Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
It’s painful to listen to #RamachandraGuha.
He’s excitable, eats the last few words of every sentence and speaks at a pitch which can be exhausting to the ear.
He says he’s a scholar and not in the business of giving advice but proceeds to do just that through his interview with #KaranThapar.
To encapsulate the roots as briefly as possible of this section of Indians (at the risk of being judge-y) one can safely assume the first poem they learnt was William Wordsworth’s Daffodils having never actually seen the flower.
Their understanding of their faith is not Sanatan Dharma but Hindu-ism which is as hazy as Cubism or Modernism.
In this esoteric ‘religion’ everything convenient is allowed only because it’s simpler to fit in.
The leitmotiv of their faith being lie down and enjoy it on the high moral ground.
They usually are also a vociferous votary of the nebulous concept - Idea of India because in reality they have No Idea Of India, being completely deracinated from its culture and history. For them everything is vague because their understanding of it - is vague and limited.
And that brings us back to Guha who takes great pains to explain why Hindu -ism is a ‘disaggregated’ religion.
Completely overlooking the fact as a ‘historian’ that unlike the proud, imposing temples of the South that still stand tall, where people congregated to celebrate and worship our places of worship up North were desecrated and destroyed. In fact after 12th century, Delhi saw a new temple Laxminarayan Mandir only in 1939!
There is a reason why we worshipped as discreetly as possible in our Mandirs at home, or tucked away in tiny cubby-hole nukkads, in peepul trees.
Not because we were ‘disaggregated’ but because we were discriminated.
A people that paid Jaziya understood all that needed to be done to avoid persecution.
Stay invisible.
But then to say that for the likes of Guha - is Hindutva. It disturbs his lifelong well ordered nowhereness and the only person in his eyes to blame for this is Narendra Modi.
Again missing the point - that the man represents at least a billion Indians who unfortunately for Guha, cannot be wished away.
https://twitter.com/NAN_DINI_/status/1737817851682287669?t=kPXNoKCgbVq5o65g95o3jg&s=19
Karan Thapar is no fun either! With the jaws tightly clenched words ground n passed through that sieve is excruciating on the tympanic membrane! It is a death wish to watch an interview by Karan Thapar +guha!
https://twitter.com/NTanjore/status/1738028367461638359?t=SdUfb4wTJNhQVOgOdI7nbw&s=19
I agree. It is decades since I watched more than a video clip of his. His mannerisms were much more pronounced earlier made worse by twisting the wrong end of the argument. Yes, watching them both together was like asking to be whipped :-)
https://twitter.com/NAN_DINI_/status/1738033783251914958?t=Ci-y34IPmcQSlUTdksNlbQ&s=19
[No examples are needed to convey the sheer tedium of NJN’s column: anyone who spent six months walking in the Sahara will know what I’m talking about.]
marketime.blogspot.com/2005/07/dhiren…
https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1739203901537329271?t=kVA8RAi1Tlq_rYV9d-rTvQ&s=19
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