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I read Kipling’s “Her Majesty’s Servants” from his “Jungle Book” and hated him immediately. I didn’t know any damn thing about the writer when I picked up that book as a child. But I already sensed the deep racism and colonialist tropes. I don’t know how people can ignore them.
Also, the putrid racism of “Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom” was outdone by Kipling, the very Master of racist tropes, in his “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”.

I don’t know how such abject racism was ignored by generations of readers.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phant…
Kipling peppered racist stereotypes and tropes all through his books, including his “Just So Stories” for children.
Kipling’s attitudes were part and parcel of the upper class British Gentlemen of the Empire. They were nurtured by reams of “scholarship” of the most putrid racist kind, like that of Bishop Robert Caldwell.

None of this has been decolonized in the legacy of British scholarship.

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20 Mar
A shoddy imposition of Nehruvian follies in history onto the seat of one of the great powers of Indian civilization: Kalinga. The Ashokan war was just a tiny blip in the long history of Kalinga. If they are building fancy monuments, why not build things that celebrate Kalinga?
By the way, Xuan Zhang doesn’t mention the Kalinga war when he was describing Kalinga in his travel memoirs. He was a Buddhist pilgrim. He recounts all sorts of tales and historical accounts that were important for Buddhism. But the Kalinga war doesn’t appear. It’s a modern myth.
The whole myth about Ashoka’s repentance after Kalinga war was cooked up after some inscriptions were deciphered haphazardly during British Raj. It’s a filmsy incomplete history that was imposed on India by a modern emperor who saw himself as the reincarnation of Ashoka: Nehru.
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19 Mar
We should just junk the whole Bauhaus movement. It is a fricking old fad. Some 100 years old already. We have to use the current technologies and capabilities: computational modeling, 3D reconstruction, generative design by AI .. and connect all that to Indic motifs and patterns.
Any architecture that is made for India has to integrate into the Indic context (climate, culture, history and so on). Architecture is not a giant dildo that is to be sculpted onto the land out of the folly our colonial masters. We have been almost 75 years independent for that.
Copying a culturally decontextualized Bauhaus design into India is stupid beyond imagination. There was once a point for Bauhaus, when it started in Germany. It was part of a trend in European science: structuralism, information theory, breaking things into elementary parts etc.
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19 Mar
Spectacular?

Does it look anything like it fits into Indian geography or history?

Why are making such buildings as some form of a shopping mall look-alikes? I wish there is an authentic Indian school of architecture. It is sad to see cheap knock-offs of US suburbia in India.
Most of India is a tropical wet or semi-arid jungle. Why don't we build gardens that suit our geography? It doesn't make any sense to make trimmed lawns with grass.

Indian gardens traditionally had cooling pools filled with lotuses. Large bowers of flowering trees can grow here.
It is ridiculous to ape a steppe landscape in the middle of tropical India. There are places where such gardens make sense, like Himalayan meadows. But not in Bengaluru ! Why don't people first check the latitude of the place!? There is so many fantastic trees that can grow here.
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19 Mar
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8 Feb
In this thread, I will discuss the serious misinformation about India in the media of its allies, specifically France (one of the strongest allies today for India). I will show that this rot is very deep and can only be fixed by translating Indian language media (not English).
I am seriously committed to building strong links between India and the west, owing to my personal life situation. I have family who are US citizens and who are European citizens. I lived almost half my life in Europe. So I cannot bear to see the divergence of reality in media.
The media disinformation on India has always been bad, but it has become markedly worse in the last months. Here is a reportage in ARTE about the government of India, painting it as a fascist state. It is a popular European show on geopolitics. (In French)
arte.tv/fr/videos/0988…
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8 Feb
Oh, how much I wish we have a functional and sensible political opposition in India. A democracy without an opposition with a brain will only be a weak democracy. This is getting to be a serious problem for India. :(
Why did it come down to this? Serious corruption and nepotism in the Indian National Congress party. Imagine if this party had a working functional internal democracy. We can only dream. ☹️😕
A functional opposition at the national level can only be brought by a national party. Not a random coalition of regional parties that changes in each election season.

If the parties are serious about building democracy, they should come together and create a national party.
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