[Reader-list] Petition against renaming of Delhi's Aurangzeb Road

[Pukhraj Singh]

I see dead Brahmins. I see dead Syeds.

Here's a good argument: For a scientist, Kalam has no peer-reviewed papers
to his credit.

I would be happy to see the elite maim each other, while the Muslim and
Hindu bigots indulge in secular revisionism.

Both these religions are crap and outlandishly outdated.

The very ink of history is merely fluid prejudice.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Prem Chandavarkar <prem.cnt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > On 31-Aug-2015, at 2:43 pm, Shohini Ghosh <shohini.ghosh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am a Hindu so don't teach me how to love Hindus. You are not the
> > custodian of Hindus.
>
> “The problem with Hindutva, which has impeded its capture of the average
> Hindu’s political and cultural imagination, is that it is the outcome not
> so much of hatred for others, especially Muslims, but rather of Hindu
> self-hate. It’s a historic and possibly doomed attempt to change everything
> about Hinduism that makes it what it is — its ability to accommodate
> mind-boggling diversity, its avoidance of strict definitions and
> boundaries, its amorphous, heterogeneous, tolerant and fluid character.
>
> Hindutva wants to “Semitize” Hinduism, giving it a god, a book, a
> revelation, a prophet, an ecclesiastical order, a pontiff, a race, a
> language, a country (or a holy land), a history, a canon, doctrinal
> stability and missionary zeal. It’s an attempt to standardise,
> essentialise, codify and systematise a vast universe of incommensurate
> beliefs, practices, rituals, theologies and narratives — to render Hinduism
> modern and modular”.
>
> Ananya Vajpeyi
>
> Hind Swaraj vs Hindu Rashtra
>
> The Hindu, 12 July 2014
>
> Full article available at:
>
>
> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/hind-swaraj-vs-hindu-rashtra/article6201620.ece
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