12-01-2004, 03:54 AM
In India, the so-called 'progressive' scientists used the institutions meant for creating scientific awareness among people, to spread their favourite Marxist ideology. For example, during the early 1980s, an exhibition was organized in the name of spreading scientific awareness to the masses, with assistance from a Central government ministry. The panels describing the method of science, showing landmarks in the history of the method of science show Karl Marx and Lenin among other events along with Descartes, Copernicus and Einstein while making Karl Popper conspicuous by his absence.[16] The text under the panels written by Dr. P.M. Bhargava, one of the world's foremost cellular biologists, unhesitatingly glorifies the ideologues and leaders of a regime that ran an inquisition on biologists. Ms. Nanda's call to such 'progressive scientists' who can sacrifice their scientific temper in the altar of their own ideological vested interests can only slow down India becoming a knowledge power.
This perhaps is the most straightforward condemnation and premonition of the Nazi idea of Aryan race that was made 15 years before Hitler took over in Germany. In India, it was a <b>pro-British leader</b> E.V.Ramasamy, who made ideological claims based on racial character -- with Aryans as villains. To him Aryans as a race were evil and cunning. His position on Brahmins was so clearly borrowed from the racist caricature of Jews made by Christendom.
In fact, 'Dravidian' racist parties like DMK, are followers of E.V. Ramasamy's doctrine that North Indians and Brahmins are racially different from Dravidians and that Hinduism is a Brahminical conspiracy to enslave the Dravidian race*. Thus, in these circles Sanskrit is often abused with all sorts of epithets â most of which are unprintable and obscene.
As against this, one does find mirrored versions of Nazi hate ideology in many of the vociferous anti-Hindutva 'secularists'. Thus, V.T. Rajasekhar, a Dalit activist, who similar to Ms. Nanda, combines Dr. Ambedkar's name and E.V. Ramasamy's racist theory to propagate anti-Brahminism as a liberation theology, is also strongly anti-Semitic. His motto has been very similar to Ms. Meera Nanda: 'What Hindu loves we must hate'. In a telling passage he says:
âSince the Brahminical Social Order is much more ancient it is quite likely that the Zionist founding fathers got their inspiration from the BSO (â¦) Dalit Voice has thus proved right in predicting that the Jews and the 'Jews of India' will join hands to crush Muslims, Blacks and India's Dalits.â [32]
This perhaps is the most straightforward condemnation and premonition of the Nazi idea of Aryan race that was made 15 years before Hitler took over in Germany. In India, it was a <b>pro-British leader</b> E.V.Ramasamy, who made ideological claims based on racial character -- with Aryans as villains. To him Aryans as a race were evil and cunning. His position on Brahmins was so clearly borrowed from the racist caricature of Jews made by Christendom.
In fact, 'Dravidian' racist parties like DMK, are followers of E.V. Ramasamy's doctrine that North Indians and Brahmins are racially different from Dravidians and that Hinduism is a Brahminical conspiracy to enslave the Dravidian race*. Thus, in these circles Sanskrit is often abused with all sorts of epithets â most of which are unprintable and obscene.
As against this, one does find mirrored versions of Nazi hate ideology in many of the vociferous anti-Hindutva 'secularists'. Thus, V.T. Rajasekhar, a Dalit activist, who similar to Ms. Nanda, combines Dr. Ambedkar's name and E.V. Ramasamy's racist theory to propagate anti-Brahminism as a liberation theology, is also strongly anti-Semitic. His motto has been very similar to Ms. Meera Nanda: 'What Hindu loves we must hate'. In a telling passage he says:
âSince the Brahminical Social Order is much more ancient it is quite likely that the Zionist founding fathers got their inspiration from the BSO (â¦) Dalit Voice has thus proved right in predicting that the Jews and the 'Jews of India' will join hands to crush Muslims, Blacks and India's Dalits.â [32]