The lower rung BJP leaders every now and then are known to raise the bogey of TFR (total fertility rate) and exhort Hindus to increase their fertility. No sooner are such ideas floated than the entire media gets up in arms, leading to disowning of such members and comments by top leaders.
While the left chastises the TFR brigade by citing their ill-founded fears about Muslim population explosion, the neo-liberal supporters on the right — although acknowledging the problem — fail to react because they don’t or can’t match the resolve of Muslim women, as Hindu women are not captive breeders.
But truth be told, gullible Hindus hide their personal choice of having few kids by hiding under the intellectual veneer of excess population, environment-saving, women’s empowerment and other ideas that they have been spoon-fed since independence and have taken up with great zeal like any other nouveau convert to modern memes. The national and state governments too have played their role to a large extent, hence we find open support for this government propaganda which has put the responsibility of saving the world squarely on Hindu shoulders.
But how does the TFR actually look? We present the result for the two religions from the 2011 census for different states.
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A few things to notice here. First, Muslim fertility is higher in almost all states. Second, the fertility is hovering around or below 2 for most Hindus — below replacement level. So Hindu population in these states will actually fall in the future. Third, it is not that Muslims are having too many children — it is just that Hindus are having too few children, which allows Muslims to keep the same percentage fertility gap (the only thing which matters for population share growth).
Another important point to note is that the percentage difference is much higher in some states which are important demographically — like Assam and West Bengal. The surprise addition is Haryana, with the highest TFR difference between the two communities. The current Muslim share of Haryana’s population is very low and so it would not impact right now, but if the trends continue Haryana too will join the list of west UP districts. Delhi was already surrounded by high Muslim population in west UP, Alwar and Mewat. If Haryana keeps going on this trajectory, the encirclement of Delhi will soon be complete.
But what is causing this great fall in Hindu fertility?
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It is the urban Hindu who is showing the same trend everywhere — his fertility is hanging around 1.5 level. In some states it has gone down to 1, like in West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh. The low Hindu fertility in urban areas generates a much higher percentage difference between the two religions. Rural areas, though better than urban areas, are still lagging behind Muslim TFR.
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While Assam and West Bengal are undergoing big demographic change and everyone is aware of the influx of illegal Bangladeshis there, no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room — the TFR difference between two communities in these two states. The percentage TFR gap is around 80% in Assam and 45% in West Bengal. It is easy to blame the illegals but one cannot deny the low fertility of Hindus in these regions as a big part of the problem. While Kerala and west UP would not have as many illegals as Assam or West Bengal, they too are facing a similar problem — and the question is why? It’s the TFR, stupid.
Key takeaways
Muslims have higher TFR than Hindus in almost all states
The absolute TFR is falling for the whole country — for both Hindus and Muslims
The absolute TFR difference between Hindus and Muslims is now at 0.55
The percentage TFR difference between the two communities is at 26%, down from 30% in NFHS3 (2005–06), but still very high
The TFR percent difference is still very high for Assam, West Bengal and Kerala, thus making them hotspots — the new addition is Haryana
Urban Hindus are fertility shredders — most states showing below replacement level TFR of 2.1
Hindus will be chiefly to blame themselves for the future change in demographics in most regions. The high cost of raising children is not an argument that will cut with nature. Nature is ruthless to those who under-breed. While it is easy to blame governments (which is needed, because they keep TFR numbers guarded or under the radar and don’t take action against illegals), a big blame lies with the individuals too. If you see the numbers of Muslims multiplying in your area, you should trust your own hunch rather than government. And most importantly — act on it.
We bestow upon you the ten secular commandments of secularism. Follow these or eternal damnation in hell fire awaits you.
1. Secularism is the Law, thy God: This ascribes the status of sacrosanct to secularism.
2. Thou shalt have no other laws before me: Yes, this implies Dharma is illegal.
3. No graven images or likenesses: Simply put, no one is allowed to represent, analyze, deconstruct secularism from any other point of view. Secularism is the point of view from which everything else should be analyzed.
4. Not take the secularism’s name in vain: Even doubting secularism amounts to blasphemy and you automatically get labeled and charged as a communal person.
5. Remember the sabbath day: Yes, and forget all your sacred Hindu days for they no longer matter in the scheme of things.
6. Honour thy father and thy mother: Thy father is the Law, thy mother is the secular education with which you have been brought up.
7. Thou shalt not kill: For violence is the prerogative of secularism, which can kill you if it finds you violating any of the other commandments.
8. Thou shalt not steal: Only the secular state can and will steal from you and give the spoils to its apostles.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour: Secularism decides what witness is true or false. You have no standing in the matter.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s properties: But the secular state will come after your temples, your temple donations, your schools and everything else that you hold dear.
In short secularism, is nothing but manifestation of the next upgrade on the standard Abrahamic software first developed in Jooland. Whether it is Abrahamism part-4 or 5 is immaterial. Hindus would do well to learn these commandments by heart else Secular GOD will come down upon them with vengeance.
Continuing with bursting the bubble on “we’re already at the brink,” this is part 2 in this series of population articles. Part 1, where we already addressed myths of India already having an overall high population number, and high population density can be found here: Over-population-is-good-for-india-and-indian-society.
Myth 3: India cannot feed its population if this population growth continues
This is a myth which has been propagated right from the time of the British, which their brown sahibs, the Indian National Congress party and its ideological cousins, the commies have projected fully onto the Indian population. India once was a country which was world renowned for manufacturing and export of fabrics & clothes, enjoying patronage from times of Greeks till even the 16th century. Such a feat was made possible because the Indian population was well fed, and had enough spare land to cultivate cotton and weave them into a variety of fabrics & clothes for exports. India subsequently under the Raj was reduced to a country of mass starvation, because of the forced cultivation of indigo, tobacco, opium etc. by the British over the food cultivation. To hide the genocide the British engineered on Indian peasants for their greed, the British blamed the over population of India and how Indian famine is due to Indian population being too high. Please take a note, even with famines resulting in millions of deaths, British didn’t stop the export of food grains out of India. Now, in place of the British, we have the mentally colonized brown sahibs from Congress and Communists, who peddle the same lies for starvation in India. They say there’s a lack of land and overpopulation instead of addressing the actual reasons – the virtual absence of social mobility for the Indian farmers, largely due to over regulation of the business sector and industrial sector.
A fair few of the well-heeled in India, who would like to invest in industries or business, they don’t even try to venture into the business world. They are to a large extent put off by the gargantuan amount of regulations, with varying complexities, all of which they have to tackle in order to become successful. In states where the Communists flex muscle, like West Bengal and Kerala, labor unions have scared most investors away with their politicking. This has reduced the population in those particular states to earn their wealth serving either other Indians, or, serving others outside India, where conditions vary from good to plain atrocious. Many of the working class, they have to contend with conditions worse than they had in India itself. Many a videos of workers whose passports are snatched away, food rationed, residing in poor living quarters can be found online to substantiate this. Despite all this, the political leadership espouses virtues of communism/ socialism, while the natives of the land are away from their homeland, with almost nonexistent rights available to them in the countries they work. Scarily enough, real trouble runs even deeper. Since most business sectors and industrial sectors are over regulated, it reduces the incentive for private companies to invest. As a consequence, many jobs which would otherwise be created, they don’t end up anywhere but the drawing board. The farmers, who as it is are not able to make their ends meet, they find themselves unable to switch to something else even if their life depended on it. To add insult to injury, they put in place laws restricting usage, essentially making it illegal to use agricultural land for any other purpose than agriculture. This means a farmer won’t be able to sell his land to a real estate developer/ industrialist, who are likely to provide far bigger compensation for the land, than would another farmer. The farmers in effect have no choice and are somewhat forced to work in farming sector, whether he is able to meet his ends from farming or not. This is why many of the farmers live in abject poverty, often propped only by welfare measures of the brown saheb regimes, whose very policies cursed them to this position in the first place. Many people have apprehension about farmland being developed into real estate, but that is to forget that not all such land was farmland to begin with. In fact, there is more farmland in India today than there was in 1947. So we can safely say protecting the present farmlands is not the only way to increase area under cultivation. The crushing pressure which is but the result of it all, leads many to take their own lives which is a matter of national shame.
An area where Indian agriculture could certainly improve is production from present area under cultivation. Small farmers in India are mostly poor, and are not in any position to adopt massive scale modern technology like tractors, harvesters, improved hybrid seed varieties, improved irrigation techniques etc. In short, most of them are somewhat stuck with their unproductive and unscientific methods of farming for life. It is worth noting that till 18th century, this was the case for all the countries in the world. However, the developed nations of the west today were able to change the system by following exactly the opposite of what the Congress & Communist ideologues have done – that is to encourage people out of agriculture into more productive fields, like services sector and industrial sector. It is worth noting, that none of the industrialized and developed countries of the west presently have agriculture employing more than 5% of the population. The percentage of population employed in agriculture is about 8% for Japan, 5% for USA, 2% for UK, 3% for France etc. Since in those countries, farmers own large quantities of land, they can afford to adopt newer more productive technologies into agriculture easier and faster and lead their lives comfortably from farming, simply through economies of scale. For example, if there are two farmers, A and B, with A having 20 acres of land and B having 1 acre of land for farming. Even if A only gets Rs.500 per month per acre as opposed to B’s Rs.1000 per month per acre, A will get a net income of Rs.10,000 per month from his 20 acre land as opposed to B’s income of Rs.1000 per month from 1 acre land. Not easy to comprehend that A will be living a good life style, and B will be living a poverty stricken one. The latter is the story of majority of the Indian farmers today.
So why is it all relevant to the discussion of overpopulation in India? Contrary to popular belief, India actually has a lot more land per capita for farming, much higher quality of land for farming. Indian lands can be farmed all through the year, unlike the western farms which can only be farmed during summer, thanks to excellent Indian climate. For example, Japan, South Korea, UK, Italy, France, Belgium etc. all have lower per capita farmland than India. Even China has a lower per capita farmland than India, but many people mistakenly believe that china has more farmland due to its size. But majority of China’s land is deserts like Tibetan plateau and Gobi desert and jungles. Believe it or not, Indian per capita farmland is 50% more than that of China’s per capita farmland. India actually has a far higher area under cultivation than China. However, Indian agricultural outputs are actually lower than that of China, even though Chinese agricultural outputs are nowhere near as high as most western countries or Japanese agricultural output. Based on all this, one can conclusively say that the problem of Indian agriculture is using outdated techniques for cultivation, irrigation etc. and not a problem of lack of arable land. a1 Info taken from FAO. Indian wheat yields lowest in the world.
Today, India is food secure, unlike the India of 1947. This idea of population not being fed properly comes from now discredited idea of Malthusian view of population and economics, which postulated that population growth cannot be matched by food production, which erroneously matched population growth model of future with the agricultural output and techniques available then, that is the 18th century. If India can get rid of pathological legislations and labor laws and licenses, the output of Indian farms can more than quadruple. “Too good to be true”, you say? Consider that average Indian yield per hectare for most food crops is only 1/4th that of the developed countries, so this is but easily achievable. Even with present day technology, India can sustain a population 3 times higher, let alone what the future technologies can bring to agriculture. Think about it, with GMOs, & other research presently underway, the production can only improve. All in all, the statement that India cannot support a high population is a myth, which is not grounded in fact or logic, but is propaganda propounded by Congress & Communist ideologues who gave rise to many problems we face today. You can find the per capita Arable land figure for India here: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Agriculture/Arable-land/Hectares-per-capita#amount. Note that India has the 109th position in the ranking when it comes to low land per hectare, meaning there are 108 countries in the list which have lower per capita land than India. Also to be noted is that the per capita arable land for India is 0.129 which is the same as that of the 20 times richer Western Europe, which nobody in their right mind calls over populated.
Myth 4: India is water starved and Indian population can’t sustain itself due to lack of water
Here is the list of countries of the world and their “Renewable” water availability per capita: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ER.H2O.INTR.PC?year_high_desc=false. In this list, we can see Israel (whose per capita renewable water availability is 4 times lower than that of India), Egypt, Hungary, Denmark, Belgium ( EU headquarters which wants more population to sustain its demography) are some of the countries which have poorer water availability than India. While countries like Germany, South Korea, Czech Republic etc. have similar per capita water level of India, and yet nobody thinks of these countries as water starved. The water problem in India is not because of the lack of water sources, but rather lack of proper management of existing water sources. This needs proper management of our resources and not reduction of our population. Also, do note that water availability for most of the population of India as a percentage of population, it has actually increased in the recent years than decrease with increase in population. This increase is a direct result of better management of the available water resources. This is not even taking into account the massive potential saltwater desalination plants have in water management. In fact, Israel, which has only 1/4th the Water availability of India, has a TFR of 3 as opposed to Indian TFR of 2.3 which is already below natural replacement rate for many of the regions.
For all the useless platitudes which are passed around, a result of perverse sense of enemy of my enemy mentality, Hindu RW sure doesn’t want to learn anything useful for their survival from Israel. The Israeli TFR is maintained high at the encouragement of their state, and their population has a good demographic base for their survival against their surrounding enemies. In face of this, Hindu RW is pretty happy adopting liberal memes which will kill them demographically, a slow, but inevitable death. The self-appointed Hindu thekedars, i.e. BJP/ RSS, presently in power in Assam for instance, is planning to pass a law forbidding people having more than 2 children from holding government offices (also MP). Since a large part of bureaucracy is formed by Hindus, is it a step in right direction? Compare that with the way Israeli government (which is supposedly secularist if one believes the right wing nutters of western media) encourages its Jewish citizens to have more children. In the next and final part of this series, we will take a look at one of the biggest myths thrown in our face, myth that unemployment will increase with rise in population numbers.
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Our Monster, their Hero — Britain celebrates mass murderer.
Last month British people started using a crisp new £5 bill that features arch imperialist, militant white supremacist and genocidal megalomaniac Winston Churchill. After all, white supremacism is never having to say sorry — except when the victims are fellow white Europeans.
Churchill — the man responsible for 4 million deaths during the Bengal Holocaust in 1943, when a man-made famine was created in the then Indian province of Bengal (that included present-day Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Orissa and parts of Bihar) by diverting Indian grains to Europe to feed British troops and for storage in Britain as a buffer stock against shortages. His reply to Indian requests for food aid was that the famine was “their own fault” for they “were breeding like rabbits.” He further inquired of British colonial authorities in India when Gandhi would die. Indeed, the evil in this man goes further than that — recent historical research has revealed that he rebuffed an American offer to sail ships loaded with grains to India to bridge the shortage.
Over in Europe, subsequent to the Wannsee conference in January 1942, the killing machines of the Nazi holocaust had not quite started in earnest yet. However, within a few weeks in the summer of 1943, somewhere between 3 to 4 million Indians were exterminated. It is important to keep in mind that these numbers were British colonial estimates — the real figure was probably higher, as colonisers are not in the habit of investigating their own crimes. Compared to the messy and industrial-style Nazi holocaust in Europe, the Indian holocaust was relatively clean and extremely efficient — the staggering body count was achieved through a simple and low-tech act of food stealing. No blood and gore for prim and proper Brits. Bengal holocaust remains the fastest genocide in human history.
In fact the British colonial history in India was littered with multiple famines and mass starvations brought on by colonial land tenure and predatory revenue systems along with British orders to Indian farmers to produce Indigo and opium in place of food grains — opium that the British were selling in China in yet another atrocity. It is estimated that anywhere between 20 million to 60 million Indians could have died in multiple famines during almost 200 years of British colonial rule in India. Subsequent to Indian independence in 1947, not a single famine has occurred.
The depredations of this mass murderer span Asia, Africa and even Europe. Yet Churchill was voted ‘Greatest Briton’ of all time in a recent poll in Britain, whose capital city London boasts of multiple statues and monuments to many colonial war criminals. Imagine for a moment if Germany were to issue a postage stamp featuring Hitler. The smug audacity displayed by Britain in celebrating genocide suggests that the sun might indeed have set on the empire, but the remnant of the empire remains thoroughly evil in spirit.
PS — Never forget what our ancestors suffered under this murderous zealot.
For a ravaging account, read Madhushree Mukherjee’s book on the Bengal famine — Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War 2. According to her: “Winston’s racist hatred was due to his loving the empire in the way a jealous husband loves his trophy wife: he would rather destroy it than let it go.”
Written by PS Arihant. Article sourced from Facebook post. Originally published October 3, 2016 on Yuga Parivartan.
This post on Dmitry K Belyaev’s work is quite fascinating and results in some interesting consequences. Belyaev, was a Soviet era Russian geniticist and victim of Lysenkoism, [1] losing his job as head of the Department of Fur Animal Breeding at the Central Research Laboratory of Fur Breeding in Moscow in 1948. Belyaev continued his work under the guise of studying animal physiology and his experiment which lasted 40+ number of years has some interesting consequences.
Belyaev was curious about the physiological or morphological changes accompanied by the process of domestication. Domestication being commonly associated with dogs, he reasoned that one way to test his hypothesis about how these changes occurred was to choose a canine species which never been previously domesticated and attempt to domesticate it. He selected Vulpes vulpes, the silver fox, and spent 26 years on his experiment, which continued post his death in 1985.
Belyaev had noticed that many domestic animals had undergone similar changes in morphology and physiology. Body sizes changed, colour pattern of their coat changed, and even tails changed. His hypothesis was that these changes were influenced by the genetic makeup of the animal and resulted from strong selective pressure. Specifically, he was concerned with the idea of selecting for “tamability”.
Starting with a batch of 30 male foxes and 100 female ones from a commercial farm in Estonia, [2] he conducted his experiment in the following manner. Breeding was only allowed when the foxes were considered “tame” and only the tamest 4-5% of male offspring and 20% of female offspring were allowed to breed. The foxes were untrained otherwise and were simply scored on their tameness evaluated by the metric of friendliness to the scientists. A strict three tier class system was used to categorize how tame foxes were. The friendliest to the experimenters would exhibit behaviour such as whimpering for attention, licking and sniffing the hands of the humans and an amount of docility.
This is where things get interesting.
The physical changes in the foxes were quite remarkable and easily distinguishable. They exhibited a fear response to external stimuli earlier than their wild cousins. Their coats changed colour and star shaped patterns on their foreheads were observed similar to certain breeds of dogs. Their ears became floppy which is particularly interesting since it is a characteristic of new born pups which carried over to adulthood. This is a consequence which has occurred in dogs called paedomorphosis or the retention of juvenile characters in the adult. Another interesting consequence was that the cranial morphology of domesticated adult males became “feminized” i.e. their sexual dimorphism decreased.
Now these were some interesting results. Masculinity and indeed physiological signs of adulthood decreased when the species was selected for tameness. In fact foxes which escaped returned eventually since they were unable to sustain themselves in the wild.
One can almost see the parallels between the feminized Western man under the selection pressure of feminism and the silver fox living in captivity for domestication. Selection pressure exhibits in the form of non-stop propaganda from the Cathedral on toxic masculinity of man and how it destroys women. But women’s mating strategies are still aimed towards exploiting traditionally “alpha” men [3] which is the very definition of toxic masculinity. And this already exhibits in many male feminists who look weak and effeminate. [4]
While the mechanism is not identical to the foxes, one can see the result of such a domestication of man. Men will become weak, feminized and women will become unhappy with them. Their domestication will leave them open to attack. Violence is golden and without it there is no order. [5] Without the capacity to commit violence, civilization will fall and that capacity comes from trusting the evolutionary benefits of traditional masculinity. TFR (Total Fertility Rate) is dropping in the West as a result.
Within the Indian context there are two relevant observations which can be made related to selection effect. Firstly, a millennia of Islamic invasions should have deeply affected the gene pool of Hindu men and women. The selection pressure included culling of the bravest and strongest as well as the wise and the intelligent. When juxtaposing Hindu discoveries in science and philosophy of old- for instance the Shulba Sutra which speak of the Pythagoras theorem or finding square roots, and the Samakhya philosophy on the conservation of matter [6] – it is instructive to think of the genetic damage wrought on the Hindus.
Secondly, it is also related to TFR difference across states in India. It is common stereotype that men in the North are more rowdy and violent than men in the South (and remember, stereotypes are good). Men from the South are considered to be more docile just like the foxes. Is it any wonder that South India has below replacement TFR? Whether docility came first or low TFR can be a point of debate (given economic conditions and government propaganda on high population) but looking at the example of foxes, it is hard to out-rightly reject the hypothesis of docile men leading to low TFR. Like Singapore, it appears that South India is increasingly becoming an IQ shredder. The fact that high IQ men and women who engage in careers are less likely to reproduce spells doom for the Hindus, simply because this means that feeble minded men and women will begin to dominate the demography. Will the Hindus survive a civil war should one arise due to shifting demography? This is an important topic of great consequence that we at Yuga Parivartan urge you to think about. The fact is career women are dysgenic and will lead to the ruin of our civilization. Fertility rates across India. Sourced from Wikipedia.
This post by Heartiste quite flawlessly describes the current Western social landscape while drawing parallels to the end of the Holy Roman Empire. While foxes have the experimenters to trust that they will look after them in their domesticated state of mind, humans have no such tangible guiding force and must reckon with the effects of the Cathedral. Perhaps now one can fully comprehend the consequences of the liberal propaganda. While the west can sit and wait for its doom, the effect of IQ shredders will be even more devastative for Hindus under an impeding demographic seize by Abrahamics. This also puts to rest the argument by those who bring in “quality” of offspring argument in the demographic debate as given above information it is more than clear that Hindus are losing both on the quality as well as quantity dimension.
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[1] Lysenko was a Soviet agrobiologist who attempted to reconcile Marxist theory with science. His rejection of Darwinian genetics in favour of his own ridiculous theories was so ridiculous that even Stalin knew he was a fraud.
[2] It must be noted that these were already more tame than wild foxes.
[3] The following is an excerpt from the paper linked above.
What does a woman want? The traditional evolutionist’s answer to Freud’s famous query is that a woman’s extensive investment in each child implies that she can maximize her fitness by restricting her sexual activity to one or at most a few high-quality males. Because acquiring resources for her offspring is of paramount importance, a woman will try to attract wealthy, high-status men who are willing and able to help her. She must be coy and choosy, limiting her attentions to men worthy of her and emphasizing her chastity so as not to threaten the paternity confidence of her mate.
The lady has been getting more complicated of late, however. As Sarah Hrdy1 predicted, we now have evidence that women, like other female pri- mates, are also competitive, randy creatures. Women have been seen com- peting with their rivals using both physical aggression2,3 and more subtle derogation of competitors.4 While they are still sometimes coy and chaste, women have also been described recently as sexy and sometimes promis- cuous creatures, manipulating fatherhood by the timing of orgasm, and using their sexuality to garner resources from men.
The real answer to Freud’s query, of course, is that a woman wants it all: a man with the resources and inclination to invest, and with genes that make him attractive to other women so that her sons will inherit his success. Her strategies for attaining these somewhat conflicting aims, and her success in doing so, are shaped by her own resources and options and by conflicts of interest with men and other women.
[4] Unsurprisingly, scientists have found a link between upper body strength and support for right wing politics. Leftists are weaklings.
[5] While Jack Donovan is more accessible in this age of modernity, this truth was first spoken by Sri Krishna –
Everything has its proper utility, and a man who is situated in complete knowledge knows how and where to apply a thing for its proper utility. Similarly, violence also has its utility, and how to apply violence rests with the person in knowledge. Although the justice of the peace awards capital punishment to a person condemned for murder, the justice of the peace cannot be blamed, because he orders violence to another person according to the codes of justice. In Manu-saṁhitā, the lawbook for mankind, it is supported that a murderer should be condemned to death so that in his next life he will not have to suffer for the great sin he has committed. Therefore, the king’s punishment of hanging a murderer is actually beneficial. Similarly, when Kṛṣṇa orders fighting, it must be concluded that violence is for supreme justice, and thus Arjuna should follow the instruction, knowing well that such violence, committed in the act of fighting for Kṛṣṇa, is not violence at all because, at any rate, the man, or rather the soul, cannot be killed; so for the administration of justice, so-called violence is permitted. A surgical operation is not meant to kill the patient, but to cure him. Therefore the fighting to be executed by Arjuna at the instruction of Kṛṣṇa is with full knowledge, so there is no possibility of sinful reaction.
[6] To truly admire the insight Hindu philosophy had into space and matter, read this post by the Acharya on the Lakshmi tantram
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As expected Indian hopes are once again getting crushed at Rio Olympics. Reams of paper have been wasted on explaining why India performs so badly in sports. In the end, it boils down to two arguments:
Nature (i.e. genes)
Nurture (i.e. institutional infrastructure)
It is the same argument which is usually evoked while talking about educational outcomes. The genetic buildup of student and style of teaching/facilities both matter for the educational outcome. But what makes sports at Olympics different than educational outcome is that in the first case it is only the “crème de la crème”, i.e. only the very best, which matter. So, the average genetic makeup, although important, is not the only reason for bad performance.
A lot of Indians fall for the first argument, while it is the latter which matters equally. If genetics were the only reason for performance, then countries would not go up or down on the medal tally. Comparing Russia against China makes this point abundantly.
Some quick points to notice here. Russians are slipping down the medal tally while Chinese have been on an upswing since their second debut in 1984. The number of Russian athletes participating at the Olympics has not gone down but they are winning fewer medals as well as gold medals. If this trend continues we would see further fall in Russian medal haul, which points towards deteriorating sporting facilities in Russia. This can become worse over time as Russia will lose key strategists and coaches over time if it does not perform well thereby losing historical advantage over time. China on the other hand is supposedly a poor country, with poor genetics but it is getting stronger year after year. Anyone who has gone to China can confirm the small size of an average Chinese. Even malnourished Indians look like giants in front of an average Chinese person. If it were just about genetics then China would have never made it to the top of the medal tally. So, what is working in favour of China?
This brings us to the second important point which is population size. The above graph gives population per medal and so darker green areas mean that more medals are won per capita. What is interesting to note here is that both India and China are white, i.e. they both win few medals per capita although China wins a lot of medals while India wins almost none. China produces one Olympic medal for every 15 million people, while India takes 206 million. You can check more similar maps here. So technically speaking big population gives a big advantage not just to China but other decent performing countries with high population like in South America. So the genetic argument looks a little bit weak when you can choose from 15 million people like in case of China!
So Indians can have a bad genetic makeup which is not suited for sports for the general population but it should not stop them from producing decent sportsmen who can win few medals at the Olympics. Now let’s look at some of the prominent Indian athletes to further understand the problem:
Sushil Kumar: Sushil Kumar was born in a Hindu Jat family of Baprola village, near Najafgarh in South West Delhi. His father, Diwan Singh, was a DTC bus driver, while his mother, Kamla Devi, is a housewife.
Vijender Singh: His father, Mahipal Singh Beniwal, is a bus driver with the Haryana Roadways, while his mother is a homemaker. His father drove extra buses for overtime pay so as to pay for Vijender and his elder brother Manoj’s education.
Mary Kom: Kom was born in Kangathei, in Churachandpur district of Manipur in eastern India. Her parents, Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom, worked in jhum fields.
These are just few examples to show the background of most of our athletes. Except the shooters like Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, most come from very humble background. Sports is make or break for many of them and many give it up for lack of support from the government and sports agencies. Also, most of them start their career late and usually give up as soon as they land up some decent job. Olympics is not just about talent any more and need intensive training and proper nutrition. And given social apathy, it is surprising that India can churn out a few sportsmen.
So unless GoI decides to focus on sports to increase medal tally in the future or rich Indians take up sports in big numbers, India will continue to see itself at the bottom of medal tally. In the meantime, India should thank its bus driver and farmer parents for showing immense courage to help support sporting dreams of their kids.
Cognitive dissonance or simply double standards lie at the edifice of post modern feminist discourse. It becomes even more apparent when this framework is applied without any careful thought to the Indian context because whites did not design the system for non-western, non-Abrahamic audience. Even careful mental gymnastics on the part of Indian feminists cannot clarify its vague incoherent framework and comes out in the open to haunt feminists in the abortion vs female foeticide debate.
One of the problems with feminist discourse is its malicious attempt at obscuring the true implications of the buzz words it uses. The phrase “bodily autonomy” or “My Body My Choice” is another such attempt. On the surface it sounds like something any sane person would endorse- the right to choose what to do with one’s own body. But well-meaning individuals fail to account for the fact that humans are bags of flesh littered with emotions. They are not driven by logic but by fear, longing and other primal urges. Simple pheromones can alter human behaviour. For this reason, it is important for humans to be guided less by their emotions and more by the structure and order provided by the shastras.
In the abortion debate, the foremost thing to consider is the definition of life. Leftists will argue that the child inside of you is not a human but a clump of cells. Other degenerate liberals will call it a parasite, the justification being that such terminology is supported by Science. This is an obfuscation since scientific terminology is not strictly scientific but inherently philosophical. By extending the principles of “parasitism” – a newly born baby is also a parasite, unable to function on its own, a life form which relies on its parents for sustenance. In a very similar sense, the old, the infirm and even unemployed are also parasites since they are forced to leech off on their kith and kin or the society they are in. Would it be humane to simply murder one’s parents once they reach an age where they may be “scientifically” considered a burden? Left liberals would have you believe that the people who have raised you, tended to you while you were ill and comforted you when you were afraid are burdens for you to rid of. Marxist literature exhorts men to cut familial ties, consider women tools and destroy social bonds to further their revolution. Destroying the institution of the family will achieve the total annihilation, since married men commit less crime. Feminism destroyed the Roman Empire, and even a bachelor tax couldn’t get men to enter the institution of marriage willingly.
Before going any further, it is important to provide a metaphysical definition of what is “alive”. The fact remains that there is no scientific way to discuss what is alive since there is no way to determine what death is. Bruce Charlton discusses it here; reproduced for your benefit:
For example, I heard the top British doctor-expert on coma and other “near-death” states, assert that we should not think of death as an event, but rather as a process. So there was no “moment of death” but only a period of time on one side of which was life, and the other death. The implication was that some people are stuck in this process for very long periods – maybe years.
He was responding to the fact that various definitions of death may conflict – cessation of the heart, activity in various parts of the brain, responsivity of the pupils, decomposition of internal organs such as the pancreas and adrenal – these signs do not co-occur simultaneously, and may be dissociated in some situations; plus of course they are, to some degree, reversible – so death cannot be conclusively pronounced until there are several or all of these signs in place for some length of time.
A simple solution to this conundrum can be stated thus:
If a human one is alive due to the sustenance drawn from its environment, a foetus is alive similarly.
Now that we have established that a foetus is alive, the topic of abortion shifts from “should women have bodily autonomy” to “should women have the right to murder their own young”.
Pro-abortionists are not truly trying to help women. They degrade them further by introducing the seemingly innocuous idea of free love, the idea that there are no consequences to casual sex. Of course women who have premarital sex tend to get divorced more, are more depressed, more disease ridden and less happy but leftists only like science when it comes to bashing the religious, they do not actually engage in the scientific method.
One defence of this cold-blooded murder is that a woman may not be financially well equipped to bring a child into this world. It suffices to say, that no one would calmly explain to a woman with a 3-year-old, that since times are tough it may be financially prudent to lop off the child’s head and dispose off the body quietly.
This is not an argument for a total ban on abortions. Life which is the product of rape or medical condition can be made an exception. The shastras endorse allowing abortion when the life of the mother is threatened. For all other cases, it is important for the civilized to restrain their carnal urges.
It is important to follow through with the consequences of allowing the right to kill one’s own young based on certain conditions. Consider this: If a condition x exists to allow for abortion other than the two I have mentioned above, then it follows that we may use this condition to allow for abortion according to preference of gender. Females are financial burdens more so than men, because of the costs associated with raising a girl. And this is a universal phenomenon. In India and other eastern societies it is even more pronounced because men are supposed to man up and take care of their old parents while daughters have no such social responsibility. It follows from this that feminists must necessarily support the perpetuation of female foeticide.
These conclusions are self-evident, requiring only a small amount of reasoning. Most feminists in India do not have the intellectual fortitude to follow through with their own logic for which they can be labelled as Morons among leftists. It is important to note that the Moron is only used as a tool by the Evil for the destruction of Hindu society. It is incumbent upon the right thinking Hindu to discuss these ideas being forced down the collective throat of Hindu society by the media before our children are murdered under the guise of “women’s rights”.
The author blogs at khatvaanga and tweets at @PaganTrad.
The cold-blooded murder of another unarmed black man by US police has once again brought to the fore the simmering racial resentment brewing in the seemingly peaceful ‘land of the free’ — the US of A.
Maybe now would be a good time for all those CIA-funded organizations like Ford Foundation and Greenpeace which are so fond of setting up self-righteous institutions preaching ‘democratic values’ to India to set up some of those institutions on US soil, since the US seems to need them more. Also, last year Obama castigated Bharat on our own soil for our allegedly shoddy state of human rights and exalted Gandhian values, which he thinks Bharat has strayed away from. Maybe someone should remind him of the values of Martin Luther King which his country seems to have strayed away from, given that black kids are being shot in the streets like it’s open season.
Interestingly, to remind the US of its human rights violations, China has set up a human rights council exclusively dedicated to hearing human rights violations happening in the US (informally referred to as the “China Human Rights Report”). This government organization was apparently started by China as a tit-for-tat response to the US taking potshots at China being a human rights shithole. Immediately after this happened, the US reports about Chinese human rights violations went down drastically. Now China rarely gets any coverage in the US media except an oblique and vague reference here and there about lack of ‘freedom’, but the pointed ideologically motivated attacks aimed at shaming China on the international platform have stopped.
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) — China published a report on the United States human rights situation on Thursday. The report, titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2015,” was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China’s cabinet, in response to “the 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” issued by the U.S. State Department. China’s report says that the United States made comments on the human rights situation in many countries while being tight-lipped about its own terrible human rights record and showing not a bit of intention to reflect on it.
India should start something like that and set up a panel to hear those Americans whose rights have been violated. Bharat should offer scholarships to families whose siblings are killed by the American police and invite them to come to Bharat and speak about the atrocities being committed on them by the US government — just like the US government sponsors activists like Priya Pillai and Arundhati Roy to badmouth our government. It should also aim to strike a strong alliance with the black community based on the deep-rooted and common ethos of civil rights activism against white man’s racism, building upon the foundation of our respective Mahatma Gandhi and their Martin Luther King legacy.
At the same time, the Muslim clerics in the US should urge black citizens to convert en masse to Islam and continue their struggle against the US government with international backing, instead of staying as second-class citizens under the Christian fold dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant White Men. Only then will the #BlackLivesMatter movement have any real traction. Otherwise it will be relegated just to the status of a Twitter hashtag. They need to follow the example of the late Mohammed Ali to take the fight to the white supremacists.
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Soviets had a history of igniting black-white race tensions. They leveraged this fault line very well during the Cold War — sending forged letters purporting to be from black people, addressed to the heads of armed white supremacist militias, which would then invariably trigger racial tensions. Now that the Soviet Union is no more, India, Russia, and China should set up a fund to help the black struggle in the US. Once this tinderbox is ignited, the US will have their hands full, and they will be disadvantaged against using underhanded tactics against developing BRICS nations, since their resources and attention will be divided and focused on handling their own problems.
Japanese have once again proved their pragmatism and national mettle. Japanese courts dismissed a plea asking the Japanese police to stop profiling Muslims in their country, on grounds of national security and national interests. Is it any wonder that Japanese society could rebuild and rearm into the third most powerful economy in the world in mere three decades of being nuked and defeated in World War II? They have again shown courage and honour by putting their own security and national interest before nonsensical post-modernist political correctness — and have defied the Muslim apologetics.
Law enforcement mostly ignored the case. One of the few public statements they made came at a United Nations human rights committee hearing on the matter in 2014. An official from the National Police Agency said “details of information-gathering activities to prevent future terrorism could not be disclosed,” but that “police collected information according to the law.” Some have defended the surveillance of Muslims, including Naofumi Miyasaka, a professor at the National Defense Academy of Japan. He describes the data leak as “the biggest failure in the history of Japan’s counter-terrorism” because it would have hurt the ability of law enforcement to gather intelligence on potential threats through “mutual trust and cooperation between police and informants.”
Compare this to the present-day supposedly nationalistic government of BJP, which has banned various sites which expose Islam and its Jihad and the real side of Muslims from Indian viewers. For example, the Department of Telecommunications has blocked the site islam-watch.org for hurting Muslim feelings — i.e. for exposing Muslim society and Muslims for what they really are on the inside. Indians should learn from the Japanese on what nationalism looks like. What BJP advocates is not nationalism but Baniaism and mercantile sellout of national and Hindu interests under the garb of development. It is high time that BJP stops fooling Hindus around with mere sloganeering and “Jumlebaazi.”
The recent (Nuclear Suppliers’ Group) NSG snub from China in Seoul should wake up the sleeping diplomats in the Foreign Ministry on who they are up against in the global affairs. India needs to start acting like a big boy in the big boy’s club now given that it has rattled so many feathers. The article below is reproduced from Vajrin’s blog to look at how India can go up against the mighty dragon when the battle lines are clearly drawn.
Hindus seem to have lost their ability to do a strategic analysis of the global scenario and position themselves accordingly. Or rather, the Hindu masses are selecting such ‘leaders’ who certainly do not have any ability to do some critical thinking. Or rather, it has become a vicious cycle – the masses select dumb, self serving ‘leaders’ who in turn ensure to keep the masses in their pockets by using various ‘schemes’ which are not about strengthening the nation but retaining the vote banks.
The current geo-political scenario seems to be a treacherous sea which India is trying to sail across without a proper ship, compass or sailors. The Hindu land is surrounded by adversaries. Islamic threat in the west and east, Hans are in the north, and the Theravadins in Lanka have anti-Hindu strain. There is a Han-Islam-Theravadin circle around the Hindu land.
While China has allied with our enemies and is creating a ring of fire around us, the Hans have enemies on her borders. Japan, Vietnam and Philippines are our natural allies against China. China has trouble in its western borders as well. India could leverage this position to forge an alliance with a majority of states in the ASEAN and Far East.
But such an alliance is not enough. DRDO must be strengthened in India. The string of failures must be corrected. Any country needs strong domestic military industry complex in order to fight wars. We cannot survive wars based on ammunition imported from Israel or Russia.
We must start engaging the ASEAN Buddhist nations more vigorously and conduct joint military exercises with them. We must also try to get a greater foothold in Africa and Central Asia. While we may not be able to counter China’s economy singlehandedly, we can form joint ventures with other countries to take over the African assets that Chinese are interested in. To hold a strong grip over Chinese energy supply must be a primary aim of Hans’ adversaries.
The primary circle against China shall be the border states of China apart from those of the Mekong basin. The secondary line shall involve Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. The third line shall include the NATO and its allies.
An excessive crackdown on Uighurs can also be used to bring Islamic nations against Chinese. While Islam is our other major enemy, we can still work together to defang the Chinese giant.
Huntington rightly noted that India/Hindu civilization plays the role of a mere swing state in the current circumstance. Destruction or even a strong containment of Han imperialism will open the doors for a more prominent India much more easily as well. Containment of Hans must be a primary motive of the Hindus apart from defending against Islamic aggression. But will the Hindus ever wake up to this reality?
The article was first written at Vajrin’s blog and you can follow the authors @Rjrasva and @dasyavevrka.
