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20 Oct, 19 tweets, 8 min read
Now if only Hindus on Twitter had a way to influence govt policy.

Like, to fix toxic textbooks after 7 years, for instance.
UPA, with a minority govt, in months changed NDA-era textbooks and rewrote them for an anti-Hindu, pro-#ChristoIslam, slant. That's focus.

And BJP govt is still looking for "evidence", 7 years later? Like Pakistan keeps asking for "evidence" to act?

Here is a detailed study by @AtriNeeraj . Facts are well-documented. But there is no will to act.

garudabooks.com/brainwashed-re…
Please tell me what has been done to fix NCERT textbooks.

I have spoken with people at NCERT, the answer is still "nothing." It doesn't take 7 years, if there is intent. The rest is just stalling.

UPA constituted a committee within months and changed.

I'm not at all averse to engaging. I met everyone in the govt I could for a better language policy. There are some small steps happening there.

But I don't call starting a "commission" after 7 years being serious. How soon did UPA start Teesta committee?
The govt had started a language policy commission under Prof Kapil Kapoor. I was asked to formally give input. Then the govt shelved the entire report. Years later, small steps in NEP. Even for that I sent many written suggestions.

Will be happy to engage with NCF as well.
The UPA setup a Committee, with Teesta, under HRD called Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE).

It had already given its report by 2005, within a year of UPA coming to power. NDA textbooks were "communal", needed to be changed. @alok_bhatt

education.gov.in/sites/upload_f…
The members of CABE (below) were working with a clear directive. Today's toxic textbooks are the result of this completely anti-Hindu agenda.

BJP has allowed these to continue for 15+ years, without protest, in and out of power. Now they've started an "udaar" NCF committee.
Please see the report PDF above. It is from 2005. CABE, with Teesta, did not start in 2013.

Javedkar was not acting on his own. When he said he didn't change anything, it is likely what he'd been told to do exactly that. It shows.

It's not all over the place.

1. UPA, even in minority, had a laser focus on its cultural agenda. By 2005, CABE had recommended the curriculum revision they wanted.

2. BJP simply does not have that focus, despite its claim to stand for Indic culture.

I'm evaluating on outcomes, not committees.

The UPA managed to throw out all NDA textbooks and replace them with anti-Hindu textbooks within 2 years of coming to power. They started a commission for it in months. That's focus.

And NDA with 300+ seats?

I'd criticized the BJP govt even in 2016 for not acting. Reponse was the same then.

Why is the 2005 NCF still there?

It's not about being positive. If we don't pressure the govt, the only pressure will be from "seculars." And they'll keep appeasing.

A committee will cite prior work as part of its terms of reference. V P Singh dusted up an old Mandal report to further his agenda.

But ruling dispensations set the agenda. Commissions are setup to justify it. UPA acted fast. BJP hasn't learnt this yet?

No, Teesta is not part of CABE. But her textbooks are still indoctrinating children 15 years later. What influence!

Why was it not possible to make an executive decision to reinstate MM Joshi's textbooks, while all these committees figure out what to do.

I've not shifted the goalpost even once. UPA managed to changed the entire set of textbooks in a short time on coming to power. Why has NDA govt been so slow? Left understands how to control people via education. BJP is still asking "problem kya hai?"

See, 7 years later, still asking for "suggestions" ki "problem kya hai."

UPA understood their problem before coming to power and even fixed it in 2 yrs.

Big reforms in education need to happen. #NEP is still lame. But textbooks were a fire to put out.

The govt itself is not clear. It went through several #NEPs. Even the current one is quite flawed.

The problem is with the process and the approach. All this was not needed to fix textbooks. It could happen in parallel.

"Panned by majority"? No, only by a section of "secular" media, which will keep attacking the BJP for the goal to convert India to #ChristoIslam. You think you will "please" and "win them over"? This is the biggest flaw and weakness.

Lol. And what did that "majority in education" say about the absolutely harmful and toxic changes the UPA did? No protests, right? At least let us be awake to the narrative building and agendas.

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It starts from "convent" education. Rather than joyous colors of Indian culture, all signs of culture are forcefully removed. Bindis are not allowed, traditional garb is not allowed.

It is a subtle way to indoctrinate. Girls punished for Bindi, Mehndi, choooriyan.
In the Americas, native children were forcibly put into Christian boarding schools and stripped off their language and culture.

In India, we did it to ourselves. Aided by State policy which restricts Hindu schools but leaves non-Hindu schools free.

The #NoBindiNoBusiness trend would be even better if applied to schools. That is where it begins.

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My father was a “modernist.” He wanted his family to follow the latest research.

So we switched ghee for Dalda—hydrogenated vegetable oil—because “Science” said so.

Except, 20 years later, Science said the opposite. This is why tradition is a better guide on how to live.
See my thread on why tradition may be a better bet for living life than the latest scientific theory.
I wonder how much of the rise in diabetes in India is linked to this modern science.

People stopped putting ghee on rotis shifting calories from good fat to gluten-filled carbs.
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Can you tell me what the “fundamentals” of Hinduism are and where they are defined. 😆

To counter fundamentalisms you must have fundamentals, no. Define them for Hinduism and then we can debate them.
Not very rational, are you? Some random tweet is the “fundamentals” of Hinduism? 😆

At least learn to think and construct an argument. Or read @mariawirth1’s article for a start. 😏
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We are enamored of Western "advancement." But till the 19th century, and even later, the West was very primitive in understanding basic health and hygiene. They didn't "civilize" natives, but vice versa as they copied knowledge from those they colonized.

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Most of Europe was a filthy dump, rife with poverty and disease. No wonder their biggest weapon against Native Americans was the diseases they brought from Europe.

It is only after massive transfer of wealth from loot of colonies that get basic civics.

Incas, Aztecs were more advanced than their European conquerors.

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The issue of Savarkar's "mercy petitions" is so overblown. While Gandhi/Nehru got cushy jails, since they were no real threat, Savarkar got Kaala Paani, hard labor and torture, because he had rattled the Empire

What one writes after years of torture to get out is immaterial.
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Here he pledges "unconditional service" to the Empire.
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First, India needs to officially disavow China's brutal accession of Tibet and its continued occupation.
Always struck by the level of narrative management of China. Even a simple tweet on China in English will get Chinese bots on your trail.

Imagine the level of effort they put on mainstream media.

One doesn't have to imagine. Plenty of data on the level of control China exercises on worldwide media.

Meanwhile India is a sitting duck. "Kaam bolega." 😆

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