Culture & Nationalism

The Leaflet's Constitution Day Talk: Undermining the idea of India: Which way forward?

Justice Gautam Patel  https://youtube.com/embed/IGdawuwdWEc?start=1228&end=3809   Full text available in https://scroll.in/article/1011608/gautam-patel-history-will-not-judge-us-by-our-highways-but-how-we-preserve-the-idea-of-india The Leaflet Nov 30, 2021 

Justice Madan Lokur: https://youtube.com/embed/IGdawuwdWEc?start=3887&end=4545.    On the tendency to block freedom of speech and protest.. supression of democracy, life and liberty, search and seizure tactics to quell dissent.  Why is the Judiciary not reacting to such situation.. Judicial Transfers

Gautam Patel:‘History will not judge us by our highways, but how we preserve the idea of India’

Hindutva faces threat from ‘neo-Hindus’, says Uddhav  https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/hindutva-faces-threat-from-neo-hindus-says-uddhav-101634332396332.html Dassera Oct 16, 2021  

“I believe that Hindutva is now under threat. Those who have used the ladder of Hindutva can now use the strategy of the British of divide and rule. They will create a divide between Marathis and non-Marathis. They will erect a wall between the Marathas and other communities and continue to enjoy the power in the Centre. Marathi people must unite by forgetting their differences. With this unity, another unity is needed. The division between Marathis and non-Marathis should be buried,” - The Maharashtra CM Udhav Thackeray the Shiv Sena chief said during his address at the annual Dussehra rally in Mumbai. ..

“Babasaheb Ambedkar firmly said that like the Centre, the States too, have sovereign rights. If the Centre interferes in the working of the State, it will be unconstitutional.  
“I want the opinions of intellectuals and constitutional experts on this issue. Let there be an open discussion over this. After studying the Constitution, if it comes to light that the Centre is above us (States), then let it be so. But if Constitution has given us (States) sovereign rights as the Centre, then the Centre’s daily interference cannot happen and cannot be tolerated. Now the time has come for all the States in the country to decide on this,” he added.

"Gandhi & Savarkar- The Political Choices Of Modern India" | Shruti Kapila | Barkha Dutt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60uyLqrpmgE   30/11/2021 


Dr. Shruti Kapila of the University of Cambridge speaks to Barkha Dutt about her book 'Violent Fraternity & Indian Political Thought In the Global Age' She attempts to answer questions on the profound thinkers that were involved in the making of modern India, from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to BR Ambedkar, while commenting that the fundamental political question today is of violence & non-violence. She attempts to answer questions on the profound thinkers that were involved in the making of modern India, from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to BR Ambedkar, while commenting that the fundamental political question today is of violence & non-violence. 

THINKERS AND POLITICIANS Hindustan Times (Bathinda)20 Nov 2021

Violent Fraternity Shruti Kapila 313pp, ~899 Princeton University Press
Violent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India. the book is a testament to the power of ideas to drive historical transformation. Shruti Kapila sheds new light on leading figures such as MK Gandhi, Muhammad Iqbal, BR Ambedkar and Vinayak Savarkar, showing how they were innovative political thinkers as well as influential political actors. Kapila argues that it was in India that modern political language was remade though a revolution that defied fidelity to any ideology. The book shows how the foundational questions of politics were addressed in the shadow of imperialism to create India and Pakistan..

'On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought' https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/shruti-kapila-university-of-cambridge-on-violence-and-the-importance-of-indian-political-thoug  In her upcoming book Violent Fraternity in the Indian Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, and Penguin Random House, India 2021) Kapila argues that it was in India that modern political languages were remade through a revolution that defied fidelity to any exclusive ideology, and explores how the foundational questions of politics were addressed in the shadow of imperialism to create both a sovereign India and the world’s first avowedly Muslim nation, Pakistan.

At Adda | Conversation with Shruti Kapila | Intellectual Histories For India Aug 25, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgxaaG-9kY 

Comment in youtube - agon Noga:  Congress, which means exchange of views, was created after 1857 by the British to channelize Indian independence movement into the most docile and manageable form of opposition. In this, the British were supported by the princely kingdoms who weren't part of British India. In return, the British, who were basically armed merchants, gave favorable trade concessions to merchants from these princely kingdoms in British India. These merchants in turn used to fund, guide and aid both Congress and Muslim League on behalf of the British. This is how Parsis, Gujaratis and Marwaris came to dominate not only British India's economy but also the politics.

After 2nd world War when it became impossible for the British to retain their colonies they wanted to leave India just as they had found it I.e a collection of nations. This is why the 1946 cabinet mission plan envisaged autonomous states with a central government only in charge of defense, foreign affairs, communication and currency. Both Congress and Muslim League accepted this plan.

But, the business houses who were not from British India but made enormous fortune in India found loss of their monopoly over Indian economy in the 1946 cabinet mission plan. Hence, they opposed this plan with tooth and nail and Congress due to pressure from their businessmen patrons had to take back consent to 1946 cabinet mission plan. This withdrawal from cabinet mission plan by Congress to protect the interests of few business houses led to Muslim League demanding creation of Pakistan. So, it wasn't religion as we have been led to believe but money that led to the partition of India.
This is also the view of Pakistani scholar and academician, Ayesha Jalal. India's history has to be rewritten.

Travel pass time: 

Savarkar wrote 1857
A atheist who fought against cast system
In 1905 he was first person to boycott British products
He always hated cow worshipers
Bhagat singh fought for getting book of 1857 written by savarkar

The people who are hating don't know
Britisher made him most dangerous for British era
There are underground letter between subhash chandra bose and Bhagat singh
He went to Kalapani (where nehru ran from in just 1 week)

He wrote books on the walls of Kalapani jail with his nail
With his nails

He was smart rationalist and not emotional like Bhagat singh

He thought I am important even if my image gets degraded in public
He never thought about what people will think about him
The most dangerous person for British
Wrote mercy petition still British were not allowing him bail
If you have IQ more than temperature then you know his mind

Ambedkar praised RSS and said do it faster
Ambedkar praised work of savarkar in ratnagiri
Ambedkar hated Muslims more than Hindus
Ambedkar hated communism and socialism

RSS never ever discriminated dalits I myself is not uper caste nobody
Nobody ever asked me about my father or my caste

On the other hand we have gandhi who slept with 19 year old girls to prove his celibacy
I mean who does that
BTW I appreciate honesty here

GANDHI was more castist than any other leader he wanted our society to be developed on basis of caste

We praised him for 1942 quit india movement
Then why do we see bargaining about Pakistan and India in 1939 itself
Gandhis non voilece never gave us independence
It subhash chandra bose whi attacked from east
And there were many violent protesters started voilece
Quit india movement was complete failure
Why would Britishers ran in 1947 if quit india movement was so strong
Why did they waited for 5 years

We're they stupid

And after that in 1950s
When media asked to prime minister of England why did you left India
The answer was "Bagawat in British army " because of subhash chanra bose
And what do you think about the role of Gandhi in indian Fredom strugle he said
"MINOR "

Our history is skewed towards congress and Gandhi

Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless — reasons fall on death ears. Bonhoeffer's famous text, which we slightly edited for this video, serves any free society as a warning of what can happen when certain people gain too much power.

If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature.

This much is certain, stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one.

Only an act of liberation not instruction can overcome stupidity (bhakt-hood). We must come to terms with the fact that in most cases, a genuine internal liberation, becomes possible only when external liberation has preceded it. Until then we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person. Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity. https://sproutsschools.com/bonhoeffers-theory-of-stupidity/