Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Human history is about migration

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Why is the West so militant about anti-migration? Are migrants not humans? Are they lesser humans that they do not deserve to live in your country? You benefitted from centuries of colonialism and now you so viciously protect your borders. Borders are unnatural constructs.

Your countries are lying vacant, you don't have that much population, your elderlies do not have anybody to care for them, you have land and resources. So why not just open up the borders let people from poorer over populous nations come and settle. Isn't that what you did?

Human history is about migration and settlement when borders wasn't a thing. Not even calling it colonialism. Just something they did, for his reason maybe. Then they invented borders and closed it. Why? Why it's a big issue if post-colonial people want to migrate and settle?

So what? What's the big deal with nativity? Why are natives superior? And who even is the native? Nobody is orginal. Everybody is migrant from some or the other land.

https://twitter.com/sanjukta/status/1760020876014301226?t=3sn-wB80UgbTVrJNlUmfoA&s=19

Thousands of Indians getting recruited by foreign countries to fight wars at Ukraine or Gaza is nothing but a modern slavery. 10 years of Modi govt has created such a job crises and pushed the youth to such precarious work and life. Every Indians head should hang in shame.

https://twitter.com/sanjukta/status/1761351080129200171?t=weW18400Ndl1Hwi528dx4g&s=19

If Govt can stop you from going abroad to speak at events and conferences, and if it can stop foreigners/NRIs from entering India to speak to you, and if it can stop you from reading/watching content created outside, then you are in a prison. Govt is the jailor.

https://twitter.com/sanjukta/status/1762001351377392096?t=0M7AIIFSgF53ZnYEyir6bg&s=19

puts burden on state. migrants will share resources of natives. there's security and cultural concern as well. take india eg., natives don't like outsiders. and borders are not unnatural. it's always been there, territory most element of state, since ages.

https://twitter.com/lazyelegance_/status/1760025388833747265?t=J_niHdQ9UgvFrEnPcrai4A&s=19

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Culture of hurt sentiments has to end

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

No idea or individual should be above criticism. That includes the great Dr Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Phule, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, etc. I would also add religious figures, whether prophets or devi devatas. This culture of hurt sentiments in India has to end. Draconian laws like 295a, 253a, or certain provisions in the SC/ST atrocities act are anti democracy. Yes, we will have certain individuals saying crass things. But that does not mean we should jail them. Outside of a call to violence (Brandenburg vs Ohio), everything should be allowed. The latest arrest in Maharashtra is another one of those excessive use of draconian laws. But the tragedy in India is both the left and non-left are without principles. They don't want the provisions to be diluted. They just don't want them to be used on their so-called team/individual they like. Until Indians don't understand FOE conceptually this will happen time and again. As my dear friend @ARanganathan72 said once, the only reason why some of us are not in jail is that the state in its wisdom has decided not to use these draconian laws against us as of now. So fight the source itself. Don't tell me the SC/ST act has draconian provisions but 295a and 153a are fine. They are all problematic and need to go.

https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra/status/1756901649350787456?t=BBcWbW-nYN5P3CRFOAlU8Q&s=19

Your discomfort is not a legitimate argument. When someone told the late great Christopher Hitchens that his sentiments are hurt by Hitchens he gave a simple reply. 

"If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.'

In this country, I've been told, 'That's offensive' as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don't.

And I'm not running for anything, so I don't have to pretend to like people when I don't."

https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra/status/1756905948806046205?t=q5NOHP2QKs5L_b6uKcLHAQ&s=19

Show me one such tweet. I never said insulting is ideal. I said it should be legal. But you're too unintelligent to get these concepts. I'll mute you and move on because post this tweet engaging with you means I'll lose IQ ppints.

https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra/status/1756906467876331565?t=mqiH2Kr-aH6FMFuDvappvw&s=19

No you morons Modi Ji is not above criticism. But you cannot harm Indian interests by siding with India's enemies and peddling constant fake news and then expect to get an OCI. Go and check what these pieces of human debris have been peddling.

https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra/status/1757344606637740349?t=i9EUlUDYV0bXnPbN7tvpEg&s=19

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Enemies of Dharma lose the battle of ideas

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Politics is a beast that will swallow Hindus whole, perhaps. Gandhi and Ambedkar bhakti is a political compulsion, however, unbridled deification of mere humans, so much so that any discussion amounts of blasphemy, can only take a society back to the dark ages. No human being is above criticism. If such motivations existed a few decades ago, Arun Shourie would have been thrown in solitary confinement for his book “worshipping false gods”. Then, he was attacked by Ambedkarites but the state itself didn’t arrest him. Some of these political decisions of BJP would be and is unacceptable to an average citizens and ideological supporters like me would never be happy about them. I also find myself in a precarious dilemma because I do see the need for the BJP to retain political power and at the same time, my Dharma dictates that I stand with fellow Hindus. Politicians will politik. Their interests might align with Hindus on some occasions and on others, stand diametrically opposed to them. That is a harsh reality that Hindus need to make their peace with.

https://twitter.com/UnSubtleDesi/status/1756276821555900688?t=JdhvRnO2neSv-QrWmB98kg&s=19

The deification of Ambedkar comes from the 2 demographic realities any major party in India contends with:

1. SCs have higher birth rate than OBCs & GC. SC population growth rate is 20% higher than Indian average.

2. SC vote participation is higher than OBC & much higher than GC, whose vote participation in cities is abysmal. Just check South Bombay, South Delhi, South Chennai voting stats. Additionally they migrate more out of country than others too.  

So beyond defending him for who he was or what he represented, Ambedkar has become a buzzword to buy the goodwill of the fastest growing castes, that participate the most in the electoral process.  

With Indian religious minorities already at 21-23%, a Hindu party aiming for Delhi power by maximizing Hindus votes cannot afford to antagonize 26% SC/STs as well. If SC/STs + Minorities fully go against a party, it becomes numerically impossible to win elections.  

The state defends Ambedkar like god, not because of who he was or ideology but because of his current utility as the easiest way to appeal to the fastest growing voter class. It's not an ideology problem, its a demographic problem.

https://twitter.com/shelbyygun/status/1756284061696545147?t=v9cbpqQiCZxpBje1PEpkyg&s=19

A casteist - someone who defends exclusively hereditary based Varna and consequent restrictions - is the first and foremost enemy of Hindu Dharma Sangathan and hence of Hindu Dharma itself. He is a Trojan horse for unlike the external enemy he speaks the language of the in-group and superficially for it, on behalf of it. He is Adharmic even if he calls himself some great Acharya.

This Hindu division is why even when the 1857 revolutionaries tried to dislodge the British, they had to - however symbolically - opt for the Mughal throne as lead. This same division is why the British conquered India in the first place, like the Sultans did earlier.

It was Hindu reform that finally won us a free albeit truncated India - make no mistake about it. People talk about caste slowing conversions - why were we conquered for so long in the first place?

Caste is the antithesis of a modern state, and a modern state is nothing but a collective channelling of resources in an organised manner without the cacophony of civil wars. That accountable, scalable state is what creates prosperity and strength. There is no other known way.

We could not sustainably reclaim even one major Mandir in the plains when we were divided and down. That is the harsh truth. Only and only a civilisational democracy, which keeps us united, gave us that opportunity - a democracy where the amendable Constitution is *the* Shastra for Raj Dharma.

In a system of universal adult franchise, quotas and caste divides are inevitable if society is so divided. Just reflects ground reality. For sooner or later, reservations will go beyond the needy to the numerous. For the real in-group is the caste, though thankfully less so.

The only change that matters then here is socio-religious which exists in reflexivity with the political economy. Any casteist aspects of any Smriti or Sutra must be rejected as any kind of North Star, amended as needed - and if insisted upon, mocked as a core Hindu Sangathan duty.

A modern capitalist democracy with safety nets and mass education will do the rest and then we won’t need any affirmative action - but only and only then, when opportunity has abounded and when Hindus marry across caste backgrounds in larger numbers.

As we get closer to realising our civilisational aims, it is but inevitable that we discuss the fundamentals of Dharma if Dharma is (rightly) the guiding light. Here it must be said that knowledge without compassion is worse than no knowledge. Being a dry pedantic Pundit does not mean anything as Vivekandana himself said.

If Hindu Dharma is to be the guiding light then all our leading Mutts and Mandirs have to be open to all Hindus. That keeps the diversity alive but also strengthens the unity

Once again, make no mistake - a casteist is the first and foremost enemy of Dharma Sangathan and I will do my part to make sure that the enemies of Dharma lose the battle of ideas. We are not going to fritter away our once-in-a-millennium chance, thank the Gods, on petty solipsisms and caste-narcissisms.

https://twitter.com/harshmadhusudan/status/1756325336936075356?t=a1IZ1ao57P6cqLi-aPiBBw&s=19

Translation : all those who hate JSD please come to me I am very nice and don’t bother with things like facts nuance and actual history. I will provide a made to order neo Hindu identity which should be the template for all Hindus from now on. Anyone who opposes is very bad.

https://twitter.com/Nithya2102/status/1756524752058155094?t=eY-nRjTpdqAwFaUQqPHI9Q&s=19

Harsh madhusudan and Abhijit Iyer Mitra, both lose their mental balance, when they hear the word “caste”

https://twitter.com/KaranthNar4649/status/1756583404798366085?t=jDgCNRQBxMg9fjgeXkZqQg&s=19

Harsh has mastered the art of talking a lot but saying nothing. A pretentious prick trying to be articulate using big words w/o understanding their purport (even remotely). Kushal, if that is possible, is worse.

https://twitter.com/AshtonAga1/status/1756584684383838354?t=BDBgvzwFUcBwnOrEckFZ4A&s=19