China

And that society has a certain resilience in India that is no doubt lacking in China
But I dont think it is right to call this the "tyranny of cousins"

Sure. jAti / caste is a big part of Indian society

But Indian society is hardly tribal in the same sense as say Pakistan
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Cringe worthy tweet

This glorification of Jodha-Akbar is greatly overdone

One is not even sure her name was Jodha. Which was likely the name of Akbar's daughter in law and not his wife

(Contd..)
Akbar did have a Hindu wife of the Kachwaha clan, who was Jehangir's mother

But we are not 100% sure what was her name. She is known mostly through her Persian name "Mariam-uz-Zamani"

While it is claimed she remained Hindu, we do have a tomb for her in Agra
There is also a mosque built to commemorate her by Jehangir in Lahore - the Begum Shahi mosque, one of the older structures in the city
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