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The past was glorious. Our civilisational ethos does celebrate unity in diversity. But our present politics and hate speech from top leaders sadly reflects a different lived reality. And no amount of diplomatic nuance can defend every day mob lynching and assault cases to calls for economic boycott of minorities reported from across the country. Frankly these are questions that need to be answered by the top political dispensation who run entire election campaigns fuelled by hate for specific communities. Our diplomats can not answer on behalf of the hate mongers .

This is one of the reason why Manmohan Singh government didn’t do a military strike post 26-11. It would have had limited practical utility and impact on the organisation, as US experience had shown. LeT camps were tin sheds and huts which could be rebuilt easily. Note that even sensible votaries of Operation Sindoor don’t claim that the operation inflicted any meaningful damage to the organisations it targeted.

These BS ideas show up everyday on this platform with those sharing them completely blind to reality. All jaatis can have their temples as long the acharak is trained in the appropriate rituals. However, every acharak cannot access every temple pretty much the same as how every director does not sit on the board of other organisations. There are hundreds of non-Brahmin run temples, and the problem that TN faces is political and well-documented. Anyone can learn the Vedas. Not only is the horrible PDF way of it open sourced, Ramakrishna Mission and Chinmaya Mission are some of the places that teach it to all regardless of community, sect, gender. Who is learning? “Should be” is easy to say; it allocates blame instead of forcing responsibility. Hindu individuals giving gyaan on this site about “how to save Hinduism” must step beyond the “I pay my taxes and will not contribute further except to whine” mindset if they wish to address actual gaps in the system, volunteer, build networks and have fun doing it.

Nehru did not inherit some great industrial power and turn it into a third world dumpster fire. That is WhatsApp uncle history. He inherited a vastly overpopulated, underfed, poverty stricken hellhole. His real crime was that instead of unleashing private enterprise, he trapped the country in fashionable champagne socialism, command economy brainrot, licence-permit raj, and suspicion of anyone trying to build wealth outside the state’s permission structure. So India crawled at around 4.1% real GDP growth under Nehru, while post-1991 India has averaged around 6.1%. That extra 2% will sound small to the numerically illiterate. But compounded for decades, it is the difference between becoming a $12K per capita economy or still arguing about vishwaguru status while at $2.8K per capita.

“…People read these accounts but they do not imaginatively understand the effects of conquest by an iconoclastic religion” - V S Naipaul, 1976 “India has been a wounded civilization because of Islamic violence: It is only Indian Nehruvians like Romila Thapar who pretend that Islamic rule was benevolent. We should face facts: Islamic rule in India was at least as catastrophic as the later Christian rule. The Christians created massive poverty in what was a most prosperous country; the Muslims created a terrorised civilization out of what was the most creative culture that ever existed. India was wrecked and looted, not once but repeatedly by invaders with strong religious ideas, with a hatred of the religion of the people they were conquering. People read these accounts but they do not imaginatively understand the effects of conquest by an iconoclastic religion.” From India: A Wounded Civilization by V S Naipaul,1976: