“Only an utterly cruel society can have a caste system and perpetuate it for so many centuries to the present day.”

Caste society has been far less cruel than most other societies historically. No society has the moral right to cast stone on caste society as their hands are also drenched in blood.

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Throwing ink…….very mature!

Given that the history of that period is still not completely clear to any of us, this is a bit like throwing ink at someone for insulting Santa Claus.

More seriously, if these nincompoops want to make the “real history” of their region known, they can always make a movie. Or a play, or newspaper articles.

But then I’ve resigned myself to the fact that the cause of free speech in India is well and truly dead.

”“Hindu, Buddhist and South Asian culture continues to constantly be exploited through Western capitalism in the name of spiritual awakening and sexual exploration.””

Does she understand what this sentence means?

Does she understand what Buddhist Hindu South Asian culture means?

Capitalism is not western. Capitalism was the dominant economic system during the Ramayana, during Illa/Buddha (Chandra Vamsha), during the Mahabharata, in ancient Sumerian history and in ancient Iranian history.

Capitalism thrived during a golden age of globalized capitalism (spreading from Serbia/Greece to Egypt to Sudan to Malaysia/Indonesia/Bali to Cambodia/Loas/Thailand to Tibet to Turan. My view is that China was also a part of it and look forward to Chinese records to confirm large trading routes before 1,000 BC.

Most poor people benefit from capitalism.

The way ancient civilizations have been technologically exploited is through patent law (where modern companies establish patents on ancient technologies). Examples include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksFqQdp6Suw&t=2s

By definition patent law is a government enforced restriction on capitalism. Patent law has gone too far.

The only thing I remember from that movie is Kareena Kapoor dancing in water.

It was such a bad movie, might as well throw ink on srk.lol

It’s funny how the movies sort of actually portray the very communities who are protesting better than they really are in real life ( probably to compensate ). The rajputs can’t put a foot wrong in padmavat while the Kalinga folks in ashoka are shown as progressive and valiant fighters

It has used every thing of the “west” to fight the west, that’s why i cannot wait for the chinese world order. A decade or two under the chinese world order and Chomsky would be wishing for the american world order to come back. But then it wont come back.

“The Abrahamicisation of Hinduism is one thing but is it worth projecting those values? I know that copulating deities are on temple walls so I’m just asking how do Hindu deities need to be treated’

The article you have linked is the perfect illustrates a hindu SJWs /woke fight of what’s “Indian” culture and how much intermixed its with its dominant religion that she cant tell her apart. I am pretty sure had she just posted the pic and not about her letter, many of would have thought she is a right winger. She talks about Colonization and Hindus etc in the same sentence as if it was a “Hindu” experience instead of Indian experience. Case in point lines below

“Hindu, Buddhist and South Asian culture continues to constantly be exploited through Western capitalism in the name of spiritual awakening and sexual exploration.”

P.S I am fascinated about how different a northern and southern/bengali hindu immigrant community reacts to the same scenario. The former, even for a SJW’s, as hard as they try to distance from religion from Indian cant escape it. While i would assume the latter would have put her arguments in more “Indian/South asian” or ethnic sense and try to minimize the religious angle to it

The derivation (vRddhi) from lag- is putative. The word liGga is attested in the upaniSad-s so of old provenance. The congruence in meaning to lakSa (mark, sign, aim) in RV suggests commonality of root (lag- lit. to stick, adhere, mark in nirukta)

The vRddhi mechanism within Sanskrit isn’t tight. But since it is pre-Paninian it could be a dialectical form.

Austroasiatic could be possible too, but needs more evidence.