Indiafacts has a series of articles on Kalidasa where he is projected as an Indian poet, Indian this, Indian that.
He's specifically HindOO (hyper-HindOO), not Buddhist/Jain/Sikh/christoislamic/whatever. Don't know why Hindu nationalists, who surely must be aware of inculturation by now, persist in relabelling all sacred Hindoo matters and persons as merely "Indian", or even pretend they're 'all-Indic'.
And in the comments section of one article in the series, the Vedic Rishis were universalised too, i.e. not just dubbed merely Indian.
Soon this idiotic sharing tendency of modern Hindus will be reciprocated by the competition with inculturation from their end ("Kalidasa and Vedic Rishis belong equally to us, as they're all Indian, etc". Actually, that half-Sikh half-Paki, the Pollock promoter, Aatish Taseer already pretended Kalidasa somehow -magically?- had something to do with him, and was encroaching even on the Kumarasambhavam and dared to speak of Aparna.)
More inculturation for Hindus to look forward to.
Yoga, Bharatanatyam, Hindu classical music. Not enough for modern Hindus to gift that away.
Soon, the quintessentially HindOO Kalidasa and his sacred works (they are sacred), and the hyper-Hindoo (hyper-Vedic) Vedic Rishis - and the Vedam with them - will be commodities for every alien and other enemy to pillage from.
And just like Yoga is suddenly "not really Hinduism" - but more fool those who didn't see that spin coming from the Indian christomedia - soon Kalidasa and his works and the Vedic Rishis and the Vedam will magically become "not really Hinduism" too. (Hard to imagine? I bet some decades ago it would have been hard for Hindus to imagine that yoga being part of Hinduism be denied too. And yet that's exactly what's happened.)
And again, some (large) part of the blame will lie with modern 'Hindus' (vocalists, nationalists), for enabling it from their own end.
He's specifically HindOO (hyper-HindOO), not Buddhist/Jain/Sikh/christoislamic/whatever. Don't know why Hindu nationalists, who surely must be aware of inculturation by now, persist in relabelling all sacred Hindoo matters and persons as merely "Indian", or even pretend they're 'all-Indic'.
And in the comments section of one article in the series, the Vedic Rishis were universalised too, i.e. not just dubbed merely Indian.
Soon this idiotic sharing tendency of modern Hindus will be reciprocated by the competition with inculturation from their end ("Kalidasa and Vedic Rishis belong equally to us, as they're all Indian, etc". Actually, that half-Sikh half-Paki, the Pollock promoter, Aatish Taseer already pretended Kalidasa somehow -magically?- had something to do with him, and was encroaching even on the Kumarasambhavam and dared to speak of Aparna.)
More inculturation for Hindus to look forward to.
Yoga, Bharatanatyam, Hindu classical music. Not enough for modern Hindus to gift that away.
Soon, the quintessentially HindOO Kalidasa and his sacred works (they are sacred), and the hyper-Hindoo (hyper-Vedic) Vedic Rishis - and the Vedam with them - will be commodities for every alien and other enemy to pillage from.
And just like Yoga is suddenly "not really Hinduism" - but more fool those who didn't see that spin coming from the Indian christomedia - soon Kalidasa and his works and the Vedic Rishis and the Vedam will magically become "not really Hinduism" too. (Hard to imagine? I bet some decades ago it would have been hard for Hindus to imagine that yoga being part of Hinduism be denied too. And yet that's exactly what's happened.)
And again, some (large) part of the blame will lie with modern 'Hindus' (vocalists, nationalists), for enabling it from their own end.