Full of nonsensical tropes about India that Indian "seculars" peddle doing their monkey dance for a White audience.

I blame the West for choosing such "interlocutors" who are unable to explain or represent India, but feed West's ignorance and stereotypes—no one is wiser for it.
The joke's on @nytimes, @wsj @washingtonpost etc. When they get the Nandy/s, Dhume/s, Ayyub/s to write for you, do they realize they're being peddled comforting junk by people who have no clue about India?

Do you prefer wilful ignorance to understanding a major civilization?
I'm not seeking approval from the West. I've lived here for years, having them as my co-workers and employees.

I'm merely amused at their ignorance in choosing such people. Ultimately they lose in failing to understand what is happening in India.

Yes, their desire for fabricated atrocity narratives about the "third world" are like their binging on junk food.

That bag of lard-fried potato chips, the kind the Nandy/s, Dhume/s dish out, makes them "feel good" while prepping for a heart attack.

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12 Oct
Women in Britain couldn't own property till the late 19th century, while British "civilized" us.

In India they made property tradeable and by law only males could inherit it. (same with kingdoms). This made a male child imperative—which they then blamed on "backward Hinduism."
The wealth of women was transferred from mother to daughter, as "stridhan." Rural land was generally not tradeable. So a large part of movable wealth was controlled by women.

This stridhan was unlike "dowry" given to men which was a European custom.

Even after "stridhan" went away, "dowry" is a form of inheritance which is paid to the daughter during wedding, rather than at death.

In India, stridhan always belonged to women. Even today parents will say "we will give what we want to the daughter."

byuprideandprejudice.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/mar….
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7 Oct
For decades the Congress party has been the slaughter + riots party in India.

On the streets it would shed blood for political polarization and machination, for media and academia it would be suave as it cultivated "liberal" darbaris to demonize "Hindutva" for its violence.
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25 Sep
I had an idea for a novel about a girl who wears saris to college, and is teased for it. But her confidence and #SareeSwag starts a new trend of #SariCool.

This is what I had in mind. :D

Anyone wants to write this novel? I have a story outline and an in with a good publisher.😀
Unfortunately my writing and editing schedule is chock-full right now. But if there are good writers of fiction or nonfiction who are willing to work hard, I have a number of ideas we could collaborate on.

Yes, that is what I am mostly busy with though await my historical fiction novel coming up that has been in the works for about 12 years. 😌

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23 Sep
Actually nowhere in the democratic world does the judiciary appoint its own successors. Only in the farcical Indian "collegium" system where the judiciary has captured power on its own accord, and turned the Supreme Court into a hereditary autocracy.
Nothing "fair" about it. The people, and their representatives, are supreme in a democracy. Without the people having the power to change judges, and this power being held by a small exclusive elite unelected coterie, it is simply judicial dictatorship.

Who gave judges the power to overrule the people without any checks on them? Yes, there is an elite which is deeply suspicious of democracy and prefer judges in the British lineage, lords with no accountability, but that is not called democracy.

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23 Sep
What BS. Europe did not “rediscover” anything. Even Fibonacci clearly says his mathematics is from India as do the Arabs.

Later Europeans simply erased origins. This is the only thing the Church is good at—stealing. They couldn’t acknowledge non-White “pagan” origins.
The upcoming @GarudaPrakashan book on “Hindu mathematics” from @MeruPrastara will completely demolish this.

Even the examples and numbers they used for their “rediscovery” were identical to Indian texts. They were not even smart enough to change them while stealing.
India did not understand the totalitarian nature of #ChristoIslam.

Native civilizations perished since they did not realize the nature of religion . We still don’t.

For #ChristoIslam all treaties were meant to be broken vs प्राण जाही पर वचन ना जाही।

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23 Sep
It is a pincer attack. First plan riots with heavy Islamic funding. Then manage narrative internationally how riots were a "pogrom" against Muslims.

History gets rewritten in front of our eyes. Happened for #Gujarat2002.

This is why the desperation to kill #DelhiRiots2020 book.
When the media's paycheck depends on spin, be sure that they will spin. And so far they have succeeded because Hindus invest in temples not scholarship or narratives. @RajivMessage has been talking about this for years.

Why a small eBook. Let us do a proper book. Has someone even documented the victims properly? Has someone documented the victims of the karsevak massacre by Mulayam?

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