Sarted reading the second volume of @vikramsampath 'a magnum opus on Veer Savarkar. His conv with Shaukat Ali of Khilafat fame is eye opening. SA wants Savarkar to give up his Hindu Sanghathan for unity. This conversation could be happening right now!. Look at SA's brazenness
"MUslims have been converting Hindus for a long time. Whereas the Shuddhi ceremony is new. So Hibdus should give it up" is the thrist of his argument.
Basically, Mera kutta Tommy, Tuadda kutta kutta
Isnt this the same conversation the India RW and the Leftists/Islamists are having today?
Nothing has changed in a 100 years. The same riots. Music played before mosques by Hindus. Sunni- Shia riots.
Instead of Pandit MA Chamupati then, it is Kamalesh Tiwari now.
One could use this same argument in the context of the #CAA and #Afghanistan . In fact, many Indians are making this exact same argument. Nearly a 100 years apart! #Savarkar#Kabul
Breaking caste barriers!. Words of NC Kelkar, ex RSS Chief. Not quite fascist eh?
The Hibdu Mahasabha spoke of eradicating child marriage, polygamy, widow remarriage, female illiteracy.
Not quite the #Talibans#Taliban eh folks? Cant believe the bad rep that the RSS has got!
#VeerSavarkar 's definition of a Hindu. Nothing communal about it is there?
#VeerSavarkar articulating his ideas on the 7 shackles of Hinduism. I camt disagree with a single one of them.
Why is he considered a conservative and a fascist again???
Savarkar's way of breaking caste was to get everyone to wear the sacred thread. Ramaswamy Naicker was nihilistic in his approach and that has continued in TN fown the ages with all the thread cutting etc.
I prefer Savarkar's approach.
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Watched a short feature on how the "pagan" Roman Empire became Christian. Some very interesting lessons there for Hindus.
Christianity initially spread, apparently, through Paul and through his trading networks. He also targeted women converts. 1/n
They slowly converted and kept their heads down. This did lead to families getting divided since Christianity had the US vs Them mentality. So Christian converts in families would look askance at their non-Christian family.
Sounds familiar? 2/n
Then there is the Great Plague in the 2nd Century CE. The Chrisitians use that to provide "social service networks" and get more converts that way.
Reminds anyone of what happened after the Tsunami?
3/n
OK.. a small primer in golf for those struggling to understand it.
A golf course has 18 holes. So a "round of golf" is playing those 18 holes. In tournaments, they play 4 rounds of golf so a total of 72 holes.
Each hole has a par score attached to it. 1/n
The par score is the number of shots that a professional golfer is expected to go from the tee shot (the first shot) to sinking the ball into the cup (or hole) on the green (that flat piece of land with the hole and the flag).
2/n
The par score depends on:
a) DIstance from tee to whole
b) the difficulty of the course
Usual pars are 3,4 or 5.
So a par 4 hole means that you are supposed to take 4 shots to get the ball from the tee, into the cup. 3/n