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  • Hindu Man’s Burden

    Hindu Man's Burden

    Exhibit A: A bunch of Naxals were going to have a screening of anti-national propaganda — the institute didn’t allow them to do so. When they tried to cause trouble, the institute put their foot down and asked them to vacate the premises. This is the best way to solve the problem — nip it in the bud before it becomes a full-fledged anti-national lobby group like Jamia and JNU. The Central government is going to take away the minority status of Jamia and AMU. There is no need for taxpayer money to be spent on Jihadi institutions so they could indulge in their little anti-national circlejerks. If minorities want to run minority institutions, let them fund it with their own money. India is a secular nation and it cannot be seen as favouring any particular religion. Next, India should stop paying Haj subsidies — why? Because India is a secular nation. The state has already stopped pampering the FTII Naxals and they have been asked to collect their leaving certificates and stop being a burden on the taxpayer. Taxpayer-funded institutions cannot be used for anti-national purposes.

    The solution to these types of problems: stop treating anti-nationals with kid gloves.

    The same treatment should be meted out to all communities, especially those who fraudulently claim to be peaceful. The reason they love sickularism is because it allows them to be a parasite on Hindu tax money. If India starts following the French model of secularism, these hypocrites will get straightened within no time. No Burqa, no Haj subsidies and no reservations.

    Welcome to Secularism ver. 2.0

    Secularism cannot be a Hindu burden alone under this version. Hindu secularism must be reciprocal and proportional to Muslim secularism. It should not be compared with “ideal secularism” but should be compared with how much ground Muslims have ceded in the secularism department.

    Many people will like to see India becoming a truly secular nation, which it clearly isn’t right now. At the moment, there are a lot of core issues which will continue to give acidity to Hindus unless the status quo is changed. For example:

    1. Muslims are given autonomy over their religious institutions and donations. On the other hand, Hindu temples are usurped by the government.
    2. Haj is given subsidy while Amarnath Yatra is taxed.
    3. Ram Mandir is being presented as a petty real estate dispute despite it being the holiest place in Hinduism. Ram Mandir is to Hindus what Mecca is to Muslims.

    The pettiness shows in the fact that Muslims are contesting that land tooth and nail despite that land being of no significance to them religiously — this is being done just to spite Hindus. One can understand if the quarrel was about a piece of property which was religiously significant for both religions, like the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. But this is not the case here. Ram Mandir was, in fact, one of the 40,000 temples which Muslim invaders destroyed to persecute the native Hindu population. The Hindu community holds no grudges against them for those 40,000 temples and have forgiven them unilaterally in the interest of peaceful co-existence — despite Muslims never having expressed remorse for the atrocities committed against Hindus. Instead of taking into consideration all those steps taken by Hindus in the direction of reconciliation, if Muslims show their petty-mindedness by not wanting to budge on even one temple, then many Hindus will legitimately re-evaluate whether Muslims genuinely do want peaceful coexistence at all.

    Reconciliation cannot be a one-way street where Hindus keep making sacrifices while Muslims keep gnawing at their core interests and lecture them on secularism. This gives rise to a legitimate resentment against secularism as it is being practised, to the detriment of Hindus. Unfortunately Muslims in India still have that Mughal mindset where they think that secularism is a tax that only Hindus have to unilaterally pay towards Muslims — i.e. Jizya-2 — and Muslims have to do nothing except relish the fruits of Hindu secularism. Muslims think secularism is an exclusively Hindu burden, which is evident from their various stances ranging from refusal to sing national songs to saluting the flag based on religious doctrine. They must realize that both communities have to take one step each to work towards a secular nation — it is not an exclusively Hindu burden.

    The longer Muslims feign ignorance about these issues, the more incidents like Babri will occur when Hindu anger will inevitably erupt. No one wants to live as a second-class citizen in their own country, humiliated by a minority which shamelessly proclaims that secularism is against Islam and claims to have no obligation to abide by secular values. Remember how Kashmiri Pandits were slaughtered as all those champions of secularism conveniently kept quiet while common Hindus helplessly watched in horror. The longer India ignores this problem, the more Hindus will walk over the fence and join the extreme right.

    In 2002, sixty innocent Hindu saints were burnt alive in a train and the resulting riot resulted in the death of 250 more Hindus — still the secular media calls it an “anti-Muslim riot,” completely ignoring the deaths of Hindus. Hindus cannot be expected to never respond when provoked. Fact is Hindus can’t keep playing the role of a punching bag to get a secularism certificate from Muslims or the so-called intelligentsia.

    If the government doesn’t protect their interests then Hindus will have no option left but to arm themselves to keep their families safe. Hindus have been killed with impunity since the Mughal era and it cannot continue forever. Nowhere does it say in the constitution that Hindus have to be secular. Secularism is the responsibility of the state towards its subjects, not that of Hindus towards other faiths. For too long Hindus have been paying this unilaterally enforced Jizya under the twisted secularism that is followed in India. But no more!

    This unilateral imposition of sickularism on Hindus is nothing but a forced manifestation of the white man’s burden (aka Joshua Project) contextualized for the Indian sub-continent.

  • The ‘Peaceful Indian Muslim’ Conundrum- Part I

    The 'Peaceful Indian Muslim' Conundrum- Part I
    Part I of II — Read Part II →

    The peaceful Indian Muslim myth is a fairytale that has been perpetuated by elitist Hindu liberals. It is one of those myths which is bought wholesale by both the left and the right. But sadly like any other fairytale, it is not based on any facts. Look at the nature of political Islam from 1920 to 2016 and you will find that nowhere has it been more treacherous and lethal than in the Indian subcontinent. There are Islamic political movements in the Middle East too — there was the Baath party in Iraq, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and various other groups — but none of them led to the treacherous partition of a nation the way it did in India. In fact, claiming that Muslims of the subcontinent are peaceful is the Hindu way to hide the shameful past of being pounded by the Muslims.

    The worst assumption one could make is that Indian Muslims are different from their Pakistani counterparts. Why so? Do they follow a different book? Obviously not. Go to any foreign nation and observe — the moment a Muslim from the subcontinent sets his foot on foreign land, he immediately severs his cultural roots and gets connected to the global Islamic political movements there. Just to give a small example, there are many Change.org petitions about protecting Indian interests — how many Indian Muslims do you see participating in those? How many NRI Muslims do you see walking in rallies on the streets of the US or UK to speak in favour of India? None. The moment they go there, they immediately connect their roots with the Ummah — and subsequently you will find many Indian Muslims walking in rallies for Palestine, Lebanon and Kashmir. They whole-heartedly support anti-west, anti-Israel and anti-India (basically anti-kafir) coalitions.

    The Ummah mentality of the Muslims of the subcontinent has not gone away — in fact, it has only strengthened with the onset of the internet and other communication channels. Wherever there are Muslims, there is always a problem. Don’t give more credit to someone just because they happened to be born in a certain geographical part of the world. They themselves don’t care about this geography, because they believe that international borders are artificial barriers which stop Muslims from linking to form a united Ummah. Islam is not a race — it is an ideology, and unless you are making a claim that Indian Muslims have a different Quran than other Muslims (which they obviously don’t), the peaceful Indian Muslim argument holds no water.

    An ideology at whose core lies antagonism against non-believers cannot be an inclusive one, no matter how much PR spin you try to give it. A lot of those who claim Indian Muslims to be more peaceful than the rest of the world are subconsciously linking it with Sufism. Even Akbar, who was under the influence of Sufi saints, killed 6 lakh Hindus. In fact, all the Muslim rulers who committed atrocities on Hindus had Sufis in their cabinet. And still some people think that Sufism is peaceful Islam.

    The very fact that Hindus aren’t allowed to claim Ram Mandir is a testimony to the fact that Indian Muslims don’t adhere to a more evolved and tolerant form of Islam claimed by many. The thought process is the same as that of the invaders. Ram Mandir issue is not a real estate dispute and cannot be looked at from that angle. It is a much deeper issue of constitutional violation of the religious rights of Hindus in an allegedly secular nation which allegedly guarantees religious freedom. Ram Janmabhoomi is to Hindus what Mecca is to Muslims — there can be no negotiation on this. The fact that we are stuck in negotiations reflects that Indian Muslims have in fact NOT given up their ideological terrorism which stems from their need to dominate and persecute Hindus wherever they can. Reconciliation is a two-way street where both parties agree to walk one step each and meet in the middle. The iconoclasm of Indian Muslims is written all over the Ayodhya issue and is impossible to ignore.

    Then there is another pet theory peddled around by Islam apologists according to which economic progress will lead to less radicalization — implying by corollary that poverty leads to terrorism. This has been categorically proved to be false. A lot of people involved in Jihadi activities are upper middle class, educated people. Take a look at the Indian boys who went to fight for ISIS. They were working in MNCs with a salary of 12 lakh per annum — more than what an average Indian earns. An average ISIS fighter earns a salary of 800$ a month. If money was the motivating factor to become a terrorist, surely many poor people would have agreed to join these groups for even 80$ a month, given that 60% of the world lives in poverty. Why didn’t all those poor people join them? Because people with a sane moral compass stay away from such ideologies even in the face of abject poverty.

    Osama bin Laden was a billionaire. But that did not stop him from taking to extremism. Extremism is a political ideology — an idea which transcends social and economic class barriers. Shah Rukh and Amir Khan have no shortage of money, but they still indulge in Jihadi propaganda. How much money do you think the government needs to give them to stop propagating those ideas? How much money do you think would Hafiz Saeed take so that he magically stops being a terrorist?

    Money is orthogonal to the issue of terrorism — it is a facilitator but not the driving force. The problem of ideological extremism is not going to go away by just throwing money at it. It is like throwing food at a wolf and expecting him to magically start behaving like a domesticated dog. He will eat the food but still continue to remain a wolf and your life is still under threat because you haven’t solved the core problem. The core problem is that unlike other fascist ideologies like Nazism and other forms of imperialism, Islam never underwent any reform because no one ever dared to tell them that. Germans today acknowledge Nazism was evil because their history books told them about the horrors it perpetuated. Islam has never been told that the atrocities it perpetuated were wrong — so instead of undergoing reform, it continues to live in its own merry world assuming that period to be “glorious.”

    So Hindus should stop patting themselves on the back and giving a peaceful certificate to sub-continental Muslims. The history of Indian Muslims is far from peaceful. Even if one forgets pre-independence riots, in the post-independence period Muslims have already shown what they are capable of by throwing out Kashmiri Pandits from the valley — which was anything but peaceful. They were able to achieve this ethnic cleansing while fighting against the might of the Indian state machinery. The only hurdle in the achievement of this goal of dar-ul-Islam in the rest of the country is the fact that Hindus still have demographic majority, which is slowly but steadily slipping away in many regions. The ethnic cleansing of minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh should be a wake-up call for all those who comfortably prefer to ignore this demographic reality.

    What is then the solution to this problem? The solution can be found — but the first step is to acknowledge that there is no such entity called “Peaceful Indian Muslim.” Once most Hindus acknowledge the existence of this problem, only then can solutions be found.

  • Brahminism of the Marxists and Chrislamists: real threat for India

    Brahminism of the Marxists and Chrislamists: real threat for India

    One of the biggest attacks against Hindus and Hindutva politics in India is about how it is Brahministic in nature and detrimental to the well being of the average Hindu, overwhelming majority of whom are non-Brahmin.

    This is consciously cultivated in the minds of the average Hindu voter that pro-Hindu policies are inherently Brahminic and that only Brahmins will get benefit from it. Not only it is far from reality, it is pathetically anti-lower caste and casteist in its outlook, by associating pro-Hindu politics with upper castes as if lower caste Hindus are not Hindus.

    The article argues that many prominent Marxist and Islamist apologists come from Brahmin or other upper-caste backgrounds, citing political and intellectual figures from Kerala, West Bengal and the national Left.

    It contrasts these figures with Ambedkar, arguing that despite his fierce criticism of Hindu society he remained committed to India and chose Buddhism rather than Islam or Christianity.

    The article also argues that socialism and caste rigidity share structural similarities because both can limit occupational mobility and keep existing elites in control.

    Neither Marxism nor Islam is about caste reform but rather about further solidifying caste rigidity and consolidating power.

    The conclusion is that accusations of Brahminism against pro-Hindu politics should be turned back on the Marxist establishment, whose own leadership and institutions remain dominated by upper-caste elites.

  • Casteism and Hinduism are like oil and water

    Casteism and Hinduism are like oil and water

    Caste is like “Brahmastra” or nuclear weapon in the hands of Marxists which sends every Hindu on the defensive in case they try to dominate any debate. But caste is not mentioned in any Hindu religious texts anywhere and varna system is not the same as caste system. The current caste system as we now know it was a विकृति (degeneration) introduced into our system by foreign invaders. This process was much more extensive and spanned a long duration of time which can only be understood by studying history. So, how to get off the hook next time when you get entangled regarding caste system with a Marxist/Chrislamist? The first is to not let them associate caste with varna system to justify it through Hinduism and second, read a bit of history on how castes system got frozen over time. It is important to know some examples to emphasize the second point.

    For example- the Chamar (Mahar) caste was created by the Mughals to humiliate the dispossessed Hindus in the society who couldn’t pay Jaziya tax. The rich Hindus who could pay the tax were left alone but the poor ones were ill treated, even after converting to Islam they had secondary status and were made to live in ghettos (this is why you will find leather tanning places like Dharavi are still ghetto communities). They were made to slaughter cows and tan leather, just to make them dissociate from their earlier traditions of cow worship. There were many such castes created then. The British came and codified it and made it even worse.

    In the late 1800s (or you can say few years before 1900), the British introduced a law to make it compulsory for everyone to write their caste in every government document like school admission, banking etc. That started the use of caste as a political tool of identification, organization and basically to support their divide-and-rule politics.

    When encountered with this problem of ‘caste system’, especially if challenged by Marxists, don’t try to defend it, otherwise you will fall right into the trap of Chrislamists. Understand that they don’t give a damn about any explanation. They have managed to conflate the caste system with the varna system mentioned in the Vedas by lose associations, allusions and innuendo. Just state that Caste and Varna are not the same, because that’s what the truth is. Making half baked arguments about economic system allow Chrislamists to create a strawman to beat Hindus with. So don’t step into that trap. The caste system was in fact a transposition of the inherently discriminatory British class system due to their inherent biases. They are to blame for it, it is not something that Hindus should get defensive about.

    The Hindu Varna system was fluid until it was corrupted by outsiders. Remember, we were enslaved for 1000 years. This settles everything:

    Also and more importantly, if caste system is Hindu thing, then how does it exist in Christianity and Muslim, even after conversion? Are these so called perfect religions not able to wash away the imperfections even after converting evil Hindus to their religion? There are separate Churches/Mosques for Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims. Well, if it exists in all religions then it is orthogonal to Hinduism and has nothing to do with it. One can’t claim it to be derived from Hindu theology. It is a societal problem caused due to slavery of 1000 years and consequent obfuscations.

    The concept of Brahma (and other gods in our texts) in Hinduism is not to be taken literally as a magic being which does magic. It is merely a metaphor to serve as a vehicle to convey an abstract idea to the reader. What you call ‘ocean’ in English is referred to as Varuna in Sanskrit. Both of them allude to the same entity, which is the ocean, but by anthropomorphizing it, it allows the story teller to convey more complicated concepts in a poetic and fine tuned manner which appeals to human imagination because nothing can be more complicated than human behaviour. Giving human attributes to natural phenomena, allows the story teller to add finer nuances, the complexity of which can only be matched by the complexity of human behaviour. It allows the building up of abstract concepts on top of one another to blossom into a more comprehensive philosophical idea.

    For example, if someone says Varuna had a fight with Pashupatinath (god of forests), it doesn’t literally mean that two magic beings fought a WWF match. It is probably trying to tell you that there was a tsunami which engulfed a forest. This is merely a mode of communication. If you have seen Life Of Pi, he says it in the end “I told you two stories, one where my ship sunk and I was rescued by fishermen, other where I was stranded with a tiger on a magical island with meerkats and both the stories narrate the same incident; I just replaced the human characters with animals, that doesn’t make my story false. So, which one is the better story?” and the guy says “the one with the animals; that’s the better story”. Same is the nature of religion.

    The stories are not to be taken literally, there is a certain essence it is trying to convey, which one should seek. The reason they have been compiled in the form of stories is because it becomes easy for one generation to propagate the wisdom enshrined in them to the next generation in a non-dogmatic fashion. When Hindus pray to gods, it’s not that they think some magic is coming out of the statue, it is the idea which the god represents in the narrative which they are praying. Basically, we don’t pray to idols, we pray to ideals. For example Ram is called Purushottam (the perfect man with a balanced world view), so people pray/aspire to those qualities by proxy of praying to the god. The idol and temple is only there to help ordinary people concentrate and to keep the stories/wisdom alive so that it can be passed on to the next generation (think of it like a museum). Those who have better concentration need not pray to gods and can simply make themselves useful to the society through karma (doing your duties, doctor, engineer, soldier, teacher etc).

    Now coming back to Varnas. The Varna system was merely an observation of the four types of human tendencies based on their level of participation in society. These tendencies exist in all humans in all societies. There are some who are lazy and some who are altruists, some who are willing to give their life for the country, and some who will steal and murder. The Varna system is merely an observation of how humans behave. It is not a codified system and it says that everyone is born Shudra, but then everyone has to elevate themselves according to their potential. So basically if basically there are 4 kids in a house and one kid cracks IIT and other doesn’t study and fails even 10th class, then the first kid gets more respect and the failed kid gets less respect in society, even though they were born equal. What the Varna system says is that the respect you get will be proportional to how useful you are to the society. If you contribute more (like soldier dying for the country), you get more respect, if you simply slack off then don’t expect any respect. It is not that Brahma created the system, that is how humans are. Brahma is just a metaphor for the universe. So when someone says Brahma made 4 Varnas what they are poetically trying to say is “there are 4 kinds of tendencies in the universe”.
    How come there is never any record of such people anywhere on this earth other than some parts of India?

    There is, but it is simply known by different names so it doesn’t register in our brain as a ‘Hindu’ thing. There are many religions born out of the same ethos which Hinduism espouses, these religions were spread by Hindu philosophers to other lands, over time the wisdom got translated in native languages (Chinese, Indonesian etc) so they refer to those concepts with different names in their own language. Check this :

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    “The path”, “the way” are basically Chinese terms for what we call Dharma in Sanskrit. There is a near complete interchangeability between all their concepts with ours, with, of course, Chinese names. What we call the Varna here, the other Asian countries refer to as the family honour code. If you do good then earn more goodwill and respect for your your clan (kula/ gotra/ varna), that is why Chinese and Japanese men would want to die in war, to add to the Karma points of their kula (clan). Yin and Yang correlate to good Karma and bad Karma.

    There is even a Chinese Hanuman called Sun Wukong

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    Instead of carrying a saffron flag with ‘Hindu Om’ on it, he carries a saffron flag with Chinese alphabets.

    The exact same thing applies to Japan. Here is a Japanese Ganesha

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    Here’s the Shiv Linga in Japan

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    Common Terms in Sanskrit/Chinese/Japanese

    Archarya – Master Achali Ajari
    Dharma – Law FA Ho
    Pratima – movement warrior techniques of the Hindu ksatreyas Hsing
    Kata
    Sunyatapani – Tang-Shou Karate/To De
    Dharmahasta Chuan Fe Kempo
    Marga – The Way Tao Do
    Guhya-Sutra Mi-Ching Mikkyo
    Nagarjuna Lung Shu Ryuju/Ryusho/Ryumyo
    Mudra – ritual gesture Yin In
    Mandala a special zone or area Mantolo Mandara
    Vajramukti Ching Kang, Chieh T’o Kongogedastsu
    Sangha – congregation or group followers Seng So
    Narya – strong or manly Na-Li Nara, Naha
    Nata Na-Pa, Na-Ra Nara, Napa, Nafa
    Yoga – to yoke Yui Cha Yu Ga”

    Link : https://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/bharatwaja-hinduism-gods-in-japan-religion/

    Indonesia has its own local flavours of Hinduism whereby their university emblems and currency bears images of Ganesha.

    There are similar parallels to Hindu concepts all over the world, with different pseudonyms, that is why it feels as if it exists only in a small part of India. It is actually a universal phenomenon. As for the Varna system in particular, you can find those four types of people even in western societies. The people who are most useful to society are the ones who create the most value, and therefore paid higher salary and get more respect in their society. Their definition of ‘adding value’ has simply been transposed by an economic criteria (instead of a Dharmic/social criteria) but the system of ‘incremental respect’ is the same there.

    Saudi Arabia, which is the beacon of the purest form of Islam, considers non-Arab Muslims (like the ones in the subcontinent) to be Hind-Al-Masakeen, which means ‘the lowly slaves of Hind’. How is it that this religion, which claims to be a champion of equality under one God and offers liberation from the allegedly discriminatory Hindu social order, differentiate between two different groups of the same religion? Is that not a caste system in itself? And if it is, why aren’t the liberals raising their voices against it? But we all know why!!

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  • Minimum wage bill: unemployment tax on poor

    Minimum wage bill: unemployment tax on poor

    It is unfortunate that in India important news on economics are usually hidden deep inside the regular newspapers and crucial laws are passed without much debate. One of the recent such news was the decision of Modi government to increase the minimum wage for contract workers to Rs. 10,000.

    The article criticizes the government for not clearly explaining how the Rs 10,000 figure was determined and for invoking the Supreme Court as justification for economic policy.

    The case against minimum wages goes as follows

    1) Minimum wages reduce employment among unskilled workers

    2) Therefore minimum wages hurt people whom it is actually supposed to help

    In a surplus labour economy like India, when government imposes laws like minimum wage it makes firms less competitive by increasing their wage bill.

    The article compares apparel wages in India and Bangladesh, arguing that higher labour costs have contributed to Bangladesh’s stronger export performance.

    It argues that minimum wage laws help current job holders but reduce entry-level employment and discourage the formation of new firms.

    The article cites research by Maloney and Mendez on Colombia, claiming that employment declined most sharply among workers earning below the minimum wage, while higher-paid workers were also affected when firms closed.

    Given this evidence, the article argues that India should avoid imposing a uniform wage floor that may push workers into unemployment or into the informal sector.

    Also read: Make in India: How to make it work

    References:
    Measuring the Impact of Minimum Wages

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    http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-govt-introduces-bill-to-revise-minimum-wage-of-workers/

  • Religion or science: porque no los dos?

    Religion or science: porque no los dos?

    Ever since man evolved form animals and gained the ability of imagination, he has always had a sense of wonder and marvel about the complexity of life and everything around him. Religion, was meant to be an abstract wisdom passed on from one generation to their offspring which addressed these issues. Religion is the answer of civilizations to ‘what is the meaning of life/this is how the universe operates’, and being an abstract theory, different civilizations propounded different theories. So, comparing modern science (as we colloquially phrase it) and religion is an apples and oranges proposition. Religion was always meant to be a vehicle to pass on complex metaphysical ideas to next generations through metaphors, stories, comparisons and subjective truths. But it becomes a problem when a civilization’s conceptualization of religion is so narrow that it limits its people in understanding other concepts and starts to create intellectual contradictions.

    All these ‘science versus religion’ debates are relevant to the specific set of faiths based on Abrahamic religions and do not apply to open ended Dharmic wisdom. Therefore the inherent contradiction, if any, is a function of the frame of reference of the observer. As a Hindu observer, we find no contradiction between the two. It’s not that there is no difference between a scientist and a religious philosopher but in our case, the ideas which these two professionals propounded weren’t in contradiction with each other, unlike Abrahamic faiths which hounded their scientists for coming up with theories that challenged their deeply held beliefs. ‘The idea of zero’, for example, was resisted tooth and nail by the Church because ‘nothingness’ and ‘infinity’ didn’t fit into their binary belief system, as it does in the eastern Dharmic value system. Also, how you define a scientist is also suspect? Our saints like Sushrut were masters of plastic surgery, as has been documented in detail in Sushrut Samhita, but the subterfuge lies in the way the word ‘scientist’ has been defined by the west to mean post 17th century western scientists. We never had any incidents of our scientists being at odds with religion or religious figures. It’s clear that the debate between science and religion in India was already settled thousands of years ago since both of these were not contradictory concepts, intellectually.

    That is why there is a Nataraja statue outside the CERN science laboratory signifying that there is still no contradiction between science and religion.

    That is also why when scientists discovered Higgs Boson and named it God’s Particle, no one saw the contradiction. This has always been our way of life as per Advaita Vedanta where the creator and created is one, united only by energy- it is this Shakti we worship as god, hence God Particle.

    In ancient India, the philosophical schools of Samkhya and Vaisheshika, from around the 6th–5th century BC, developed theories on light. According to the Samkhya school, light is one of the five fundamental “subtle” elements (tanmatra) out of which emerge the gross elements.

    In contrast, the Vaisheshika school gives an atomic theory of the physical world on the non-atomic ground of ether, space and time. (See Indian atomism.) The basic atoms are those of earth (prthivı), water (apas), fire (tejas), and air (vayu), that should not be confused with the ordinary meaning of these terms. These atoms are taken to form binary molecules that combine further to form larger molecules. Motion is defined in terms of the movement of the physical atoms. Light rays are taken to be a stream of high velocity of tejas (fire) atoms. The particles of light can exhibit different characteristics depending on the speed and the arrangements of the tejas atoms. Around the first century BC, the Vishnu Purana refers to sunlight as “the seven rays of the sun”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_optics

    The sum total of ‘science’ (physics, electronics and computer science) we know today is merely a fraction of the real deal (quantum Physics). The deeper humanity dives in this quest for knowledge, the more these rigid faith based religions will find themselves at odds with ‘science’ while Hindus will simply glide through it as second nature. The most obvious reason why this is happening is, without mincing words, because the metaphysical hypothesis of the Abrahamic faiths about how the universe operates is completely flawed. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. The concepts enshrined under Abrahamic religions were less about elevating the believer’s spiritual understanding and more about being means of political organization aimed towards feudal imperialism. So, the more truth that gets revealed to the collective human race, the more uncomfortable Abrahamics (and crypto-Abrahamic cults like Marxists) will become and you will see more of these religion vs science debates coming out from these groups.

    Even the Hindu concept of ‘अहं ब्रह्म अस्मिति’ is actually a constellation of Mandelbrot sets arranged in a particular mathematical formula. Check this fractal, and the fractal constellation below it, is what we call Shiva.

    So the claims about Hinduism being a scientific religion isn’t exactly a vague one. The proportions and ratios that our idols, temples, carvings and various other things use are actually consistent with the Golden Ratio (Fibonacci)

    The Shri Yantra is based on the Golden Ratio:

    People forget that when the Christian west was busy claiming that the earth was flat, we had always been calling it Bhigol, भूगोल, which is a compound word for गोल भूमि (round earth), since eons. Our sages had presented coherent mathematical calculations about the solar system but unfortunately our definition of a ‘scientist’ is so narrow (coat-jacket wearing, usually German Christian) that this doesn’t even register in our brain while debating this issue and we dive into the debate believing the faulty Abrahamic premise that these two sides are not only separate but contradictory, although conventional Hindu wisdom has always said otherwise. Leave alone knowing all the scientific advances made by Hindu sages, but had our people known even this anecdotal trivia, they could have used that in the ‘science versus religion’ debates to drive home the point that Hinduism and science have never been at odds with each other. It is not an ‘either this or that’ issue for Hindus.

    Take another example, the names of elements in the Periodic Table have Sanskrit etymology.

    Sanskrit and Mendeleevs Periodic Table

    Fortunately, the tide is beginning to turn in our favour as is evident from the upswing for Hindu ideas. They might not appear to be leading to an immediate conversion of the listener to Hinduism, but, all I can say is that the number of listeners is growing. Indic concepts like Yog, Karma, Pundit have become a natural mainstay of western discourse without any external stimulation or promotion. Although, there is this debate on Hindu ideas and philosophy getting digested by Christian west but reality is much more nuanced than that. If something is the truth, it ultimately spreads, one way or another, with one name or another, without having to have dedicated evangelists on your payroll for marketing purposes.

    Take the case of the propagation of Hindu ideas through the movies like Avatar, Life Of Pi. The connotations are hard to miss.

    Cameron calls the connection a “subconscious” reference: “I have just loved … the mythology, the entire Hindu pantheon, seems so rich and vivid.” He continued, “I didn’t want to reference the Hindu religion so closely, but the subconscious association was interesting, and I hope I haven’t offended anyone in doing so.”[13] He has stated that he was familiar with a lot of beliefs of the Hindu religion and found it “quite fascinating”.

    “What is an Avatar anyway?” James Cameron replied, “It’s an nincarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form. In this film what that means is that the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human’s intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body.”

    Explaining the choice of the color blue for the Na’vi, Cameron said “I just like blue. It’s a good color … plus, there’s a connection to the Hindu deities, which I like conceptually.”

    Also, take for example the latest movie on Ramanujam, The Man who knew Infinity, again made in Hollywood. They have courteously shown him worshipping Hindu God, an idol (notwithstanding popular cultural touchiness about idolatry) engaged in traditional Puja. Ramanujam is shown explicitly crediting his mathematical genius to his local deity, which is more than enough for a movie that was not sponsored by Hindus. The director had the option to not show it at all, in the classic western fashion, and could have simply redacted those aspects and presented Ramanujam as a secular mathematician, denying him his Hindu identity. Instead, he was shown in his true Hindu form, someone who faced the intolerance of the then contemporary Christian scientists.

    Fact of the matter is- if Hindus don’t take ownership of their own legends and tell their stories to the world then someone else will pick them up and narrate with a distortion or claim them as their own. Whether Hindus do it consciously or not, Dharmic ideas will spread and make the global grip of the Abrahamic narrative a little less rigid. And religion vs science debates just provide that right ammo to further expose the disconnect of Abrahamic cults from nature. The inherent contradictions in these religions are sitting there to be exploited, the only question is- will Hindus finally wake up and expose them for the betterment of the world.

  • The Crab Mentality of Hindu Right Wing

    The Crab Mentality of Hindu Right Wing

    Do you know that burqa is empowering and is the best thing ever designed to express solidarity against patriarchy? Wearing a burqa is a fundamental right of any women and those who wear it should be respected for their courage to stand against the evil patriarchal society.

    Well the above paragraph, with all its inconsistencies, can be lifted up from any current publications by leftists. But this article is neither about Islamic feminism nor about west. It is rather about crab mentality of Hindu Right wing, where the flag bearers lose no chance to bring each other down whenever possible.

    BJP is hardly a Hindu right wing party but for all its drawbacks, it is still the only viable option on the right. Now think of the drama that got unleashed before Modi was anointed as BJP’s PM candidate. The sulking Advani was courted by the Lutyens media to fire salvo after salvo against Modi. But media did what it was supposed to do i.e. help the Congress ecosystem, and made mountains out of molehill. The sulking patriarch on the Hindu right rather than keeping his feelings private and blessing his protégée in public, decided to play into the hands of the same media.

    The dissent was crushed to a great extent by Modi but it keeps rising time and again, sometimes led by old horses who are hurt by the fact that they were ignored when crumbs of power were thrown around. The biggest failure of this season has been Arun Shourie who resorted to personal attacks against Modi and called him narcissistic and dictator in a live show hosted by Karan Thapar.

    But Shourie is not the only politician/intellectual who can be accused of such mud-slinging. This mud-slinging fest is actually even more common among the intellectuals. The feud between Malhotra and Ganesh had hardly died when Talageri fired his ammo against Manasataramgini, a famous blogger on RW, questioning his views on AIT but character assassinating him in the process.

    While western scholars build consensus by slightly modifying each others’ views in peer reviewed journals, the Hindus come out as clowns who don’t lose any chance to bring each other down over minor disagreements.

    Since the left still controls the public narrative, the need of the hour is to keep the dissent among Hindus internal rather than publicly vocalizing it. The intellectual debate in the public sphere should be encouraged, but any personal attacks should be avoided at all costs.

    There is another very important point which has slowed the growth of RW ecosystem in India. The number of retweets and endorsements by left wing portals and their contributors of their competitors’s articles far outnumber those by the RW. While Scroll and Caravan frequently endorse each other, the RW portals like Swarajya and Indiafacts hardly help each other grow.

    Moral of the story- RW needs to get its act together and work cooperatively with more emphasis on the common agenda rather than for petty personal fame, ego or money. Once RW gains control of the narrative and builds a healthy ecosystem, they will get enough opportunities for back biting and mudslinging. But till then they need to suck up to each other to survive else no one can save them from their premature death at the hands of left.

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  • Why Right to Education Act is evil

    Why Right to Education Act is evil

    Right to education act is being hailed as the landmark legislation in providing free and compulsory education to all Indian kids and is touted to be the greatest achievement of the UPA. The propaganda surrounding it is so severe that many Indians, who are otherwise sane, normal and anti-congress seem to think it is the best thing ever. They seem to have internalised the propaganda of the media and politicians that Free and Education are such good words that if they come together they will make the world even better. In the end, everyone seems to care more about the buzzword “free education” and the snake oil sales pitch, “Right to Education”, than its fine points or harmful effects on the ground. Even a brief analysis of the fine texts of the Right to Education act will tell a common reader, not fully drenched in propagandist nonsense, on how evil this law is. The government which has failed to provide decent education infrastructure in 60 years is now hell bent upon destroying whatever little is left in private education sector.

    Quantity argument

    Most of the support for RTE comes from the middle and poor class Hindus, who think that RTE is great because it forces the large private schools to collect less money than they otherwise would. But those Hindus don’t seem to understand that the RTE does more harm to the low tier, low budget private schools than it does to cap what the large schools will collect as fees. For example, many people don’t know that one of the RTE stipulations in many states, is to pay the teachers a minimum salary as recommended by 6th pay commission of India. For example, the teachers should be played a salary of 23,000 Rs/month in Delhi just like their government school counterparts. But most of the private schools in towns, villages and in some cases cities, are low budget/low tier ones where the fees they collect is minimal, to the tune of 500 to 1000 Rs/month. Do you expect them to pay their teachers the salary in accordance with 6th pay commission or shut shop? Also, there is stipulation that the student teacher ratio should be 30:1. Given fees of 500 Rs/month per students and 30 students per teacher, it gives a monthly collection of 15,000 Rs. So how exactly will the small school run after paying 30,000 Rs/month as salary to its teachers while getting a fee of 500 Rs/month per student? So either the small schools should increase the fees to make a profit or close down.

    But raising the school fees above a point in villages and towns would make the parents leave the schools in favour of undermanned and under quality government schools, which successive governments have completely ignored till now. This is exactly how the small schools are getting closed down in India, with some estimates suggesting closure of 10,000+ schools till now. If you take an average student population of 500 in each of these closed schools, it is a total of 50,00,000 (50 lakhs) students who are forced to study in a school which is below par what they were studying before RTE came into force. Thanks to Jholachaps sitting in AC offices, these poor students are now studying in rag-tag government schools instead of low tier/low budget but better private school. Think logically why would the parents pay 500 Rs/month for a private school if they did not think that those schools were better quality than the neighbouring government schools, which were giving free education anyway. Also, those 10,000+ closed schools would have turned into 100,000+ schools if not for the fact that RTE is not implemented properly in many states and many schools bribe RTE enforcing officers as that is the only way for them to stay afloat. This is one of the examples where corruption is better than following law at giving results when the law is ridiculously stupid. Is it any wonder that in many areas poor Hindu students are forced to be educated in madarassas, since the advent of RTE has forced closure of Hindu schools but has exempted all minority ones? Also, the same presstitutes who ran horror stories on big school fees and pimped for RTE are now completely silent on the destruction of the Hindu schools under RTE. In which country except India the closure of 10,000+ schools will not be news worthy and remain confined to internet and social media?

    As per RTE, the government has made it mandatory for the private schools to admit 25% of its students free of cost. Since schools are a service provider just like any service provider, they need profits to operate as they are not in the business for charity. Since 25% of the students will get education for free and schools are not there for social service, so someone needs to foot the extra bill. Who else but the remaining 75% students and their parents had to bear this cost to subsidize the 25% freeloaders. To prevent hue and cry against it, the government being a good Samaritan that it is, decided to help the 75% as well by stating that government would take care of the cost of those 25%. But schools, just like any service provider like IT industry or retail shops, would have taken advantage of the free government subsidy for the poor students and increased the fees for the education, in the hope that Government would pay for it any way. Given this incentive problem the government decided to cap the maximum fee that schools can charge from their students. So you can see how government created layers of problems and then laws to solve the initial problem.

    The above maze of laws has created a big misconception that since the government subsidises the private schools for the 25% costs so there should be no problem. But this government subsidy for the 25% is based on the average school fees for the average student and hence the government subsides for the poor/low tier/low budget schools would still be only 500 Rs/month which is inadequate to help them. The government subsidies will only help the top tier schools which are already collecting 30,000 Rs/year or more as fees. But even they are not so lucky as the government subsidy for the poor students do not reach these schools in time, sometimes running arrears to the tune of 3-4 years. So in the short term, those schools have to face big financial crisis. One can only imagine how great it would be to run a business with 75% of the revenues which you are supposed to get at some point but don’t know when.

    Quality argument

    This fairy tale sounds perfect until one looks at the effect such law will have on school quality. The middle class wanted the schools to be cheap and found this proposal very good as they all see the schools as rip-offs, even though they voluntarily send their kids to these schools after fully knowing their fees. But since the government has now put a maximum cap on the school fees, the schools cannot increase the quality of the education nor the amount of extracurricular activities since they can’t afford any new activities given this fee cap. This has lead to stagnation of the quality of education in the schools. So not only schools have closed down but RTE has also had an effect on school quality.

    So the middle class parents, who are now better off due to income increase or are simply ready to sacrifice to ensure better quality of education for their kids, need to find a new school and this new school will invariably be a Christian school since Christian schools are exempt from the RTE. These Christian schools can charge whatever fees they want and pay whatever salary they want to their employees. They can invariably operate under a profit and hence afford new extracurricular activities in their schools like horse raiding, tennis, swimming etc and leave behind all other schools operated by Hindus.

    Since the middle class Hindus are too cool, too selfish and too intelligent to live with their parents, the children of such middle class Hindus would be raised in Christian schools, without any one teaching them their actual tradition and history. These same children would then grow up to be Hindus in name only(HINO) and die hard liberals who would think Hinduism is bad and illiberal while corpse worship and ritualised cannibalism of Christianity is a great tradition. They would end up thinking how Secularism is synonymous with anti-Hinduism and progress, just like how most urban Hindus educated in convent schools think today. Is it any wonder that UPA under the evangelical waitress Sonia Gandhi decided to come up with this brilliant education bill and got ample support by the anti-Hindu and anti-India Marxist cabal as well as the Hindus in name only brigade of BJP? Now you know why the American with brown skin and Hindu name i.e. BJP chief minister Devendra Fat Novice (oops Fadnavis) is more than happy to educate his daughter in Christian convent school.

    Would RTE be less evil if it includes minority schools?

    Even if this act is implemented in such a way that the minority institutions are to be included under it, it still won’t help the lower middle class Hindu parents, who want their sons and daughters to study in a school where there is a better quality of education than the one provided in the government schools but cannot afford to send their children to fancy convent schools or big shot private residency type schools since the RTE act is especially vicious against the low-tier private schools. So instead of news like how Hindu students are forced to go to madarassas, there will be news on how Hindus students are now stacked in low quality government schools. Of course, the media would ignore that those Hindu parents and children had no option of low-tier, low budget private schools, which were closed off due to RTE act, just like how media is ignoring the closure of more that 10,000+ schools since the implementation of this act. Hence, the suggestion by the pathologically altruistic and brainwashed Hindu middle class that RTE is flawed only because of its non-applicability to religious minority institutions and can be fixed by enforcing it on minorities is equally stupid.

    In short, RTE is a travesty of justice to the educational rights of poor Hindu children, designed specifically to kill off Hindu educational institutions and to re-establish the hold on the private school education which the Church had before liberalization of Indian economy in 1991. The subsequent level playing field for Hindu educational institutes was destroyed in one strike by RTE by masquerading under a wonderful buzzword called “Free Education”. The useful idiots i.e. Hindu middle class still can’t see how they have willingly placed this dynamite under their own civilization. So long as destructive policies like RTE are supported based on personal feelings of goodness, disregarding the destruction they can cause to the future of the very same people they are supposed to help, there is no hope for a better India. Closure of 10,000+ schools has already denied a better future to 50 lakh students, how many more lives are you willing to destroy for feeling good about yourself and stoking your ego with fake charity whose cost will be ultimately borne by the dark future of poor students?

  • How India can get a pro-Hindu party

    How India can get a pro-Hindu party

    This is the fourth and final article in this series on explaining the problems with emergence of a real Hindu party. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

    The previous article clearly articulated that BJP is not a pro-Hindu party or a proper nationalist party, so now the question arises: how can Hindus get a proper Hindu party? One method which we earlier suggested was to vote out BJP in local elections like municipalities, corporations and panchayats as a punishment for deviating from its pro-Hindu status and pro-nationalist stance, while voting it in to give it one more chance to perform at the national and state levels. Instead, pro-Hindu independent candidates can be voted in within their respective constituencies. This is one way to generate feedback to BJP and dissuade it from deviating from a pro-Hindu agenda.

    The next, more important step is to infiltrate parties with pro-Hindu leaders at various levels by preferentially voting for them where possible.

    Thirdly, if BJP does not serve as a proper pro-Hindu, pro-nationalist party, and if Hindus make it clear that any new party which is pro-Hindu has huge prospects in India, a new political party will emerge from the vacuum, much like BJP emerged from the vacuum in the 1980s, from a party of two MPs to a party with a single-party majority today. Such a hardline Hindu stance can be conveyed by voting in staunch Hindus like Yogi Adityanath, Kalyan Singh, Sakshi Maharaj and Uma Bharati, giving them massive electoral victories by consolidating behind them.

    Finally, the worst thing Hindus can do is keep voting for BJP without any change in their voting pattern or any tactical thought behind it, even though that is precisely what BJP fanboys want them to do. BJP fanboys claim that since BJP is the least-worst option, it should not be criticized or punished by Hindus when it engages in jumlas for votes without doing anything for Hindus. What is the point of having BJP in power if it won’t do anything good for Hindus anyway? Careful analysis of BJP fanboy rhetoric will show how pathetic their position is. They seem inclined to believe that constant whining and bellyaching by fanboys and Hindus on social media like Facebook and Twitter will solve the problem of BJP not doing anything for Hindus. This is absurd considering that BJP is a political party like any other and will not care about what its fanboys think so long as it can get their votes. It has even made clear on multiple occasions that BJP’s top leadership thinks its fanboys are a nuisance for the BJP and its inclusive agenda.

    Also, BJP and its fanboys are probably the only people in the whole world, besides communists, who ask what their supporters did for them, as if supporters owe them anything. Natural logic goes the other way, as political parties exist to cater to the needs of their voters. Hence any logical and neutral person can clearly see that BJP fanboy logic — whining and bellyaching on social media but voting for BJP anyway — will not yield any results, as BJP is more than happy to keep the pot boiling at just the right temperature to stay in power without actually fixing any problems.

    Ironically enough, sometimes the same BJP fanboys go to extreme lengths to defend BJP’s position by claiming that it is a truly secular party and hence should not do anything for Hindus, even though they jump everywhere to silence people who ask for a new right-wing Hindu party to emerge. This only begs the question: why do they even bother to speak against the call for a true Hindu party or an alternative to BJP which they claim is a truly secular and not pro-Hindu party? The cognitive dissonance of these fanboys can be judged from their circular logic:

    1. BJP is not perfect.
    2. But there is no alternative to BJP.
    3. Therefore assume that BJP is perfect.
    4. Since BJP is now assumed to be perfect, we cannot criticize it.
    5. But since BJP cannot be criticized, there will never be an alternative.
    6. Given there will be no alternative, BJP is the only option, which takes us back to point 2.

    Even hardcore Hindus think that a Hindu voting bloc will fall like manna from heaven or BJP will suddenly start implementing the Hindu agenda. But the fact is that until Hindus learn to punish anyone who tramples on their traditions, no party will ever turn pro-Hindu. The day they start punishing anti-Hindu agendas, every party will turn pro-Hindu. But to achieve that they need to put Hindu priorities above party or organization. How will it work?

    1. Voters go vocal on pro-Hindu issues.
    2. Congress and all others see it and turn a bit right on Hindu issues.
    3. Given this opportunity, a new vocal far-Hindu-right party will emerge.
    4. Looking at all this change, BJP will turn even more right.
    5. End result: the entire political spectrum in India will shift pro-Hindu.

    India will then become something like the West, which is secular but still proudly proclaims its Judeo-Christian roots. But if you keep giving breathing space to every BJP politician when they backtrack on their promises, then it won’t happen. Just look again at the cognitive-dissonance algorithm of fanboys above to understand why. Shivraj needs to pay for his Bhojshala rollback; the same goes for Fat-Novice on the Shani temple fiasco.

    It would be better if Hindus learn something from Jews instead of fawning over them with irrational love, so that the Hindu agenda is obeyed no matter who is in power. Such a transition in politics would require actual work on the ground, which would send a message to BJP and other political parties that pro-Hindu policies and parties have huge potential to achieve power in India. The least destructive way to achieve it is by voting out BJP in local elections while explaining why they wouldn’t vote for sell-outs and brown-skinned Americans with Hindu pretensions. If Hindus start to build a consensus together now, either BJP will turn into a real pro-Hindu party or an alternative pro-Hindu party will arise within a decade, much like how pro-Modi consensus was formed within two years after 2012.

    Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series.

  • Why BJP is not a pro-Hindu party

    Why BJP is not a pro-Hindu party

    This is the third article in this series on explaining the problems with emergence of a real Hindu party. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4.

    Anyone who follows the realpolitik of the USA would observe that Republicans and their religious right are pro-Israel to the hilt. For instance, the Iraq war was orchestrated by Republican president Bush to help get rid of Israel’s local threat, Saddam’s Iraq. Does that mean that the left in the USA is anti-Jew or anti-Israel? In most communities or groups, when the right wing is pro-something, is the left wing usually anti the same thing? Of course not. The Democrats are equally fanatical supporters of Zionism and Israel, and Democrats under Obama and Hillary destabilized the entire Middle East from Libya to Syria for protecting the interests of Israel, often wasting the overall geopolitical influence, power and wealth of the USA. Jews usually have massive influence over the countries they live in, often disproportionate to their numbers, which forms an interesting case study in simple realpolitik. How Jews get their agenda implemented in the USA should be a case study for all aspiring Hindus.

    Hindu nationalists often have an irrational love for Israel and huge admiration for Jews and their resilience. But have they learnt anything from them for implementing their own agenda? No. For instance, compare how Jews try to play both sides of the political spectrum by influencing both Democrats and Republicans in elections, so that no matter who comes to power, both serve the interests of Israel and Jews. Comparatively, Hindu nationalists still can’t seem to make up their minds whether their loyalty is to the ideology and Hindu cause or the supposedly Hindu party called BJP.

    If Hindus have to win this ideological war against the Abrahamics and their numerous cousins — Marxists, feminists, liberals, seculars, etc. — they need to learn these games from the Jews they admire rather than chanting pro-Israel slogans without caring for Indian national interests. Thus, the first step is to determine whether their loyalty lies with any organization or with their ideology. Blind loyalty to a party or organization will only lead to the betterment of the party and not their ideology, and vice versa. So even if BJP portrays itself as a pro-Hindu party, it is much better to have an alternative as well in case BJP fails to deliver on its promises to Hindus or meet the expectations of its core Hindu voters. The objective should be to force all parties towards accepting a Hindu core agenda, such that they get punished for violating a certain threshold or Lakshman Rekha.

    To achieve this objective one first needs to make up one’s mind and analyse whether BJP is actually a pro-Hindu party or whether it is just a bubble created by media to keep Hindus bogged down and never let them realize what a pro-Hindu party should look like. To do this study, one needs to look at recent events and assess whether BJP passes the smell test of being a pro-Hindu party:

    1. Shani temple issue, where Dev Fadnavis, a brown American with Hindu pretensions, decided to desecrate Hindu traditions just to appease an anti-Hindu feminist, even though the majority of common Hindus in Maharashtra, and indeed the whole of India, are against the idea, except perhaps his equally deracinated brown-American brothers stuck in Hindu India.
    1. Bhojshala temple, where the BJP government of Madhya Pradesh sold out Hindus and their temple to Mullahs.
    1. Right to Education Act, which is a special case of BJP not backstabbing Hindus but being outright anti-Hindu, where BJP actively supported getting it passed and till now hasn’t taken any interest in fixing it. In fact, the brown American with an Indian passport, Devendra Fadnavis, is actively implementing the RTE Act with zealotry in Maharashtra, causing the closure of several thousand Hindu schools, while his daughter gets educated in a Christian convent which is outside the ambit of the RTE Act.
    1. NIT students were backstabbed by BJP for staying in power in Kashmir. While apologists claim that BJP is doing good by staying in power, any neutral observer should ask what good such power is in the hands of BJP if their ground supporters are going to be screwed by Islamists and anti-nationals anyway.
    1. Not showing any interest in fixing academia in India, which is the fountainhead of Hinduphobic discourse, sowing seeds for sectarianism, often spewing venom against Hindus and justifying Islamic savagery in medieval India while simultaneously downplaying facts like the destruction of thousands of temples as fiction of Hindutva imagination, even though the Islamic barbarians themselves wrote books praising and extolling their rulers for destroying these temples and killing millions of innocent Hindus.

    To make matters worse, the esteemed HRD minister Smriti Irani is more concerned about veg and non-veg food being served in Indian colleges than fixing the rot in today’s academia — going after useless brainwashed idiots like Kanhaiya rather than the academic snakes and ringmasters who brainwash newer generations of students through anti-national propaganda in institutes like JNU. Smriti Irani even gets applause from BJP fanboys when she proudly proclaims how she hasn’t changed a single book, academician, course or syllabus since she became HRD minister, to bolster her neutral credentials. The fact is that fixing academia is something which doesn’t need Rajya Sabha backing or a majority, but just political will.

    1. The decision to induct women into combat forces, with Home Minister Rajnath saying that they will give 33% reservation for women in CRPF and open frontline combat roles for women in the Army. Should we not learn from the Ambur Muslim riots in Tamil Nadu, where many policewomen were molested and harassed? And this is an incident which happened inside India where Hindus are the majority. You can easily imagine the horror of sending Hindu women into combat against the Pakistani army, which is ISIS except in name. It’s not that they will refrain from rape or torture or treat them like saints, given the way they behaved in Bangladesh. BJP is once again more interested in being brown Americans with Hindu names, just like their fanboys who support this initiative against common sense merely to satisfy an imported ideology of absolute gender equality without understanding India’s security environment. Of course, women have a place in police and that should be limited to women police dealing with women in riots or brown-skinned American degenerates like Trupti Desai when they try to turn India into a brown-skinned version of the Western cesspool, but not fighting against Pakistani barbarians outside and inside India.
    1. Multiple flip-flops on Pakistani diplomacy — from “terror and dialogue cannot go hand in hand” as promised in the election manifesto, to currently following the clone policy of Congress, i.e. uninterrupted and uninterruptible dialogue no matter how many terrorist attacks happen inside India. BJP fanboys now shamelessly defend it by invoking the fallacy of authority, while they derided Congress as anti-national for doing the same thing.

    So it can be established fairly certainly that BJP is not a pro-Hindu party or an actual Indian nationalist party with any sort of common sense beyond what its white masters deem fit to be progressive and appropriate. If you have any doubt, read this to understand what should be the demands to classify any party pro-Hindu. It is only the media which has built this image for BJP over a long period of time. At best BJP can be claimed to be a less anti-Hindu and less anti-national party than the Communist-Congress cabal. This is one reason BJP can be given some slack for now and should still be voted into power in state and national elections with a thumping majority if possible, because voting for other parties, especially the Communists, Congress cabal or its numerous clones like AAP, BSP, JDU and DMK, in such crucial elections is akin to Hindus committing harakiri.