"The same side of two different coins" 1/n I would actually call it REAL vs. REAL - on either side of the border.
I know these are broad brushstrokes. Exceptions exist on either sides. But the truth is: "extremist liberal" Hindus do think like this ("REEL")+
The Ind "liberals" want rest of the Junta to follow "REEL".
And most Hindus, even RW (angry, but mostly conciliatory in practice), are indeed like this .
Similarly the PAK extremists want rest of the Junta to follow +
3/n "REAL". Which most "normal folks" also do, though in a passive language; & mistrust for India / Hindus is commonplace even for liberal LW in PAK.
So the point is that either extremes are bad & that, more importantly, both these extremes
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4/n have (& continue to) influenced main-stream opinion. And in a way are the DNA of the two nations.
As a result you have a mostly conciliatory junta juxtaposed to a mostly hostile population.
NEVER WORKS.
India needs to drop this appeasement nonsense & call a spade a spade+
5/n
Pak needs to respect its minorities & become more inclusive.
The latter is unlikely to happen.
The former ...? Your guess is as good as mine.
1/ 70% is the problem. Sorry. No one can save those bent upon decimating themselves. Eroding & gaslighting themselves.
Even those Indic wingers who blame Modi-Shah are dumbistanis. Sorry.
What happened this weekend in cricket, in the backdrop of the anti-Hindu riots in B'desh
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2/ has sealed my belief that Hindu society has brought this upon themselves. Like a battered housewife who continues to blame herself for the beatings, Hindu society does the same.
Countless discussions on WA. Responses on FB, all prove that Hindus have internalized Stockholm
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3/ Syndrome.
Yes, there's truly no enemy except the enemy within. MJ said it: man in the mirror.
Peacefuls will be peaceful when Hindus will take pride in themselves *while* maintaining the demography.
Otherwise, why bother ... just roll over and lie down.
I don't even know where to begin with this; but let's just start with false equivalence, shall we?
When Newton identified gravity, he was *shunned* by the Catholic Church. Notwithstanding the fact that Newton was a Christian.
In fact the church 👇
(1/) prezi.com/df5p5wenxkjv/n…
shunned *anything* scientific. A struggle that continues, in some fronts, even to this day. (Ask the Evangelicals about the creation of earth. LOL.)
So the true statement would be that Yoga is as Hindu as the Adam & Eve story is Christian!
deny Yoga its Hindu roots? By cutting of its Hinduness (or Hindutva!), you are essentially denying it, its soul. And not only that, you are facilitating the billion-$$$ Yoga-industrial-complex that runs on the very basis that Yoga is non-Hindu.
India in the 50s & 60s. The kids were SHAMED & punished if they broke into the vernacular by mistake.
Can you imagine that?
Today, while their English is ok 😏, I see these folks (now in their 60s and 70s) struggling to establish/maintain connections with their own
(2/)
kids / grand-kids since they can't seem to verbalize their feelings!
Yes, most parents are loving & caring (mine certainly are!) but few *are* abusive, either knowingly or unknowingly. And the abuse ranges from emotional to physical.
Make no mistake; folks like Divya Dwivedi are the ones who practice caste-based discrimination.
Notice how they never eschew their (ex?) Hindu identities? Observe how they always sneak their "UC / Brahmin privilege" into the conversation? It's always about staying in the (1/)
As folks from all social groups advance their status in India, these people feel threatened. So they have to spin these stupid narratives. It's a desperate cry for attention.
Ideally, we should ignore them. However, Unfortunately, given the (2/)
media spaces that they occupy, we cannot. So we must *absolutely* call them out.
They are BIGOTS. They are hate-mongers. They are pathetic social snobs.
They "other" Dalits.
Dalits were not allowed into temples previously;
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First things first: good riddance to bad rubbish; I am glad Mathangi S no longer considers herself a Hindu.
(Could you please stay the eff out of defining it as well?)
mix of guilt, superiority complex ("look we know we are better but we'll try our best to hide it"), I really feel like telling them to STFU.
Firstly, Brahmins make < 5% of India's population. So please. While people like Mathangi definitely don't represent Hindus; neither (2/)
do all Brahmins. To assume that a small minority represents the larger group is just stupidity.
Hinduism belongs to *all* Hindus, including Dalits, & other castes. (And Brahmins.)
So please. Don't speak for all Hindus when your experience is so so unique. (3/)