02-27-2004, 11:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-rajesh_g+Feb 27 2004, 12:50 PM-->QUOTE(rajesh_g @ Feb 27 2004, 12:50 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> HH,
Few questions ..
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>Is this your analysis ?
I do not know if it could be dignified as an analysis, just some thoughts.
>(1) What is your position on globalization ?
I believe globalization is a natural phenomenon- inevitable and India has always been a global hub in this process. In the past India was a nexus of the known globe interacting with Rome, Iran, China and the various far eastern principalities. So Indians are historically geared to sorting various foreign influences and dealing in cosmopolitan terms.
However, I feel in modern globalization there is an anisotropy of power. The west is forcing it down the gullets of the rest so that things work to their advantage. And this process as outlined above can create explosive situations in multi-ethnic third world settings when combined with another Western concept democracy. This is at the heart of most world conflicts. The West trying to press the piston hard to contain local steam vents and subvert age old local systems. The Bulwark of the West, US being relative isolated from Islam is able to keep a a major power differential to fuel this process.
>(2) What do you call cow extremism ?
In its most classic form was the demand by the VHP to bring mad-cows to India to house them locally. More generally it is the whole fascination with the role of beef-eating in archaic Hindu society and the denial of history.
>(3) If role of sexuality is to be changed - how is the varna vyavastha to be >maintained ?
I am not bringing up sexuality in the context of varNa vyavastha. What I mean is that there is an overt emphasis on Christian prudery as the solution against Western sexual indulturation that is taking place.
Few questions ..
Regards.. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
>Is this your analysis ?
I do not know if it could be dignified as an analysis, just some thoughts.
>(1) What is your position on globalization ?
I believe globalization is a natural phenomenon- inevitable and India has always been a global hub in this process. In the past India was a nexus of the known globe interacting with Rome, Iran, China and the various far eastern principalities. So Indians are historically geared to sorting various foreign influences and dealing in cosmopolitan terms.
However, I feel in modern globalization there is an anisotropy of power. The west is forcing it down the gullets of the rest so that things work to their advantage. And this process as outlined above can create explosive situations in multi-ethnic third world settings when combined with another Western concept democracy. This is at the heart of most world conflicts. The West trying to press the piston hard to contain local steam vents and subvert age old local systems. The Bulwark of the West, US being relative isolated from Islam is able to keep a a major power differential to fuel this process.
>(2) What do you call cow extremism ?
In its most classic form was the demand by the VHP to bring mad-cows to India to house them locally. More generally it is the whole fascination with the role of beef-eating in archaic Hindu society and the denial of history.
>(3) If role of sexuality is to be changed - how is the varna vyavastha to be >maintained ?
I am not bringing up sexuality in the context of varNa vyavastha. What I mean is that there is an overt emphasis on Christian prudery as the solution against Western sexual indulturation that is taking place.