Which thoughts are those, @MinOfCultureGoI? The one where he said the Nazi purge of Jews was something India "should learn and profit from"? Or - there's more, see thread.
Golwalkar: Muslims, Christians "must lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges —not even citizen’s rights." These his profound thoughts @MinOfCultureGoI?
Read Golwalkar's "Bunch of Thoughts" whom @MinOfCultureGoI is celebrating today. He said Sikh, Buddhist, Tamil, Dravidian, Dalit, OBC, feminist identities and causes were all anti national, divisive. He celebrated Islamophobic bigotry as national sentiment.
The openly Nazi stuff of Golwalkar is in We, Or Our Nationhood Defined" that RSS claims to have distanced itself from. But Bunch of Thoughts is an RSS bible, and that itself is chock full of fascist stuff. India's Culture Ministry under Modi is hailing him as "inspiration".
Golwalkar in Bunch of Thoughts: “The Hindu in Bharat can never be termed “communal”….The national life-values of Bharat are indeed derived from the life of Hindus. As such he is the "national" here, and never “communal”. (ibid p 344) Who then was communal?
Golwalkar elaborated on seven forms of communalism, including the communalism of groups that held on to a non-Hindu identity - i.e the Muslims and Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists. Why Sikhs and Buddhists? Because they refused to identify as Hindu!
Golwalkar, BoT: Sikhs & Buddhists were also communal, because they had once belonged to Hindu society but later “began to consider themselves as being different from Hindu samaj and dharma, and who on that premise demand separate and exclusive political and economic privileges…”
Golwalkar in BoT identified Tamil parties like Dravida Kazhagam & Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as communal because they asserted the linguistic & cultural distinctness of the Tamil people and the backward castes. @CMOTamilNadu that's who your pal the central Govt sees as inspiration
Golwalkar also counted as ‘communal’, “those who rouse controversies in the name of "touchability" and "untouchability", "Brahmin" and "non-Brahmin" and fan hatred, enmity, selfishness, and demands for special privileges” - i.e the Dalits & backward castes.(BoT p 346-47)
Golwalkar condemned reservations as “divisive talk”: “We must cry a complete halt to forming groups based on caste, creed, etc., & demanding rights & privileges in services, financial aids, admission in educational institutions and all such other fields. (Bunch of Thoughts p 351)
Golwalkar: “There is now a clamour for 'equality for women', 'emancipation from man's domination'! Reservation in positions of power is being claimed on basis of their sex, thus adding one more 'ism'-'sexism!'- to the array of casteism, communalism, linguism, etc. (BoT p 253)
Hey @MinOfCultureGoI clarify if you find Golwalkar's thoughts against Sikh, Buddhist identity, against SC, OBC reservations & women's equality & emancipation, to be an inspiration? We know @narendramodi keeps repeating Golwalkar, that the Hindu can never be communal, terrorist.
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Please read the thread by @AudreyTruschke, and this one by me. The verdict that convicted Mahmood Farooqui of rape was a landmark one like the #PriyaRamani one of yesterday. The Feeble No verdict that overturned it is an affront to our legal system.
I had in mind the Farooqui case when I wrote yesterday about "campaigns (across political aisles) claiming that the amendments to India’s sexual violence laws in 2013 are “draconian” when applied to privileged men." indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Remember, men's reputations survive even rape convictions. They survive even when the man has argued in trial court that he did not touch the woman, to turn around & be acquitted in the HC on the basis that he assumed she consented since her No was too feeble.
Golwalkar in his own words - from Bunch of Thoughts, the RSS manifesto. @MinOfCultureGoI these are the ideas you're celebrating. @AmbLindnerIndia these are what you bowed to in Nagpur. These are the views which underpin Modi Govt policy.
For Golwalkar, Hindu = national, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Dalit, OBC, feminist, Tamil, Kannada, Manipuri etc = communal, separatist.
Golwalkar celebrated Islamophobic bigotry, decried calls for Hindu-Muslim unity
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Read this for some context of systemic sexual violence in conflict areas where there's virtually military rule theleaflet.in/major-gogoi-an…
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Likewise, members of the Elgar Parishad, who formed an anti fascist front and held a peaceful event which was attacked by far-right mobs, have been in jail for 3 years + now, accused of vague "conspiracies". In India under Modi, any plans to protest = conspiracy.
Meanwhile the @DelhiPolice did not even touch far-right Hindu supremacist hatemongers who instigated people to shoot Muslims & anti CAA protestors, and led rioting mobs to kill Muslims last year. Did not touch RW mobs that entered JNU campus, broke skulls of students & teachers
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9 journalists face sedition & other criminal charges, for reporting on questions #NavreetSingh's family have about his death. The same lot that spent weeks claiming Sushant Singh Rajput's death was murder not suicide, brands it sedition to ask questions about Navreet's death!
Video footage, postmortem show a huge hole under Navreet's lip, and another one behind his ear on the other side, with brain matter spilling out. Gee, what could possibly explain two round holes on opposite sides of the head 🤔. Why prevent journalists from asking the obvious?
It's the shrug in this tweet that is part of the problem. If you share the survey minus a context where you explain how constitutional morality (as opposed to majoritarian morality) is supposed to work in law-making & life, you make the results seem like a mandate. #journalism
Such findings are not surprising. What @IndiaToday@sardesairajdeep could do for context for eg: discuss SARI surveys which found that most Indians across caste lines want intercaste marriage outlawed. No govt said that's a mandate for such laws? Why not? thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…
SARI surveys, which are high on context & analysis not clickbait, also found that a majority practices untouchability. That is not a mandate for legalising untouchability, and that needs to be underscored, explained when shared in media @IndiaToday scroll.in/latest/864755/…