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Leela Profile picture
@leelaraagam
Sep 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Observations. # 89.
EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY OFFENDERS. NOT.

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When Christmas rolls around I celebrate it. Yes, I have "secularized" it; however, I recognize that it's a Christian festival & my putting up a tree is more for the decor of the season + I love gifts 😎
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 (even though I bought them!). I don't shit on the festival by discussing cultural appropriation or decimation of native cultures or the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic church.
Why can't Hindus & non-Hindus let at least one freakin' Hindu festival go by without making
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3/n
an anti-Hindu statement??? Why?
Remember how Audrey Truschke was planning "Holi against Hindutva" at Rutgers?
Then how PETA tried to make the festival of Rakhi an issue?
Now this issue with Onam being called a *non* Hindu festival?
And how many of us receive messages
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 before Diwali that Hindus worship goddesses but indulge in female foeticide and infanticide?
WHYYY?

Why this hatred by others + self-flagellation by Hindus?

Uggh. Gives me a headache.
THE END.

#Observations

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Oct 26, 2021
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.

No use blaming
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Leela Profile picture
Jan 31, 2021
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!

How can @SadhguruJV or anyone
(2/)
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.

And if your aim behind
(3/)
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Jan 29, 2021
Most of us are lucky & never see this, but I do know a few people whose parents emotionally stunted them due to (unintentional?) abuse.

I've heard stories of a distant relative who insisted that his kids speak only in English with each other. This was back in (1/)
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.

(3/)
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Jan 29, 2021
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/)
spotlight, & staying relevant.

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;
(3/)
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Jan 28, 2021
I love the poetry of Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, & this is my favorite. 💕 & the reference to Shri Ram🔥

क्षमा, दया, तप, त्याग, मनोबल सबका लिया सहारा
पर नर व्याघ सुयोधन तुमसे कहो कहाँ कब हारा?

क्षमाशील हो ॠपु-समक्ष तुम हुये विनीत जितना ही
दुष्ट कौरवों ने तुमको कायर समझा उतना ही
1/
अत्याचार सहन करने का कुफल यही होता है
पौरुष का आतंक मनुज कोमल होकर खोता है

क्षमा शोभती उस भुजंग को जिसके पास गरल है
उसका क्या जो दंतहीन विषरहित विनीत सरल है

तीन दिवस तक पंथ मांगते रघुपति सिंधु किनारे
बैठे पढते रहे छन्द अनुनय के प्यारे प्यारे
2/
उत्तर में जब एक नाद भी उठा नही सागर से
उठी अधीर धधक पौरुष की आग राम के शर से

सिंधु देह धर त्राहि-त्राहि करता आ गिरा शरण में
चरण पूज दासता गृहण की बंधा मूढ़ बन्धन में

सच पूछो तो शर में ही बसती है दीप्ति विनय की
संधिवचन सम्पूज्य उसीका जिसमे शक्ति विजय की

3/
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Jan 28, 2021
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?)

When I read articles like these by ex-Brahmins (?) suffering with some strange (1/)
harpersbazaar.com/culture/politi…
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/)
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