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  • Why BJP won’t repeal RTE

    Why BJP won’t repeal RTE

    Almost the full tenure of first BJP government is over and the elections of 2019 are looming over the horizon. But BJP has not even uttered a word on RTE, while five more cohorts of students have passed through the IOI system. This is a short post but explains the problem with BJP and RSS. There are two reasons-

    (1) Lack of intellectuals- There is a strong anti-intellectual strain in the RSS. Having no intellectuals does not make a difference when you are in the opposition, but when in power, it destroys your policy making because you act as a headless chicken.

    (2) Dishonesty- They never put out their points honestly, because they have an inferiority complex regarding their views. Being a rayta means that most would instinctively recoil from being associated with communalism.

    This has led to a situation where BJP knows that a given law is anti-Hindu, but it never forms its opposition based on it being discriminatory and anti-Hindu. It always uses specious argument to delay that bill or gets it scrapped based on economics and caste.

    If they want to win battle against IOI brigade, first thing they would need to do is get rid of mental blocks. IOI brigade would always try to paint bringing equality as communalism, but exposure to such propaganda and its refutation would make common people aware of RTE and its perils.

    The biggest objective of controlling education and language is not to push in overt propaganda, but to use it to form affective associations so that people are programmed in such a way that they recoil at being associated with a certain concept.

    Thus being unapologetic pays as it denies this pathway to your opponents. But is BJP ready to be unapologetic?

    Note: The author tweets @handle_anonymous.

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  • Schrodinger’s Intellectuals

    Schrodinger’s Intellectuals

    Schrodinger’s cat- the classic thought experiment in Physics about indeterminacy of cat being alive or dead is being played out in reality in Indian intellectual space on everyday level and the mental gymnastics displayed by some of the so called public intellectuals is of such Olympic quality that one is confused whether they are really intellectuals or not. If Indian gymnasts had shown this flexibility instead of these intellectuals, India would have definitely topped the Olympics table.

    The problem is that there are far more Nehruvian and Marxist zombies masquerading as intellectuals than there are real intellectuals. For every true intellectual, the media clique has manufactured many more fake intellectuals to serve their own goals. For eg. Rana Ayub and her other media friends are hardly intellectual but they are part of a well oiled oligarchic ecosystem which ‘real intellectuals’ are beneficiaries of.

    People have been consciously reticent to name names when it comes to Islamic terrorism, in a country which has been so severely plagued by it but one Dadri happens and it doesn’t take time for terms like Hindu Taliban to fly off from Marxist pie-holes while the ‘intellectual’ jury is still out on whether using the term Muslim Taliban is appropriate or not.

    The scarcity of intellectuals on the left has reached to such glorious level that they now have to borrow fascist Advani to make arguments in defence of the cottage industry of Marxist liberalism in India.

    If you aren’t convinced that the intellectual class of India has been a dishonest lot, if not incompetent, you only need to contemplate why, despite it having been explicitly mentioned in the constitution that the nation shall strive for national integration and a uniform civil code, not a single intellectual in the history of India has spoken up for its implementation?

    The fact is that people have figured out that the holy grail of intellectualism in India is to abuse the majority community since it is the non-violent of the lot, and win laurels for themselves.

    If a billion Hindus have learnt to cultivate the thick skin to digest labels like Hindu Taliban for something they were not culpable for, in the interest of FoE, isn’t it damning that these self-professed Marxist intellectuals who wear FoE on their sleeves can’t grow out of their persecution complex and learn to take some well deserved criticism?

    सदियों की ठंढी-बुझी राख सुगबुगा उठी,
    मिट्टी सोने का ताज पहन इठलाती है;
    दो राह,समय के रथ का घर्घर-नाद सुनो,
    सिंहासन खाली करो कि जनता आती है।