05-12-2006, 07:09 PM
Dr Mahanta,
Your earlier post deleted by admin, dealt with your pretty low opinion of Indian culture, which was a very dishonest, you know it, so let's not go there. So rather than derail the thread explaining what Indian culture is, admins felt it was best nip this discussion. Such talk you can take to other forums, and I'm sure they'll oblige you (in fact you might even be welcomed with open arms there). We don't want to waste bandwidth here on the same.
In you are most recent post, there are multiple issue which you are addressing:
(a) what is culture? and
(b) why or how to best promote it?
We are dealing with part (b) here i.e., how to best promote it or why?
To your question on why promote culture? Frankly, we wouldn't want a racists Prof from Harvard like Witzel telling us that me and my family are "HiNA" and my culture represents having some oppressed class cleaning my toilets. We have always cleaned our own toilets and am sure it's same in your household, unless otherwise, this forum is not for you. So I'm surprised that you claim to have read articles on this forum but miss over 25 pages on this topic.
Would you want your kids to learn from some racists idologists from Emory or any other "prestigious" college that have a history of trashing our holy books or stating that or Gods are pedophiles. Would you like employ a jobless moonlighting consultant as Sanskrit expert given the fact his knowledge of India or Hinduism is limited to word "Om" and "Hindutva"? Would anyone here want to learn Hinduism from a racists managers of RISA forum?
I don't know about you, but I feel it's us Indians who should have a say in what our religion and heritage is. Not some hand-me downs from half literate bigots. As another member states here (in some other thread), it's not only *our* obligation, but a sacred duty to pass our culture to next generation.
If there are no interactions in this thread, please feel free to do so. If questions are unanswered, you can research answers and post it. If you feel there's no need to promote Indian culture, you can stay off this thread. I'd advise you to read this and other threads on this forum a bit more and be in lurk mode before you can start making any kind of meaningful contributions.
Your earlier post deleted by admin, dealt with your pretty low opinion of Indian culture, which was a very dishonest, you know it, so let's not go there. So rather than derail the thread explaining what Indian culture is, admins felt it was best nip this discussion. Such talk you can take to other forums, and I'm sure they'll oblige you (in fact you might even be welcomed with open arms there). We don't want to waste bandwidth here on the same.
In you are most recent post, there are multiple issue which you are addressing:
(a) what is culture? and
(b) why or how to best promote it?
We are dealing with part (b) here i.e., how to best promote it or why?
To your question on why promote culture? Frankly, we wouldn't want a racists Prof from Harvard like Witzel telling us that me and my family are "HiNA" and my culture represents having some oppressed class cleaning my toilets. We have always cleaned our own toilets and am sure it's same in your household, unless otherwise, this forum is not for you. So I'm surprised that you claim to have read articles on this forum but miss over 25 pages on this topic.
Would you want your kids to learn from some racists idologists from Emory or any other "prestigious" college that have a history of trashing our holy books or stating that or Gods are pedophiles. Would you like employ a jobless moonlighting consultant as Sanskrit expert given the fact his knowledge of India or Hinduism is limited to word "Om" and "Hindutva"? Would anyone here want to learn Hinduism from a racists managers of RISA forum?
I don't know about you, but I feel it's us Indians who should have a say in what our religion and heritage is. Not some hand-me downs from half literate bigots. As another member states here (in some other thread), it's not only *our* obligation, but a sacred duty to pass our culture to next generation.
If there are no interactions in this thread, please feel free to do so. If questions are unanswered, you can research answers and post it. If you feel there's no need to promote Indian culture, you can stay off this thread. I'd advise you to read this and other threads on this forum a bit more and be in lurk mode before you can start making any kind of meaningful contributions.