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

[Amal Kazumi]

A step in the right direction...I'm still trying to follow the arguments
here...

Amal.
kaamilartcircle.wordpress.com

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Pukhraj Singh <pukhraj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 Both these religions are crap and outlandishly outdated.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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