Re: Hindutva Debate&Controversy
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re: Hindutva Culture Debate & Controversy
1. This post is not intended to embroil our beloved PM Shri Modi ji in to any debate on culture or Hindutva. But without promoting culture we can't promote tourism where heritage tourism is the biggest component. We as a nation is caught between the rock&the hard place as they say in England. Can anyone imagine visiting Paris/London minus their cultural heritage icons? Will anyone go to China/Japan/USA minus their own cultural heritage icons. This is where Hindutva as a cultural heritage of India needs promotion.
2. Let me now state my interest/conflict of interest in Hindutva debate for the avoidance of any doubt. I grew up in a Roman Catholic family of 11. My faith (religion as in Indian English) is Christianity but my culture is Hindutva. I can change my faith/religion as I please under informed decision making as I please not once but many times over as I please. Even then I can't convert from my Hindutva culture to another culture. Can anyone anywhere in the world convert from one mother tongue to another mother tongue? The answer is an emphatic "No".
3. I can change my faith at will from being a Christian to a Hindu to a Muslim subject to my compliance&acceptability to those faiths. I can even become totally irreligious and turn in to an atheist but even then I can't change my culture Hindutva or my mother tongue Malayalam. This being the fact why all this hoo ha about Hindutva?
4. There was an attempt brothers&sisters to demolish India's cultural heritage&identity to destroy India's nationhood. What's Bharat which is India without her cultural heritage like her languages, way of life, mother tongues(not English), masalas, attire, diet, attitudes, family values? All that will be without these is an empty cultural vacuum which foreigners can take advantage. This is what a former British cabinet minister Margaret Hodge called cultural, moral and linguistic imperialism. Without cultural nationalism there's no nationalism whatsoever.
5.In Britain one of the few ministries they have is called Department of Culture, Sports and Media all under one roof instead of fragmenting them to work at cross purposes. It's this British ministry which promotes their English language, their English Premier League, their Shakespeare across the world no matter the Secretary (equivalent to our Cabinet Minister) is a hardcore Atheist, Anglican(Anglican Church), Jew or Agnostic. In the promotion of these issues the British were consistent unlike India where dynastic rulers systematically undermine our cultural heritage which is Hindutva.
6. There's no criticism when Europe asserts in spite of all their leftism/Marxism/socialism that their cultural foundation is "Judeo-Christian" values. Then why all these attacks against Hindutva.
7. There's a strategy to make Indians&the Indian government ashamed of our joint cultural heritage which is Hindutva. Brothers&Sisters Hindutva is the most benevolent culture that ever came in to this world. It gave rise to Sanathan Dharma, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Syro Malabar Christiany(oldest Christian church anywhere in the world; older than Vatican&Pope which came in to existence only around 350 AD under Constantine.)
8. It's under these protective&all encompassing wings of Hindutva culture that the persecuted faiths from other parts of the world like the Galilean Jews (2500 BC according to New York Times in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks), the Armenian Jews, the Parsies (900 AD), the Muslims (Cheraman Mosque, Kodungalloor, Kerala, 625 AD), the Christians (52 AD St Thomas, Kodungalloor, Kerala) took refuge in. When all these noblest of noble things were happening in Hindutva India the so called civilized Europeans were committing genocide against their own besides the Jews as in the pogroms of 13th century AD Lincoln&York in Britain, the crusades and what not.
9. Please tell me why should Indians be made to feel ashamed of their own culture?
Jai Bharath, Jai Bharathiya more
Re: Hindutva Culture Debate & Controversy
1. This post is not intended to embroil our beloved PM Shri Modi ji in to any debate on culture or Hindutva. But without promoting culture we can't promote tourism where heritage tourism is the biggest component. We as a nation is caught between the rock&the hard place as they say in England. Can anyone imagine visiting Paris/London minus their cultural heritage icons? Will anyone go to China/Japan/USA minus their own cultural heritage icons. This is where Hindutva as a cultural heritage of India needs promotion.
2. Let me now state my interest/conflict of interest in Hindutva debate for the avoidance of any doubt. I grew up in a Roman Catholic family of 11. My faith (religion as in Indian English) is Christianity but my culture is Hindutva. I can change my faith/religion as I please under informed decision making as I please not once but many times over as I please. Even then I can't convert from my Hindutva culture to another culture. Can anyone anywhere in the world convert from one mother tongue to another mother tongue? The answer is an emphatic "No".
3. I can change my faith at will from being a Christian to a Hindu to a Muslim subject to my compliance&acceptability to those faiths. I can even become totally irreligious and turn in to an atheist but even then I can't change my culture Hindutva or my mother tongue Malayalam. This being the fact why all this hoo ha about Hindutva?
4. There was an attempt brothers&sisters to demolish India's cultural heritage&identity to destroy India's nationhood. What's Bharat which is India without her cultural heritage like her languages, way of life, mother tongues(not English), masalas, attire, diet, attitudes, family values? All that will be without these is an empty cultural vacuum which foreigners can take advantage. This is what a former British cabinet minister Margaret Hodge called cultural, moral and linguistic imperialism. Without cultural nationalism there's no nationalism whatsoever.
5.In Britain one of the few ministries they have is called Department of Culture, Sports and Media all under one roof instead of fragmenting them to work at cross purposes. It's this British ministry which promotes their English language, their English Premier League, their Shakespeare across the world no matter the Secretary (equivalent to our Cabinet Minister) is a hardcore Atheist, Anglican(Anglican Church), Jew or Agnostic. In the promotion of these issues the British were consistent unlike India where dynastic rulers systematically undermine our cultural heritage which is Hindutva.
6. There's no criticism when Europe asserts in spite of all their leftism/Marxism/socialism that their cultural foundation is "Judeo-Christian" values. Then why all these attacks against Hindutva.
7. There's a strategy to make Indians&the Indian government ashamed of our joint cultural heritage which is Hindutva. Brothers&Sisters Hindutva is the most benevolent culture that ever came in to this world. It gave rise to Sanathan Dharma, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Syro Malabar Christiany(oldest Christian church anywhere in the world; older than Vatican&Pope which came in to existence only around 350 AD under Constantine.)
8. It's under these protective&all encompassing wings of Hindutva culture that the persecuted faiths from other parts of the world like the Galilean Jews (2500 BC according to New York Times in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks), the Armenian Jews, the Parsies (900 AD), the Muslims (Cheraman Mosque, Kodungalloor, Kerala, 625 AD), the Christians (52 AD St Thomas, Kodungalloor, Kerala) took refuge in. When all these noblest of noble things were happening in Hindutva India the so called civilized Europeans were committing genocide against their own besides the Jews as in the pogroms of 13th century AD Lincoln&York in Britain, the crusades and what not.
9. Please tell me why should Indians be made to feel ashamed of their own culture?
Jai Bharath, Jai Bharathiya more
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This was the reason why Shri.Narendra Modi vowed to make Congress mukt Bharat!The day will come when people call Nehru and followers anti national! more
Jun 21
Mr.Johnson Thomas has rightly understood Hindutva and Hindutva culture.The magnanimity and universal tolerence of this culture had given shelter to all those persecuted on the basis of their faiths and religions all over the world.It was Swami Vivekananda who declared in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago that he reprsented a country and a culture that gave shelter to all those who were persecuted elsewhere in the world on the basis of religion and faith.As such,Hindutva is not a religion but a way of life given by hundreds of sages who sacrificed their life for the welfare of the humanity as a whole.But such a hoary culture and way of life has been mis interpreted mischievously by the Congress and secular bogey for selfish motive.They have encouraged disunity and mutual hatred among Hindus by copmpartmentalising the people in to different communities,scheduled castes tribes and what not!A real Hindu never hates any faith other than his.Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa lived as a Hindu,as a Christian and as a Muslim as realised God through all the three ways.Do these secularists have the guts to oppose terrorists whose agenda is forcefully make the entire world to follow one particular faith?Can they speak against forceful conversions or conversions by deceipt?We need to introspect.I feel that Mr.Johnson Thomas is better than any Hindu and he indeed is real Indian.May his tribe increase in leaps and bounds. more
Jun 21
It is the british tactics to make us feel shame about our culture. Unfortunately post-independence no corrective steps are taken. Secularism is understood in a different meaning by Congress. Late Kaanchi Maha Periyava (Sankara Acharya) said secularism is govt treating all religions equally and not having no religion at all. However in India the latter meaning was taken by Congress. more
Jun 20
I agree to most of the issues you raised. But we need to be a bit less harsher in the words we choose to use. more
Jun 20
Thanks Thomas ji. You have very verty rightly defined the same. Its really great. In India it was the "Nehruvian policies" (coloured 100% by British Anglo Saxon values - or lack of it) combined with Congis incesteous relationship with the anti national Commie savages. It has something to do with the "Transfer of Power agreement" of August 14, 1947 of which only Nehru was privy, even Gandhiji was in dark. So we still have the situation whereby Queen of England and not our President is the First Citizen of India. Still Congis FAITHFULLY gives the Nominations to miniscule Anglo Indian community (British in reality), All the more surprising considereing the fact that the Commie traitors opposed Indian Freedom and acted as Pimps of British and Muslim League yet they were not banned and wiped off in 1947, they supported the genocide and Razakars and Pakistan in Hyderabad and it was LOH PURUSH SARDAR Patel who saved the day for India and Under Commie-Nehru nexus lost his job. The same traitors supported China YET this incestous relationship continued. I always had one doubt about 1962 war. Romila Thapar who " RAJDEEP SARDESAI-ID" the Indian History, a known Commie anti national, her relative was General P.N. Thapar,the then Army Chief, Nehru favorite the then Defence Minister, another Commie Krishna Menon. Why were they not changed in 1962 by the them PM despite all warnings about Chinese invasion?? more
Jun 20
