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9 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The injustice is that Indian judiciary seeks “essential practices”for defining Hindu traditions and refuses to give the status of “denominations” to various Sampradāyas.

In reality, Hinduism is exactly the opposite. All its Sampradāyas are distinct and respected by each other.
This misunderstanding about Hinduism in the Indian law is intentional, and stems from the colonialist agenda of rebuilding India under the covenant of the Bible.

This injustice cannot be corrected until India’s constitution is rewritten with the primary copy in Indian languages.
It is absurd that we are forced to explain what Sampradāyas are, what Dharma is, what Yajña is.. and so on to an entity which refuses to conduct its proceedings in any language except English. How does English have the equivalents for Indic terms and traditions? It doesn’t.
Essentially, there is no alternative for Hindus in India except to suffer under the weight of the colonial reformist agenda for Hinduism. This will remain the case until the Indian constitution is rewritten with primacy to Indian languages. The primary text cannot be in English.

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11 Aug
Varna has a meaning only in the context of Yajña, that is collective consciousness and voluntary sharing at the societal and universal level. It is exactly the opposite of individualism. It cannot exist cannot be defined in isolation. Varna implies harmony and mutual cooperation.
There are 4 Varnas as there are 4 Purushārthas. Each Varna is focused on the attainment of one of the Purushārthas. By cooperating as a society, we achieve all of them. This is why it is impossible to separate Varna from the fundamental tenets and ideals of Indian philosophy.
If the Jātis are defined in isolation, it is a recipe for the breaking up of society, a voiding of the social contract that kept them together at the level of shared consciousness. Hence, it is Adharmic. We must get rid of this system “caste” imposed on us by the colonialists.
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8 Aug
All of our minstrels, acrobats, bards, musicians and dancers are reduced to the dust and the heat of the street, motor vehicles rushing by and nobody listening to their song.

These people made our memories and thus our identity. Without them, we don’t exist as a people.
We need a strategy to survive as a civilization. The key to this are these communities of Bhikshā vRtti भिक्षावृत्ति who are traditionally recognized and patronized in our villages.

They are made non-existent by centuries of colonial assault, which warped our sensibilities.
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2 Aug
The EU countries have a functional decentralized judiciary that effectively and rapidly resolves disputes and ensures the writ of law. So they can have massive language overhead at the top and deliberate on the tricky cases.

In India, we only have the pretense of Justice.
Until the judiciary is decolonized and forced into Indian languages, we cannot reform our country. Forget about developing a state superstructure in Jambūdvīpa. The English case law is a serious liability. The Judiciary is the most colonized institution in India.
The alternatives are staring at us in the face. Historically and traditionally, we had decentralized and democratized dispute resolution systems - the Panchāyats. We must revive them. We must ban the use of English in courts. The judicial College must be junked.
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21 Jul
This is stupid activism, stemming entirely from the horribly wrong and racist Dravidian theory of languages. Telugu has been mutilated and crippled by centuries of this dumb linguistic activism, and the results are now very clearly seen in the pathetic state of the language.
In this thread, I discussed the nature of Telugu language and hike the racist Dravidian theory disjointed the very heart of the language: Tatsama and Tadbhava words. A language without a beating heart is dead, which is what they seek to achieve for Telugu.
In this thread, I discussed the putrid racist theories of Bishop Robert Caldwell, and how they informed the bone-headed Dravidian theory of languages.
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20 Jul
Apparently, this random list of numbers is what makes for an investigation! This includes the IT minister of India, Mr. Ashwini Vaishnaw who just rebutted this story in the Indian parliament that India doesn’t / can’t conduct holistic surveillance due to specific Indian laws.
It is possible that there is spying operations being conducted internationally. Whether by India’s friends or enemies. Who knows for what ends! Blaming this on India’s elected government with no evidence whatsoever is simply calumny and external interference in Indian democracy.
My opinion on this whole Pegasus bullshit is,

1) Surveillance tech is getting cheaper. Smaller states and even non state actors can do this.
2) States with open legal and democratic processes cannot do this as widely as other states.
3) Imperial spylords now have competition.
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20 Jul
Nice thread that punctures another dumbass theory from the denatured Anglophone class of India. I used to think we must #decolonize our languages. But looking at stupidity of this order, I think we must #demlecchify our languages.

Demlecchification: निर्म्लेच्छीकरण
Mlecchification: म्लेच्छीकरण : the continuous process of turning braindead about Indian culture and identity, through thinking in foreign Mleccha idiom and vocabulary. This is the natural consequence of colonial history in India.
It seems nobody was sneezing in India before the Mleccha occupation. This is the level of Mlecchification in some people's heads.

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