Nope the are not. They were made to be so, so that India stands divided under the ceremonial veil of "difference". But it is heartening to know that JNU didn't beat this last bit out of you.
Are you stating in cold print that there is no distinction between Aryan and Dravidian languages?
I have no connections with the JNU, but they have fine scholars, as well as the usual collection of politically motivated ones. Like most other universities the world over, in fact.
You really fear the Hindus don't you, Joe? Just like how our hosts here worry day and night about Jews/Israelis, you've a morbid fear of Hindus.
A silly statement.
There is nothing especially fearful about the Hindu religion, except that it is a religion, in all its various divisions, and religions ar inherently negative, holding back the progress of the human race.
What I do oppose is Hindu bigots and their nationalist manifestation, which is thankfully well on the way to wiping itself out, along with the incredibly incompetent and corrupt counterpart, the Congress. While they last, however, they have infected a generation of young Indians with a bias against modern thoughts and concepts, a belief that India lived in a mythical golden age before the incursion of Islam, and a xenophobia of massive proportions.
I can understand since you hate them so much; that's why you fear them.
Don't be silly. It is the narrow-minded bigot I hate, not the broad masses practising it in their own way. Like I hate bigots from every religion.
There's no Sangh in Sikkim and neither have I ever worked with them. But yes, the karsevaks were noble and selfless enough to do a lot of relief work here whenever disaster has struck as recently as the earthquake. And if respecting their dedication is something you flinch.. then I can deduce which variety you belong to.
It is clear that you are not merely ill-informed, but stubborn and obstinate in denying facts that don't suit you.
You are aware, I hope, that precisely the same role is played by the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and for precisely the same reasons?
It is not their dedication that I abhor, but the perverted uses to which they put the admiration that it evokes.
Oh trust me, I am the last one to mince words when it comes to telling people a piece of my mind.
Trust has very little to do with it.
I am just saying that you really are strange for being a soldier of everytime going on the defensive whenever anything related to jihad or something like that comes up. What stops you from admitting the grim reality?
What on earth was that supposed to mean? Where have you read me getting defensive about jihad (of the militant, anti-Muslim sort), or related matters? Why don't you admit that your opposition is purely directed at my criticism of the Sangh Parivar and its working?
It won't kill you to admit that jihad is a problem and it is affecting us as much as it is affecting the Hindus of our country.
Jihad in the militant sense is a Pakistani problem, not an Indian problem. We can do nothing to solve it. Pakistan has to solve it on her own. We can only support Pakistani elements who are against the way it has destroyed their country.
Jihad may become an Indian problem. If it does, much of the responsibility will lie with those myopic idiots who insist on fracturing the country with their religious bigotry and bias. That includes their sycophants and hanger-on.
BTW just to bring to your notice, the Church has also given your mentors the red flag about "lack of political will" to resolve the situation in a righteous manner.
And which mentors are these?
I hope now you don't start seeing Saffron flags everywhere.
Fewer than ever before, but still too many.
Until that entire way of thinking is eradicated, we will remain a divided country, vulnerable to external attack. Every time we have been divided internally, we have fallen victim to external aggression. That is why this brand of exclusive politics and its underlying intolerant religious motif is so dangerous. Along with corruption induced by contempt of the law and of transparent democratic functioning, which is rooted in the same mediaeval mind-set.
