‪Just another day in new India, Hindus not wanting a Muslim professor to teach Sanskrit. But Hindutva is different apparently 🙄 ‬

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'A Muslim can’t teach us our dharma' — BHU Sanskrit students want professor out

V-C says can’t reject anyone based on religion. Feroz Khan, the assistant professor appointed to teach Sanskrit, says he is feeling insulted by students' protest.

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@Deepsealioness

Prabha, you are just doing the same thing the BJP is doing : conflating Hinduism and Hindutva.

Hindutva by itself is morally indefensible ; why allow it to hide behind Hinduism?

Agreed, Hinduism itself has a long way to go before we can create an egalitarian society in India.

The "boil the ocean" approach isn't going to work ; let's prioritize the struggle against Hindutva and save our nation first, over reform in Hinduism.

@ranjona @KavitaKrishnan

@AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan

Please don’t do false equivalence. Hindutva ideology did not do this Hindus did this, same with many other things. Let’s stop pretending that majority Hindus are turning bigoted

@Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan We keep on denying, but everywhere FB, Twitter & WA groups, the story is the same. We label them as Hindutva, but all of them happen to be our own friends, colleagues & relatives. Just handful of Hindus who r openly calling out the hatred. V keep on saying 31% when almost the entire country voted for Modi with a massive mandate. It's time we recognize this. At the moment, I personally feel, all is lost and V r no different than the Nazis.
@cprogrammer @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan Don’t think all is lost. Given current state of Economy and Employment, economic arguments might appeal more to voters than purely a communal argument. We need to find innovative channels, circumventing traditional TV media, to communicate. Modi’s disastrous economic performance gives us a window of opportunity
@rkhuria @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona There is a video of victims of the PMC bank disaster. A small section of the crowd starts shouting "Chowkidar Chor Hai" and there is an immediate reaction from many other PMC bank victims who tell "Don't speak like that about or PM". He is not responsible and a fight breaks out between two sections of the demonstrators. Folks acknowledge the economic mess but still want to blame the Cong party for the mess. I have few other stories like this too.
@cprogrammer @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona Just btw I am PMC victim. That apart don’t go by one video. On Whatsapp I get regular videos of PMC customers shower ‘Modiji’ with choicest abuses. And with Economic growth plummeting, ppl are likely to have less money in hand and little job security. If we can’t convert this situation against Modi, we will never be able to. Modi has never been so vulnerable as now with Major nations faulting him on Kashmir
@rkhuria @cprogrammer @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona But can common Hindus see beyond propaganda ? Can People go against Modi on economy and at the same time cheer him for locking Kashmir down, playing drama's on Pakistan ?
The cheerleading majority has given Modi a free hand to do anything against democracy, freedom. Take situation in Kashmir for example. One state is locked down since 103 days, and it is not even part of road side discussions in rest of India.
@salm456 @rkhuria @cprogrammer @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona This has been on my mind for quite a long time. Economy is down, so ppl are not happy with Modi. But to me, it is very scary that majority of the ppl go against Modi only coz their money is in danger. Kashmir, the communal hatred and brainwashing being done should anger or alarm our ppl, even if they got the 15lakh jumla in their account. I feel scared when I think of the free reign they will give him if the economy improves.
@tempearth @salm456 @cprogrammer @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona Economy is not going to improve in a hurry. Modi is also like to go slow on Muslim bashing because , going by his body language, his meetings in Saudi Arabia didn’t go too well. I still do believe what we need to tackle most urgently is communication- need to communicate our perspective to voters in the face of a hostile media. Voters prefer Modi / BJP because 24*7 they hear his propaganda on all channels
@rkhuria @tempearth @cprogrammer @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona Everyone knew Modi is dangerous for economy,but still he won with even bigger Majority in 2019. The fundamental structure of Indian democracy has been weakened, constitutional institutions are bowing down. Only authority is Hindutva. When RSS thinks Modi can no longer lead, they will themselves disown Modi, and bring another bigot forward. There has to be a strategy to counter Hindutva rather than covering it up.
@salm456 @tempearth @cprogrammer @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona While I agree with most of u said, I also believe anyone who is regularly exposed to TV News can’t but believe in Modi because he is presented as a virtual superman. So the basic problem is not voters’ own thinking but the communication he is exposed to. Instead of blaming voters we need to find ways to expose him to alternative communication
@rkhuria @salm456 @tempearth @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona the question is how do we do this? This is a superstitious country who now believe Modi will deliver s Hindu nation. Do you remember the madness that gripped entire country in Sep 1995, Ganesha drinking milk?Yes we are that mad to believe in such things
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Hindu world divided by a 24-hour wonder

Miracle or mirage? From Calcutta to Southall, the faithful came to see milk-drinking idols as sceptics talked of hallucination

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@cprogrammer @salm456 @tempearth @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona So we really need to prove that Modi is bad for even Hindus. Is it so difficult to prove when in the economic disaster he has unleashed, common people are suffering- 70% of whom are Hindus?
@rkhuria @cprogrammer @salm456 @tempearth @Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona "We really need to prove that Modi is bad for even Hindus" . Yes Indeed. As Owasi told "Hindu mind has been hacked", and it's hacked through a strategical propaganda through every other
medium you name it, now majority of society believing to a point that blaming Modi/BJP is Hindu-blasphemy.