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Disapprove of this

Unless Guha engaged in violence, arresting him is just not on!

We can talk of Section 144 and all that. But I don't believe the present situation warrants Section 144

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For those ppl who believe this action is correct, imagine an alternative scenario

Suppose the head priest of Chilkur Balaji temple takes out a small rally calling for temple autonomy on a Hyderabad street

Would you like it if the govt arrests him for violation of Sec 144?
A few chipped in saying it was detention and not exactly arrest

Doesn't change my point. No room for detention here
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Some startling facts on how "Denazification" was not wholly successful in Germany in the late 40s - 50s

Nov 1946 : 37% of Germans surveyed in the American Zone of W. Germany said that "extermination of Jews, Poles and other non-Aryans was necessary for the security of Germans"
Same Nov 1946 poll : 33% said that "Jews should not have the same rights as those belonging to the Aryan race"

1952 W.Germany poll : 37% said it was better for Germans to have no Jews on its territory

1952 : 25% of West Germans admitted to having a "good opinion" of Hitler"
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This Johnson video is evoking many "oohs and aahs"

Merely indicative of Western deracination

In India, reciting a few lines from Mahabharata, Ramayana or any of the stotras sourced from purANas is so very common, that you will find dozens who can do that in every other street
The great bane of Christianity (and I regret talking about this on Christmas day) is that it effectively delinked language and religion!

Unfortunate

The result is that even very orthodox Christians today are unable to recite anything at all in Koine Greek from the New Testament
This is not quite true with Islam, though Islam is also a universalist faith

You will find orthodox Muslims recite Quran in Arabic. The association of Islam with the Arabic language has not been lost
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On the quoted tweet -

Party politics is not the struggle of good vs evil

But a confrontation of one set of reasonable people against another set of reasonable people - both loyal to a different set of principles, that may be orthogonal to each other
This understanding of Party politics comes from Edmund Burke - the intellectual founder of Party government in the 1770s

The whole point of Party government is that reasonable people can disagree, and both can be right from the prism of their principle-set to which they're loyal
What unites Parties is a strong tribal loyalty to a set of principles

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