It (is) not easy … to draw a line between Hindu nationalism and true nationalism. The two overlap as India is the only home of Hindus and they form a majority there. — J. Nehru
Those who permit slaying of animals; those who bring animals for slaughter; those who slaughter; those who sell meat; those who purchase meat; those who prepare dishes out of meat; those who serve that meat and those who eat it are all murderers. — Manusmriti
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” — Oscar Wilde
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. — Voltaire
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned, [molested]: yet we have not advanced one inch towards humanity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support error and roguery all over the earth. — Thomas Jefferson
The methods adopted by the invaders have left behind them their aftermath. One aftermath is the bitterness between the Hindus and the Muslims which they have caused. This bitterness, between the two, is so deep-seated that a century of political life has neither succeeded in assuaging it; nor in making people forget it. As the invasions were accompanied with destruction of temples and forced conversions, with spoliation of property, with slaughter, enslavement and abasement of men, women and children, what wonder if the memory of these invasions has ever remained green, as a source of pride to the Muslims and as a source of shame to the Hindus? — B. R. Ambedkar
As soon as Hindus begin to reciprocate the “kindnesses” visited on them by Muslims and Christians over the centuries, the followers of both asuric prophet cults will back off. The problem is Hindus always want to be seen as the good guys, not realising that that is more self-righteous egotism than anybody needs. Sometimes appropriate action must be taken to remind the chronically aggressive other side about the true nature of the people of Bharatavarsha. The Gita teaches us the following principle (though usually only the first half of the sloka is quoted piously): Ahimsa paramo dharmaha, dharma himsa tathaiva cha » Non-violence is the greatest dharma, so to is all righteous violence.
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I fail to understand why the so-called Hindu politicians like the fading Advani and so-called Hindu intellectuals like Kanchan Gupta never get tired of terming the the demolition of Babri Masjid an unfortunate incident. To me its a matter of great pride for Hindus that they razed to ground a mosque that was a symbol of blood-soaked Islamic invasion of India. Similarly, I am not at all remorseful of Gujarat riots. It was great to see in Gujarat that the Hindus had learnt the art of retaliation. Unfortunate train burning incidents can be stopped once the Hindus start retaliating.
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Madhu Trehan is a poor inquisitor in this video, attempting to insert her most mediocre secular views into the dialogue. Kanchan Gupta is also inarticulate at times, a poor show for a Hindu public intellectual. He appears to resort to old Leftist formulations when at a loss for words.
It is a curious fact that many Hindu intellectuals are retired Leftists. Are they sincere in their ideological u-turn? Have they really realised the futility of their left Leftism? Or have they just switched sides to stay in show business?
Kanchan Gupta is reported to be a Brahmo Samajist i.e. a monotheist a la Christianism. This commitment, if true, does not do him credit either as an intellectual or a Hindu (of whatever make or kind). It also makes him something of a Brown Sahib.
But there are some good points made in the video too and it is worth viewing.
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