27 September 2023
Subramanian Swamy tweets: "Hindus do not need an enactment for Women Reservation. Such a law is crazy since Hindus venerate women equal to men even among Gods. Modi has been nominating women in important position at will e.g., Ms.Khushbu appointed to a Govt Committee for Women & to BJP Committees". https://twitter.com/Swamy39/status/1706859095578538387
8 September 2023
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath says, "Attempts are being made to point fingers at the Sanatan culture. Attempts are being made to insult our heritage. But they forgot 'Jo Sanatan nahi mita tha Ravan ke ahankaar se, Jo Sanatan nahi diga tha Kans ke ahankaar se, Jo Sanatan nahi mita tha Babar aur Aurangzeb ke atyachar se vo Sanatan in satta parjeevi se kya mit payega'. They should be ashamed..." ANI News https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1699783729491963976
Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Violence - Blog by Jaipal Datta https://unnwo.blogspot.com/2022/02/hindu-nationalism.html
7 September 2023
Recently president of India sent an invitation for a dinner by writing President of Bharat instead of President of India. It became a political discussion, though Article 1 of the Indian constitution states that "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states. It is not only India is known as India and Bharat but there are other countries also, which are known by two/three different names. For example, England is known as the United Kingdom/Britain and Great Britain.
Amit Malviya tweets an interview on India TV with Sanjeev Sanyal - a historian and economist and Devdutt Patnaik - another well-known intellectual. It discusses the name of Bharat and India. Bharat is written in the Hindi language as भारत | भरत | भर्त | भार्त |
Someone remarked about Devdutt as a person who is dividing the nation on Brahminical issues. I find Sanjeev Sanyal as more authentic and factual about Bharat and India. It is the same as I mentioned in my thesis that the name India came from Sindhu - Hindu - Indu - India. India is a foreign name. Bharat came from the same source - Bronze Age - Vedic story - Land of seven rivers i.e. Sapt Sindhu. Bharat came from Rigveda and Jain Religion. Listen to the video. https://twitter.com/i/status/1699487531694448834
6 September 2023
K Annamalai says about Hinduism and Sanatan Dharma
"DMK dimwits often dwell on matters that are beyond their level of comprehension.
Swami Narayan Temple of Hindus in Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand.
7 October 2022
How can demography change the peace of a country? Yugoslavia broke into pieces and Kosovo and other countries were created. Demography change divided Sudan and created a new nation known as South Sudan. Indonesia divided and East Timor surfaced as a new country. Demography change does not happen in isolation. There is always an aim to break the unfriendly country.
https://twitter.com/Starboy2079/status/1578036425328451584
https://twitter.com/Starboy2079/status/1578036428126138368
https://twitter.com/Starboy2079/status/1578036451517685760
https://twitter.com/Starboy2079/status/1578036463505092609
5 October 2022
Mohan Bhagwat announces population imbalance can cause civil war on Vijaya Dashmi day in 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAc3SKbjvnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5Jss6Y_TY
24 September 2022
Strong can pardon. Weak can not pardon.This is one of my favourite poems. Still remember this one by heart. Another great one is "Shakti Aur Kshama". Quated by Palki Sharma.
"क्षमा शोभती उस भुजंग को जिसके पास गरल हो उसको क्या जो दंतहीन विषरहित, विनीत, सरल हो।"
हिन्दी साहित्य का साथ स्कूल के बाद छूट सा गया। पर कुछ पंक्तियाँ याद रह गयी।
दिनकर की जयंती पर उनकी प्रसिद्ध कविता ‘कृष्ण की चेतावनी’ से-
“हित-वचन नहीं तूने माना मैत्री का मूल्य न पहचाना तो ले,मैं भी अब जाता हूँ अन्तिम संकल्प सुनाता हूँ याचना नहीं,अब रण होगा जीवन-जय या कि मरण होगा”
7 September 2022
Anant Ramachandran on Hinduism and Hindutva
"There are grave dangers when religion and nation are identified; one such danger is that the entire meaning, purpose, and potential of religion is narrowly interpreted through the lens of national interests at any given moment in time."
Religious traditions surrender their moral power to the state and become subservient to its narrow agenda. This is a dangerous religious malfunction." Twitter of September 7, 2022. Anantanand Rambachan (@anantrambachan) / Twitter
"As a spiritual tradition, Hinduism is not about the creation of a Hindu state. It is at heart a path of transformation that awakens us to life's unity, an all inclusive love, and commitment to the universal common good." July 21, 2022.
Hindutva's Hinduism reduces a rich and diverse heritage of teachings and theological reflection to belligerent slogans meant for invoking hate and thereby negating all that is spiritually enriching in the tradition." July 17, 2022
Hindutva's Hinduism does not offer us any transcendent source of meaning from which one may interrogate the idea of the nation and constructions of national identity. For Hindutva's Hinduism, the nation is absolute." July 16, 2022.
Hindutva overlooks the universalism of Hinduism and narrowly identifies it with nation and common ancestry. Hindutva’s Hinduism does a disservice to the profound insights of the Hindu tradition that speak across religions and offer nourishment to persons thirsting for meaning. July 16, 2022.
If our god is not big enough to be the God of all, even of those who deny God, then our god is not God." March 30, 2022.
Hindus must be careful about celebrating the prohibition of the hijab in educational institutions in India. Hindus wear many symbols reflecting their tradition. We recall in horror the attacks, in the USA, on those identified by the bindi (colored marking) on their foreheads. March 19, 2022.
Our spiritual and moral obligation as Hindus require us to speak up for every human being, regardless of religious identity, who is de-humanized and who is a victim of violence. Our most fundamental loyalty is not to a religious community but to the entire human community. February 25, 2022.
"In creation, Brahman enters into every created form, and it is the presence of brahman that gives value and significance to the human being. The dignity and worth of the human being is the consequence of the fact that she embodies the infinite. Brahman includes everyone; caste excludes." Ananta Rambachan - Hindu theologian, Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College - Hindus for Human Rights. https://twitter.com/Hindus4HR/status/1494015231953145857
3 September 2022
Arif Mohamad Khan explains India and Indianness. India is between the Himalayas in the north and the sea in the south. People living in this area are Indians.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=462432071013262
17 August 2022
Savarkar did not apologize when he was in prison in Andaman Nicobar Islands. https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1559828481542094849
30 July 2022
ॐ सर्वमंगल मांगल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थसाधिके। शरण्ये त्रयम्बके गौरी नारायणी नमोस्तुते ।।
JSD wrote on his Facebook blog https://www.facebook.com/Vedicteacher/posts/pfbid02b2QvsZVCz61F25jEqAaJcWV3fkQ3yFMEQGKjXpT12D1B8iYNNSUC8TeqHATsZv7el
“Hinduism preaches nonviolence and means to minimize conflict. Hindutva is a political tool to
achieve Vasudhaive Kutumbkam for peace and prosperity. In Kaliyuga deterrence
is necessary to infuse, inculcate, ingrain, and sow the seed of love and affection.
Hindu is the body and Hindutva is the aura of Hinduism. To understand I quote in Hindi व्यक्ति (Vayakti - person) and वयक्तित्व / वयक्तित्व (vayktitva - personality). Hindutva is the aura, personality, fragrance, culture, and attitude of Hindus who follow Hinduism. Due to this conceptual cognizance, some scholars write Hindutva is difficult to explain. I add Hindutva is as difficult to explain as Hinduism. Hinduism is spiritual or religious dogma or system known as Hindu Dharma.
Dharma is not a religion as written by Sarvpalli Radha Krishna. Hinduism derives its power from Srimad Bhagwat Geeta, which is again difficult to understand as Gita is always new and its Shlokas can be interpreted differently. Interpretation of the Gita depends on the knowledge of the reader and analyzer.
Read my book on technical and scientific analysis of Srimad Bhagwat Geeta, in which I wrote there is no God. Exploiters use the name of God to exploit others. It directs that each author writes differently about Gita, in other words, Hinduism.
Hinduism is the sea. Hindutva is only a droplet of a sea. Hindus are the different rivers joining together. Hindutva cannot preach Adharma (अधर्म ), in other words, violent Ideology or extremism as propagated by many authors which are included in my blogs and websites.
https://teachingsofgeeta.blogspot.com/2017/12/chapter-1.html
https://twitter.com/Jaipaldatta/status/1551300282780631040
सर्वमङ्गलमङ्गल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थसाधिके ।
शरण्ये त्र्यम्बके गौरि नारायणि नमोऽस्तुते ॥
नमः पर्वतिपतये नमः
ॐ साम्ब शिवाय नमः
ॐ गौर्ये नमः
ॐ नमः शिवाय
जय श्री राम 
Dismantling Global Hindutva: A Hinduphobic conference - The Daily Guardian
Dismantling Global Hindutva:
Ernest Renan said that three things constitute the spiritual principle of the unity of a nation; memories from the past; the desire to live together; and the perpetuation of the heritage. Thus the cultural centredness that "the west" has ascribed to itself is in question.
"This conference is an Audrey Truschke generated and led while supremacist attack on Hindus; and she is willingly accompanied and sheltered by a raft of brown decoys, also called sepoys. The pusillanimous Truschke is an associate professor at Rutgers University. In quite jejune sleights of hand, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Slate, and The Atlantic, for example, regularly publish fallacious and belligerent anti-India pieces, written by the aforementioned decoy brand of Indians, or people of Indian origin.
Thus, Priyamvada Gopal, a militant scholar, who teaches in the UK, puts out a rabid tumbril tweet: “Really am at the point where I would like to invite Western countries to block naturalization for Hindus. Snatch their precious little H-1Bs. Sickos.” Witness her elitism – even as she battles elites at her university – and her scabrous condescension towards India’s H-1B visa holders. US immigration authorities are not likely to pay heed to her unsolicited advice. Another example of a participant in the thrall of an obscene obsession with the anatomies of Hindu gods is one Meena Kandaswamy.
These are the latter day colonists who fabricated, and wish to continually fabricate, the colonized Hindu subject. But the Hindus have fared forward, and in ways incomprehensible to them: they have protested and dismantled the claustrophobic constraints that have been imposed on them for centuries.
Armed with incontinent hate, vile rhetoric, and frothing and fulminating, the participants in this three-day online conference are seized of a particular brand of megalomania: they wish to legislate the world, and one of the roads they will traverse in their pursuit is by dismantling global Hinduism (this agile cat has leapt out of the bag, as their pretence about only attacking Hindutva has fallen to powder). Its participants wish to decolonize the world. Decolonization is a good thing (and the subject of not one, but several future articles): it is warranted, in many fields; but if solo university professors— or a clutch of them— declare, in a hissy fit, that they will decolonize the world, that is not such a good thing, because it is far from being realistic or attainable.
In the interim, however, the conference will certainly generate dangerous xenophobic hate and violence towards Hindus, Indians, and India, through strident misrepresentation, distortion, and malignancy. Notwithstanding multiple, sustained, and anguished pleas from the distinguished Non Resident Indian (NRI) community in North America, as well as US and Canadian citizens of Indian origin, this conference is insistent about disseminating myths and falsehoods, and, thereby, puts millions of innocent Hindus, and, in particular, our numerous bright and diligent students, in a harm›s way.
The organizers of the conference have run into some serious issues with credibility, and, as a result, it is looking more jerry-built than ever. Their website initially displayed the logos of some 40 universities, which they untruthfully declared were sponsors. Alas, upon being apprised of the Hinduphobic nature of the conference, as well as the harm that might well be unleashed on the Hindu diaspora— comprised of successful, hardworking, and brilliant students; and a peace-loving, professionally outstanding, and most highly educated and admired community across the United States and Canada— a bunch of universities wrote to Truschke asking that their logos be removed. It turns out that these universities were never sponsors of this conference: departments or lone faculty members in these institutions were. Harvard University, for example, wrote to Hindu organizations in the USA, offering an apology for being a party— albeit unwittingly— to Hinduphobia, and is exploring the legality of the use of its logo. Similarly, Stanford wrote in, and many universities followed, and, therefore, the credibility of the conference has taken a fair and irreversible beating. It has only become more amateur and ad hoc, as new names are added each day.
A few days, and a little bout of hustling later, other logos were up on the conference’s website, which, Houdini-like, appears and disappears. There is no transparency about this conference, no call for papers, and no scholars who might proffer a support of Hinduism: there is only a line-up of immaculately vicious Hindu- and India-haters as speakers. One of them is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, which has never won a parliamentary seat in its history and has a trajectory of staggering violence and brutality. She writes rather poor prose and is likely to be found wherever there is a protest in India that might grant her fifteen minutes, or a little more, of Warholian visibility.
Ironically, this conference does not represent a billion Hindus, and its white and brown-sahib speakers – as well as their colleagues across the world – are guilty of “being buttressed by a cultural discourse relegating and confining the (Hindu) to a secondary racial, cultural, ontological status.” (Said) Thus, they are wilfully exercising privileges, via interoperating codes, through which they now want to be the architects of societies, and guide and misguide them.
They wish to exercise their privilege and power over a billion Hindus without their permission. A billion Hindus do not speak their convoluted language, and I don’t believe they would ever wish to. How can you presume to speak for one-eighth of the population of the world which has never heard of you, and doesn’t comprehend – and will likely never comprehend – your theories and your arcane language? What is it that entitles a supremacist claque to tamper with one of the oldest and most beautiful faiths in the world?
In this welter of hate, untruths, bullying, and shrill self-righteousness, a beautiful poem by the great medieval Kannada Virashaiva saint-poet, Devara Dasimayya (Translated by AK Ramanujan) :
To the utterly at-one with Shiva
there’s no dawn,
no new moon,
no noonday,
nor equinoxes,
nor sunsets,
nor full moons;
his front yard
is the true Benares,
O Ramanatha.
The Virashaiva saints are nirguna bhaktas, relating personally and passionately to the Infinite Absolute.
From the sublimity and beauty of Ramanujan, you fall many miles to Audrey Truschke, who first shot into the limelight by stating that Sita, the wife of the beloved Hindu god, Rama, calls him a “misogynist pig and uncouth.” She mischievously and erroneously cited a translation of the Ramayana by the great scholar, Professor Robert Goldman of the University of California at Berkeley, to support her own lurid translation. Goldman refuted her and called her out:
“I find it extremely disturbing but perhaps not unexpected to learn that AT (Audrey Truschke) has used such inappropriate language and passed it off as coming from Valmiki. Neither the great poet nor we used such a vulgar diction and certainly Sita would never have used such language to her husband even in the midst of emotional distress. Nowhere in our translation of the passage do we use words you mention AT is using… she is in no way quoting our translation but giving her own reading of the passage in her own highly inappropriate language.”
The conference is predicated on an essentialization: the Hinduness of the Hindus; (also, on the Indianness of the Indians, the inherent backwardness of the backward Hindus). But the Hindus have resisted and provided a counter-articulation to the centuries-old bullying, and badgering, and misrepresentations. A most sought outcome of endeavors such as this conference is galvanizing Hindus into uniting. Eventually, the Sanatana Dharma will survive these slings and arrows, and stay strong: for it does not convert, it does not proselytize, and it has no hard and fast rules. It regards the peoples of the world as one large family, the Vasudaiva Kutumbakam (we are all of the family of the god Vasudeva); and it relies on magnificent and abiding truths such as:
Ekam sat vipra bahuda vadanti
There is but one Truth; the wise speak of it in many ways.
Hindus have resisted hard-left politics, the contagion of its bullies, and their questionable behavior. And, finally, after the unspeakable brutalization unleashed on them by invaders, they gravitate towards a collective capacity to speak and treasure the miraculous beauty, wisdom, and strength of their dharma."
The author is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University since 1990, and advises world leaders on public policy, communication, and international affairs. The views expressed are personal.
