Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
We don't need No Thought Control! My piece on Ideological Defiance in #Karnataka #Textbooks
https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1766749156767662514?t=Hp167dXyNceSDK5KBSBJLg&s=19
What we have had in India thus is a see-saw political struggle over education, with different policies being subjected to the winds of ideological preference.
The BJP's emphasis on radicalising educational philosophy towards ancient philosophers rather than modern free-thinkers is a core aspect of the ideological struggle in the field of education. Karnataka and other southern states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala have had reformist thinkers and social movements against social inequities. Karnataka's dominant Lingayat community follows the teachings of heterodox guru Basava, and it has even sought the declaration of anti-caste Lingayatism as a distinct religion.
What is clear is that modern democracy cannot be meaningful without freedom of expression and open-minded debates, and the debates must include the thoughts of those who have questioned inequality and injustice, which have been part of the ground reality of social injustice and conservatism. While words like "ethos" speak of the intended thoughts of ancient teachers, in the here and now, we need to encourage a contextual approach that encourages critical thinking, which goes hand in hand with science.
The Nehruvian Consensus which moved the Indian nation-state for almost 40 years, shattered and demolished the ideas of the Civilisational Consensus and the Gandhian Consensus both of which had spiritualism and the Indian civilisational value system at their core. The nouveau values of the Nehruvian Consensus were popularised by the ruling class, their followers and the intelligentsia of the time to maintain hegemony.11 Nehru himself believed in the socialist and secular value system and tried to propagate it through the educational and cultural realms by appointing people with similar understanding. His daughter continued this tradition. A glance at the education ministers— the ministry also used to include the culture department—reveals a distinct pattern that many find astonishing, even unbelievable. 'Modian Consensus', Swadesh Singh
The tension is present in Savarkar himself...a legacy of European territorial nationalism.. which even a deep thinker like Savarkar could not parry fully. Hence, his (unnecessary) tying up of Hindu Dharma to India's territory... Compared to that Dr Ambedkar or Shri Aurobindo have more clarity. Shri Aurobindo is far more explicit... A non-Hindu Bharat loses all meaning for him.
That even the Hindu Mahasabha, under Savarkar, granted cultural educational rights to muslims (Art25-30 of today) is indicative. The pure, mere territory based thinking has been fatal to Hindu civilization. Mere territorial nationalism is a misstatement of Hindu concerns. Deoband too was against Pakistan, but it was for an islami Akhand. Vivek Ramaswamy or Tulsi Gabbard's pitrubhumi and perhaps even punyabhumi is not Bharat. Are they Hindu or not? First is Dharma, next comes territory. Then precisely no? Tying up Dharma with India's territory. Not needed. Hindu Dharma is civilizational. It is not a nationality at all.
https://twitter.com/lalashwa/status/1766353902352605392?t=GJLUdVXnp5iUL0yxfxBamw&s=19
When Hindu thought leaders as Swami Vivekananda or Shri Aurobindo began exposition of Hindu Darshan in western terminologies, the westerners labelled it as 'Neo-Hinduism which draws from western values' claiming actual Hinduism doesnt have egalitarian liberal values.
But here /1 is the twisted side:
The ghulam Hindu (Neo-Hindu in article) who feels decolonised today in the wake of decolonial movement, but still enjoys the occasional pet by the master, has added in 'masala' that these 'western values' were all present in traditional Hinduism to extent /2 the extent that their degenerates practices (touted as liberal) are also claimed reflected in Traditional Hinduism.
Its extremely hard to realise the levels of colonialism & conditioning of Abrahamic framework & euro-centric history with marxist cocktail has inebriated the mind.
https://twitter.com/KuldeepGaurav7/status/1766754668125016361?t=ZpwmPnqxkK2I0C5_XmGwYw&s=19
European Contempt for Hindu Society Ingested by Neo-Hindus:
"The Neo-Hindu was so enamoured and brainwashed by the European model that he knows no way of reform except that propagated by Western Civilisation."
- @dharmadispatch
https://twitter.com/ruchirsharma_1/status/1766737527719776589?t=_iEv1RZ9ydECIVRuvNZhnw&s=19
That there is room for reform in Hindu society as there is in every other society goes without saying. But the Neo-lndian reformer knows no way of reform except that of Western Civilization. Burning with zeal, he loudly proclaims the gospel of female emancipation on Western lines, and girds up to lift up the benighted females by making them race with the males along the paths of University education and Western Civilization little reflecting upon the goal to which they are likely to lead and to which they are already leading in the West.
https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/european-contempt-for-hindu-society-ingested-by-neo-hindus
What is it with Jordan Peterson and all his faux piety and anti-rationalism? His old lectures on clinical psychiatry are actually incredibly good, but somewhere along the way he seems to have lost the plot.
https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1766724359467811254?t=NKavR3u5HXRXV73CyXBzow&s=19
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