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Mar 6 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha closes the panel on #Hinduphobia in Academia, with a rapidfire address, covering his own personal experience + his professional research on the topic. An animated discussion followed. Wait for our replay to hear that :)
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“I was and have always been a proud Hindu, a proud
Indian who speaks up for his values and civilizational heritage” - @Zeit_MjGM on fighting academic #Hinduphobia at @Cambridge_Uni . #IntellectualKshatriya 2/n
“Discussion around the abrogation of Article 370 soon transformed into questioning the very sovereignty of India” - @Zeit_MjGM #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 3/n
“My very participation in a university community was protested. @Zeit_MjGM 4/n
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“Ou goal should be towards truth-based existence and factual orientations, not jingoism, parochialism, and dogma.” - @Zeit_MjG #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 5/n
“Let us try for mukti, moksha – not azaadi. For the latter is freedom from something, where the former is about accepting all existence as its own, and in doing so being emancipated and liberated. That is the Hindu way. That is the Indic way, & that is the Dharmic way.” @Zeit_MjG

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