1. <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->since he perceived most indians to be cowards, the Mahatma felt ahimsa was the only way. There was no other way for a weak, cowardly people to fight back. So Gandhi had to make the most of what he had, namely a clueless, hapless people.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Your language indicates that like Gandhi, even you yourself are living under the myth created by the British that Indians were a clueless, hapless, weak, coward, servile race. Bharatvarsh has tried to help you with that. Also read 'Magical Seeds' by VS Naipaul. In a different context he has tried to explain, with the example of Tamils, about this myth. Once upon a time British had propogated this theory that Tamils are an "unfit-for-war and surrendered race". See Tamils of today in Sri Lanka. (He is not justifying their activities but just showing that what British had created was a pure lie and a systematic myth)
Come out of that myth as soon as possible. Indians were, have been, and are, as good martial people as anybody else.
2. By the way, Indian Leftists who have been using the name of Gandhi, find it hard to digest the favourite song of his - "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram".
From one of the minutes of meetings from an Indian lefty rally in USA:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A major troubling question is the role of a religious idiom in such organizing efforts. The night before the rally, FOILers had made the request that we not sing bhajans such as Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram among our group chants. There were some from other organizations on the day of the rally who disagreed and felt that this position displayed the problem with 'standard secularism': an inability to formulate an idiom which accomodated religion. While this problem may be very real, the particular bhajan in question is symbolic of a wider problem: the easy dominance of Hindu idioms. The bhajan is exclusively Hindu in form, complimenting itself by extending the 'generous' gesture of referring to Islam.
Although those involved in anti-communalism efforts often turn to the appeal of syncretic religious traditions, the question should still be posed, which religious idiom prevails? In the name of 'bringing religion back in,' it is often Hinduism alone which is uncritically assumed to provide an effective framing discourse.
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Idiots don't know. Which other religion will allow such co-references as "Ishwar Allah tero naam"? Certainly not the ones which command "You shalt not worship any other gods but me" or "No other God but Allah".
Your language indicates that like Gandhi, even you yourself are living under the myth created by the British that Indians were a clueless, hapless, weak, coward, servile race. Bharatvarsh has tried to help you with that. Also read 'Magical Seeds' by VS Naipaul. In a different context he has tried to explain, with the example of Tamils, about this myth. Once upon a time British had propogated this theory that Tamils are an "unfit-for-war and surrendered race". See Tamils of today in Sri Lanka. (He is not justifying their activities but just showing that what British had created was a pure lie and a systematic myth)
Come out of that myth as soon as possible. Indians were, have been, and are, as good martial people as anybody else.
2. By the way, Indian Leftists who have been using the name of Gandhi, find it hard to digest the favourite song of his - "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram".
From one of the minutes of meetings from an Indian lefty rally in USA:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A major troubling question is the role of a religious idiom in such organizing efforts. The night before the rally, FOILers had made the request that we not sing bhajans such as Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram among our group chants. There were some from other organizations on the day of the rally who disagreed and felt that this position displayed the problem with 'standard secularism': an inability to formulate an idiom which accomodated religion. While this problem may be very real, the particular bhajan in question is symbolic of a wider problem: the easy dominance of Hindu idioms. The bhajan is exclusively Hindu in form, complimenting itself by extending the 'generous' gesture of referring to Islam.
Although those involved in anti-communalism efforts often turn to the appeal of syncretic religious traditions, the question should still be posed, which religious idiom prevails? In the name of 'bringing religion back in,' it is often Hinduism alone which is uncritically assumed to provide an effective framing discourse.
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Idiots don't know. Which other religion will allow such co-references as "Ishwar Allah tero naam"? Certainly not the ones which command "You shalt not worship any other gods but me" or "No other God but Allah".