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19 Oct, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Imagine an Indian education system geared to transmission of knowledge and natural apprenticeship-based learning.

This is an adaptation to State's #EnglishApartheid, where a child cannot learn to be a doctor in their language and serve their village.

I've been fighting for this for years, but the ones in power have turned a deaf year. Change can happen but the govt is itself obsessed with English. Even the #NEP has no focus on professional education in #IndianLanguages.

Instead what does our system do? It tell the child he or she cannot be a doctor using #IndianLanguages. To be a doctor one must go to medical school, which is only in English. One must spend lakhs and get "certified." And after that the doctor must charge lakhs to recover that.
Then the govt wrings its hands that there are no doctors to serve in villages, while its own #EnglishApartheid system prevents that from happening.
Do you know that the govt mandates that even Ayurveda be taught in English even though original texts are in Sanskrit? It literally forces English down people's throats.

Yes, the modern state and central-authority based medical system replicates the Church. Any decentralized learning is "heresy", without stamp of authority they will be judged "quacks", even thrown in jail for practising healing without "authority."

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PK was an out and out Islamist film with a full-on attack on Hindu traditions, a subtle attack on Christianity, covered up with some very mild humor about Muslims.

Enough for members my family to say "it mocked everyone." No it didn't. Let me explain. 1/

Its core themes:

1. Murti puja is a fraud (with elaborate scenes of this). Why? Because it is a fraud by Islamic theology.

2. Gurus are a fraud (the biggest theme in the movie), using the concept of "wrong number." What is "wrong number"—you must not have partners of Allah.

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It also directly attacks and mocks Hindu symbols

1. It directly uses and mocks the singing of Om Jai Jagdish Hare, a popular element of Bhakti

2. It mocks and caricatures Shiva as an actor, showing him as a cowardly fraud.

It directly attacks symbols of no other religion.
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19 Oct
Thousands rally in France after beheading of a teacher. PM Macron called out Islamic terror.

India buried news of Priya's beheading recently on refusing to convert to Islam. Kamlesh Tiwari's killer is free. PM @narendramodi didn't even mention either.

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Does anyone remember the name of the athlete who was married and pressured to convert?

Perhaps she needs to write a book.
Anyone have contact info for Tara Sahdev? Her story needs telling.

What is seen in many of these stories is how the Muslim women family members of the perpetrators are collaborators in the conversion war.

Like #ISIS women held down #Yezidi children and young girls to be raped by jihadi men, even their husbands.

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13 Oct
Open challenge to claims that inter-religious sexual violence "runs both ways."

Find instances where a Muslim girl is raped by a Hindu to force-convert to Hinduism.

For every such, I'll offer 2, where a Hindu girl is raped by a Muslim/forced to convert. See who runs out first.
And this violence is when it is a so-called "minority." For what happens with majority status, just check situation of Hindu girls in Pakistan.

And the entire "secular" discourse acts to aid and abet sexual violence by Islamic predators who are driven by the belief that conversion will get them to "heaven" and #RapeJihad is a legitimate act in the eyes of their god.

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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."

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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.

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