Absolutely, स्वतंत्रता is meaningless without स्वराज्य. स्वराज्य is meaningless without स्वाभिमान.
Without these, we stayed a semi-colony, prioritising foreign approval and acceptance over the economic, social, spiritual, moral, political revival of a traumatised civilisation.
Without these, we stayed a semi-colony, prioritising foreign approval and acceptance over the economic, social, spiritual, moral, political revival of a traumatised civilisation.
https://twitter.com/subhash_kak/status/1381798326144790534
The post-colonial elite were rewarded by the British for their role as a "managed opposition", inheriting the sadistic tools of the Raj.
Creating a patronage-based state - renting feudal satraps, journalists, academics, to protect their power from the aspirations of the people.
Creating a patronage-based state - renting feudal satraps, journalists, academics, to protect their power from the aspirations of the people.
Without massive constitutional, administrative, judicial, police, and educational reforms, we will remain a semi-feudal society and semi-colonial polity.
Sleepwalking into another partition, civil war, and Balkanisation that others have planned, regardless of who wins elections.
Sleepwalking into another partition, civil war, and Balkanisation that others have planned, regardless of who wins elections.
We can dream beautiful dreams, but it is meaningless, without the tools to bring them to life.
"Doing our best" is not enough, we must do what is needed.
Our institutions are designed to keep us a semi-colony.
We must replace them before they collapse.
"Doing our best" is not enough, we must do what is needed.
Our institutions are designed to keep us a semi-colony.
We must replace them before they collapse.
https://twitter.com/ruchirsharma_1/status/1343868018225541121?s=19
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