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The pattern is everywhere once you start looking. Indian "progressives" erupt over century old colonial atrocities in Canada. Land acknowledgments get retweeted. Cultural genocide gets named and shamed. The civilizing mission gets exposed for what it was—systematic destruction dressed up as salvation. Then silence. Complete radio silence
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Your friend mentions she's finally reading the Bhagavad Gita. You ask what sparked the interest. "Oh, this professor at NYU kept referencing it in her philosophy course. Made it sound so profound." But she's Hindu. Born in Delhi. Grew up with these stories. Yet
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India gained independence in 1947, but Hindu temples didn't. You know how sometimes people inherit the bad habits of those who they consider their superiors without realizing it? India did that with British colonial policy, except the bad habit was seizing control of Hindu temples and the inheritance
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Western scholars approach Sanskrit with impressive academic rigor—parsing verb forms, tracing etymologies, and constructing elaborate linguistic frameworks. What's missing in their work isn't intellectual capacity but receptivity to a different kind of knowledge. Sanskrit isn't just an ancient language to be cataloged alongside
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What happens when your enemy disappears but your enmity remains? The Soviet Union's collapse created an identity crisis for communist movements worldwide. It wasn't just that they lost their ideological headquarters—they lost their guiding star, their proof that the revolution could succeed. For India'
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Most successful countries have a bureaucracy that enables. India has one that prevents. When a nation's default response to innovation, growth and change is 'no, unless we specifically allow it', —it's a system designed for control, not progress. India's bureaucratic labyrinth wasn&
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India's intellectual left has long championed the cause of gender justice, yet its selective approach to patriarchy raises serious questions. While "Brahmanical patriarchy" is frequently attacked in media and academia, Islamic and Christian patriarchal structures remain largely ignored. This biased narrative reflects a deeper political agenda
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India isn't conquering foreign lands. It's colonizing itself. We've been taught to recognize colonialism by its most obvious features: ships arriving from distant shores, foreign flags planted in native soil, resources flowing back to lands across oceans. But what if colonialism evolved? Coz the
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Pride in one's heritage isn't just emotional comfort - it's a foundational pillar of identity. The Hindu's cultural inheritance represents thousands of years of intellectual achievement, not mere exotic curiosities awaiting Western validation. When encountering outsiders, this ancestral wealth becomes both shield