Raghav Kumar Dwivedula

If you’re wondering why Indians have such poor media literacy, critical thinking and why we are susceptible to propaganda, this is why - overhyping of STEM subjects and derision of any education that’s not considered lucrative !!!

Teach your children to love Jesus.

The Hindu intellectual tradition was extraordinarily good at internal analysis and extraordinarily bad at defining itself against something genuinely foreign. It could absorb what fit, tolerate what didn’t, and let rival schools coexist without ever requiring them to address each other across their differences. This worked for centuries because nothing forced the question. Then two things happened, one material and one conceptual, The material blow was centuries of redirected patronage under Muslim rule, which didn’t end ordinary Hindu life but did destroy the institutional infrastructure of Sanskrit scholarship, temple construction, and large-scale cultural production across most of north India. The conceptual blow was the arrival of a European framework that demanded every civilization define itself as a “religion” with a founder, a single book, a creed, and clear boundaries, a template built from Protestant Christianity and presented as universal. When Indian intellectuals in the nineteenth century tried to reconstruct their tradition, they faced both problems at once. the institutions that had sustained the tradition’s own forms of knowledge were in ruins, and the only institutional and conceptual infrastructure available for rebuilding was the one the colonizers had brought. So they rebuilt using the colonizer’s blueprint because the tradition had never developed the muscles for defining itself against an alien framework, and the material base that might have supported an alternative reconstruction had been eroding for six hundred years. The result is a “Hinduism” that answers every question the European framework asks, brilliantly and passionately, while never noticing that the questions themselves were designed for a different kind of thing entirely.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ I’ll write a post about Sikh vs Hindu reaction to modernity.

Holy shit, Iran just released this video! What are we supposed to think about this?

They almost made him Philosopher King. You & I on social media stood between THEM & Pappu's greatness