The "liberal" discourse in India is to cater to the powerful claiming to speak for "marginalized."
1. The concern for "tribals" is not for those who'd resist Christian conversion. It is to sever cultural ties and show Hindus as enemy to aid $powerful evangelical conversion war.
2. The concern for "dalits" is not because they care the least for "dalits." If they did, they'd have been agitating for the removal of Article 370, which deprived Dalits of rights in J&K they got elsewhere. But they *opposed* that. Why? To serve the agenda of powerful Islamism.
3. The narrative on "atrocities on dalits" is for a singular purpose. A stick to beat Hindus with to aid powerful #ChristoIslam. This is why they bury the many cases of Muslim atrocities on Dalit Hindus. It doesn't serve the agenda of the powerful.
4. The rhetoric for "minorities" is not because they care about the vulnerable. One of the most targeted micro-minority is ex-Muslims. But the Left hounded Taslima Nasreem. Why? To cater to powerful Islam. When they speak of "minorities" ask them about schemes for ex-Muslims.
The "liberal" discourse is to cater to the following powerful forces:
1. Islam 2. Evangelical Christianity 3. Well $-funded international NGOs as proxies for foreign powers.
The "marginalized" they care for as much as their contempt for their "servants."
Similarly for concern for "refugees". The State of J&K denied rights to lawful Hindu citizens who had fled from Pakistan for decades. Did you ever hear "liberals" squeak about it? Why not? Their narrative is about pandering to the powerful, the vulnerable are selected as props.
Yes, those who can fill their pockets, fly them on trips, give them jobs. As @madhukishwar has noted, this "liberal clique" would spit on their mothers every morning if an NGO gave them money for it. And they do.
The Puritan ideology of Protestant Christianity dubbed all expenditure on entertainment as "wasteful", indeed anything used for other than the glory of the Christian God.
"Modern Hindus" replicate these arguments determining what is "wasteful" in how others spend their money.
When the British Empire impoverished India by draconian taxation, destruction of industry and colonial loot, villagers still managed to scrounge up some money for the wedding of their children.
The British then dubbed wedding expenditure as "wasteful" and the *cause* of poverty.
The same arguments are replicated by the colonial courts and the colonial Indian state to civilize the natives and control who they should be allowed to spend their own money.
Yes, this is very true. Pretty much the entire "elite class" in India, those who were wealthy and in power at the time of Independence were collaborators of the British.
Those who truly rebelled were impoverished, their lands taken, livelihoods destroyed.
Then those who'd been collaborators branded themselves as "freedom fighters" and wrote their own hagiography and faked the history of the real freedom struggle.
Read book "Netaji" which documents, from British archives, what caused the British to leave.
Anyone in Austria want to go check out the Lambach Abbey? Apparently this is where Hitler was exposed to the "Hooked Cross" which he later turned into the Nazi symbol.
This was translated as "Swastika" by the English translator of Mein Kampf.
The relationship to cows in India have been akin to family members, not unlike the relationship in the West to dogs and horses as "pets." People generally don't eat those considered family. Every culture has their own taboos.
So hard to find good editors for English. Interviewed a candidate today who is working as an editor elsewhere. Studied 12 years in English-medium, CBSE, MSc, B.Ed. Her resume itself had errors in every line.
(And you want to convert 1.3 billion people to English-medium? 😏).
India's English obsession is creating linguistic cripples. I asked her if she could edit or write in Hindi, but she said her Hindi is worse.
Foisting an alien language has meant we are not good in any language. The natural ability of mother-tongue proficiency is destroyed.
Another candidate I interviewed, also from English-medium, spoke eloquently about this problem (I recorded her with permission to share).