@jopriyu267 So in a way that these variables are all addressed, the solutions emerge. Survival fitness of group and evolution/continuity of tradition,
fulfillment of individuals.
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Skanda Veera
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@jopriyu267 Do such groups have the ability to withstand brute force and barbaric onslaughts? In fact, the more civilized the society is, and the less there is validity for brute force, the greater the chance for non-patrilinear groups to survive and thrive - which was the case in India.
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All out-faced identity IS ego. People make their choices, not to be debated. But understanding the nature of identity is important to address collective phenomena and ensure identities become vehicles for fulfillment instead of self esteem battles.
Saucy bandit (Priyanka Joshi)🇮🇳@jopriyu267
I didn’t keep my name after marriage out of ego; I kept it because it is my identity. I have been working since I was 18....doing odd jobs, building a career, opening bank accounts, making financial decisions. My name is not a decorative label I can casually replace; it is tied to every document, every milestone, every step of independence I have earned. So no, I don’t see the logic in creating bureaucratic chaos just to satisfy a symbolic expectation. And more importantly, I don’t accept the premise that a woman must prove her devotion by erasing a part of herself. Marriage already demands enough adjustment. My address changes. My routines change. The smallest details of daily life.....from what I eat to how I live.....shift in ways that are rarely acknowledged. If that is not commitment, what exactly is? And then there is something far more personal. My father passed away before I got married. Keeping his name is not a statement....it is a connection. Every time I write my name, I remember him, his sacrifices, and everything that shaped me. That is not something I am willing to give up to make anyone else comfortable.
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India's social problems need more than moral blame. It needs a systemic lens: worldview, doctrine, institutions, and lived reality—to trace how colonization, centralization, broken sovereignty, and resource shifts reshaped society, writes @SkandaVeera. brhat.in/dhiti/a-system…
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@jcyoucantseemee These cant be matters of intent but commitment and demonstrable action and intent, and support has to depend on that. There are many ways to do good bargains with political dhandhos. Of course if they transcend dhandho they qualify for unconditional support, but that is on them.
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@jcyoucantseemee Vikas is not vikas if after you claim working for it majority of your population is backward and quota increases. The goals have to clearly indicate a proportionate reduction of backward group % in population in the near term leading to zero by 2047.
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So if the party has been fair and did not get vote from group 2, you abuse group 1 that has actually built your party and pioneered the fairness. And it is not anti group 1 to say the party won NOT because of group 1 BUT because of group 2. This is why SJ is hindutva's undoing.
Kushan Mitra@kushanmitra
This isn't an anti-UC comment, I'm a Kayasth. But the BJP always found it difficult to bring in the lower-caste vote in Bengal. This despite the BJP truly being the first 'subaltern' party in India.
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@jcyoucantseemee SJ doesnt actually win them votes as much, it is the aspirational segment that kept it afloat. It is a question more of what H should be prioritizing - BJP's own priorities once become burden on Hindus, then the cycle repeats. How cong went rogue and had to be dealt with.
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@SkandaVeera BJP has given up on Hindutva.
More than half of the cadres of BJP today have joined from INC or other regional parties.
BJP's ideology is dead. Today it is whatever that wins them elections. Nothing else.
BJP won against TMC's murderous rampage. Otherwise SJ wins them votes.
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@_constantchange This is the result of hijack of the hindutva agenda by "economic right" charlatans who made their careers. HINO is what entire hindutva increasingly comes down to, in the name of strategic positioning.
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@SkandaVeera Another related question, does bjp truly believe that just economic development and upliftment from poverty will change Hindus from just being HINO.
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Gandhi never said "I am happy to treat M as my brothers provided they reciprocate and declare I am not their enemy". Result is the pseudo secular evil. Why are Hindutva orgs not saying "harmony means not abuse but rounding sharp edges inwards and exposing sharp edges outwards"?
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It is the same failure of cong, because of which its secularism directly meant allowing anti-H. And what BJP is doing the same - its "sab ka saath" is increasingly amounting to anti dharmika, anti UC, anti brom anti this anti that for accommodating "subaltern". Suicidal.
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