<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Was just reading the comments below that news article. Have that many people really become so stupid, so low-intellect, so much stone-headed? Howmuch has pseudo-secularism clouded the heads of people especially Hindus? Or is it the psec rediff that orchestrates this kind of comments?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Visiting India mid 2006, I noticed that my younger cousins were incredibly well-informed, even though they are continuously exposed to such dawaganda. In talking to them, I found that their circle of friends and classmates were the same. This is Tamil Nadu. More recently I met a young adult from Karnataka: also incredibly awake to the big sham in the media and about other events. And according to him, his acquaintances are all the same.
They're just a few years younger than I am, but they are so conscious of what is going on - something I never was until more recently (but I've always contended I've been pathetically slow), so I think it is very promising.
Bodhi, I really think that there is a vocal 'psecular' minority that is posting on many Indian boards, trying to make their psecular views seem more widespread and common. (A suspicion further underscored when my cousin told me how he had earlier been part of a Tamil forum which was eventually taken over by christos and the kind of pseculars who fervently believe in Oryans and Dravidoids, with many members curiously adhering to both camps; and how any arguments he made in correcting slander against Hinduism was not allowed to be posted. He quit the forums when he began to suspect that the administrators had an agenda in letting only the anti-Hindu statements go through.)
It is true that among the more easily manipulated - there's some in every population - psecularism is catching on. But then, anything would catch on among them, even though they like to pretend they're well-informed, well-read and open-minded. They're the ones that the English-language media is aiming for: the ones that can be fed misinformation and will eagerly digest it.
But as a general rule, Indians are not stupid like the press and politicians would like to believe, but are rather perceptive. If I can figure things out, Bodhi, 99.99% of the Hindu population can and will. Really. I take a lot of comfort from that.
They're just a few years younger than I am, but they are so conscious of what is going on - something I never was until more recently (but I've always contended I've been pathetically slow), so I think it is very promising.
Bodhi, I really think that there is a vocal 'psecular' minority that is posting on many Indian boards, trying to make their psecular views seem more widespread and common. (A suspicion further underscored when my cousin told me how he had earlier been part of a Tamil forum which was eventually taken over by christos and the kind of pseculars who fervently believe in Oryans and Dravidoids, with many members curiously adhering to both camps; and how any arguments he made in correcting slander against Hinduism was not allowed to be posted. He quit the forums when he began to suspect that the administrators had an agenda in letting only the anti-Hindu statements go through.)
It is true that among the more easily manipulated - there's some in every population - psecularism is catching on. But then, anything would catch on among them, even though they like to pretend they're well-informed, well-read and open-minded. They're the ones that the English-language media is aiming for: the ones that can be fed misinformation and will eagerly digest it.
But as a general rule, Indians are not stupid like the press and politicians would like to believe, but are rather perceptive. If I can figure things out, Bodhi, 99.99% of the Hindu population can and will. Really. I take a lot of comfort from that.