Remember the Modi Govt has put disproportionate emphasis on religion-based schemes and scholarships to enable more such fundamentalists.
Some people get upset when I criticize religious discrimination by the BJP Govt.

If appeasement and “pseudo-secularism” is bad when done by the Congress it doesn’t suddenly get good when the BJP does it. Both must be called out.
The so-called "minority" budget has been increased exponentially under the Modi govt. "Minority" is a euphemism for non-Hindu or Hindu exclusion. All these schemes do a religion test to exclude Hindus.

Is documented in my article above in thread also.

swarajyamag.com/ideas/seculari…
Hindus have been conditioned to accept discrimination by the State under the pretext of majority-minority. But the massive Hindu-excluding religious discriminatory schemes that India has, and BJP expanded, exist in no other major democracy. It's a scam.

Rather than get stuck in bogus logic of "defining who is a minority" we should ask for the repeal of all discrimination by the state on the basis of religious identity.

Muslims and Christians were erstwhile rulers and colonizers of Hindus. To say that they have "the first right on resources" is like saying that minority Whites in South Africa have "the first right on resources."

It is a continued form of apartheid.

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28 Sep
A big underlying assumption coming from Abrahamic-origin thinking is the myth of linear progress. Ancient inventions are scoffed at is because they violate the idea of linear progress.

But is progress really linear? Do new generation always build on the knowledge of old? 1/
If you look at nature, everything is cyclical. Life is cyclical, seasons, growth of plants, water cycle, planetary orbits. There is no linearity. We talk of economic cycles. Is knowledge linear or cyclical. What is its periodicity?

Pyramids were built perhaps 5000 years ago.
Now, whenever the pyramids were built, it is clear that later generations did not know how they were built. The Egyptians of 1000 years ago could not build the pyramids nor did they know how they were built. Scientists still don't know fully.

Clearly knowledge was *lost*. 3/
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27 Sep
Remembered visiting this incredible Shiv Temple in Bhojpur.

If we were not still rules by a colonial state all these places vandalized by invaders would be restored to Hindus.

Invaders destroyed and the colonial state denies. Image
Hindus are not allowed to perform their rituals here. They persist sometimes but offerings are barred and removed.

Colonial State tramples on basic indigenous rights. Image
No, the Shiv Linga is intact. Image
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26 Sep
Hardly want to send any views to the propaganda site Wire, but this article is hilarious in its contortions at Islamic hagiography (is this a full time occupation of “South Asian Studies” now?)

First they argue that Mughal Temple destruction was due to “secular” reasons… 1/
Then @CMarrewa spins away all that to claim how tolerant Mughals were in giving grants to the Nath Yogis.

When it is evident even in her examples that this is not due to any “religious ecumenism” but wanting favors like cures (Mercury concoctions.)

2/
Naths were powerful, both as ascetics and as a militant force. Mughals were currying favor with them with grants while they destroyed other Hindu temples when they could.

This doesn’t make the Mughals “great”, they were simply trying to ingratiate themselves.
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26 Sep
Who said White imperialism is over?

It is especially bred in that CIA-originated “South Asian Studies” departments. They have also mastered the use of sepoys.
These are largely toxic front organizations with no community support. Attacking “Hindutva” by these toxic front orgs is a fig-leaf for the eradication of Hindus which is part of the agenda of religious and cultural imperialism that the likes of @CMarrewa support.
Read "The Compromised Campus." A lot of the "area studies" departments were setup with State Department assistance as a way to "study" the other for imperial utility.
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16 Sep
Two concepts. Mehr or bride-price and stridhan or "dowry."

As Oldenburg documents in the book "Dowry Murder" it is bride price/mehr where women have low status. They are like purchased commodities.

Stridhan is women's wealth. Early inheritance. Raises status. Dowry is European.
I already referred you to a book. India had Stridhan, moveable property that was controlled and passed on via women. This was changed in colonial rule as land become tradeable and women disinherited in property.

Mehr is commodification of women.

Dowry was a European custom and distortion introduced to India. But even today people parents will say "hamari ladki hai, jo hamara man karega, vo usko denge." The meaning of "dowry" in India as stridhan. inheritance of a woman, needs to to be restored. It belongs to her.
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12 Sep
Did a Yoga Teacher Trainer Refresher at the @AolRetreat center in Boone NC.

Learned so much and thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful setting.

Highly recommend the Teacher Training for those who seek to deepen their Yoga practice. Image
Some pictures: ImageImageImageImage
Shall I teach a beginner online yoga class?
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