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14 Nov, 9 tweets, 2 min read
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After Uttar Pradesh, Haryana is embracing the 'bandwagon effect' of laws against love jihad. Other states will follow the chain too.

The law is not in sync with Article 25 of the Indian Constitution, in the first place, & it's tuned to Modi's political philosophy.

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Secondly, the ramification of this abhorrent and misogynical law will disdain (and discourage) women to make inform and free choices for herself. No doubt the philosophy of this law is stemmed from Manusmriti's thoughts over women's rights.

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1st of all, it's not government's business to tell us whom we shld marry or not. If there's coercion involved in such special marriages, then let the courts or law take up the matter. What gives govt. the right to state "Your Ram Naam Satya journey will begin" so blatantly?

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Already the case of intercaste marriages is stagnant [even in urban sphere], despite India achieving Independence in 1947. The law, as seen in the cases of Tanishq Ad controversy, will beget the culture of acquiesce, hatred, lynching and also honor killings.

For example:
In UP itself, as recently as 2015-16, a state-wide survey by Population Council reports that as many as 40 percent of young married girls did not participate at all in the decision on when and whom to marry, while 51 percent simply acquiesced to their parents’ wish.

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They were typically shown a photograph of the prospective groom, told that ‘he is from a good family’, or felt it was their duty to obey their parents. Just 8% made their own decisions. In short, few girls and young women in Uttar Pradesh make informed decisions...

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...and as a result, almost three in five (57 percent) met their husband for the very first time on the wedding day.

It's known how Indian parenting fails in sensitizing rights, liberties and privacy. Most of them, instead, sanitize than emancipate the liberal mindset.

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The law against love jihad is basically and unconstitutionally a political law against intercaste marriages in general. The buck would not stop at Hindu-Muslim marriage system. The law will have implications against non-Hindu girls marrying even Hindu men.

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It's 2020. India. Instead of promoting democratic credentials & intercaste marriages, the govt. & sheeples are normalizing oppressive & regressive thinking. Some imbeciles would highlight few bad apples to justify the law's statism but tht doesn't sets a good precedent et al

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14 Nov
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Ram 'lynched' shudra sage Shambukha.

[Reference: Valmiki Ramayana, Book 7, the 'Uttarakanda' (Final Chapter), sargas 73-76]

The 'casteist' story is not popularly known in the circles, for all the political reasons that you and me subconsciously know.
(73) When Rama is reigning as a virtuous king, a humble aged Brahmin comes to him, weeping, with his dead son in his arms.

He says that Rama must have committed some sin, or else his son would not have died.

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(74) The sage Narada explains to Rama that a Shudra is practicing penances, and this is the cause of the child's death.

(75) Rama goes on a tour of inspection in his flying chariot, and finds an ascetic doing austerities, and asks who he is.

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13 Nov
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Indian voters won't vote for coherent issues, in 2024, because they are shifted to that overton window wherein religious consciousness would matter. The current regime has a proactive PR machineries, which even integrated opposition parties can't imagine to possess.

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Logical fallacies, as posited by the so-called opposition parties, alone would not influence the behavioral pattern on EVMs. Let's keep it straight and honest.

It's the narratives that matter in the upcoming landscape. The opposition parties may do regionally well but...

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they don't possess a sound blueprint to counter the nation's 'new' narratives grounded in the issues like Pakistan-bashing, Islamophobia, Kashmir, Ram temple movt. & soldiers. This shit is real. Accept it.

Cautiously, through other issues, even a rhetoric to refute them...

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15 Oct
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Non-Buddhists, especially Hindus, often certify that Ambedkarite Buddhism is NOT #Buddhism.

First of all, nobody asked for their 'opinion'.

Second thing, Buddhism is flexible and liberal enough to alter as per the consciousness of epoch.

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Third thing, Ambedkarite Buddhism is a school of thought in the branch of #Buddhism. There's no dire need for any 'internationally accredited' agency to validate this sect.

It's just another extension to the organic growth of Buddhist philosophy.
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Ambedkarite Buddhism is an outcome, from the years of racism, discrimination and hatred, faced by the dalits, atishudras or untouchables.

Read to know how Ambedkarite Buddhists have progressed, compared to Hindu dalits: medium.com/@jaiminism/why…
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