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Why Western “civilization” is not a civilization, let alone a superior one

There is so much propaganda on the internet, movies (specially Hollywood, but sometimes in Bollywood and other local Indian film industries as well), press (most of the national press especially the ones run in English language) about how Western “civilisation” is superior and how they civilised the whole world. This is specially true among the conservatives and the StormFront type white nationalists/superiority advocates, and they use this notion to justify the hundreds of millions their countries slaughtered, looted and starved. For instance the British barbarians today, typically justify their barbaric looting along the lines of “We gave India the science and technology, rail roads etc and hence our looting and starvation of hundreds of millions of Indians is OK”, even though it is pathetically false through and through as shown in this article Myth of British helping India. This propaganda is so pathetic that modern day “rationalists” like Sam Harris claim that western interventions today is Ok since western civilization and way of life is superior and interventions are a way of bringing said civilisation to the rest of the world. For instance Sam Harris even remarked how British and Portuguese helped end Sati in India, partially justifying millions of people that Portuguese genocided in Goa with their Goan inquisition and hundreds of millions the British barbarians starved to death during their loot, even though the truth is that Sati was banned by both Sikhs and Marathas, long before the British did it in their respect areas and was a practiced in areas where Indians/Hindus were not in power like Bengal as a self defence against Muslim barbarians. In fact, Hindu voice against Sati is much older and it is prohibited even in the Vedas, as shown here by Koenraad Elst. As one can see, this argument of western civilisation being superior is often used as a justification to intervene and destroy other countries, much like USA spreading democracy in Iraq.

So it is imperative to understand the term “western civilization” for what it is to safeguard our civilization from the looting barbarians today. In the past, several non western publications poked holes in the notions of western superiority to show Westerners a mirror whenever they started denigrating others. But for some reason, that seems to be lost today because of the shameless western wannabeness among the middle class Indians and Indian elites, because of their colonised minds. Their media, much like Indian media, never shows the actual face of the Western countries or their barbaric societies and hence Indians have a very rosy view of the west, far removed from reality. This is a recent phenomenon though, as many in the past used to point out west for it what it is to their face before, much like what Mahatma Gandhi said about Western “civilisation”. When asked about it, he famously quipped that “It would be a good idea”, meaning if west had a civilisation, it would be a good idea. So Indians need to know what a shallow soulless garbage western “civilisation” is to counter both the Strom front and Brietbart type of white supremacists on the internet and to prevent the inevitable decay of our civilisation if we ever follow the western “civilisational” model.

Western Civilisation is not a civilisation

The most pathetic claim about the notion of Western Civilisation is that western countries are civilisation to begin with. So what do they actually mean by the term western civilisation? The term Western civilisation refers to the descendants of the “Western half of the Roman empire and its descendants” while the Eastern Roman empire or the Byzantium Empire is traditionally called the Eastern Roman empire. This is where the term comes from. But how legitimate is the claim that western civilisation is the descendants of the Western Roman empire? As one will shortly see, not very much.

The majority of the claimants of western civilisation are not actual descendants of the Western Roman empire to begin with. For example, the flag bearers of supposed western civilisation today, United Kingdom, Germany, and its descendants in United States and Anglosphere, the Anglo Saxons are not actually descendants of Roman civilisation or culture and are just barbaric Anglo Saxon tribes (as referenced during Roman period) which robbed and looted and eventually settled in present day England, Germany. They are not Romans, but rather the barbaric tribes which scavenged the corpse of the dying and decaying Roman empire and carved their own respected societies in modern day Britain and Germany. Then of course, the Britain got invaded and conquered by the Scandinavians, who themselves were barbaric Vikings (and one can even now see association of Americans to Vikings to relate their history and ancestry today) in the 6-7th century well after the fall of the Roman empire to warring barbaric hordes. Similarly, the French today are the descendants of Frankish tribes which carved out their own kingdom in France or Gaul, as known in Roman empire. These are the same people which then went onto settle in USA, Canada and Australia. They have little or nothing to do with the Roman civilisation. The same is true for most other European countries as well. Their claims of being western civilisation is their pathetic attempt at trying to forge a history of civilization pre-dating their colonial era of barbarity and looting, which isn’t filled with barbarity and hunter gathering tribes as was the case with most of their histories. They attempt to paint themselves as the Western civilization because without that illegitimate claim, their actual history is nothing but that of barbarity, loot and rapes, unlike a civilizational country like India, China or even Persia/Iran.

These claims of being descendants of western civilisation by the Anglo Saxon west or indeed the majority of west is of course as legitimate as that of a poor fatherless bastard claiming his successful rich neighbour as his own dad to make up for the fact that he doesn’t have a dad or that he is an illegitimate bastard. Hence, the term western civilisation is by itself is an illegitimate and pathetic one and a more apt description would be to call them as modern nation states without any actual history. The truth is, most of them actually know it deep down, specially in the colonial countries like Canada, Australia and USA. They often make up for their lack of legitimate history or civilisation with artificial stories of greatness and of course trying to downplay the achievements of actual civilisations like Bharatiya or Chinese civilization through their communist coolies and sepoys here through their use of deliberately corrupted Indology and with attempts to rename Indian subcontinent as South Asia, for example.

Of course, there is no actual western civilisation today as not even Italians can claim Roman heritage today. Rome is dead so are its customs and languages. While Shri Rama still enlightens the heart of any true Bhartiya today, does Jupiter generate any veneration in the hearts of Italians? The Roman civilization died the moment it adopted the worship of the bastard Jew from Bethlehem (ironically situated in Arabia/Asia). The original Roman culture or the western culture of worshipping Jupiter or Juno is long dead and what is present is a cheap Abrahamic culture which masquerades as a descendant of the Roman culture since facing the reality of lack of any history or culture on their own is embarrassing. This is especially hilarious when seen in the context of Scandinavia which had nothing whatsoever to do with “Western Civilisation” or Roman Empire,not even in the slightest, and still gets lumped together to cite western countries. Ironically, even the camel banging Bedouins of Saudi Arabia or other barbaric Islamic nations can at the very least claim a religion and culture of their very own unlike Europeans who resort to worshipping an Asian Jew/Semite while calling themselves “superior culture or civilisation”.

Why Western superiority is a Myth

The second problem with assertion of western civilizational superiority is of course the very assertion that the western society is superior in the first place. The truth of the matter is that, the supposed western superiority these people talk about is a very recent and a transient phenomenon borne out of looting, pillage and genocide against actual civilisations and not really their own achievement. This is evident from the fact that the only period of time where the supposedly superior west even had an edge over proper civilisations of Asia, i.e. during the 18-20th century is also the time they looted and raided the Asian civilisations to enrich their pathetic decadent societies. As soon as the decolonisation, caused primarily by Hitler’s breaking of colonial empires backs, an inter-barbarian civil war among the European barbarians, made them too weak to hold onto their colonies, they descended back into their historical role in the world- playing second fiddle to Asian civilisations

Ever since the loss of their colonies, western countries like UK, Germany, French etc, is back to their barbaric and decadent ways of mediocrity and are today once again back to being the second fiddles to Asian countries and proper civilizations, like India, China, Japan or South East Asia or is in the process of losing out to the above like USA, which is on its decline. This is not anything new to known Human history of 8000 years. Indians and Chinese were living in large cities in Indus Valley and Yangtze river by 3000BCE, when the Scandinavians, Britons, French were still hunter gathering barbarians even in 7th century. Asia was the centre of arts, culture, science, philosophy, religion for most of Human history. India was the centre of the world for religion, arts, culture, science and philosophy, having also taught the other South East Asian countries like, Japanese and Chinese. The supposed western rise of the 18th century was due to western conquest and genocide of four continents – the two Americas, Africas and Australia- and not because of their greatness. Even many of the technologies used for these conquests were copied from the East in the initial phase of colonization.

Of course one could argue that the conquest of proper civilisation like Indians, Chinese or South East Asia was only possible because of western superiority but that is a nonsensical argument. Superior army tactics doesn’t equate to being a superior civilisation. Nobody in their right mind calls the Gengiz khan and his horde of Mongolian horse back raiding barbaric thugs as a superior civilisation just because they managed to conquer China, Persia, Europe(Russia) and Central Asia. We just call them barbarians with superior military tactics who destroyed the civilised world for their own profit. Similarly,the western colonialists which conquered the proper civilisations like India, South East Asia or China are not superior civilizations but rather just barbaric thugs with better military tactics and they looted, plundered and killed hundreds of millions, sometimes even in the name of the bloodthirsty psychopathic monotheistic God for filling their treasury. If western barbarians are to be considered superior civilization because they conquered others, then so should be the Mongolian barbarians under Gengiz Khan. In short, military strength is not what demonstrates the superiority of a civilisation and the only superiority west had was that, else everything it acquired was by looting others and preventing others from developing. Also, European military superiority is a 200-300 year glitch in 8000+ years of written civilization, where Asians dominated the world and are on the way to dominate it again.

Asia had the largest GDP, had the better science (Indians and Chinese had Heliocentrism for 4000 years, while Europe was still persecuting Galileo for heliocentric theories in 16th century), better religions (Europeans or west doesn’t have a religion of their own and worship an Asian Jew), better societies with even caste ridden India was a much better place for the lower castes than the peasant life (peasant castes as opposed to Nobility caste of Europe) in Europe during the 15-18th century (peasant revolutions were unheard of in medieval India while extremely common in Europe due to exploitative systems employed there) before industrialisation in Europe destroyed the caste structure there, which was denied to India during her colonial rule and hence the persisting caste problems (since India was robbed for 200 years of industrialisation and the subsequent societal growth), better livelihood, better sanitation , better philosophy (of building your own country rather than loot and destroy other countries and steal their resources like the European barbarians did at that time). The European spike in living standards during the 18th century was a result of conquest by military and not because of ideas or superiority of culture. Even industrial revolution was brought by the mass production of rifles for the military at the time in the Britain.

So, when this conquest and looting of others stopped, so did the momentary superiority of the so called Western countries, which they enjoyed over proper civilisations like India or China. With loss of colonies, Europe and west is relegated to their decadent societies as powers of yesteryears and a society of bastards, dead bodies and crime. The Asian century as the 21 st century is called today is a misnomer as all centuries, except 18-20th had been Asian centuries only, for the known history of Human race. It is especially funny that certain white cretins in online forums advocate eugenics as if their race is in the top hierarchy of races of the world, even though any proper analysis of human history would show how much of the bottom feeders the white race actually is.

Of course leaving history aside, what is the supposed superiority of western countries today? 50% bastard rates? 2000% higher rapes per capita compared to Asia? Several magnitudes higher crime figures and prison population? 50% divorce rates? A “culture” so materialistic and self indulgent that they can’t even bring themselves to have enough children to replace themselves and have to import rape happy Muslim immigrants from middle east for improving their economy? Seriously which part of western society can one define as being superior? Their economic prosperity was of course brought by loot of others and now that that has dried up, even the economic edge the western barbarians had over proper civilisations like India and China is dying out today .

All in all, it is stupid to think that western “civilization” is actually superior (actually it is not a civilization if we go by proper definition and death of Roman culture) and it is suicidal to mimic their decadent culture of single mothers, bastards, divorces and rapes. Every Indian (and indeed every non westerner) should know this fact. Next time the Storm front or Brietbart thugs brag about “Western civilization”, they should be shown a mirror for what they truly are- a subhuman barbaric trash for most of human history, someone who got rich and wealthy by destroying other races and cultures. Their model of society/culture/”civilization”, as they like to call themselves, is not a model for anyone except barbarians. Civilisations like India, China, Japan, South East Asians etc would do well not to adopt the western barbaric morals or code or culture or religion!

September 16, 2016
Brown Coolies of the West

Many Hindus on the right wing spectrum often blame the socialists and Marxists in India for being coolies of Russians and Soviet Union but for some reason they remain oblivious to the role played by west in creating and destabilising India using its coolies here and the Indian Americans. Has anyone wondered why most of the destructive memes which make it to Indian discourse like liberalism, secularism, feminism, MRA etc have their origin in the west?

The truth is, most of the destructive politics of India are actually supported by the west and not Russia alone as many American fanboys would like Hindus to believe. In fact, almost all the daughters and sons of the leaders of Communist parties and Congress do their studies and have properties outside India. And unsurprisingly they all choose US or western Europe rather than their darling Russia for these activities because they know deep down how pathetic a socialist styled government and economy like Russia really looks like.

Many Indian Americans carefully support US agenda rather than India and actively help in maligning India’s image and sabotaging its interest. Most of the destructive ideologies have a strong backing in the west from the Indian Americans, who have completely internalized the leftist rhetoric themselves. For instance, Hindu Americans overwhelmingly support the leftists, who are the biggest anti-India force in the US. They are far more likely to identify with left wing politics than any other Asian demographics even though they form the richest immigrant group in US. They are also more than happy to jump on the bandwagon of the anti-white men gang in the west without thinking twice even though their position as being a better off group compared to whites would make their stance very hypocritical and ironic.

They are also big supporters of the feminist movement in the USA. Without any context they copy the same template of blaming white men in the west and use it in India to blame Hindu upper caste men especially Brahmins and cry about upper caste male privilege. But unlike the western whites who oppressed rest of the world during the colonial era, Hindu men never had any power in their own country for the past 200 years. It is intellectual dishonesty to apply the same model to them. Even their feminist meme in India is no different and is just a carbon copy of the ideology developed by their intellectually stunted sisters in the west.

The recent case of support for the various land lease programs for the USA by these coolies should be another issue which should raise red flags for any true Hindu patriot and the extend to which the infestation by brown coolies run inside Indian political space. These people shamelessly push the western narrative and US agenda over India. Apparently, they don’t seem to see that the biggest supporter of Pakistan is still the USA and that USA is the reason India hasn’t punished Pakistan till today. Any rational Hindu should see this as a red flag when they see Pakistan being used as condom by the Americans and they still peddle that India become a client state of the US citing some grand strategy. Of course, while it is prudent to use US for getting high tech and weaponry if it is in our advantage, it should not come at the cost of autonomy and sovereignty as is the case with many policies which these coolies advocate.

Most of the right wing intelligentsia today seem to be reformed former white coolies now coming off as turncoats. The list is long. While these people at least claim to have reformed, the coolies working for New York Times and Washington Post keep peddling the western narratives for their jobs and bread. These people pimp their motherland and their own community for the bread crumbs their white masters throw at them and for advancing quickly in their careers. They bark when their masters ask them to bark and bite when asked to bite without using their own brain. While legitimate criticism should be welcomed from any person, agenda driven nonsense to break India should not be tolerated and almost all of these vile pimps do nothing more than useless propaganda.

For instance, the coverage of rapes in India by both the Indian American coolies writing for left wing western media like New York Times and Guardian and the evangelist right wing western media like Washington Post should give ample evidence on the nature of their bias and reporting. If indeed the western filth and their brown coolies are really interested in saving women from rapes, should they not look at their own homes and societies where the rapes are 1000% more than India in per capita terms? The truth is that they are just playing their part of being brown coolies pushing the agenda of their white masters.

These brown coolies care so much about their careers and fame that they can sell their culture and support British even for glorifying poverty in movies. They wholeheartedly support such initiatives rather than pointing out the irony and hypocrisy of British, who are the very cause of this poverty in India. Look at how they celebrated a third grade film like Slumdog millionaire where it caricatured Indians as rapist, casteist, racist and fascists and how it took a western program like ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’ to save the native poverty ridden unwashed Indian boy from slums.

While Non-Aligned Movement(NAM) was a big failure and India ended up embracing USSR on most policies, this time India should not fall into the same trap. The brown coolies want India to be a side-kick of US, which should be avoided at all costs. The way forward is to give issue based support and milk the system rather than fall for irrational love for any country. This would only be possible when India stops wholesale import of destructive western ideologies sold under the garb of modernity. India and Indians need their own set of policies based on what’s good and suitable for them, not what is prescribed for them by the decaying, dying, single mother ridden putrid west. India should be the head of its own Indosphere like how it was 1000 years back, not a client of the American thugs like the brown coolies are advocating now.

May 26, 2016
West trying to destabilize Bangladesh through atrocity news

Bangladesh is and has always been a violent state. But suddenly the daylight beheadings in Bangladesh are making international news. The world did not bat an eyelid when in 1971 millions of Hindus were raped and murdered but now stray incidents of Islamic barbarity are making big headline news across the world.

The article asks why international media suddenly began emphasizing attacks on minorities and activists in Bangladesh.

It argues that the sequence of attacks on foreigners, priests, Buddhists, Hindus and gay activists was either planned or highlighted to produce maximum international outrage.

It speculates that Western governments and intelligence agencies were trying to create an ISIS narrative that could justify an Arab Spring-style colour revolution against Sheikh Hasina.

The article refers to a dossier allegedly given by Narendra Modi to Hasina warning that a large western country was attempting to destabilize Bangladesh.

It further argues that the killing of a gay-rights activist was particularly useful for mobilizing a western audience, because gay-rights narratives have far greater political salience in the West than in much of Asia.

The article concludes that instability in Bangladesh would harm Indian security by forcing India to divert intelligence and military resources toward its eastern border.

By-Navnit Kundu

Image credit:
http://www.capitalotc.com/bangladesh-atheist-blogger-killed-as-fears-of-radical-islamism-grow/212549/

April 27, 2016
Individualistic Narcissism of the West- Movie “Her”

Contextual editorial illustration for the restored article.

This is a commentary on the movie and western society and has some spoilers.

One of the first things the “liberal”, “progressive”, “cool” audiences in India notice in Hollywood films is their portrayal of “freedom”, “sexual liberation”, “individualism” — and they often complain about how Indian society is not as free, or liberal, or cool, or progressive. This happens across the Right-Left ideological divide and you usually have very few Indians actually voicing their opinion against such liberalisation and individualism, if any at all. They all claim how India has to become more individualistic like the west, with advice about how guys should forsake their parents and live alone to pursue their careers, and how girls should forsake their family life by becoming career drones like their western counterparts. But what many of us fail to see is the actual reality of western countries — which is actually a desperate, desolate, degenerate place where such crass individualism and narcissism has destroyed any semblance of a family. A society filled with single moms, illegitimate children living without their actual fathers, and a crime-infested cesspool worse than sewage pits of Cooum in Chennai.

Take the example of the movie “Her (2013)” starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Chris Pratt. It is a movie about a guy (Joaquin Phoenix) in the future who falls in love with an Artificial Intelligence (operating system) in his computer, and how artificial intelligence in a futuristic western world will look like. It is a very compelling film which is fairly good to watch. What is interesting about the film — which many of us don’t look for — is the way their society functions. Though the film is set in the future, it is a pretty accurate depiction of what their society is today.

In the film, Phoenix is going through a tough divorce and is in a difficult time. The reason for the divorce given in the film is very vague — about how the guy is not actually there emotionally for his wife. The interesting part is the way the film makers never felt the need to give a proper justification for their separation or divorce, which indicates how much divorce has become common in the western world — above 50% in most western countries. Phoenix works as a letter writer for a company which writes letters for others i.e. if you are too busy to write letters for your loved ones, you can outsource it to their company and they will write it for you. If you think that is pathetic, well you are absolutely right. Imagine outsourcing your love for your parents, wives and husbands, children, friends to others. It is interesting to note that the film makers thought this is where their future is headed.

At that time, an Artificially Intelligent Operating System is introduced into their world by a leading company. This AI is very resourceful and quickly becomes very useful for Phoenix in arranging his day-to-day activities. Being an AI, it also starts to learn more about emotions and starts to be there for Phoenix. It arranges dates for him to cheer him up and they “bond” pretty quickly because being an AI, it can easily understand what he likes and what he doesn’t. We will come to the depressing aspect of their relationship later.

The guy goes on a date, as set up by the Artificial Intelligence. The date is a single mother in her late 30s played by Olivia Wilde. They have a good time together and proceed to kiss each other and are about to take it to sex. But then, Olivia asks Phoenix if he would call her back after sex, because most guys only want to have sex and not a meaningful relationship. It makes sense in-universe that this is the case, since western societies have completely rigged the marriage system as oppressive for women (which is being copied here too) and how women should be empowered by having sex with as many men as possible. So why would men — who on average have a far higher sexual drive than women and are not as emotionally attached to sex as women are — not take advantage of a system which punishes marriages with divorces and alimonies and rewards free and casual sex? Anyway, Olivia is depressed that most men there only want sex and not any long-term relationships (seems like their MGTOW movement has won) and doesn’t want that to happen with Phoenix too. Phoenix, being fresh out of a very bad breakup with his wife, does not give any commitment even though their date went well.

After that, Phoenix returns to his home, alone and depressed, and starts speaking with his computer which responds well to him — seeing as it is intelligent — and he and the AI have sex together (not very different from masturbation). Phoenix realises that he likes the AI a lot, as it is not judgemental, free-spirited and how he can be what he wants in front of it i.e. he can be as individualistic as he wants without any consequences and still have his social needs like having a companion fulfilled.

Meanwhile, Amy Adams’ character — who is a friend of Phoenix and is a video game developer — breaks up with her husband whom she had been living with for 8 years, because her husband was constantly asking her to do simple stuff like removing her shoes before entering the house. She finally had enough with the constantly annoying husband who would not adjust to her (nor was she ready to adjust to him). The important part here, which most Indians tend to miss, is the way they see the world. Apparently for them, it is OK to break 8 years of marriage over a silly thing like a husband asking her to remove shoes before entering the house. She even justifies it saying that she should not be forced to be someone she is not.

See, this individualistic narcissism — the “me me me syndrome” — is the reason why their societies are so desolate and pathetic. No individual in this world is the same and we can’t expect anyone to be 100% compatible with anyone. This individualistic narcissism is the reason why they take so much time getting married and then have difficulty staying married. They seem to forget that to be in a relationship, especially something like marriage, you need to make sacrifices for the relationship — and it goes both ways, husband as well as wife. However, the narcissism which puts the needs of the one individual above the other in the relationship makes them forget that the other person is also making as many sacrifices, making it easy for them to break their relationships on the flimsiest of excuses — ranging from emotionally distant to asking to remove shoes. Does it really surprise anyone that the majority of white women in the western world are probably going to end up alone with a cat?

Meanwhile, the entire movie universe is filled with such misery, with almost everyone shown having made boy/girlfriends and friends out of the AI — including Amy Adams. This is not really surprising because the AI in the universe is programmed to learn and evolve, and the AIs learn from their owners and can be seen as their own mirror reflection inside a computer. This movie is a perfect reflection of what a society run by individualistic narcissism will look like in the presence of an AI.

Take home message

The movie, which is one of many examples of pop culture from the west, should teach us about the dangers of individualistic narcissism and where it will ultimately culminate. While many Hindus see these western movies and think that their societies are full of honey and milk seeing their independence, what they don’t see is the cost which comes along with such individualistic narcissism — their inability to adjust with anybody else, which compromises their ability to have any meaningful long-term relationships. This is why arranged marriages — in which two random strangers selected by their parents based on their ability to adapt and adjust and respect their elders, all of which are hallmarks of adaptability — are so successful in India. Is it any wonder that marriages are breaking down in India with the advent of this notion that the individual is above the family?

Many Hindu conservatives today deride feminism for spoiling culture but I doubt they understand how. Some Hindus even think that feminism, as espoused by the left, is a corrupted social movement with a positive message about female empowerment, and that it can be made Dharmic by making it purer and about female empowerment instead of the man-hating cult that it currently is. However, they both don’t seem to acknowledge that Feminism is in essence a form of individualistic narcissism, imported from the west, and that no matter how hard they try, they won’t be able to reform it into something positive.

The greatest disservice feminism has done to modern societies is the way it has turned the focus of the “family unit” from being about the welfare of the families into being about the welfare of the wife. This is why, despite claiming that it is about equality, it comes across as hypocritical in its stance on property sharing and alimony laws which are incredibly biased against men. This is also the reason they always make the sacrifices women make to be great (including their careers) for having a family, while ignoring the sacrifices men make for the same family (including their inability socially to be free from going to work unlike women, for whom a job is only an optional requirement). It ultimately wants to liberate women from their responsibilities to their families — including having and raising kids — by stoking female individualistic narcissism against familial responsibility. While it might work in the short term, soon men will figure out that they are cheated into bearing all responsibility for having a family and will decide to walk out of it, resulting in MGTOW movements, as happened in the west. This is also the reason why many of them think that having kids — which are about love and affection — is a job and a sign of female enslavement, because it takes away the individualistic freedom of a woman. While they are right that it reduces the individual freedom of women, they are wilfully dishonest about its long-term effect in increasing the happiness of women from their children and grandchildren.

The western concepts of “one night stands”, “dating” and “finding the right guy/girl” will sound great on paper and in American TV soaps and series in which they appear (and increasingly and depressingly in Bollywood too). But they ultimately fail in practice because all of them are about narcissism — be it the notion that “my sex life is my own and I should face no consequences for it” (one night stands), or be it the notion that “everything is fine with me and I don’t want to adjust to anything and I will live only with the person who will put up with what I am, no matter what” (code for finding the right girl/guy who would put up with him/her). This is why Indian arranged marriages — which are more about adjusting to each other rather than expecting others to adjust for you — have a higher success rate than the date-and-“find right partner” culture of the west.

We see the degeneracy and decay in western society as a form of Karmic justice for all the misery they brought to the rest of humanity. However, it should also serve as an example of what we as a society should avoid, if we wish to avoid the same decay and rot. The west played with their individualism and narcissism and are now paying a huge price for it, even if they don’t really realise what they have brought upon themselves. They still think their lifestyle is superior and routinely think they have to pontificate us misguided “third worlders” on how we should lead our lives — through countless documentaries on our arranged marriages, feminism for the third world, and their sepoys in the media industry. They are too deep in their own mess to see the result of their culture: 50% divorces, 50% single moms, 33% children being born to “wrong fathers”, and a crime rate 20 times as high as India in cases like rape — even ignoring the high crime rate and poverty associated with broken families.

But the real question is — are we going to be really that stupid to think that their way of life is superior, by not looking at the actual effect of their culture on their societies and just looking at the superficial aspects of their culture and prosperity? Bollywood certainly seems to be so, with its recent release of “One Night Stand”. But are we all? The west has an excuse for its stupidity — they didn’t really have any role model on what society should be or where their individualistic narcissism would lead them, and are now too deep in their own situation to realise and do anything about it. But what excuse do we have to take the same individualistic narcissistic path they took for their fall?

Originally published April 7, 2016 on Yuga Parivartan.

April 7, 2016
Why Hindus should not shed any tears for Brussels terror strike

The Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo brought together the whole world and laid bare the menace of Islamic terror which is usually ignored by the champagne sipping elites of the west. Indians, who have paid with their blood and freedom to face this monster, recognized the human tragedy and showed their solidarity by messaging “Je suis Charlie” and changing their profile picture to the French flag on Facebook to show their solidarity with France. But in the wake of Brussels bombings and expected rise in number of terrorist attacks in Europe, the question arises — do these westerns deserve Indian sympathy? The simple answer is – no.

India has been facing the menace of Islamic barbarism from at least 1000 years and terrorism is just a new manifestation of this old disease. It has raised its ugly head in independent India from time to time from Kashmir to Mumbai. Sadly, the western nations for most of this time have maintained a calculated silence or condoned these terrorist activities against the Indian nation state. The west has been using this as a state policy against India for quite some time now and its support for Islamic terrorism can be understood by looking at two dimensions — physical and ideological.

The first consists of outright support to terrorist organizations. Under the guidance of US, the western nations have cunningly outlined the concept of good terrorist vs bad terrorist. Without any surprise, any terrorist group which helps western hegemony gets bracketed into the first category while those who attack their interests get labelled as bad terrorists. The military support and aid to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other ideological Muslim nations can also be put into the good bracket defined by the west. The mujahideen funded by US in Afghanistan against the USSR later drove back into Kashmir with tacit approval from the US. It was only post 9/11 that the US took active interest in dismantling the Taliban in Afghanistan, but has done various flip-flops since then. Other nations like UK, Canada, Germany and others are also not far behind in their support for Pakistan and other rogue entities and have frequently decided not to collaborate with Indian authorities citing one or the other reason.

The second and more hypocritical stand of the west has been to provide ideological ammunition and whitewash the crimes of Islamic terrorists. The terms like “terrorism has no religion” and “Islamophobia” have been mass popularized using the media and anyone who does not share this illusion has been witch-hunted for his views. Their ideological factories have churned out various victimhood theories to pin the blame on one or other local event and give cover to Islamic atrocities. So while the Gujarat riots are blamed for all subsequent terrorist strikes in India, the burning down of more than fifty Karsevaks at Godhra is completely forgotten and often labelled as an accident by foreign as well as local Indian media. This ideological sophistry has more or less closed down the debate on the barbaric nature of Islam. Since it is nations like India which have historically paid for this battle with their blood, the west had no reason to not use Islam to destroy India.

But now the Islamic monster has turned its gaze back on its European masters. Now they need to pay with their blood for all the intellectual dishonesty they have displayed during all these years. The question is whether the western Muslims will treat their hosts better in Europe than they have treated Hindus in India? If one were to go by the current terrorist attacks, it seems that western liberalism has hardly helped prevent the rot among their Muslim citizens, who have little value for the life of their fellow countrymen or themselves.

India has worked hard to control Islamic terrorism and still finds it difficult to wipe it out completely. Thus the only suggestion you can give to your western counterparts is — be ready to pay with your blood and freedom. There is no short cut. Also remember to install X-Ray machines on each of your metro exits in Paris and Brussels — the free (safety) lunch is over.

So coming back to the question again — should Hindus shed tears for the increasing number of terrorist attacks in Europe? The answer is a strict no. There is no reason for Indians to stand in solidarity with hypocrites who ignored our pain and supported a barbaric ideology both physically and ideologically. Since their past follies have now come home to roost, there is little that India can do in this regard when its past pleas were unheard by the west. Does it surprise you that the Hindu genocide in Bangladesh is never discussed by these same western nations who continue harping about Islamophobia? Well, the value of Pagan Hindu blood is probably too small to evoke any emotion from these western elites, compared to their Abrahamic cousins of the Middle East. They don’t deserve our tears or support because you can bet your life that they won’t give a damn when we bleed. They are more likely to mock our pain and lack of security than feel our pain.

As far as Hindus are concerned, this is a war between two evils, which have both been preying on us and killing us whenever possible and quite frankly, for a long time had been allies in killing us — be it during 1947 when Britain helped Pakistan, or be it in 1971 when the West helped Pakistan to kill millions of Hindus. So rather than shed a tear for these hypocrites and their own jihadi creations, Hindus should just let these two evils fight themselves out and let Karma have her course. The world could frankly do with less of both of these evils. This is neither our war to fight nor our war to take sides on. Frankly, neither of them are allies of Bharatiya civilisation for us to care. We don’t have to stoop to their level and mock them on their follies, but we don’t have to shed our tears for them either.

March 22, 2016
India does not have a rape culture, West does

There has been a lot of debate and opinion pieces lately in Indian and western media on how India is a dangerous place for women, lambasting the rape culture of India. The critics use the Nirbhaya rape case from Delhi as an example and use it to broad-brush all Indian men as rapists. While no society is above criticism, such criticism should be well deserved and one incident should not be extrapolated to pass moral judgements on the whole society. So let’s dig deep and see whether international rape statistics support this horrendous claim propagated by international newspapers.

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Number of rape incidents per 100,000 citizens in different countries

Above are the statistics for reported rape rates per 100,000 population around the world. As seen from the above figure, it is pretty clear that India ranks at the bottom when it comes to rapes against women. India has 1.8 rapes per 100k as opposed to rape rates of 132 in Sweden, 26 in the USA or 28 in UK per 100k citizens. So it is pretty clear that India is actually 15 times better than USA or UK when it comes to reported rape cases. Yet these western critics and their local sepoys in the media have no qualms claiming India has a rape culture while giving a free pass to the western rape problem. The perfect example of such an attitude is reflected by the actions of Leslee Udwin who flew all the way from UK to make a documentary on the Nirbhaya rape case and lump all Indian men as rapists and trash Indian culture — while completely ignoring that the rape crisis is 15 times worse in her home country.

One of the common criticisms against the above statistic is that there are large numbers of unreported rape cases in India and that we cannot use it for comparison with western nations. But even if we go with the argument that Indian rapes are 90% under-reported and USA rapes are reported 100%, it would still mean India only has a rape rate of 18 per 100,000 as opposed to 26 per 100,000 in the USA — and so USA rape rates will still be 50% higher than India’s. Also, other crime rates per capita in India like homicide or theft are much lower than other countries in general, and so it should not be surprising that rape rates are also substantially lower in India.

Others cite Indian rape definitions as different from western definitions of rape and how western countries have a broader rape definition. But this argument cuts both ways. For example, Indian law stipulates that consensual sex under promise of marriage is rape if the man later changes his mind on marriage. No western country has such laws on rape. Furthermore, rape is a complicated term in India because more than 50% of reported rape cases are “proven” false — not just unproven cases. More than 53% of the rape cases in India are filed by girls’ parents on the boyfriend in cases where the couple elopes and the girl later changes her mind. So the actual rape rates will be much lower than the reported cases.

On further analysis, the claim about broader rape definition in the west compared to India turns out even more problematic. The US definition for rape is exactly as India’s except on marital rape — a highly contentious issue. Considering the case where we take marital rape out of the USA’s rape statistics, it would still leave India far behind. The USA has a reported marital rape rate of 10% out of total rapes. So if we remove 10% of 26 reported rapes in USA to correct for marital rapes, it would still be 23 per 100k population — still 12 times higher than the reported rape rate of 1.8 per 100k in India. Even if we make the assumption that India has 90% unreported rapes, India’s rape rate would only be 18 per 100k and would still be 30% lower than the rape rate of USA. Indian rape statistics are lower than USA even if we inflate the Indian rape statistics by 1000%.

The Indian rape rate can be demonstrated to be lower even from third-party data sources like British tourism data on rapes of British women visiting foreign countries — and here we have no excuse that rapes are under-reported specifically in India, since these cases were reported by British women to British officials and Embassies. Nearly 8 lakh Britishers had visited India and none of them were raped — as opposed to Spain, where 53 rapes were reported. What is important to note is that for two consecutive years no rapes were reported from India, and so India did not just get lucky in one particular year.

Why India has low rates of rape?

In India, women are seen as sacred and protected with the life of men if needed. Indian society actually gives more importance to the safety of women than western societies. This is why there are many places in India where a woman’s honour is considered far more important than her life. As many Hindus will say, a man who kills a woman is just killing her body, while a man raping her destroys her soul. This is why we Indians feel obliged to protect women better and strive to lower the present rape rate even further. Similar cultural aspects can be corroborated by visiting any jail in India where rapists usually bear the brunt of other criminals and are ostracised for their heinous act. Such behaviour of criminals explains well why any normal Indian, who has much better civic and moral sense than criminals, morally abhors the concept of rape. Even though rape laws are misused to the tune of 50%+ in India, the protests and demands to strengthen rape laws post the Nirbhaya incident only bolster the claim that Indian opinion is strictly against any culture of condoning rapes.

So why this fear mongering by the western media on rape culture in India?

This fear mongering in the western media on India goes back to the old days of colonialism where they considered it their duty to “civilise” Indians and other brown and black people. This holier-than-thou attitude is nothing more than an imperialistic tool for these hypocrites to “civilise” us even when our society is more civilised. Despite chronic poverty, Indian society has a very low crime rate and similarly lower rapes. India has a marital success rate of 95%+ as opposed to 50% in the west. The single mother percentage is 1% compared to 40–50% in the west. So instead of trying to teach us how to live civilly, western media will do much better by simply cleaning their own house, which is leading to many societal problems.

We will now give a few examples to show how the western media is completely complicit in covering up the big sex rackets and scandals in their own countries. If a Rotterdam-style grooming, sex and rape racket had been busted in India instead of UK, the whole world would have issued travel advisories against India — but nothing of the sort happened against UK. The complete failure of authorities to act against Pakistani immigrants who abused some 1,400 young girls between 1997 and 2013 is a glaring example of the failure of western society. Another incident corresponds to the cover-up in Westminster paedophilia cases where big UK politicians were involved in raping young children. The double standards of western media are very apparent as all these incidents are passed off as rare incidents, unlike the hype built around the Nirbhaya incident.

To summarize: yes, India needs to protect her women better and no woman should be made to go through the horrors of rape. But it is time for Indians to stop listening to the racism-inspired rancour of the west and fall for the false media-generated hype to denounce the whole culture based on a few incidents. The evidence presented above clearly suggests that it is actually the west which has a big rape problem and needs immediate social attention to alleviate this problem.

January 17, 2016