284 thoughts on “Open Thread – 06/10/2022 – Brown Pundits”
Friday Riots across India
TGIF
Let the wookiee win.
BJP is a stupid party that has no brains in terms of what it takes to change people. They believe in simple speeches/ quotas in ias, some schemes , scholarship as the answer to deal with muslims, hyper rightoids think violence alon solves it.
The answer is a series of IF unless options. Threat of violence unless they are willing to undergo a secularization process.
One has to take control of their education, religious education. Only example we know of as attempt at secularisation process among muslims that one can consider as part successful is ata turk and then the soviets. The post soviet muslim majority countries are probably the most secular lot.
Nehru put Hindus/Hinduism in a straightjacket. Modi should do this to muslims. All mosques should be controlled by state. All education inside it should teach to conformity to constitution. Impose Uniform civil code, anyone advocating sharia, practice, either preaching it or soliciting priests to settle disputes shall be declared as enemy of Indian state for running a parallel to Indian judiciary.
Also make an enemies act, Indian muslims forced partition of the country and in doing so forced ethnic cleansing/ genocide/ literally created India’s main enemy and congress party led by gandhi/ nehru gave all of them a clean chit and refused to intefere with their religion and abandoned millions of non muslims to second class citizenship and persecution.
Any other country would have treated such traitorous minority extremely harshly not necessarily out of revenge but out of accountability. India has failed to hold those people who voted for pakistan accountable. So, create enemies act. Make invalid all voting rights and right of property of Indian muslims effectively for that reason and make them sign onto papers declaring that if they advocate against secular norms/laws/ , advocate violence against criticism of their faith, or solicit support from other islamic nations, ummah , their right to property and right to vote will be stripped out of them.
Only if they sign that papers will their right to vote and right to property shall be guaranteed. Have laws similar to holocaust denial law. Any one who denies islamic fundamentalism, past or present will be sent to jail. This takes away the “fake liberals” and puts costs.
Origin of secularism comes first out of protestant/ catholic wars followed by anti clericism in france. Christians did not wake up one day and said, “now we will be secular”. It was a thought process, change in intellecutal/political/financial trends ushered in from elightenment that led to all this. expecting muslims to undergo that without any pain is foolish and stupid. Only thing we can be sure of is that , in absence of critique of quran/ mohammd, there is zero possibility of muslims accepting secular norms.
India state should have zero rights for those working to destroy the very norms of the state or those who give cover to this fanaticism. It is islamic fanaticism/ terrorism. It is not protest, the right not to criticize its belief is the same as right to islamic supremacy. In a nation , everyone should have right to criticize each others faith, in absence of which one is not a nation. One could argue the norms and taste with which one could accept such criticism, but once threats are made. They should take precedent.
These are necessary because it is impossible to identify who among them are bigoted and who is not and there is a total unwillingness on their part to hand over or identify and accuse those going against the interest of state.
One has to seize the means of education, religious education. All priests should also be taught secular norms and they should advocate them. All mosques should be regulated. The sections of autonomy for religious minority should be thrown out. India should do this now or risk further escalation.
secularization is a process by which one shows the inadequacy of religious laws and religious explanations in the modern day world. without this, secularism makes no sense. people will keep trying to solve problems of society through religion.
India should make clear to all muslim majority countries that criticism of their faith and founder is necessary for the process of secularization. If Indian muslims refuse this then they have no right to expect India to be a secular country and allow them the right to practice or propagate their faith.
Secularization is a process where people acknowledge the inadequacy of religion in solving issues of society. Indian muslims will never accept that unless one shows the faults in their religion. That is not possible without criticism of their faith. One can do this through education pointing to specific hadiths, specific examples in past and how they are solved in modern secular way.
A 3 trillion dollar nuclear powered country , third largest army in the world is allowing islamic states a veto in what it can say or cannot say in its own country?. How would chinese or americans react?. By worrying about oil or dealing with internal security first. There is no example of a successful major country that puts economy before internal security arrangement first. Effectively stating that India is not a nation and inviting further intervention from here on. I would send a couple of accidental missiles into kuwait.
All this comes from the argument I made that the bjp only believes in muslim baiting for winning elections. They have no coherent idea of what it takes to create a nation or the socialization process by which one can accomplish such goals. If today many in India stand against caste discrimination, this happened because of a socialization process that was engineered. social engineering is what every state does and should do in crafting and creating the populace in conjunction with its ideals.
Modi and bjp are not just morons, they are cowardly sniveling pieces who abandon their own. To abandon their own woman spokesperson to the wolves is disgraceful. And all this because modi and shah believe in electoral politics of incitement to win elections.
This should have been sorted out right after 1947 by having uniform principles, goes to show how badly nehru/gandhi miscalculated. Now the population is 200 million, when is that magical future date and economy when this will be dealt with?. in some magical 2050, with another modi?. who here has seen the future, who can ever be sure?. The purpose of power is to set the foundation stones right. once done , others can deal with issues of economy . Will the Indian govt do this once the population rises even more, relatively from the present 14% to 20 %?. Will the govt have the will, political will, can one be sure bjp will have the same dominance electorally in that future as well?.
All this because bjp confuses winning elections , economic schemes with social engineering . It is not the same, the first is necessary, second is useful but only through effective social engineering can you actually solve these issues. No attempt by bjp to take over all mosques/ effectively controlling the mullahs and mosques is necessary pre requisite to secularization of muslim community. And its own goals of hindutva leads to confusion, if it is ok for its own religious triumph, logically, can they deny others their own forms of religious supremacy?.
I understand the frustration but I am inclined to go with Akshay Alladi’s take i.e. no point in opening multiple fronts just for the sake of it. Even the anglo empire does not go about poking everyone mindlessly. Be strategic.
Imagine, what would India do, if it had 30 trillion $$$. You have state capacity etc, what will you do? .you still have to come to some version of this. No amount of state capacity can be enough without changing the norms and ideals of community/ society.
The current riots will only benefit the BJP electorally in the same way the Sweden riots benefited right wing parties in Europe.
You can’t even blame the Indian police for failing to maintain law and order given that the much better trained and funded Swedish police couldn’t do so either.
I notice the wester. media is largely silent in this.
Maybe because they have this tension in their demographically collapsing societies as well.
And it’s hard for them to find an acceptable anti-Hindu narrative here.
Overall Indians are not thekedars of secular liberalism.
Imo a Singapore like policy on religious intolerance is probably what is required. No point pointlessly offending any groups when you lack aukat to even have toilets for 100% of your own population and they have to go work as indentured servants overseas.
1. Does not mention that Rangila Rasul itself was a response to sacrilegious publication on Sita.
2. HyperLinks to examples of Muslims supposedly killed by Hindus for Blasphemy. But when you click it goes to stories where Hindus were actual victims and Ms were perps.
What is the percentage of IVC ancestry in Pakistani Sindhis, Pashtuns, Balochis, Brahuis, and most importantly Pakistani Punjabi Muslims (lower castes like bhangi and kanjar, middle castes like kammi and tarkhan and lohar and julaha, upper castes like jat and syed and rajput)? For Saraikis as well, what is the percentage? Can someone do an analysis?
Is it true that Pakistanis from the Punjab and Sindh region generally have higher IVC ancestry and lower steppe & AHG ancestry than Indians in Punjab, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana..etc?
Also, I also read somewhere that among certain upper castes in Punjabi Pakistan like Jat, steppe ancestry is concentrated amongst the maternal portion of the ancestry, is this true as well? in a recent paper on so-called gypsies in pakistani punjab, lower r1a was found but lots of j-ydna and r2…etc, which is associated with higher caste in indian punjab
The closest living relics to the IVC peoples are mid case S Indians and Patels. IVC had a cline of AASI to iranic related. Even in the Western periphery samples, it was on average 25% in current data we have. It will likely go higher at sites within IVC and Eastern sites.
Many Pakistani groups have too much steppe and that takes them further away from relationship to the IVC. The indus nationalism is very ironic, given Indus Valley people are genetically closer to some Indian groups than any Pakistani groups because some Indian groups literally fall onto the Indus Valley cline. Also, the Indus Valley existence in all of Gujarat is conveniently always forgotten.
Get something straight. Indus valley itself had a range of AHG ancestry. Our data at the periphery shows it was 25%. Some samples are close to 50%. That is the periphery on the Western side.
The issue is that people forget IVC ancestry= AHG+ iranic peoples. They don’t understand it is two components.
Your series of informative replies I strongly appreciated. The so-called IVC ancestry in middle-caste South Indians is overloaded with AASI-like ancestry, somewhat different from the steppeless IranN-like ancestry found in the Rakhigarhi sample (it was over 75% IranN). In the Indus Periphery samples, the individual with the lowest AASI and highest IranN (i8726) had almost exclusively Pakistani groups as his/her closest living genetically similar descendants. This is highly remarkable. You can see it here: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f1d6e21eaf62c509f35ba0b89a64ac05-pjlq
I mention this because I read that higher IranN ancestry is strongly correlated with maternal steppe ancestry (if steppe ancestry is present). This was strongly revealed, amongst other things, by the medieval roopkund samples. Haplogroups like J and R2 specifically were signals for maternal steppe. Ofcourse, steppe was in YDNA as well but it is the maternal part which is striking. Whereas for AASI-shifted people, they are blessed with the steppe in YDNA to a far greater degree, with steppe nowhere to be seen in the maternal line. A plausible hypothesis I have is that IVC wasn’t that egalitarian as has been usually believed and that there existed an upper-class who seemingly associated themselves in a positive manner with the arriving steppe aryans (obviously some time after the destructive arrival, i am sure it wasn’t that cheerful at first), while the lower-class in IVC was utterly despised by them. These ancient feelings of the bloodthirsty chariot-warriers have passed down to some extent to many northwest indians and pakistanis. In Pakistani Punjab and Sindh, the lower castes as you know possess a lot of AASI-ancestry compared to the upper castes. However, the IVC portion of the genetic ancestry of the upper castes is usually strongly shifted to IranN compared to the IVC portion of the lower castes which is generally AASI-like or a half-half mix of AASI-IranN.
The Baloch in Harappaworld is also ofcourse IVC related, specifically IranN. Pakistan as a whole has greater Baloch and steppe on average than India, though individual groups like Jat Hindus and Rors in India possess far higher steppe than any Pakistani group. As you can see here, there are over 10 groups in Pakistan that have over 40% Baloch: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-9_HbzVQAMmkVx?format=jpg&name=large
Pakistanis on average have higher steppe and this obscures their IVC ancestry to some extent but I think the originators of all that was great about IVC were no doubt the IranN-loaded people. This is obvious when we reflect on the fact that the groups who dominate rural Pakistan and NorthWest India have in their IVC ancestry mostly the IranN-like ancestry, as compared to groups in South India who no doubt have IVC ancestry but it mostly has a greater portion of AASI-like ancestry. My assumptions are somewhat careless and perhaps even rude but I think they are close to the truth. The fact that Pakistan has greater Baloch and Steppe on average and the fact that they have in their IVC ancestry higher portion of IranN which is associated with upper caste and maternal steppe and the fact archaelogically, Pakistan seems to possess far more complex IVC sites like Harappa and Mohanjo-Daro no doubt reveals a lot. Plausibly, the incoming Aryans may have “appreciated this region” and specifically it’s upper-class people to a greater degree compared to what lay beyond the five rivers. Indeed, the caste system is extremely weak compared to India. National surveys in Pakistan show that around 30-40% of recent marriages in rural Pakistan are between different castes, whereas the percentage is like 1% even for educated Indians. Many things are normal in Pakistan between castes where murder would be necessary in India. Perhaps the Aryans didn’t construct that intense of a ban on interracial affairs in Harappa and Mohanjo-daro due to reasons that have been revealed by this post. Once again, these thoughts may be utterly wrong but based on what I have read over the years, I think it may be close to the truth if it’s not the bare truth itself.
Nationalism is a silly thing and the glory of India is the glory of Pakistan if we get rid of our prejudices. There was no Pakistan in 2200 BC. Many of the great Buddhist philosophers like Vasubandhu and Asanga were from modern-day Pakistan and they considered Patna (in Bihar) as a second home.
Both Pakistanis and Indians, even Sri Lankans to some extent (due to ancestry), can consider IVC their own. Regardless, India is a far more educated and economically developed nation and it’s archaelogical funding outclasses that of the Pakistani side 20 times or something. Most of inscripted tablets which are possibly evident of writing are from Pakistan and moreover, Pakistan has a far stricter definition of what a IVC site is compared to the Indians which is far more lax. The glory of IVC is still unknown to some degree because the poor Pakistanis haven’t excavated even the majority of Mohanjo-Daro which is the most complex IVC site, so you can forget about other treasures laying around Sindh and Punjab waiting to be found.
Unfortunately, I get the feeling that these treasures may be being destroyed even. Recently, a local controversy grew up which was reported by Sindhi newspapers in Pakistan that a bunch of villagers found ancient tablets buried deep outside their courtyard where a well was being modified and their children then proceeded to smash the tablets. This controversy wasn’t leaked out to the mainstream media due to fear of severe Western archaelogical outrage.
Tablets with engraved inscriptions have been considered one of the most complex expressions of IVC along with the rich hygiene system. India also has evidences of writing in IVC but it’s mostly on pots. I can only wish that archaelogists from India should take a grand trip to Pakistan and inform them of their true ancestors who are far superior to the desert lizard-eating Arabs and force them to excavate every single portion of Pakistan in search of IVC cultural artifacts and architecture. This cancerous “IVC belongs to India” or “IVC belongs to Pakistan” mentality is destroying the entire search for what IVC really was. No doubt northwest India also has many IVC sites but if the Indians keep preaching that IVC belongs to them, the Pakistanis will be drowning in their self-guilt and never focus on archaelogy strongly. Someone needs to tell them that Pakistan probably has far greater IVC culture laying around and that they need to wake up and start the search.
I can only wish that Razib the Great can take a look at this and give his take on my potentially silly words, hopefully someone can alert him.
hmm thanks for thoughtful response. Some stuff to mull over. Hopefully, we get more samples to fully clarify ancestral milieu of IVC. It was a racially mixed and cosmopolitan place. Will be hard to actually parse out what proportion IVC:aasi people contributed more or less. Regardless, I think that is an asinine task.
Many S Asian groups have a big chunk of IVC ancestry. I don’t really understand the prestige dick measuring for modern groups of who is closer vs. not by small amount. I mostly even only respond to Pak Indus Nationalist trolls about that type of stuff to troll them back and show the internal hypocrisy of their own games, recognizing full well the game in and of itself is dumb.
Why do you think Pak Indus Nationalists like to ignore Gujarat as part of the IVC proper? I notice that these people conveniently leave out Gujarat, a place unmistakably part of and deeply loyal to idea of the modern Indian state. Do you think it is a form of racialized hatred? They don’t do this with Haryana. I am of the thinking that it is two fold
1. Some shared ethnic groups, namely Jats/Gujjars/some Rajputs, and the racialized prestige among some groups, many of which are overrepresented in Pak, in the S Asian context that goes along with that
2. A theme of more respect for honor culture vs. mercantile culture
Also, this mtDNA vs. Y DNA proportion stuff is all about ratios. Good chunks exist among all groups with reverse ratios. When too hardline a stance is taken with rank order on that stuff, a huge plurality of exceptions is ignored. The reality is complex but should more simply be stated and accepted as such.
Subcontinentals are a complex tapestry of ancestries, with the Indus Valley being the biggest on average contributor, a civilization whose legacy, as you rightly claimed, should be owned by the whole subcontinent. I agree with this type of unifying stance. It is tragic that Pakistanis reject it in the name of Islam, polytheistic hatred, and racial association with Indians- leading to under investigation at best but desecration of sites at worst.
The caste system being weak is a recent phenomena. Please read the series of posts where Razib tears down Araingang’s argument.
Not sure about maternal vs. paternal lineage. I am an example of someone with a more West maternal and a more East Paternal, with mt K1a and Y H respectively. And I’m Gujarati
This paper should answer some of your questions on haplogroups.
Pakistanis have more steppe on average. It is just that the most steppe groups happen to be in India. Jatt Sikhs are bit more steppe shifted than Muslim Jutts and Hindu Jaats are bit more steppe shifted than Jatt Sikhs and Rors are the most steppe shifted, clustering genetically near some very shifted iranic groups like Tajiks.
I think your argument of more steppe+aasi is a comparison that works for Jatt Sikhs of India vs, Pakistani Jutts. But Hindu Jaats have less aasi and more steppe.
The left wing – right wing architecture of politics came from the French Legislative Assembly during the 18th century. Monarchists and conservatives sat on the right side. Jacobins or the radicals sat on the left side.
Girondins, were originally part of the Jacobins, but decided to adopt a central stance, after sensing the radical plans for the monarchy by the Jacobins. The Girondins were eventually tried and executed by the Jacobins. Their influence was totally purged. The Jacobin-Girondin duality was a result of the Revolution’s consolidation when it began to acquire power.
BJP which has been by far the original thinker on the subcontinent with respect to jati, middle class, trade, economy & industrialisation now faces a Jacobin-Girondin impulsive phase.
To consolidate or to lead another sally is the tactical question. To hive the radicals off and enable them to consolidate a new political party is the strategic question.
After meekly going along with an Iran import ban on crude oil exports after the US prodded India to do so, it seems they may finally be turning a page and becoming more defiant of US diktat.
I also noticed that at the recent Summit of the Americas, a number of countries’ presidents boycotted the meeting (Mexico being the most important one) since the US refused to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
All these signs point to weakening US hegemony, which will probably be good for India in the long run. It makes no sense at all for India to submerge its national security interest (e.g. buying cheap oil) because the US told it not to do so.
I’ve been harshly critical of Modi in the past for submerging India’s interests because the US told him to. But it seems he finally, slowly, seems to return to his senses.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan failed to get an early July LNG shipment. Their energy crisis is about to get worse. Their new supposedly “experienced” economic team will have to rewrite their maiden budget because they forgot to add $7 billion dollars in debt due to foreign loans. The situation in Pakistan goes from bad to worse. Comically inept new gang.
‘All these signs point to weakening US hegemony, which will probably be good for India in the long run’
One couldn’t be more wrong…
You’re too obsessed with China, blinding you to the fact that the biggest threat to India is from within, often with the help of US-aligned NGOs and negative cultural influence.
First get rich and then worry about “cultural influence” and all.
India should get along well with USA, we got on their wrong side in cold war, pak ended up with nukes. Lets not be foolish once again in defying superpower. We need oil, we should ask them to help us on this. We also should stop their interference inside India. Until we get to 20 trillion dollars atleast. Lets get along as well as possible with usa. strategic autonomy is not worth much because it means nothing. once we are powerful, we will automatically have strategic autonomy anyway.
Lets not make virtue out of “strategic autonomy”.
No guarantees that even if India goes along with US or for that matter any other power, why would they give up a low cost high return leverage like pak against IN.
What is going to change at $20 T if US would still be at 7X our gdp. GDP is a good proxy for national capability. It is necessary but not sufficient. Do we honestly want to end up like SoKo and JP? High gdp but plunging birth rates and utterly dependent on a distant benefactor for security. Kowtowing to US did not prevent US from condoning increased CN National strength. In future they may have to Kowtow to CN anyway. Honestly JP and SoKo are still nestled within wider East Asian community where the history of national conflict has the features of an intra-civilization conflict rather than inter-civilizational one that we are faced with.+ JP is an island.
There is a difference between strategic autonomy and strategic defiance.
Yes we need western tech help but no need to be foot soldiers in service of empire. A lot of Chinese angst and perception of us is based on the behavior of certain sections of Indian society during China’s century of humiliation.
“It is dangerous to be America’s enemy but fatal to be its friend “—Kissinger.
The best option is to be an acquaintance.
There are no guarantees for anything. But sitting stubbornly by urself will lead to others allying with eachother. If we don’t do as us wants, they will once again engage Pakistan. What really matters is, do you have leverage over others, do you have ability to hurt others. We found out what it is to be on the other side of usa. We will not cross China beyond our interests. But the Chinese value us only bcos we can ally with the west.
Gaurav bhau, Omar uncle – can we get Gurwinder on the BP podcast?
Will ask Omar. Mukunda might be interested. Might be too confirmation bias though 🙂
almost everything he said i tend to agree with.
I am honestly looking for some moderate leftists to engage with – As i no longer see myself as of the left.
Well as u know , I am a moderate leftist 😉
@gaurav
Interesting to see how common this shift is among many of us. Personally humbling to see oneself as part of a historical process as i have a diminishing sense of rational distance while evaluating politics lately. It isnt just the identity stuff and disingenuous culture games that put me off, but I’m less of a believer in the competence of public institutions. Younger self would feel so betrayed right now 🤷🏽♂️
Holy shit. Even this trash sub is getting some sense
Getting their asses kicked for the last 8 yrs has knocked some sense into these leftiods. That’s why guys like Sheker Gupta are calling for a Hindu-Muslim Reconciliation.
Everyone there talks like an American teenager ffs. Hindu, Muslim, doesn’t matter. The Global American Empire will be the only winner.
If govt understands the concept of asabiya, it can proactively solve all this.
Govt shud run islamist stings, get ordinary people to support for jihad, violence, rioting etc and arrest all those taking part in it. And all those who maintain a conspiracy of silence. Make it impossible for islamists to openly discuss these ideas among muslims. Everyone shud think that the other is a govt agent and trying to sell them out. All rioting, violence requires coordination, that requires a safe space where you can openly talk ad uou wish. To radicalise and recruit. If everyone thinks the other one is a sellout, these ideas will not be spoken so openly. Leading to less trust in each other. Do this over 100 yrs
Indians are a confused lot, tjey can no longer summon their native spirit of maratha or sikhs having been colonized in their minds but they dont weaponize thr western colonial experience and their will to dominate and imprint themselves into the very way in which people think and act and see as appropriate to act. This conditiong that brits did to hindu elite should be replicated on muslims. Break their asabiya, get them to reflexively support constitutional values and criticise islamic ideas. Until all Muslims criticize these ideas as immoral as they are today, this battle wont be won.
Have red cards, yellow cards, green cards for mosques, organisations for islamists and those who give cover to islamists. One has to go after those who give cover to these radicals under guise of historicity and moral relativism.
I am making these arguments to show that “secular” paradigm itself can offer a lot of options, it also allows for conditioning and shap
ing morals. Gandhian /nehru/ congress bullshitery must end. Make a law that those who deny islamic bigotry in past or present will be arrested for giving cover to islamism. This should take care of left liberal loonies.
You can’t go around distinguishing between NS’ comments and Rushdie (as one prominent ‘constitutional law expert’ has done). If NS is in the wrong, then if anything Rushdie is far, far worse. She spoke off the cuff. He sat down and typed out a 500+ page novel (and all the drafts and redrafts that go with it).
So the solution is simple. More speech for everyone and no blasphemy laws. But it won’t happen. The BJP has a vested interest in prodding muslim sensibilities and brain dead left-libs think they are being ‘good allies’ by pandering to the most regressive spokesman for muslims.
The number of liberals defending rioting over mere words is startling. It is hard to believe that this is the straw that broke the camel’s back, especially since muslims have been at the forefront of several major protests (many jusitifed) since 2014. More and more fence sitters and moderates are looking at the public calls for “_sar tan se juda_” and will decide they like the idea of their head being attached to the neck.
If India ends up with a blasphemy law after this it will be in large part thanks to the insistence of liberals and it won’t end well for anyone, least of all muslims. Yes it is true that Nupur Sharma was being uncouth. But if one should expect a comment about the Prophet and a factual statement (if indeed the Hadith is considered to be a serious source for muslims) to invite riots then it is equally true that a thug like Yogi Adithyanath will roll out his bulldozers. After all, it is the liberals who keep telling us that Yogi is an irredeemable fascist.
We shouldn’t give a shit about being called fascists. They are giving cover to islamists by guilt tripping us. We are here to preserve our freedoms, do not call them liberals, call them islam apologists.
We are not interested in winning arguments while losing our every day freedoms.
I just saw video of woman who lost her son say she is proud as he fought for islam. Take their children away. No islamist should be allowed to bring up children in hate. State should stop children being radicalised.
Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
Mother, mother
There’s too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There’s far too many of you dying
Conflicts throw light on the ability of ideas to serve society – so to speak, they provide a sieve that separates the chaff from the wheat – human agency is given a chance to prove its utility.
I have been scouring the media for evidence of counter-organization to the ongoing fracas. One of the news items that caught my eye –
Not one of the ideas inspired by the West – Arya Samaj, Liberals, caste abolitionists, democracy-pluggers, constitutional fundamentalists – have done anything on the ground other than to provide endless commentary. Including our own in-house Brown Pundits ICM fanatic 🙂
In the end, it is a humble jati organization in a small town that is mobilizing people and forming the bulwark to pan-Islam belligerents.
For reasons like these, I remain ambiguous on jati. Jati is dead, May Jati live long!!
My whole point has been about asabiya, jati does offer some asabiya, but it often works against larger H interest, many of these vote with mamta, dmk, lalu, mulayam, congress. One needs autonomy over schools/ temples to build asabiya along with freedom of speech. Yeah, there is nothing much I can do on the ground. Thats true. I can talk and donate to whom I think can do more, maybe participate in a rally etc if its close by.
In anycase, the answer is to weaken isalmic “asabiya”. inculcate it with secular ideals and fair critique of their faith. And strengthen H asabiya. ICM is to help build that larger block but it also requires fos and own institutions at at local level including temples, schools, services, ngos. And I take being called ICM fanatic with pride.
@phyecho1
Appreciate your candor and honesty. But this is about a larger point.
Someone on Indian Twitter mentioned that this is Modern India’s “Draupadi Moment” – all the nobles and elites and their ideologies are standing around while a woman is bereft in her moment of vulnerability.
Even Hindutva has strands of jati-opposition built into its psyche from its founders (Savarkar, Deen Dayal etc). What escapes the attention of every Indian ideology (whether imported or homegrown) is the prana (life-force) that animates the institution of Jati.
Ancient Indians (and medieval) were not irrational beings – jati served some fundamental need that is now shaded to us due to the mediation of the modern industrial society. But from time to time that need reveals itself to us brilliantly in short bursts.
Taleb remarked , purely from a fat-tail perspective, “….anything that has survived for millennia will surely flourish for another few….”
Yeah taleb said a lot of smart things, but mostly in bringing out rationale for ideas many have held for empirical evidence but never thought out the reasons and brought about concepts from markets to real world. I had a ” skin in the game” view long before taleb, did not call it as such. Lindy is until it isnt. Think about horses in wars. Does not work anymore. As to draupadi, its not the ordinary people, its the people in the sabha. The elites with power looking out. Ordinary people can only do things where they are capable of having long standing (weekly) organizations. Everything comes down to local asabiya. Or you are dependent on the major organisations, bjp/ rss are beneficiary of H helplessness as a consequence of our autonomy/ asabiya gutted down by congress/brits.
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What has happened in general is that the idea of empathy ate out the idea of fairness among the left. empathy left ate out fairness left. So it has become unhinged. I call this empathy hacking or pathological empathy. or tribal empathy. empathy looks for hierarchy of who is the most ” vulnerable” to fit their criteria to support. Paul bloom wrote an article on how empathy makes people tribal. In trying to stand against the majority, these people empathized with the “minority” to the point that they became tribal like surrogate mothers protecting their wards even when they do wrong. And they invested so much, they cant admit that the rightwing, ambedkar, savarkar were right to question islam. They dont have the intellectual honesty to admit they were wrong. They invested their entire prestige and careers on this. This is turning out like marxist economics. They got it wrong but cant admit it either. But they still have benefactors in west, because the percentage population in west is still small, no skin in the game. They will support fashionable ideas in India to hurt India’s credibility, it leads to division , its good as it weakens India. Keeps India on the leash and stops us also from escaping western orbit like china did. And they cant do it without fifth columnists.
i guess the beginning of the end to Iran being marginalized by US and Western sanctions. The underdogs are revolting.
Forty-one tons of wood laminate sheeting is on its way from Russia to India. The cargo isn’t newsworthy, but the fact that it’s traveling through Iran absolutely is—potentially marking the opening of a significant new trade corridor that strengthens Iran’s relationship with India…with big geopolitical implications.
IRNA portrayed the pilot as a partial realization of the long-brewing International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). That 22-year old initiative aspires to link the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf via Iran—connecting major ports and dramatically reducing transit times compared to alternative routes through the Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.
I’ve grown skeptical of overblown claims predicting the end of the US Empire and its reach. Russia is still co-operating in Syria with the US by allowing Israel a free hand to bomb civilian Syrian infrastructure, the airport being Israel’s latest target.
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve read breathless articles on the Iran-India port of Chabahar. Every year we keep hearing about new “breakthroughs” and yet every year not much changes.
Fact of the matter is that India has become much more submissive to US diktat over the past decade despite becoming a bigger economy. The trendline is really bad. Even on this blog, lots of people are scared of the US empire and keep making excuses for India increasingly being its bitch.
Yes, there is a slight improvement lately but the longterm trend is bad. Iran is weak and Russia isn’t going to return to USSR glory. Even assuming Russia wins in Ukraine, it will inherit a bombed out country with millions of emigrants in their best years having fled to the West. I was more bullish about China before they trapped themselves in permanent “zero Covid” nonsense.
IMO, the decline of the West is greatly exaggerated. It’s still by far the most powerful grouping, for better or worse, and will remain so.
I guess the US realizes it needs Russian stuff to stop inflation.
Not quite sanctions JUST FOR the US. That means others buy Russian stuff thru the US.
US Treasury allows energy transactions with sanctioned Russian banks. Transactions will be allowed with Vnesheconombank, Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, and the Central Bank of Russiatransactions will be allowed with Vnesheconombank, Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, and the Central Bank of
“For the purposes of this general license, the term ‘related to energy’ means the extraction, production, refinement, liquefaction, gasification, regasification, conversion, enrichment, fabrication, transport, or purchase of petroleum,” the statement reads.
This includes crude oil, lease condensates, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, petroleum products, natural gas, or other products capable of producing energy, it states.
Also included in this category is coal, wood, or agricultural products used to manufacture biofuels, or uranium in any form, as well as the development, production, generation, transmission, or exchange of power, through any means, including nuclear, thermal, and renewable energy sources.
The decline of the West, is just like decline of China. Both sides keep on predicating decline of each other, while neither side really ‘declining’.
But is India really “growing” enough
India won’t grow above 6-7 percent because it’s a democracy. All rich countries became rich before becoming democratic.
In Subcontinent, Pakistan economy grew much greater when it was under a dictatorship. Currently the best performing economy in the subcontinent is Bangladesh which for all practical purpose a one party state.
This is correct. What many people fail to account is that the West increasingly acts like one political unit. Most of the military policy is already decided at the NATO level. The EU has united the economies of Europe and the Ukrainian war has proved that the European leaders are willing to committ economic suicide for Atlanticism. And this is an Atlantic hegemony rather than an American one. There is no conceivable scenario where an American president could pull American soliders out of Germany and withdraw from NATO. Any so inclined president would also be powerless against Atlanticism. The militaries, diplomatic corps, intelligence agencies, businesses, entertainment and media of US, UK, France, Germany and other Western powers are all more loyal to each other than the countries they claim to represent. More people should study the West as one empire rather than a collection of different but allied countries.
@HJ
I agree with most of what you say, except one thing. America is the most powerful unit and “Atlanticism” is often a smokescreen for US imperial objectives. Like any empire, the US has to negotiate to some extent with its subjects but at the end of the day, they call the shots.
The reason why no US president can pull troops out of NATO is because the US deep state understands that a Europe dependent on US security guarantees is an enfeebled Europe and thus in America’s interest.
Trump’s nonsense about “them taking advantage of us” or “they are freeriders” is laughable to the US elite precisely because they know the real score.
I disagree. National loyalties don’t exist among the Western ruling class. For the average American diplomat, a rural white Evangelical is just as much an enemy(if not more so) as a Russian. Similarly, you will find British, French, German etc. equivalents in their respective countries. These people don’t care about American or British interests. They only care about the “Western, liberal, democratic” interests and this ideology has enemies both outside and inside their respective states. However, they will still use the national identies(Not supporting Ukraine is Anti-American!!) because thats the only way to get the peasants(rural whites) to fight in their militaries. Cleetus is not gonna die for gay parades in Moscow you know.
The West = America. European hegemony over the world has now ended, these things don’t happen over 5-10 years, civilizations decline over 50-200 years.Without US, there is no west. EU does not have a formidable army, most of its countries are over 40 median age, and most of its men of fighting age are immigrants or refugees. It does not have the capability to project power to secure vital energy resources and is fully dependent on Russia and OPEC. This is unlikely to change. So 400 years of European hegemony over the world is now over.
As for US, US is declining relatively to other world powers, but it will remain a superpower well until the start of the 22nd century, mostly because of its favorable demographics & geography and wealth of the natural resources on the North American continent. However internationally it won’t have the same sway as it once did before. Balance of power is shifting towards Asia, slowly but surely, like it always was for thousands of years.
Doubt power will ever shift to Asia.
Even before the 400 years of West domination, it was mostly western powers (Greek and Italians) who moved East, rather than the other way round. The West is still united, and East will remain divided. And just one power (China), cannot move the power balance towards Asia.
I hope religion becomes smaller deal in S Asia and it can merge into one nation or at least one large market.
Interesting thread on the contrast between German and Soviet/allied attitudes to tank production. Troubling parallels with German army brass ever changing requirements and excessive focus on having the best with our own army and Air Force guys. In contrast the Soviets focused on producing large number of few models. More importantly the Soviets adapted their strategies and tactics to what they could produce in bulk. https://twitter.com/witte_sergei/status/1536808901357625344
Things seem to be getting more precarious in Pakistan. Another round of fuel price increases might be coming soon to please the IMF masters. I believe Imran Khan is going to use this crisis to launch massive protests.
More Pakistani drama. Huge power cuts are now occurring because Pakistan cannot pay Chinese power producers who built power plants under CPEC.
I suspect Beijing is hardening its line after the new government is widely seen as a US puppet regime. In addition, a series of suicide attacks have targeted Chinese nationals. Beijing seems to be operating under the “there are no coincidences” maxim, and assume that ISI knowledge, if not involvement, was present in the planning of these attacks (perhaps as part of a deal with the US CIA as a pre-condition for rapprochement).
Regardless, if Pakistan cannot ensure the safety of Chinese nationals in Pakistan and if their new govt is widely seen as being a puppet regime of Washington, why would Beijing be generous? Quid pro quo is the basis of all relationships. And so they aren’t willing to forget the debts owed but have simply shut off power in these plants until Pakistan finds the money. Problem is, Pakistan is broke.
Meanwhile, the IMF is pressuring Pakistan to re-negotiate these deals with Beijing as a pre-condition for bailout money. Pakistan, which was supposed to be deft and play two sides against each other to maximise advantage for itself, has haphazardly ended up between a rock and a hard place, squeezed by both but helped by neither.
A central problem here is the weakness of the Ummah. All the major power centers in the world are non-moslem (West, Russia/China). The only one with any potential to challenge is a Hindu nation. For a moslem country, this means playing nice to people who are either indifferent to your plight or perhaps even hostile.
modi’s communication has failed big time. bihari youths are against short term army recruitment (agnipath). the bihar c m , the ever chameleon nitish has not generated any jobs. not sure how yogi is managing on the job front.
lesser population and more privatisation is the only key as done in south and western india.
as some one pointed earlier, arts eduction ( b a, m a) needs to be discouraged in north india on a massive scale.
It’s not clear what is anyone protesting against??
What will happen if Modi Govt mandates conscription for all youths aged 18 and above? That’s essentially forced labour for subsistence wages without pension. Israel does it!
I see the whole of North India essentially as one large rent seeking mosaic of communities who keep depending on government doles (MSP prices, army pensions, caste reservations etc.)
The funniest thing is people celebrate such retards, Gandhi is on the bank note, people still sing praises of JP.
Reservation agitations are being done by well off folks like Jats, and Patidars.
Isn’t TN’s OBC+SC population 97% of the total. Basically they made everyone OBC, so no one is left to agitate for ‘caste reservation’ there.
‘Isn’t TN’s OBC+SC population 97% of the total. Basically they made everyone OBC, so no one is left to agitate for ‘caste reservation’ there.’
As i said, contrary to other ethnicities, Hindus in Dravida-land appear as Sundar Pichai on the internet while talking about other states, and Chuchundar in their home state.
I have seen this constant shitting on TN reservation being 97% among RW circles. You would think every household in TN is on the dole. But TN has a very good mix of private sector manufacturing + IT and even decent HDI. Overall TN contributes financially more than it gets back. Might be worth checking what makes it work?
Quotas might be having the effect that parties don’t have a low hanging fruit of promising reservations to every protesting group. It is a social compact that all “spoils” are going to be distributed as per each group’s numbers.
One of the reasons why UP/Bihar have not industrialized is that the landed elites (Bhumihar + Yadav) have not faced any real pressure to diversify away from agriculture. They force landless to migrate away to low paying jobs. The tiny employable slice also prefers to also migrate away to better climes/opportunities in private sector. The remaining detritus is like KK and his ilk who populate numerous but useless JNU *Studies departments.
There is a limit to how much rest of country can absorb the costs emanating from this dysfunctional. My fear is that we might find out this limit sooner rather than later.
“I have seen this constant shitting on TN reservation”
I was responding to Ugra spewing BS.
Ugra mentioned ‘caste reservations’ so I mentioned it. I do not defend the indefensible i.e. the poor governance and piss poor quality people of my home state UP and even more Bihar.
Ugra also mentioned ‘MSP prices’ the agitation for which was fiercest from Jats of Punjab-Haryana. Haryana gets less bang for buck on Central taxes than TN or any other Madraasi state, Punjab not far behind.
You would never see a Gujjus or Marathi or Haryanavi bitching like Tamils about this ‘burden’.
When your movie stars act as politicians, and drill in this whole ‘we are better than Hindians’ or ‘we would be Switzerland, had not it been for these Biharis’ , and the population lap up like mana, then whole thing starts looking like a burden.
there are many categories in obc reservation. in krnataka, the new struggles are to go to a lower caste clasiffication by the relatively placed upper castes. like a 3c category group asking for a 2a category as the compitation is less there.
@Bhimrao,
My comment was not specifically directed to you but RW in general. I admit you are generally fair and balanced about the short-comings about UP/Bihar.
HR recently passed 75% for locals reservation, MH has whole MNS and SS agitation against “Bhaiyyas”.
Again I want all regions and IN in general to prosper 🙂
Save Telangana all Madraasi states send more Army jawans per capita than Bihar, roughly similar to UP too.
Interesting info, usually you Bimarus just beat your chests over how your states are the “muscle” of India.
i feel that the riots in secundrabad today is to makeup for the lost opportunity missed last friday.
surprisingly, major catchment areas for army recruitment such as punjab, haryana, western u p, uttarakand, even maharastra, karnataka and tamilnadu had very less riots.
something fishy??!!
There is no way to sugar coat any reform. Just like the farmers could see through the farm reforms, similarly army aspirants can see thru this army ‘reforms’.
The better way to cut down army expenses ( and pensions), is to gradually lower recruitment, or push the army to cut down on imported military hardware. I guess since either of them is not feasible the army high command must have grudgingly accepted Agni path
“Army aspirant”, “UPSC aspirant” – all of these are the fruits of the legacy of Jaiprakash Narayan and his followers (Mulayam, Lalu) – a deindustrialised region with absolutely no other means of employment other than Govt service.
JP actually studied at Berkeley, Iowa and Wisconsin!! Brought back the message of Karl Marx to UP/Bihar. A tragi-comedy of massive proportions.
Truly UP/Bihar is a fit case for Peter Turchin’s elite overproduction.
You say as if Bihar and UP were some sort Ruhr belt before 47, which got deindustrialized.
Plus JP had no impact on the economies of UP/Bihar. The followers of Marx are the folks who elect Marxists to parliament. Bongo-land, Mallu-land and Dravida-land
“The followers of Marx are the folks who elect Marxists to parliament. ”
New definition of Marxism drops!!
Laloo and Mulayam were straight through practitioners of Lohia and JP’s philosophies – which at its core – called for total societal revolution (Marxist prescription). At its core they wanted to capture power from existing societal elites.
Lohia and JP were upper caste men having access to foreign education (JP in the US, Lohia in Germany) and dabbled in abstract modern philosophies without any practical knowledge of electoral craft.
Mulayam and Lalu were street smart and applied their leaders’ thought in typical efficient fashion to electoral dynamics – in the Gangetic case – tribalism was jati & religion.
JP and Lohia provided the grand ideas as seeds, Mulayam and Lalu executed them to perfection. Alas, in the original universe of JP & Lohia (both soft Gandhians as well, in addition to soft Marxism), industrialisation had no role to play.
The decades of 90s and 2000s, when the rest of India was industrializing and urbanizing, Lalu and Mulayam were content with tinkering inter-jati dynamics to remain in power.
If socialism can be defined as the – apotheosis of total societal control via tribal levers, reduction of innovation to zero-sum games between communities and the elevation of government to an omniscient employment provider – then UP and Bihar are perfect socialist paradises (sarcasm).
If UP/Bihar achieved at least high HDI numbers like Kerala, there could be grudging admiration for the method in the madness. But there is nothing, literally nothing to show for the last 40 years from JP/Lohia-ite movements.
I have said again and again, Gangetic folks don’t know how to construct empires any more. Or identify neo-Marxism correctly! Still a long long way to go!
Selective application of the law to punish protesters is a big red line.
Right wing ppl should keep in mind this sort of bulldozer demolition was also used against bjp supporter kangana ranaut.
Basically if you promote lawlessness only a matter of time before it is used against you.
https://www.ft.com/content/86752d68-8039-47c6-875a-559aca88b47c
The edwardluce Crap asks democrats to go to the people. But here, he says the opposite. american commentators/ western commentators in their own country speak one way, in others, speak the other way.
In general, Nepalis don’t like to be associated with India. I call it the litte brother syndrome. Similar to Canada vs USA, Scotland vs England, New Zealand vs Australia.
According to wikipedia about 10% of nepali speakers or 2 million ppl live in India.
And it is an official language in West Bengal and Sikkim.
And the contest seems to be in West Bengal, so this NGO person was being disingenuous to deny participation from Indian Gorkhas.
Classic divide and rule attempt
Gurkhas among most loyal
H have spent good part of 2000 yrs breaking themselves into tribes. Tribal mentality is the bane of all these issues. Every reforms goes against one or the other community because they see it exactly as that. Most of Indian reforms would have happened because there would be no visible group to become envious of.
Envy / jealousy is the root of the problem. H’s should forget this century to lead, this century should be about fusing the divisions within. We shall automatically rise in next one. I cant think of any other place where smart people write endless articles, twitter threads and stupidly say this is about “diversity”. what morons. “uc, brhms” want to take pride in their lineage, look down on others , dont want to intermix and when envy leads to witch hunt, start complaining. Envy cannot be got rid off. You can just keep people under the illusion that if they work hard, they too can succeed, but in order for this to succeed, there should not be visible differences.
West advanced because they took care of this “WEIRDest people in the world”.China dealt with Iron hand. India allowed envy to drive its politics through democracy. Ugra talks positively of “jati” in one context, in all other ways it hurts, he stays silent. Bihar allowed jatiraj to take over. It led to all smart people and pvt capital to run away, now it is a deadland where no one wants to come invest into anything productive. Depend on govt doles.
“modi’s communication has failed big time” . By far the funniest encapsulation of H mindset. a bronze age religion, built on tribalism of the period, cant get its head around to the concept of STATE/Governance/Judgement. All H’s, liberal or other wise suffer this disease. They think , its about “arguments, debates, samvaad”. They look at the west and think this to be default reason.
Nonsense, first comes trust, first comes diminishing the opportunity for envy to rise. I keep saying this many times. There is a physics of society. There is a psychological matrix , psychological states, at the level of individual and in larger groups. It is these things that really make the human world work as it is. capitalism won compared to socialism because incentives offered to individuals was psychologically a better suit to human beings. As E O wilson put it about marxism. “Good ideology. Wrong species.
There is a causality to human affairs, there is a psychological consequence as a consequence of belief and social systems people live under. These psychological forces add up leading to obstacles to reforms or help in furthering them. Islam also offers a certain psychological consequence, its effects also are clear. The threats offered, international incident of one person quoting something, thank goodness its happening now in modern world with everyone to know and yet it will be forgotten, and we shall be deluded into thinking its about colonialism, minority abuse etc. There is an opportunity cost to beliefs you have. Opportunity cost to social order you support.
Modi is one man, whose speeches wont change peoples sense of economic opportunity or sense of envy. The idea that Modi, the most popular lead in over 30 yrs, who won 2 majorities in Diverse country like India, that his communication is a problem. Laughable, time to see that problems lie elsewhere . My complain against modi is not on communication, it is about choices . unemployment has been up since 2014, that news has been buried . Most anti modi channels also never talk about it( zero content on actual matters). Manufacturing % as part of gdp is also down, from 16% to 12 % under modi tenure.
“1. Is Lack of Unity our Problem? Is intermarriage a solution?
Political Hindus offering inter-caste marriage as only nirvāna to all Hindu problems suffer from amnesia of history and religion. Their diagnosis of an ‘un-united Hindu society’ as the source of our defeat is wrong.”
13. The problem of Hindus is not thus a ‘lack of unity’. Our problem is that we don’t have a well developed Ṣatrubodha. We are too nice. We don’t hate enough. We have a blurred idea of the ‘other’, the ‘mlechha’. And thus we have a blurred idea of the self. That’s why we lose.”
15. The ‘solution’ proposed by the political Hindus to solve the ‘lack of unity’ of Hindu society is more dangerous than the problem. They want everyone to necessarily ‘intermarry’. Regardless of how this will be achieved, it is a very evil and doomsday idea.
16. Idea behind this intermarriage proposal is this: a desire for a completely homogeneous society which has no diversity of life, customs, practices & thoughts. It desires a world so completely devoid of any differences that all art, literature, music and science have to die.
17. This lifeless leveling of society, this inhuman egalitarianism that is desired thus is inevitable when a completely frictionless society is imagined. All art, literature, music and science comes from our fundamental nature to create something different and new.
18. All artistic impulse is an impulse to be different. A completely homogeneous society is a completely artless and scienceless society. It is human nature to differ, to create identity and then be territorial about it.
19. This territoriality cannot be limited to a huge national or supra-national identity. We are biologically not wired to think in such big numbers. We can make sense of small groups like a tribe of a few hundred people. Bigger than that our minds are incapable of comprehending.
20. That is why the first para-individual identity that we create for territorial sake is the family with just tens of members; then the joint family; then the clan, jati, varna, desha and at the top only and always dharma.
21. We can make sense of bigger units like a nation or a desha, but only when it is parceled into smaller packets which keep repeating this order until the order of family which is biologically and intuitively graspable to all individuals.
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This is the reality,
@swati_gs gives empirical ground reality.
True. Lazy analysts reduce the definition of ‘jaatiwaad’ to ‘discrimination’, arguing that one can have pride in own jaati and not discriminate against other jaatis and problem is solved.
Actually, it doesn’t work that way. Let me try explaining… https://twitter.com/harshmadhusudan/status/1288938779059744769
The way jaatiwaad manifests itself is that for most Indians today, their jaati is their social-political identity, indeed their key identity. They may not actively look down upon other jaatis but still have little to do with them in terms of social interaction and relationships +
Result – only Pasis protest when a Pasi girl is gangraped-videographed by Adil & gang. Let alone Brahmins, even Valmikis or Jaatavs (fellow dalits) don’t join. When a Dhruv Tyagi is murdered by Alam & gang, Tyagis from Delhi & UP hold a Tyagi mahasabha to decide way forward + When a Khyala family is killed by Azad, Kandera Rajputs hold protest and raise fund
What ‘right-wing’ on Twitter call ‘Muslim on Hindu’ attack manifests as ‘Muslim on Pasi/Nishad/Tyagi’ attack on ground. Dalit groups try in vain to bring hundreds of assorted castes under one +
dalit’ label even as they refuse even ‘roti-beti sambandh’ among themselves. Jaatiwaad essentially manifests in the mind-boggling compartmentalisation of our society.
Ground reality shows that this compartmentalisation means that at any given point, the Hindu society is only +as strong as the strongest jaati.
Unless Hindus’ sense of identity goes beyond jaati, jaatiwaad remains
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If I had power, that person would be in jail and never see the light of the day again. Jail for all those who give flowery justification of jati. Jail for all those who give cover to islamist bigotry of past or deny it.
Envious thugs. Hopefully caught and fully prosecuted. E Asians and S Asians being targeted for success and because seen as soft for smaller average stature. Very sad
uc, brhms” want to take pride in their lineage, look down on others , dont want to intermix and when envy leads to witch hunt, start complaining Everyone and their mother on earth practices endogamy to secure wealth&status. WASP marry amongst themselves and no one calls them out on it. There’s a solution for this envy problem, Dalits,OBCs&SCs should read up on Advaita Vedanta instead of Marxism and they won’t be bitter anymore.
West advanced because they took care of this
They never got rid of it, the Woke idpol racket is quite the envy driven cancer. The Europeans also used Ethno-Nationalism to unite their Nations, we can’t do that. Hindi as National Language was Congress’s scatterbrained attempt at mimicking European Nationalism and we both know how that ended up.
Unless Hindus’ sense of identity goes beyond jaati, jaatiwaad remains
It is what it is. You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Islam and Christianity also have factions though they have stronger asabiya and stronger definitions of in-group and out-group. It will be good to learn some ways on how these factions are managed by them.
One broad theme in those cultures is that factional frictions are papered over by the lucre of conquest (ideological/economic/physical). Sadly but quite unsurprisingly that option is never on our menu. Instead we get endless debates maya/illusion, vishwaguru or to get rich first. To get rich, you need to go capture new markets and resource sources. That will trigger people to upskill themselves by literally “learning by doing”.
“Everyone and their mother on earth practices endogamy to secure wealth&status.”
If you heard about The Book WEIRDest people in the world, you will realize catholic church forced inter marriage leading to less over time. The question is of %age and its consequences on psychology.
Sure, you go to war with the army you have, but if the army is envious of each other and internally fight, its a losing one. Only 75 yrs since independence and already many are becoming willing fifth column for west and the rest. What drives them is envy, the envy is now reaching out all the way to west as well. As to ” reading advaita”, again laughable. Material differences and kinship differences cannot be papered over simply by doing bhajan.
Modern types are not using marxism at all. The answer is simple, incentives , both political and quota for ICM. And hierarchy of ICM getting a quota compared to someone who is not. Once one gets to 25% to 40%, all this will end.
Has the WEIRDest hypothesis pertaining to change in the catholic period been tested with samples from the time? If it isn’t upheld with clear change in frequency of gene variables associated with those proposed social changes then it won’t amount to more than a nice (bed time) story. If the test is yet to be done then it’s still a valid hypothesis but not necessarily a grounded fact.
Would be interesting to investigate. But that’s a rather new standard. Before, genomics, all we had was the type of circumstantial evidence presented like WEIRDest hypothesis. Definitely worth looking into.
But far more has been concluded, historically speaking, about human patterns of behavior, without such genomic hard evidence, than what WEIRDest proposes. Nonetheless, I think if there are concrete means to test such a hypothesis in objective terms, such as the type of genetic study you are suggesting, I am all for it. Makes sense to move up evidentiary goal posts, as tech improves. But we should do that with all hypotheses (I know you never said not to do this but just speaking generally). This is being done with stuff like the Black Death study Razib just tweeted about.
There are already works making those comparison within existing populations. I have of stuff like than being done among modern Britons. Though it is controversial because of the results, one of the authors even talked to Razib, Abdel Abdellaoui is his name.
This kind of research being extended to medieval and pre-medieval graves can help establish if those Church practices really had an impact. I saw this being suggested in the gnxp comment section over a year ago.
Primary answer to India’s problem. 50 yrs of social engineering. Then resources can be spent as it is spent in all other countries. In a rational manner.
I hope Modi has not completely drunk kool-aid about efficiency from our copy-cat bean counters.
Surprised that BP is not discussing David Reich’s latest talk!
Steppes is not the Urheimat, only a secondary staging area. He is moving his focus to Anatolia/Armenia.
kindly give the link.
People have been floating Anatolia/Armenia > steppe for a while. Unless they’ve found some amazing new evidence, I don’t see what the big deal is.
Current genetic data makes it plausible but unlikely. IE y-chromosomes come from the European side of the unique steppe mix, indicating the European side was culturally dominant. Ergo, the language probably came from the European side. And the linguistic data doesn’t lend any support to Anatolia/Armenia over the steppe hypothesis either.
The West is finally realising what a land war with a continental power means. Fattened by easy wins over small opponents in the past 3 decades, they started thinking that drones, precision weapons and information warfare can turn a fight.
The large consignment of drones, anti-tank missiles and others from NATO total less than 10k pieces. Artillery and shells maybe 50k.
Russian forces are firing an estimated 7k shells into the front ……every single day.
This is basically WW2 and everyday is demolition day.
@Ugra
Russians are Russians. They will insist that their initial cost function is non-convex while the west cleverly bogs them down in the minutiae. Russians will say we got land, Americans will mock them for recovering 1% of what they lost in 90s.
My 6/6 hindsight : Strategically, Russia has completely lost this war against the west, even though it is winning against Ukraine. They have not captured much territory since early April. This is not superpower tier progress, more like India-tier progress.
Ukrainians will hold the line, as they did in Donetsk and Luhansk.
I think its even worse than India-tier progress. By this time India would have either won the war or lost it decisively.
Don’t you think at best it would be a stalemate like 65 or 71 (western sector). Something like this:
1) IAF loses twice as many aircrafts. Indian Air Chief makes silly excuses.
2) PN does not show up to fight and loses 25% ships in harbor.
3) India ‘takes’ 3000 sqmile of inconsequential desert land without a fight, Pakistan takes 500 sqmile of the same similarly.
4) Fake gallantry awards and citations galore.
5) Both Armies (lol) will get ‘betrayed’ by politicians at the negotiation table.
Against China same shit as 62:
100 sqkm lost. IA ‘backstabbed’ by the Chinese. Excuses excuses excuses …
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@Bhimrao
A lot of people are blackpilled about Russia’s vulnerability and “battle slowness”. The strategic picture is quite evident – Ukraine is now landlocked (slow asphyxiation), having lost its access to the Black sea and the Mediterranean. Russia makes more oil revenues than it ever did in its history.
I wonder what your expectation is of a “win” in 125 days. No modern war has ever lasted just 125 days – not even US-Afghan or even Coalition-Iraq!!
In case you didn’t know already – the Eastern regions of Ukraine where Russia has captured the areas which are the EU’s biggest ore zones of lithium, gallium and titanium.
The comparison with India’s border wars is off the mark. The mineral hoard alone is worth an extractable 500 b USD over 20 years.
I dont think it will be stalemate. In terms of war itself, Ukraine will come to the table and Russia will extract concessions and land.
I used to also think the same way u do, that strategically Russia lost the war. But the more time passes, and the more i see other European countries just waiting on the wings for the war to end, so that normal supply (of gas and oil) resume, don’t see what Russians have lost, long term.
@Saurav
“I don’t think it will be stalemate. In terms of war itself, Ukraine will come to the table and Russia will extract concessions and land.”
Russia will beat Ukraine and carve meat.
But Russia has lost to the west i.e., if a half-hearted western operation can bog Russia down. Imagine what the real armies of UK+France can bring to bear. The US can’t even be considered on the same tier.
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“But the more time passes, and the more i see other European countries just waiting on the wings for the war to end, so that normal supply (of gas and oil) resume, don’t see what Russians have lost, long term.”
Europeans are good at feigning. They will massage Russian egos enough to get what they want, but then fuck Russians in providing things Russians need. Everyone from India, China, Europe, Lat-Am, Africa is actually fine with Russia taking over Ukrainian territory. Everybody except the global-chaudhari Anglo-sphere that has it’s reputation at stake.
As a commodity exporter not much harm can be done. Commodities are the real $$$. Long term loses will be huge to Russian tech and services industry. Who will build autonomous cars in Russia, who will lease them airplanes, service jobs will be lost … economy will stagnate, people and companies will fall behind others in the world.
What is China but India 15-20 years into the future?
Time is Vishnu himself.
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‘Long term loses will be huge to Russian tech and services industry. Who will build autonomous cars in Russia, who will lease them airplanes, service jobs will be lost’
That’s what i thought as well. But i think once enough time has passed (1~3 years), Corporations will again go back to Russia and their tech industry will also recover. Considering that outside of the anglo-world, but mostly China and India are waiting for war to end, to resume normal diplomatic relations.
In a world where even Taliban will be rehabilitated one way or the other, its too much to think that Russia will really suffer long term consequences.
Bhai Ukraine still has Odesa. From how things are going I do not think it will fall in any reasonable amount of time (say 1 million.
Lol “same people” and “common DNA” comments on this thread. Funny, when it is about economic and intellectual potential, then it is about touting similarities.
Otherwise, it is posts about Indians being “subhuman different species.”
Good stuff
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14.”
If people want to pedantic, then pedophile is inaccurate. |We can go with hebephilie.
While he deserves full punishment, peace be upon R kelly.
Russia is making money because Biden is fucking with MBS. America is losing the mandate of heaven. MBS will win. I used to find American moralizing BS hilarious but this time they have stupidly actually put their money where their mouth is, Biden is not a smart man.
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“500 b USD over 20 years.”
India produces ~20 billion USD/year from non-fuel (or non-crude idk) mining.
Unless mineral prices increase dramatically. This is too high.
Plus this is not free money, much of it will be needed to rebuild and sustain the bombed out ex-Ukraine.
People are making up numbers from 500-900 million USD/day for Russian war effort. This war business is costly.
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Why are cruise missiles so expensive? No way a small jet powered plane should cost >1 million.
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Bhai Ukraine still has Odesa. From how things are going I do not think it will fall in any reasonable amount of time (say <6 months). Landings, or naval action are impossible.
Odessa is Karachi, but the Black Sea is not the Arabian Sea. The trade route is effectively closed. All arms and aid are now routed overland via Poland. Odessa good for only sunbathing and surfing.
A mass produced 90 hp petrol engine (average car) costs 5000 USD in the West. Now imagine a gas turbine that is throttle-able and having precise output – not less than 100K. Add the (lack) of economics of scale. Then compute for system qualification.
Mineral resources are the reason why the Soviet union settled so many Russians in Ukraine in the first place. It is also the reason why Russia had no objection to Latvia or Lithuania joining NATO, inspite of them being closer to Moscow. You are looking at the crown jewel of the Soviet Union.
Sometimes wars are totally rational to one camp. Which is more important than capability or money. The side that has clarity of purpose has “economy of thought”. It will spend less time justifying itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmLnG3eNIo
looking at coke studio tour concerts-
what has happened to bangladesh? where are the mullas? by the way, bangladesh looks more hip that our bangla.
LMFAO. Who is editing this page? It is at the level of leftist revisionism.
India has most the culture wars badly.
I recently I have been thinking perhaps Hindu Banias as a whole are descended from urban Sramana (jain / buddhist) urban elites who converted to Hinduism rather than Vaishias in vedic sense (who according to oldest sources are cattle pastoralists)
Here are my reasons, maybe someone (warlock, lurker etc) can poke holes…
1. Sramana (jain, buddhism) religions seem primarily followed by urban elite starting with the second urbanization and were never mass religions in rural areas that made up the bulk of population.
2. Many communities of Banias in Gujarat for eg. have documented recent conversions from Jainism to Vaishnava Hinduism (by Vallabhacharya).
3. Jainism in particular prohibits agriculture as an income source due to inherent “Hinsa” involved. And in a pre-industrial society that leaves limited occupational niches.
4. Relatively High AASI admix in North Indian Banias can be explained perhaps by greater intermingling in cosmopolitan urban centres and a more relaxed attitude towards caste among Sramans vs Brahminical Hindu elites.
They can’t be direct descendants of ancient Indian urban elite, can they? Cities were population sinks until the 20th century. Studies have also shown that there was mass migration to cities of Roman Empire from the Middle East but they left no genetic impact on modern Europeans. The only predominantly urban community that has survived for the last few thousand years are the Jews, I think. But even their urban population frequently died off and most modern Jews today are descended from the rural poor of Russia rather than the urban population of Western Europe/Mediterranean/Middle East.
I don’t see how cities having negative TFR overall means there can’t be any direct descendants.
Pretty sure some people from large urban population centre would have some descendants and those descendants would be disproportionately from well to do families with resources to have kids.
Jews went through massive persecution and a recent holocaust and still survived. Banias, I don’t think ever faced that level of animosity.
Speaking of Banias. An apparent BP reader gets into a discussion with Omar Ali over the recent crisis in Pakistan.
Claims that the reason why Pak fell behind India & Bangladesh is because Paks view themselves as a “martial race” and look down on what they view as effeminate and weak merchants. This economics thing is simply beneath warriors.
I’ve read that Pakistani elites held this “martial racial theory” during the 1971 war, which justified the rape and genocide, but does it really exist today? Seems like a far-fetched theory.
‘What would India be like without the mercantile castes? I can tell you. Like Pakistan. Four conditions trouble scholars of Pakistan: Military dominance of policy; an economy subservient to national honour; revisionism in Kashmir and an inability to come to terms with an enemy (India) it is unable to defeat; and the inability of society to internally resist religious bigotry.
Eighty per cent of Pakistan’s army is Punjabi. All the four conditions we observed are Punjab-specific. More Punjabis live in Pakistan than in India. However, in the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires, there are five Indians from the Indian side of undivided Punjab. Malvinder and Shivinder Mohan Singh of Fortis Healthcare, Sunil Mittal of Airtel, Savitri Jindal of Jindal Steel, Brijmohan Lall Munjal of Hero MotoCorp and Gautam Thapar of Avantha. There is no Punjabi from Pakistan. Why? Because the conversion of Hindus has been the conversion of castes, not individuals (for a moment, let us discard the myth Muslims feed themselves about their Arab/Persian/Central Asian origins). All these individuals are from trading communities, Baniya, Khatri and Arora.’
Jaguars owner Shahid Khan is Pakistani Punjabi I think.
But made his way in America not Pakistan.
Malik Riaz, Nawaz Sharif, Mian Mansha, etc are all billionaires. There are a bunch of others. For most of Pakistan’s history it was ahead of India economically despite getting the least developed fringes or India. So jury is still out on that. And lastly, the Indian mercantile castes are mostly a successful rent seeking class like most others. And to be frank there was no other way since in a pre capitalist society with no central state, you require militant means to expand and still get to keep all that wealth accumulated.. something that the mercantile castes lacked.
Atif Mian has argued that Pak elites are atypical in that they are uniquely unproductive in their rent-seeking. All elites do rent-seeking, but some also pick sectors that have beneficial spillovers, e.g. Korean elites tended to choose export-oriented sectors. The amount of corruption in the Chaebols is legendary, but it was a form of corruption that made the country richer as a byproduct.
By contrast, Pak elites tend to focus on unproductive real estate or sugar plantations which are behind huge tariff walls (and so not much external competition).
Second, I’m not sure if I buy the general idea that the military is the bogeyman in Pakistan. America has consistently spent more on its military than Europe yet can anyone say they’ve suffered economically for it? Israel, until recently, was another example of a highly militarised state.
If civilian leadership were to gain upper hand completely tomorrow in Pakistan, I suspect the same kind of elite pathologies would remain more or less unchanged.
If you look at India, there’s plenty of implied corruption with Adani and Ambani, but at least both are outward-looking (even if Australians are unhappy with Adani’s coalmine etc). Ambani ropes in Silicon Valley investors to his ventures. That kind of internationalisation is completely missing in Pakistan.
@principia
‘Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Wednesday that a Chinese consortium of banks and Pakistan had signed a $2.3 billion (15bn renminbi) loan facility agreement, with cash inflow expected within a “couple of days”.’
Told you so. Pakistan was not in trouble, it was their regular ‘haay-tauba, allah reham’ . IMF package expected soon too.
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All this ‘rent-seeking’, ‘implied corruption’ bits are exaggerations. In India there is no other way to do business, just try getting a domestic electric connection or a DL. Corruption pays for the democracy in India. How else would election campaigns be funded?
Banias, especially the Marwari ones, including the ones who were involved in private banking were respected by common folks. Bania hate and caricaturizing is a Punjabi Muslim creation borne of religious-racial hatred and popularized by Bollywood.
‘Everyday I see woke Indians and feel like apologising to the world. Then I see the vast majority of them are US citizens & feel thankful to the US for taking them out of India. The US is Christ incarnate – it suffers the insufferable, so that we in India do not. Thank You America’
https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1539440716635688962
Sadly a very common view among young Indian American women in my experience. Not sure how much of this is their genuine opinion vs adopting the the worldview of liberal elite. However, IA’s must understand that its one thing for a White or Black person with centuries of history in this country to say they hate America and another for an IA whose parents came after Bill Clinton to say they hate America. A community that is wealthy, has an outsized influence in politics, but has low patriotism and zero history in the country will face inevitable backlash.
‘Actually one can trace the origins of the concepts such as untouchability to the Sangam literature. Even with its Varna system Vedic society was still very egalitarian & simple. Untouchability was introduced to the Vedic Aryanas after their interaction with “Dravidians”.’
Oh my Periyar!
@Bhimrao
Pakistan was not in trouble, it was their regular ‘haay-tauba, allah reham’ . IMF package expected soon too.
USDPKR went from 105 four years ago to now hovering at 212. Imagine if the Indian rupee went from 76/USD today to something like 150/USD by 2026. Would you be as sanguine? Everything is not fine.
As for the IMF deal, it will merely unfreeze the remaining 3 billion. Pakistan wanted to increase the package of aid but the IMF said no. The Chinese loan is just that: a loan. Pakistan hasn’t solved anything, it will continue to get poorer in dollar terms (which is what actually matters, just ask the turks).
In India there is no other way to do business, just try getting a domestic electric connection or a DL. Corruption pays for the democracy in India. How else would election campaigns be funded?
Corruption pays for elections in America, too. I don't know why Americans persist in using euphemisms like "campaign contributions" when most of the times it's just bribes when billionaires are doling out cash. They are doing it with an expectation of a return of their investment, despite the pretensions otherwise.
Yet despite this corruption, America is wealthy. So the issue in Pakistan isn't corruption. It's the way in which elites rent-seek that's the problem, as Mian pointed out.
Banias, especially the Marwari ones, including the ones who were involved in private banking were respected by common folks. Bania hate and caricaturizing is a Punjabi Muslim creation borne of religious-racial hatred and popularized by Bollywood.
I’ve read that Hindus were the dominant merchant elite in Lahore and Karachi before partition. Probably fuelled envy.
“Hindus usually think of everything in terms of jati.
They thought of Sultanate, Mughals, Portuguese, British etc as just another jati with their own customs and traditions.
That’s why they had poor in group vs out group identity until late.”
A guy with 40k followers, getting to this basic understanding that many of us knew till now. But this is just a small opening, only when this reverberates many times that one might start noticing the difference.
“This is true. Even a 18th Kannada text corroborates this. They would wake up once in a while to see the enormity of the difference with some religions. Bhut the tendency was to establish an inter community interface.
That process simply didn’t work and they often realized late.”
The new constitution of Tunisia abandons Islam as state religion. Matches with surveys showing MENA rapidly secularizing.
Lets see. Is there any measure by which we can check on this. When do other places go the same path?
Elections wherever free are a good proxy. The Moroccan Islamist party(PJD) lost big in last year’s election. Went from being the governing party with 125/395 seats to now just 13 seats. Hezbollah alliance also lost seats in the Lebanese election. Next year’s Turkish election will also be interesting to watch. Anecdotally, Turks are becoming extremely hostile to Islam. Having you religion tied to inflation rate of 70% has that effect.
islamist parties rarely have won in pakistan. So, I dont consider this good enough. The only real absolute measure I can see is secular criticism of islam as literature being produced and tolerated. Otherwise, people are just choosing the more effective governing side. That does not imply their sympathy with islamist worldview has come down. It could lead to cognitive dissonance though. But I dont see electoral democracy is the best fit to decide things anymore. Congress in India was dominant for 50+ yrs, Bjp now has won and things are different. 2 consecutive victories for trump could have changed things more in USA.
Its interesting nonetheless. willing to update my views on this. Lets see.
Anything interesting happening lately outside of the usual Hindu-Muslim-Woke non-sense?
@Prats,
Most consequential thing in India:
Vedanta is making a lot of noise about a 28nm IC and a display unit plant with Foxconn. Let us see what happens. Vedanta is so deep in debt, it was never a stellar company, Anil Agarwal has no experience in this. Fingers crossed.
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Air India is ‘considering’ buying 300 narrow bodies. That is a lot of planes. Air India acquires Air Asia(India), merger eminent. Merger with Vistara highly likely. Hope Tatas make a lot of money before the next air-travel recession.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa airlines to start soon. Indian civil aviation’s biggest names are in it’s leadership team. Good luck to them.
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Delhi RRTS trains about to start testing. The trainsets look like so beautiful 😍. Interestingly the Bombardier’s, made in India, will run on standard gauge (what Indian metros run on). https://twitter.com/metrorailtoday/status/1538890669942403072
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Him many HSR lines do you think can be operational in India in 15 years ?
Delhi-Mumbai will be done. Maybe some section of Delhi Howrah. Let us run it and figure the economics out.
These lines expensive, given we will have to import everything from signaling to rolling stock idk if it is even worth it at the moment.
“The cost of Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail Project is estimated to be Rs 1,10,000 crore, almost equal to total capital outlay of Indian Railways in 2017. This expenditure for a route which is only 500 odd kilometres in length could become a burden for state exchequer in the years to come.”
Hope our generals did not over learn the lessons from Armenia-Azeri war. OTOH even russians are using tactical drones for better artillery targeting.
Turkish drones were overhyped because Armenia is a joke of a country. Against a real opponent, they are dropping from the sky like flies.
Drones work well in mountainous terrain of Azerbaijan/Aremia/Afghanistan.. I am not sure if they are as effective on flat plains of Ukraine against advanced air defence systems. The TB2 were actually quite effective in the early stages of the war, and are responsible for the abundance of HD videos of Russians getting blown up..
In the early stages of the war, Russia expected Ukraine to fold like a house of cards. You had BTGs running dozens of km ahead of the main army, completely isolated and unprotected. It doesn’t mean anything.
Once Russia understood they had to get serious, the drones started to drop like flies. It has nothing to do with mountainous terrain.
Far from an IMF deal being “1-2 days away”, the announcement that Pakistan will now impose a brand-new “supertax” on the richest confirms what many in the opposition were saying: it was mostly smoke and mirrors.
The IMF still has demands left that Pakistan needs to do. Will the corrupt Pak elite comply or will they flee abroad and take their money with them? Perhaps they can bribe their way out of enforcement.
Meanwhile, Pakistan lost their third concurrent LNG bid for July, which means that the energy crisis is set to deepen further.
Regarding, the discussion of Pak economy vs Indian economy, the divergence really started only in the late 2000s, although the gap is quite substantial now. As an example, smartphone penetration in India (44%) is double than that in Pakistan (22%).
I am skeptical of the mercantile castes and military theory. There are many nations without a large trading caste and with a large military who are much richer than India.
I think Pakistan missed out on a lot of global capital inflows which started in the mid 2000s due to its frontline role in the war on terror. This was ultimately a result of Pakistan’s insecurity vis-a-vis India. Where the Pakistani elite internally got it wrong was the under prioritization of literacy. Pakistan ranks well below its Muslim peers in literacy. This might have to do with the use of Urdu as a medium of instruction in Punjabi mother tongue areas.
‘I am skeptical of the mercantile castes and military theory. ‘
Everyone starts off like that. Even i used to be wary of caste theories.
Then came across Baniyas (who create wealth) and retired fauzis (who are mostly up their ass) and saw reality. Its just like my more-Hindu/less-hindu theory. Everyone takes a bit of time to warm up to it.
Vikram has identified the problem correctly regarding the economy. The war on terror is mostly to blame for the political and economic instability in Pakistan.. The spillover from Afghanistan that resulted in daily terror attacks evaporated avenues of foreign investment from the country and caused export oriented industries to flee and set up shop in India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. I remember that the time in Pakistan between 2001-2007 was that of fast growth and optimism (and no terrorism) but 2008-2016 was marred by one low point after another. While terrorism was mostly defeated, crippling power shortages were patch-fixed by power plants that used expensive imported furnace oil causing one BoP crisis after another that the country is still reeling from today.
However the literacy rate argument is quite weak. For anyone saying instruction should be in mother tongue which would resolved literacy, one can point towards Sindh to see that this does not solve this problem.. Sindh has both Sindhi and Urdu as official language and medium of instruction, yet Sindh’s relatively higher literacy rate is actually skewed by Urdu speaking migrants that dominate its urban areas and are quite literate. I don’t have the exact stats but I would not be surprised that the rural areas of Sindh (ethnic Sindhis&Baloch) might even have a literacy rate in the 30% which is quite abysmal. Coming onto Punjab, it actually has the highest literacy rate in Pakistan, so one can even argue that that Urdu as language of instruction is directly related to higher literacy rate.
The language problem is mostly resolved in Pakistan, and both English and Urdu have come out on top at the expense of local languages.
Political and cultural acceptance of Urdu does not imply pedagogical suitability. The fact remains that Pakistan is an outlier in the Muslim world and the greater Middle East when it comes to literacy rate. And this rate has been stagnant for nearly a decade now.
What happens in the US matters for India because of the power it holds over the global narrative in the English-speaking world. Popular culture in so many English-speaking countries is American culture, which transmits the values US espouses. Thus, SCOTUS backsliding hurts India.
American popular culture exports the values of the American left not the American right.
That guy is just an American lackey – a brown sepoy with a white savior complex. I’ve read most of his articles on FP and the vast majority of them sound like they’ve been written by a neocon sitting in Washington. The idea that US Supreme court decisions would affect India is laughable.
As for Abortion, it’s pretty much a settled issue in India, even hardcore Hindutvavaadis tend not to openly oppose it. India’s abortion laws are more in line with Western EU and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
But it’s a lazy excuse to blame poor literacy on Urdu medium instruction, when all the data points towards the opposite. Education has been neglected, partly due to financial and partly due to cultural reasons, especially for females which explains the poor overall literacy rate.
Pakistan also defines literacy as being able to read simple text of a newspaper in any langauge so the idea that only Urdu is impeding literacy is untrue when literacy in any language is sufficient.
Another point is that not all langauges are equal. Some are more developed because they were historically patronized by powerful central authorities. Those languages open up more economic opportunities than others, and none of the local langauges fit that bill. It would actually be economically harmful to try to impose native undeveloped languages on the masses when the masses are more interested in learning economically useful languages.
The Urdu medium use was one hypothesis, propounded by Pakistanis themselves. If thats not it, I am unsure what explains Pakistan’s low and stagnating literacy rates. I checked the education spending as %age of GDP and its not far too off other Muslim countries. Also, that will only beg the question.
It does not have to be so with early diagnosis and proper care.
Will immigration to the US naturally go down as US appears to have more problems? Probably the best path for immigration restrictionists is to advertise on full blast all the issues of the US. Western MSM is already doing a lot of work in the regards but immigration restrictionists probably could amplify it more.
Will immigration to the US naturally go down as US appears to have more problems?
No. Life in the US will continue to be much better than in the 3rd world for decades to come. The only reason why the US isn’t getting more migrants is because it has gotten more strict.
There doesn’t seem to be much momentum towards changing that; ask any Indian in the US waiting for his or her green card.
The consensus seemed overwhelmingly in favor of 1 cr in India. I think even 10 years ago it hardly made sense for a high earner to move out of India, unless they found technically more interesting work.
@Vikram
The consensus seemed overwhelmingly in favor of 1 cr in India. I think even 10 years ago it hardly made sense for a high earner to move out of India, unless they found technically more interesting work.
1 crore puts you in the top 0.1% of Indian income earners.
Tech is a unique island. Ask any Indian doctor if they can get those kinds of salaries. Unless they come from a wealthy family which own their own hospitals/clinic, the short answer is no.
Even among tech, there’s a difference between mechanical engineers and software engineers. The former are paid much less in India. Most of those responses are only for software engineers, and even then for the most well-paid ones. In other words, a tiny part of the Indian workforce.
The comparison they are making: is it better to to be top 0.1% in India vs broad middle-class in the US?
That’s not an apples-to-apples comparison.
For 99% of Indians, emigrating is still a big uplift compared to what they can get back home. Discount a few percentage points extra for family ties and make it 90% instead. Still an easy deal for the majority.
Problem with most of these discussions is that many de facto Indian elites still delude themselves they are “middle-class”. They are anything but. So they have completely delusional takes of how most Indians live – including the actual middle-class. Even non-Indians like myself probably know it better because we actually read the income and consumption data from NSSO surveys, whereas many of them apparently don’t.
Oh certainly, the vast majority of Indians would jump at any opportunity to live and work in the US. I am just pointing out that the threshold for staying back in India has been falling. It used to be the scions of business houses that definitely stayed back, now its a high salaried set.
There is some location-inertia as moving yourself to another continent is a big step for most people.
A fair comparison to go to r/ABCDesis and ask them how much money they would need to make in order to move to India.
“I think even 10 years ago it hardly made sense for a high earner to move out of India, unless they found technically more interesting work”
Why people move countries is something that’s often not very straight forward as more money or better jobs. An Indian on a 10 cr salary living in a big city has ample job opportunities and no shortage of products in the supermarket aisles. But he will still breathe the same polluted air and walk the same congested streets as everyone else, unlike even a relatively poor chap in a developed Western city. I’ve seen more than a few couples in their mid to late 30s, moneyed after having worked in big companies or starting up move to the UK or other EU countries for precisely this reason – quality of life that just money can’t buy. And when it comes to doctors there is a flood of them waiting to leave, and the UK NHS is more than happy to receive them. Indians doctors (and nurses) are well established parts of the local community even in small towns in Wales or Scotland.
Even countries much richer than India like Turkey or Bulgaria have trouble holding on to their best and brightest, and even Poland has just about started to see a small fraction of those who emigrated start to move back.
This isn’t something the Indian govt is going to be able to do anything about for many years to come. But on the bright side, more and more countries are going to queue up to get the best emigrants that India has to offer given that Indian immigrants are just about the highest productive and least troublesome immigrants that one can get and this is something the govt can start to use as a bargaining chip.
Siddarth, I think this immigration argument has gone backwards. It used to be that the most skilled and motivated Indian engineers would be granted the opportunity to work in Western firms. Now, people think that they are skilled because they work in the West.
There are of course upsides and downsides to working and living abroad. But you dont see Indian doctors and engineers driving taxis in Toronto or NYC.
Agree that decision to work and settle overseas depends on number of factor. But in recent years (probably last 10-15 years) it has become tougher one to make mainly due rise in Indian small firms offering very good pay.
We have a big family and two of us have moved and settled overseas because our priority has always been fresh air and work life balance.
While the other two siblings after studying and working overseas decided to settle back in India due to streamlined career growth, better paying jobs, ability to afford someone to cook and clean the house and being able to enjoy to everyday Indian Big City dynamics including food, festivals and going out. By the way all four of us earn in the range of 1Crore per annum.
Four of us were raised in small town in Bihar but our priorities in life was the deciding factor. If I ignore the work life balance and fresh air, anyday I would choose living in an elite suburb of Mumbai, Delhi or Bengaluru.
So despite loud proclamations from Pak govt that the IMF deal was all but done.. it was not done.
Today, Pakistan announced new taxes on the salaried class, reversing a brief attempt to bribe the middle-class into docile acceptance. This is different from the newly announced “supertax” on large corporates. There’s also talk about going after NRP (non-resident Pakistanis) and their income.
Amazingly, the IMF still hasn’t sent Pakistan its Memorandum for Economic and Financial Policies (MEFP), which forms the basis of any agreement. That tells you that Pakistan still had a lot of work to do when they pretended a deal was done.
The IMF had also rejected Pakistan’s request for a bigger bailout package. Even if we assume a resumption of the previously on-hold bailout programme, it’s still too low for Pakistan’s needs.
Either Islamabad gets a bigger bailout or it will need to do ever-more drastic austerity cuts, combined with greater depreciation of the currency. This crisis is far from over.
I think Pakistan still is not heavily reliant on food imports. I dont think Pakistanis need anything apart from food, water and the chance to kill Hindus to continue being Pakistani. So all this IMF and loans stuff is going to make little difference. Pakistan is all about psychic wages.
Just important points on Gujarat , very prescient today:
It is always interesting to see people change their views , who first try to explain purely on some rational basis and finally come to conclusion that religion and culture has to be accounted for.
“ Later this year, the State Department should designate India as a CPC and sanction individuals directly involved in the anti-Muslim pogroms during Trump’s 2020 visit. Yes, India will be unhappy, but the United States has sanctioned institutions and officials elsewhere in the region—including in Bangladesh and Pakistan—deemed guilty of serious human rights violations. India deserves no exception. And we can afford to press it. With a rising China on its borders, India needs us more than we need them.“
benefits of media and no criticism of them or faith creates this kind of mindset.
Indeed, the Liberal-Ummah Alliance is quite strong. When Hindus try to stamp down on the Jihadists, the Libs attack Hindus and when Hindus are busy with secularists, they’re attacked by Jihadis. This one two combo keeps Hindus perpetually on the defensive.
Hindus are hopeless against the Liberal Media attacks, what with archaic fossils at the head of the Hindutva movement, they’re either intellectually incapable of defending Hinduism Or completely illiterate in the vocabulary required to refute liberals.
You clearly have not read what i have written before. Get over this ” arguing with the other side mentality”. Without costs for their exaggerated lies , there wont be a change. More screaming to their western liberal friends. No, they have to pay costs for lies . For denial of islamic bigotry, past and present.deal with islamists later. first deal with those who give cover in India. Any historian/scholar who denies islamic bigotry, past or present shall have to be put in jail for leading to disturbance in community peace, relations leading to fostering of enemity.
Islam has to undergo secular critique much like any religion.
Cracking down on Anti-Hindu historians will result in the western establishment lambasting India for being a “Anti-Free speech Nathzee Hindu Nation”. Is it really worth all this trouble?
Islam has to undergo secular critique much like any religion.
They’ll start a civil war if we try to reform their religious education systems. Screw that, it is not the job of Hindus to fix Islam. IM can have their Sharia laws, if they stop bothering Hindus, it’ll be fine.
If you give a fuck for what west thinks. you will never fix the problems. If you dont allow secular norms to flourish among muslims in India. You will be sitting with a permanent enemy with in. This is where rightwing blockheads reveal themselves. There is no getting around trying to utilize the best services of those who explicitly value those norms. apj abdul kalam is a great example. It is worth the trouble because you have to social engineer the society you want to have. That requires everyone should know no one outside can save them. They have to make deals with you, make compromises with you. No getting around that.
I bring caste into this debate. H’s suffer more traitors than anyone. Becauses of caste, in other societies like japan/ china, where people judge, once you are seen as traitors that is that. Here, you have entire network of personal relations cutting across political parties, even religion. brahmin network cuts across, even after change of faith. same with reddys . subramanian swamy is in bjp, but he has got great friends in “The Hindu”. Siddharth vardarajan gets away a lot thanks to his brahmin privilege.Just think about it. In which country would someone from same community defend likes of aurangzeb. All this comes from sub groups looking for favourable deals , in case the tide turns, after all H’s were not in power for centuries. All this is new. who knows if this will last. That mindset continues.
You have to use the hammer of law where such insanity prevails, cut away from friends, family of such kind. No dialogue with those who abuse it. You have a better time convincing razib than your own family on these things. That is insane. This insanity wont end by itself. Without costs to those whose actions stopped muslims to learn secular critique and introspection and build common norms for all and peaceful and prosperous India. You wont be getting anywhere. It is a mindset of a cuck to insist that your enemies, adversaries are not letting in you on a debate. You create the structure whereby they compromise. Here, in India. Not washington post or amerika or qatar.
grisly videos of 2 muslims beheading a hindu tailor for supporting nupur sharma in rajasthan and making it viral. It is time to implement as I said. And this time, any colonized left liberal gang that comes in the way has to be dealt with first. One death is too many. we have become too desensitized in accepting things as they are.
This is so disturbing. Islam is a mental disease.
“any colonized left liberal gang”
No one gives a shit about them. People indulge in ‘both side-ism’ give them attention. Amateur politicians, armchair analysts who live on SM chant ‘Zoo-bear’, ‘Zoo-bear’ all day, doesn’t change shit on the ground.
“we have become too desensitized in accepting things as they are”
Not really desensitized. BJP keeps winning. Bad behavior has costs.
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Overall I am pessimistic about India’s chances. It is the eternal low tier country.
People do bakchodi but no one really does much. Indians beg and cry for visas, brag about their sons studying in ‘Southern Methodist University’ or ‘GWU’. A low tier people fit for being peons and clerks. I have many friends who went to Kelloggs, Booth, Tuck, Wharton, Sloan, ISB, IIM-A, hardly any try to build things, many friends who went to GeorgiaTech, Stanford, Michigan, UIUC, … sab ke sab gaand chaat rahe hain goron ki, no creativity, no passion, growing fat, thinking silly things like ‘moving out of India’, or passing some silly exam is a lifetime achievement. They think someone else will do the heavy lifting, while they will get to shine in reflected glory. Someone will build a great company, they will slither up the hierarchy. Jubilant and ecstatic about dissolving into white-people world.
The ones who do contribute fall short on talent and money. Of all the Indians in America that I know, only one Mallu girl gives significant money for good in India. Everyone else talks-talks-talks.
Test for believing in something is giving money and serious time to it. Empty talk is noise, like that of a waterfall, loud but inconsequential.
This is the situation at 14%. Even uniform civil code has not been applied. CAA has not passed. What do you think will happen at 18%. Is there any country that is this stupid. Any people other than H’s this dumb?.
meanwhile. Modi hugs uae leader. JP nadda declares, modi is not just leader of human beings, he is God among Gods.
One does not even need to move one bit away from “secularism”. One just needs to act. But for some people, this is just fuel for winning next election.
Here is one simple act you can do right now. Declare that all those left/lib historians, activists who lied and denied about islamic bigotry will be arrested. All those who deny this reality will be arrested. Secular critique of Islam will become a compulsory discourse in India and shall be taught in every school and college from this day forward. No place for both sideism. Anyone doing it, jail time.
Disturbing blasphemy killing in Udaipur. Not much more I can say.
But I don’t think there’s much to be done. This stuff was happening in the 1920s. It is happening in the 2020s. It will be happening in the 2120s.
By the 2520s, humans will have interstellar empires and Islamists will still commit blasphemy killings.
This incident cannot be seen in isolation from the generalized increase in societal violence in India in the past 7-8 years. In the same Rajasthan , multiple instances of cow vigilantism including video recorded killings have almost passed the radar apart from a section of ‘liberals.’ There is a mainland hatewatch project which is worth perusing if you are not physically located here to gauge the extent of non-relenting hate based propaganda. This is combined with state bestowed impunity to the perpetrators.
India needs healing right now and a commitment to peace. Alas,that constituency is completely disenfranchised.
Actually it is the opposite; the Islamaphoic rhetoric in India is troubling but cannot be seen in isolation to 800 years of religious subjugation and the bifurcation of the nation along religious lines due to demands by Indian Muslim elites.
Meanwhile the admittedly very small minority of Muslim people that murders other people over for perceived slights against their Prophet is a global phenomenon see Charlie Hebdo in France, Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka, ISIS, Boko Haram, Blasphemy cases in Muslim countries etc. So it is not a phenomenon limited to places where beef eating is taboo like India.
I said that AI’s will come sooner than muslim reforms. It is safe to say that secular experiment and liberal/left assumptions of islam being same as other religions has been proven false empirically for the last 100 yrs. As we move away from unipolar moment in history. Western influence will be even less. Islamists too fill find much freedom and resources as well. I must say, last day was the only day I truly was contemplating immoral ideas and am ashamed for it. Do I have the iron to deal with this issue?.
No it seems. I have no interest in thinking further about this anytime soon. Immoral people will come to power for moral people are failing. Namo has been painted as evil incarnate. He is a much softer person for all we have seen thus far. People will be wanting someone tougher than him from now on.
Ruin from heaven, we can weather. Ruin from ourselves, we never survive.
Grow stronger and fight another day seems to be the moral of it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emMouCipTtI
heard/saw wendy dongier on print being interviewed by jyoti malhotra. some observations:
i) dongier looks shallow. she picks up one of the many peripheral/ non mainstream narrations of the popular indian stories, and pokes them into orthodox hindus to say that hindu’s mainstream narration is just a myth.
ii) she is more sold on the so called erotic aspects of our stories and gods. this is a continuation of her p hd thesis.
iii) hindus have sadly given more ‘bhav’ to this lady, than what she deserves.
iv) jyoti malhotra was pathetic, the usual fawning brown indian in front of a white god/godess. she never countered wendy’s rambling thought.
Agree. She comes across as quite shallow. Don’t know how she became such a big star in history circles.
Because folks like Jyoti Malhotra are even shallower. The less I say about Delhi’s old-elite wannabe culture the better. These people just want to appear ‘one of them’ in front of Goras. Nothing wrong with it, at the end of the day there are no clear KPIs in journalism of this sort.
They are having a good time, discussing convenient things, making appropriate sounds, trying to suck up to Global American Empire (or PRC in case of the Hindu). Every once in a while one of them will get a grant from Ford foundation or UN Democracy Watch or something.
All these are lifestyle journalists. We never see a big expose from them, pushing the boundaries, no investigative journalism on health, consumer products, monopolies, government waste, roads, no heavy well prepared interviews etc. Some write news, some do bakaiti on Foreign affairs, military, elections, or hindu-muslim.
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The best behaved and most self confident Indians are Gujjus and Marathis.
The gruesome execution in Udaipur is tragic and enraging, but there are a few silver linings.
1) Many liberal Indian spaces aren’t even trying to “contextualise” what happened, but straight-up condemns it. Not much wailing over “islamophobia” that you might have seen 10 years back.
2) Even the liberal media is covering it without censorship.
3) The suspects seem to have some form of connection to Pakistan, which suggests their radicalisation path wasn’t organic but “helped along”. In other words, it doesn’t seem to be an internal radicalisation exclusive originating within India at least, which would be more serious.
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I’ve read quite a lot of people saying they don’t feel safe. It’s important to emphasise that terrorism in India has seen a massive decline in recent decades. India is safer in this regard than it has been for a very long time. That’s obviously cold comfort for his relatives, but it bears keeping in mind.
I re-iterate my view that India would be best served in the long run by a state-sponsored ghar wapsi campaign. At the very least, the govt should take much more forceful action/control over mosques and educational institutes like madrassas.
Many liberal Indian spaces aren’t even trying to “contextualise” what happened, but straight-up condemns it. Not much wailing over “islamophobia” that you might have seen 10 years back.
On the other hand, I am seeing many liberal-ish Muslims trying to whatabout it. Back in the day, you’d hear stuff like “these are not real Muslims” etc. That seems to happen much less now.
Blaming it on Pakistan is what Indians do when they want to feel good and want to believe they control their Muslim population.
There are hundreds of videos on twitter with Indian Muslim preachers threatening (or rather chanting in their Barelvi way) the phrase ”Sar tan se Juda”. Not surprising at all that this happened, in fact its surprising it took so long. You don’t want to mess with Barelvis on the issue of blasphemy of the Prophet. And Barelvis are the majority amongst lower class/caste Muslims.
Agree.
This most probably has nothing to do with Pakistan.
Indian Muslims are sufficiently radicalized to do this independently.
The reason why authorities like bringing in the Pak angle in these cases is to cool down Hindu anger against Indian Muslims.
Blasphemy against Islam will only increase in India, no stopping it now. Hindus used to do hate speech in the past but steered clear from blasphemy.
Unfortunately, further bloodshed can happen. Muslim handles on twitter were baying for blood but are now acting like bheegi-billi. I fear some poor muslim(s) will get killed and then Hindus on twitter will become bheegi-billi.
There are hundreds of videos with Hindus chanting:
‘Jab Mulle kaate jaayenge, Raam-Raam chilaayenge’
‘Jahan dikhe ali ya chaand, phaado chaddhi maaro gaand’
This can get out of hand.
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IMO blasphemy should be the norm.
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In old cities/towns people are already too set in their ways to fuck with each other. In the highest riot hit Mau, in eastern UP, for example, Hindus and Muslims ask the other side to get out and take their valuables before burning their houses. There are hard checks and balances, ‘tribal street law’, people know the severe price of touching a Hindu (or Muslim) woman. This is why love-jihad is such a touchy topic.
When I was maybe five my mother saved a teenager(17-19 ish) brahmin boy from neighborhood who would have been bludgeoned to death by a Muslim mod for sliding his hand inside the back of a muslim girl’s kameez. My father had some clout and the Muslims knew the price of overstepping into our house. Some folks broke the windows, dented the gate but didn’t press it too far even though they could have forced entry. Later on the guy was handed over, tonsured, face blackened and paraded on a donkey. Similar things happen with muslims who over step and break local norms. I have seen things like forced eviction of Muslims from their own property fearing Hindu retribution and barring property sale for years to straight up murder.
Before you think otherwise, this lane-division and giving space is due to Hindu generosity not anything else. Barelvis don’t need to do anything in these old places as people walk in their lane. No one goes around blaspheming Muhammad in Ranchi or Gorakhpur or Jabalpur. The storm will come in cities, in Bangalore, in Delhi, in Noida, … here norms are not laid down, policing online space is impossible, blasphemy will become the norm.
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Overall I think it is good that these things are coming out and being talked about. Ex-muslim-isation is the need of the hour. It will gain more momentum going forward. The cost in lives lost even though heavy and very-very unfortunate can be borne. The riots no longer have the same intensity, lesser number of people are dying, police is getting better. Extremists are being cornered.
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Agreed, Pakistan is just a convenient scapegoat to placate the Indian right.
But I have a question regarding the Barelvi’s, aren’t they supposed to be less reactionary due to their sufi influence? I’ve always thought that it was the Deobandi’s that are more radical as it is similar to wahabbism in many ways.
@sameer
All Muslims are Sufi ‘influenced’ Muslims in the subcontinent, central asia, iran and turkey. They are just on a spectrum whether shia or sunni (deobandi/barelvi etc). The beliefs of Barelvism are a more older form of Islam that was prevalent and practiced in this region for centuries, while Deobandis are a reform movement that sought to purify this type of Islam from Hindu influences. This is why Deobandism is more common in the educated class, Barelvism is more common amongst peasants.
Barlevis are usually chill, except on one issue: Blasphemy of the Prophet Muhammad. They low-key worship the Prophet, venerate him in sermons and prayers etc just like Shias would worship Ali or Hussain or some NI Hindus worship the Cow. And they absolutely don’t tolerate blasphemy, it’s a single issue for them.. fourth largest party in pakistan (by votes) is TLP which is a barelvi party that is a single issue party about blasphemy, and most Indian Muslims are barelvis. It’s a big issue for them.
While Deobandis/Shias/Wahabbis might try to punish blasphemy through the state apparatus, Barelvis are not hesitant in actually killing the blasphemer outright, and celebrating the killer. Not sure why this difference evolved, but I am guessing this is because Barelvis are from the peasant class and have low or no trust in a central state as central authorities in India mostly existed to exploit the peasants. So they settle the score without the state.
You don’t want to mess with Barelvis on the issue of blasphemy of the Prophet.”
stupid to gloat about the murder. if history is any judge, this episode is not going to end well for muslims.
even in the days of the raj, british officials noted that most mischiefs are started by muslims, but when the dust settles, they come off badly. this pattern has generally held in india – riots are started by muslims and finished by hindus.
rajasthan is a congress rules state. bjp thrives on communal tensions. it is not going to pass on such a juicy opportunity for polarization.
“even in the days of the raj, british officials noted that most mischiefs are started by muslims, but when the dust settles, they come off badly.”
‘This is a shit take #MsMarvel. You’re implying that Pakistan shouldn’t exist today and that the 2 nation theory was incorrect. Hindutva extremism led to the creation of Pakistan, an extremism we see on display as Muslims get lynched in India and Kashmiris are still imprisoned.’
“Hindutva extremism led to the creation of Pakistan”
Lmao.
Feel bad for Indian libs, imagine ceaselessly defaming your country and your government for decades on end, and Pakistanis still think you’re a fig leaf for Hindu nationalists.
I am hoping and will be impressed with India’s progress if there a no riots resulting in further deaths as a result of recent events.
20 years ago would be deadly riots for sure.
I don’t think Hindus will riot. Even if they do, Gehlot is a competent CM.
Unfortunately, murders can happen.
Islam is not just a religion. It is a transnationalist ideology. We have seen the calls for support from ummah and ummah supporting them back. This is the reality. I will end this here. I do not advocate different rules for different folks where possible. But one should in the end concede to empirical evidence and not allow oneself to be tied to some theoretic frameworks, no matter how idealistic.
we can now see the smartness of peshwas. but i feel that this was modi’s move.
i see two possibilities:
i) fadnavis will be pulled to central role.
ii) gadkari might come back to maharastra.
Not everting is a 4d chess. Seems the Maratha played hardball with the Peshwa, and Modi felt that leaving the Maratha on his own, could lead to a crash. So Peshwa is there to ‘assist’.
Maharastra needs a façade of ‘Maratha leadership’, and wont fully accept Brahmin leadership. It was true during 1700s, and its true even now. So Gadkari and Fadnavis will mostly play second fiddle.
ironically Shiva sena was a more broad based organization but with a microscopic minority leading it.
In retrospect, choice of DF back in 2014 seems to be a bad decision whose reversal will have cascading effect. Not only DF seems to have caused exit of leaders like khadse, tawde (not sure of their mass base) imagine what message it gives to other Maratha leaders who have been loyal to the party so far. Even worse what message will other obc leaders take from this.
Overall the bjp/rss high command seems to have decided that perennial tussle between UCs and OBCs needs to be managed by conceding to obc political representation. After KA and GJ, MH seems to be the 3rd state where OBCs extracted the cm post as condition for supporting bjp.
The flip side seems to be that CMs will be changed frequently like UK, GJ and tripura.
I have no option but to comment. For Supreme court of India to blame nupur sharma. Blaming the victim under threat. This cowardly attitude by supreme court. This is a moment of clarity. All those who call themselves liberal/secular turned out to be cowards and opportunistic. They have no place in deciding the fate of this country and this civilization.
The blasphemy mind virus seems to be here to stay and civilised societies seem to have no counter to it (there was a low key outcry around censoring of a ‘blasphemous’ movie in the UK recently). Astounding that the world is powerless against a meme originating from an insecure, retarded mediaeval society.
Given no leeway from the Muslim side, Hindu society is also increasingly going to go down that path, paradoxically this may serve to increase Hindu ‘asabiyah’ in the short term. The Sikhs are already there as we saw with the nihangs hacking to death some poor peasants earlier this year and the shocking lack of condemnation from wider Sikh society.
Long term, there’s going to be no winners from all this (except maybe the BJP and religious parties like the AIMIM, PFI etc.)
‘Given no leeway from the Muslim side, Hindu society is also increasingly going to go down that path, paradoxically this may serve to increase Hindu ‘asabiyah’ in the short term.’
Every religion which wants to survive today, has to ‘Abraham’-ize itself. One faith, One God, One Book and so on. For Hinduism that faith is Hindutva.
On the Hindu ‘asabiyah’ front, it will differ region to region. Whatever nascent ‘asabiyah’ has grown within Hindu society, is due to Hindutva, so as long as Hindutva grows stronger, so will its ‘asabiyah’ . Wherever Hindutva is weak in less/non Hindu region, there will be weaker ‘asabiyah’.
Either you’re a Hindu or you’re not, there’s no such thing as a “Less Hindu”. SI Cultural&Religious traditions are indigenous to India, it doesn’t matter whether you call it Hinduism or Scientology, they’re second to none.
Every religion which wants to survive today, has to ‘Abraham’-ize itself. One faith, One God, One Book and so on.
You can’t pitch a religious Nationalism for all and then work your way back to some shady Homogenization project. Just look how well that kind of Nationalism worked out for East Pakistan.
We can call each “less” or “more” till the cows come home 🙂 but now is not the time for in-fighting. Every region/ethnicity needs to gird up its internal asabiya/solidarity against non-dharmic threats.
‘Don’t force DMK to revive ‘separate Tamil Nadu’ demand: A Raja’
I see that Dravidians have surely ‘gird up its internal asabiya’
While I agree with your basic conclusion here, Saurav is actually onto something with his “less Hindu/more Hindu” classification system.
While I would agree that South India still largely falls within the fold of the macro Hindu civilization, my sense is that it has always operated in a very different sort of world from the one that shaped the inhabitants of the cow belt. Andhra and Tamil Nadu in relation to the core areas of Hindu civilization seem to me roughly what Russia or Serbia are to England or Germany. Not wholly separate, yet nonetheless very different, even alien, in some quite fundamental ways.
Notice that Hindutva is weak both in South India and in Bengal. I think it is not a coincidence that both regions lack hard varna lines among non-Brahmins (i.e. dominant castes are still classified as Shudra).
South India in particular was also comparatively untouched by Islamic conquest, particularly of the Persianate variety that dominated the North, and its natives never adopted Indo-Aryan language either.
Personally, I would classify Hindu civilization into three regions:
1) A “core” region consisting of the cow belt + Punjab, Kashmir, and Gujarat
2) An “inner periphery” consisting of Maharashtra, Orissa, and Chhattisgarh
3) A few distinct “outer periphery” regions (Bengal, South India, parts of the Northeast)
Of course what this means (unfortunately for Saurav) is that Hindutva’s aims are entirely incoherent (if they weren’t already given the fragmented nature of Hindu practice along jati lines), as the factors that separate South India and Bengal from the Hindutva fold are rather fundamental to their cultural essence and hence not easily overcome.
‘While I agree with your basic conclusion here, Saurav is actually onto something with his “less Hindu/more Hindu” classification system.’
Finally someone who speaks English. 🙂
Just some modification to your regions
Core: Cow belt + Gujrat
Inner/ less Hindu region : Punjab, MH, Orissa etc. ( these states lie in a spectrum of Core — Less)
Outside/Non hindu: Kashmir, Bengal, S-India, North East ( these states lie in a spectrum of Less — None)
‘factors that separate South India and Bengal from the Hindutva fold are rather fundamental to their cultural essence and hence not easily overcome.’
Why is it unfortunate for me? LOL. I know (and have been hammering abt it for the longest time ) that Hindu regions have been carrying the cross for less Hindu regions for far too long, and its better to cut the gangrene before it spreads to core regions.
If a Hindu schism is enviable then so be it. We will see how the non Hindu regions survive..
The blasphemy mind virus seems to be here to stay and civilised societies seem to have no counter to it
There is no violent “solution” to this question. I’m not surprised by Quereshi’s gloating approval of the murder. It explains a lot why Pakistan is in the dumps today, because religious fanaticism took precedence over poverty eradication.
The only way India can avoid this fate of increasing religious tension is eliminating the root cause of conflict; moslem fanatacism. It’s not a problem to be managed but to be eliminated ideologically. A state-sponsored Ghar Wapsi is needed.
For that to happen, there must be an internal Hindu reform effort first. The shameful comments from the SC yesterday shows us there’s still a long way to go.
“During investigation we learnt that Kolhe had circulated a social media post supporting Nupur Sharma on WhatsApp. By mistake, he posted the message on a group with Muslim members who were also his customers. One of the arrested accused said this was an insult to the Prophet and hence he must die,” a source said.
I’m sure Quereshi will justify this too.
Don’t understand how everyone thinks I’m gloating? I just explained how extreme Barelvis are regarding blasphemy that they dont hesitate to extrajudicially kill. In Pakistan, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was killed by own bodyguard for just calling “blasphemy law a black law”… he didn’t even blaspheme. His killer is celebrated a hero.
Did he really go as far as saying it’s a black law. I remember him saying something mild like it should be relooked at..
Yeah, you definitely didn’t come off as gloating, you were simply stating it in a matter of fact way.
Regarding the Barelvi’s, they seem to be in the news again, this time against Samsung for a supposedly blasphemous QR code. 23 people from samsung were arrested. https://twitter.com/MirMAKOfficial/status/1542902936409612288
Protests and vandalism were allegedly led by TLP
As America becomes browner, they are going to find out that racism is a lot more prevalent in Europe.
There’s also a funny power dynamic going on. Most of these women are probably way outearning the local Italian waiters.
i experienced similar things in rome.
I was an exchange student in Germany in 2015, a group of us were heckled for bring from “burnighem, coz they smell something burning.” Not that I know the entirety of US, but many there seemed overly nice, like I didn’t need to get this attention but I did.
Alas, What i said few years back seems to be happening, inspite of me moving away from it. I once said life is a game of chance and fortune and barbarians need to stay long enough to get enough fortune blowing their way as to keep persisting . Consider this. Oil for decades in middle east, pak getting nukes because India was stupid in not claiming hegemony. west undergoing mindvirus of woke and deciding somehow islam uniquely among religions in oppressed. Rise of china and its axis with muslim countries. World moving away from unipolar moment. Ideas like secularism, liberalism etc, western ideals have no place without decisive western power backing them. In the next 100 yrs, we might just witness many of the ideas that were taken granted to start losing their sheen. It will take 50 yrs for this generation of believers to die or get old and new generation with better understanding of reality take the world forward in ways we have not seen since before the decisive victory of west. And then, there is AI. how it changes the world is still beyond my capacity to fathom. One does not know. Moral of the story is, grow strong and fight another day. But govt can take over all mosques, disband seminaries, regulate religion. That much, govt in India is well within its capabilities and rights to do. It is not good for Indian muslims either. For all talk of ummah, jihad, gustaki rasool etc, they do not want to actually face Hindus who dont give a flying fuck anymore. And with west losing power, they will not interfere beyond a point. Neither would chinese or arab countries.
I wanted himanta to become next PM. Indian muslims have decided to make yogi adityanath as the next PM. They are getting what they deserve. sadly, the rest of us are not getting what we deserve.
Sickularist Hindu:Shut your mouth about Muslims, Hindu Nathzee! New Generation is more lebral! We won’t have hindu-muslim tensions in the future with young progressives! The only threat to peace i see are Hindoos like you!
Reminds me of the girl who was in the video with Jagan.
Awful.
Some Telugus, and occasional Tamils and Bengalis, in the US make me want to throw up. I say this despite being surrounded by Telugu engineers. Faking accent, zero personality even on Indian standards, borderline anxiety disorder, scheming-begging to be in America.
Awful-Awful, idk what this does to the self-respect.
culture is created and maintained otherwise, it will degenerate. Hence one should have own autonomy in creating and maintaining one’s culture and civilization.
A Sri Lankan guy just ran sub-10 sec 100 meters (9.96). Sri Lanka also the only south asian country to have won a sprinting olympic media.
AASI = fast twitch ?
yeah Kerala has most track records too.
I’m an ACTN3 hybrid myself. . But overall though S Asians are very prone to endurance genes. They have the highest homozygous rate of ACTN3 slow twitch variation.
Hard to say which population is more fast twitch. I think South and NW dominate most of sports scene. The middle of the country not as much, but they are also rich areas. Maha does pretty well too.
Gujarat is awful. Our one olympic bronze medalist is an NRI from Texas, Raj Bhavsar. Ahimsa BS destroyed physical spirit of Gujarat. Rural areas and some Rajputs still have it. But mercantile culture went too far. It has had its benefits. But a balanced Khatri like approach would be best. Parsis have it, but they are a tiny portion of Gujarat’s population.
haryanvis / punjabis do quite well at combat sports, and also stuff like shot-put. They tend to be have bigger builds than other south asians
North eastern states are also overrepresented but seem to have smaller builds than other south asians.
I think UP / Bihar underrepresentation is partly economic.
Gujaratis underrepresented is cultural (gujaratis are overrepresented in the indian cricket team currently, but in the past there were very few)
Javelin and shot put sure but quite recently so elite with Chopra. Gama is a historical one in high weight class combat sports. But combat sports they only do well typically in low weight classes mostly.
You dont need a big build for most low weight classes. I think other places can so better for sure. And bigger build seems exaggerated. I’ve been to NW and rural areas too. People there eat more than other Indians and are a bit bigger structurally. But still a lot smaller than NW European and West Africna type people in bone structure and lean mass.
Gujarat cultural element is annoying as hell. Gangetic plain= terribly lost potential.
no rice eaters are fast in the short lap. historically south indians, including an anglo from karnataka were the 100m and 200m champions. rice gives quick energy. wheat eaters were champs from 800m and upwards!!!!
bjp is making serious attempts to get pasmanda muslims on its side. these voices are getting traction. even modi spoke of this outreach yesterday.
finally this may lead to gharwapsi if some reservation is thrown in, as is like for mazabi sikhs and neo buddhists.
Udaipur killers will get buttfucked in jail before being hanged if they ever make it through court hearings without getting lynched. Saw the video of them being ‘carried’ out off police station most likely after severe police brutality and another video of them getting assaulted, marginally escaping lynching, in court.
I have this theory: folks over estimate the odds of getting knocked out in boxing and underestimate the odds of getting killed by 4-5 normal people throwing random slaps, kicks and punches.
I think I finally understand the westen hinduphobia. It is deliberate because of rising India. It would not matter if India was not the other asian giant rising.
They want to humiliate us in order to get us to do something crazy that can lead to them justifying some harder measures against us. Eat humiliation, redress it domestically if it crosses some threshold. Dont do anything crazy. Just get rich and powerful for next 50 to hundred years. Become powerful enough that no action can hurt us. Until then, maintain internal asabiya, create institutions, structures to ensure this in a big way. Get rich/powerful for next 50 to 100 yrs. consolidate, maintain asabiya/ will by creating institutions. Reduce lib/left cultural hold.
They want us to do make mistakes out of rage.
Zoroastrians will disappear. They don’t seek converts, don’t allow children of mixed marriages, and have pathetically low birth rates. How do they expect to survive?
Afshaq Masih, a christian mechanic from Pakistan has been sentenced to death by a Lahore court for Blasphemy. He allegedly said “Jesus is supreme”.
Insane country
Islamic Societies are a time portal to the 15th Century.
Concerned and scared for my future. I am 22 old and about to start my job. With the state of politics, and just nasty stuff from all sections of politics, I am worried how things will be in the near future.
If you live outside India : Baman devata kya bol rahe hain aap? Maje karo, beach pe jao. Jyada tension ho toh daan-punya karo.
If you live in India: Again, Bhai kya bol raha hai? Maje kar. Use Bangalore/Mumbai metro, in my days it used to be auto-wallahs and local trains. India sucked far worse 20 years ago. 3-4 LPA used to be a big deal, sarkaari naukari was the main thing, now I see 25 YOs making 30-40 LPA. There are interesting jobs. Much easier to move or travel abroad.
From terrorism, to communal riots, to Naxalites things have only improved. Communists have been destroyed. What is there to complain?
Remember the Indian medical students in Ukraine? 4 months on and they still haven’t been given spots in Indian colleges.
How can people whine about braindrain when this is how India treats its future generation(s)?
Why should they be given seats in Indian Medical Colleges? They went to Ukraine because they were not good enough for Indian med schools.
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“How can people whine about brain drain when this is how India treats its future generation(s)?”
Nah, my cousins spent 4-5 years preparing for NEET, with upto 3 drop years after school and still couldn’t earn a seat. Handing medical seats out is too much to ask.
“These trolls are not human enough to have any ‘sentiments’ to hurt. They have nothing to do with Hinduism or faith. Their claim to Kaali as a Hindu goddess is a farce. Kaali is deeply rooted in tribal folklore. Her manifestations are embedded in regional and indigenous cultures and belief systems of South Asia beyond the Sanskrit-ised Brahmanical Hindu Religion,” she argues. “My Kaali is inspired from Tamil and Telugu village rituals where she comes on people as a spirit and eats meat, smokes ganja, drinks country arrack, urinates in the middle of the village, spits on filth and dances wild. I embodied her and chose to walk across the streets of downtown Toronto, the land of immigrants, to understand settler colonialism.”
A BJP leader responded to this argument by saying it does not justify Kaali being shown to be smoking in the poster. “Yes, we too see Kaali as a goddess with tribal roots. This is true of gods like Muruga and Krishna too. But we still pray to them across the country. So what is the point of this argument? Irrespective of the roots, we will not accept a picture of a God smoking tobacco, ” says Narayanan Thirupathy, a BJP spokesperson from Chennai. “Whenever these filmmakers are questioned, their first move is to divide our gods into Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical when we worship them all the same way. This argument is unacceptable.”
The film narrates the short tale of Kaali, the ‘pagan goddess’ descending upon a queer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) filmmaker in downtown Toronto – in short on Manimekalai herself.
“My Kaali believes in love and sharing. She accepts the cigarette from a Black street dweller at a park around Kensington market in Toronto and listens to reggae,” she continues. “When Kaali descends on me, the Queer Filmmaker, she will definitely hold a pride flag and a camera. Kaali is my embodiment. I have performed as Kaali.”
“As a cultural worker, I want to reclaim my body, my texts, my traditions, my cultures, my sexuality, my desires, my knowledge and my folklore from the fundamentalists. That is fundamental to my art practice and existence which is ingrained in decolonisation.”
Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra too had stated at an event that she saw Kaali as a meat-eating and alcohol consuming Goddess when asked about the film’s poster. She reportedly even stated that you could see sadhus (Hindu ascetics) smoking at certain religious destination in West Bengal.
“That is the version of Kali people worship (over there). I, within Hinduism, being a Kali worshipper, have the right to imagine Kali in that way; that is my freedom,” the West Bengal leader had said. Later however, when the party distanced itself from the comments, the Krishnanagar MP claimed that she never backed the poster.
In Tamil Nadu meanwhile, the DMK has maintained a stoic silence regarding the backlash and declined comment when contacted.
if we observe some non mainstream left unionising efforts of organising pourakarmikas, anganwadi workers, one sees lots of catholics in the leadership roles. these are far left types. there was also one girl in karnataka who was arrested earlier. why is this happening? probably they are indian version of wokes? probably these catholics are brahmin converts??
Hindu Nationalist/Islamist, what a load of bullshit. I wish these old world losers wouldn’t carry their ethnic politics into the new world. We have enough problems in the country we actually live in.
It is strange here, one gets more likes for some things, but other things where i said something smarter, gets less likes. Shows the bias in this space.
Eat Humiliation until you get stronger, dilute the content , institution of islamists. secularize them.
In a sense, I believe, rest of the world is trying to catch up to west, but west as we know it did not happen in short period of time. I would argue there was first a secularization phase, from 15th century onwards, top down, led by elites. Followed by development phase led by colonialism, which built both military capabilities and set the economic incentives and foundation in order. Finally the democratic phase.
We are trying to do all of that at the same time and hence flailing. China is actually following western model, led by elites(party) they build military/economic incentives foundation first.
Keep in mind that the West was not following any models. They were just doing their own thing, which just had the effect of making them more advanced that other civilizations. Perhaps worrying about the minutiae of developmental models just messes up things.
https://twitter.com/buddhimedia/status/1545401524473327616
“For those who think that if India gets allied with the US completely, their media will stop spreading propaganda & spewing venom against IND, this is what they are doing with Japanese leader. These shameless ppl have no decency at all.
BTW – Japan is a vassal state of the US.”
btw allying(camp follower) with US does not guarantee your interests either..
American elites can’t tolerate any country that doesn’t share their ideology, no matter how faithful that country is to the US in foreign policy. Just look at how Sweden is treated by the US media compared to Poland. Sweden is completely useless, if not hostile to the US yet they are praised by the American media all the time because they both share the same social ideology. Poland is one of the most loyal allies of the US, yet they are demonized all the time. India needs to keep its distance from the US. Yes, US has money but sovereignty comes before economy. Also, limit the cultural influence of the US. Don’t allow American companies to buy up Indian media/cultural companies. Any agenda pushing by other US companies should be penalized. I think it’s already too late, as English proficiency among Indians mean that they are already somewhat integrated into the Anglosphere.
India needs to keep its distance from the US. Yes, US has money but sovereignty comes before economy. Also, limit the cultural influence of the US. Don’t allow American companies to buy up Indian media/cultural companies. Any agenda pushing by other US companies should be penalized. I think it’s already too late, as English proficiency among Indians mean that they are already somewhat integrated into the Anglosphere.
I’ve been making the same argument but mostly to deaf ears on this blog. I think Indians criminally underestimate the long-term cultural threat that falling under the shadow of America poses to India.
Just look at how Sweden is treated by the US media compared to Poland. Sweden is completely useless, if not hostile to the US yet they are praised by the American media all the time because they both share the same social ideology. Poland is one of the most loyal allies of the US, yet they are demonized all the time.
This actually makes sense if you think about it. Poland being close to the US is merely pragmatism given their terrible geography. But US elites know that ideological subservience is much more reliable long-term than short-term pragmatism. That’s why Poland cannot be trusted but Sweden can be.
The rules applies to India. Why do you think the US establishment treats Modi with such contempt? Yet he keeps rewarding them by not choosing an independent path, instead hugging the US closer and closer…
If only India and China could come to some sort of border agreement. American cultural subversion is a far greater threat than any petty border disputes to both India and China.
Other than Iran, India has never given up anything of value. We do empty lip service.
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Aren’t the Quint and Wire American attempts at leveling the playing field against long time CCP shills like the Hindu?
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In mind-space it has always been a lost battle. In the deepest recesses of their minds, ALL Indians want to be a gora.
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It is probable the US was involved in the assassination of Shinzo Abe. Abe was in favor of negotiating a peace settlement with Russia.
Abe was in favor of detente with Russia.
From Asia Times
“Even though the Abe camp denied it, Tokyo was abuzz with chatter that Abe, who stepped down in September 2020, might toss his hat in the ring for a third stint as leader. Abe first served as premier from 2006 to 2007, then from 2012 to 2020.
I wouldn’t put anything past CIA but I don’t actually think this is the work of the Americans. To me, the most likely motive was far-right nationalism.
Abe presided over the most unprecedented opening of Japan to foreign immigrants than any of other Japanese PM. Despite being viewed as right-wing, he was more of a neoliberal conservative.
We will probably never fully know, but Japan does have a history of far-right nationalists making political assassinations.
I doubt it. The risks are so great for very little reward. If its ever found out that CIA did this, Japanese-American relations would be extremely damaged. Japan is one of the few Asian countries that is firmly in the American orbit, something like 80% like the US, which is unherd of these days.
To me this just looks like a someone with mental issues. Japan has a huge number of lonely men in their 20s, 30s, 40s who really have no hope of anything. I think if guns were as ubiquitous in Japan as they are in the US, they would have similar number of mass shootings.
Friday Riots across India
TGIF
Let the wookiee win.
BJP is a stupid party that has no brains in terms of what it takes to change people. They believe in simple speeches/ quotas in ias, some schemes , scholarship as the answer to deal with muslims, hyper rightoids think violence alon solves it.
The answer is a series of IF unless options. Threat of violence unless they are willing to undergo a secularization process.
One has to take control of their education, religious education. Only example we know of as attempt at secularisation process among muslims that one can consider as part successful is ata turk and then the soviets. The post soviet muslim majority countries are probably the most secular lot.
Nehru put Hindus/Hinduism in a straightjacket. Modi should do this to muslims. All mosques should be controlled by state. All education inside it should teach to conformity to constitution. Impose Uniform civil code, anyone advocating sharia, practice, either preaching it or soliciting priests to settle disputes shall be declared as enemy of Indian state for running a parallel to Indian judiciary.
Also make an enemies act, Indian muslims forced partition of the country and in doing so forced ethnic cleansing/ genocide/ literally created India’s main enemy and congress party led by gandhi/ nehru gave all of them a clean chit and refused to intefere with their religion and abandoned millions of non muslims to second class citizenship and persecution.
Any other country would have treated such traitorous minority extremely harshly not necessarily out of revenge but out of accountability. India has failed to hold those people who voted for pakistan accountable. So, create enemies act. Make invalid all voting rights and right of property of Indian muslims effectively for that reason and make them sign onto papers declaring that if they advocate against secular norms/laws/ , advocate violence against criticism of their faith, or solicit support from other islamic nations, ummah , their right to property and right to vote will be stripped out of them.
Only if they sign that papers will their right to vote and right to property shall be guaranteed. Have laws similar to holocaust denial law. Any one who denies islamic fundamentalism, past or present will be sent to jail. This takes away the “fake liberals” and puts costs.
Origin of secularism comes first out of protestant/ catholic wars followed by anti clericism in france. Christians did not wake up one day and said, “now we will be secular”. It was a thought process, change in intellecutal/political/financial trends ushered in from elightenment that led to all this. expecting muslims to undergo that without any pain is foolish and stupid. Only thing we can be sure of is that , in absence of critique of quran/ mohammd, there is zero possibility of muslims accepting secular norms.
India state should have zero rights for those working to destroy the very norms of the state or those who give cover to this fanaticism. It is islamic fanaticism/ terrorism. It is not protest, the right not to criticize its belief is the same as right to islamic supremacy. In a nation , everyone should have right to criticize each others faith, in absence of which one is not a nation. One could argue the norms and taste with which one could accept such criticism, but once threats are made. They should take precedent.
These are necessary because it is impossible to identify who among them are bigoted and who is not and there is a total unwillingness on their part to hand over or identify and accuse those going against the interest of state.
One has to seize the means of education, religious education. All priests should also be taught secular norms and they should advocate them. All mosques should be regulated. The sections of autonomy for religious minority should be thrown out. India should do this now or risk further escalation.
secularization is a process by which one shows the inadequacy of religious laws and religious explanations in the modern day world. without this, secularism makes no sense. people will keep trying to solve problems of society through religion.
India should make clear to all muslim majority countries that criticism of their faith and founder is necessary for the process of secularization. If Indian muslims refuse this then they have no right to expect India to be a secular country and allow them the right to practice or propagate their faith.
Secularization is a process where people acknowledge the inadequacy of religion in solving issues of society. Indian muslims will never accept that unless one shows the faults in their religion. That is not possible without criticism of their faith. One can do this through education pointing to specific hadiths, specific examples in past and how they are solved in modern secular way.
A 3 trillion dollar nuclear powered country , third largest army in the world is allowing islamic states a veto in what it can say or cannot say in its own country?. How would chinese or americans react?. By worrying about oil or dealing with internal security first. There is no example of a successful major country that puts economy before internal security arrangement first. Effectively stating that India is not a nation and inviting further intervention from here on. I would send a couple of accidental missiles into kuwait.
All this comes from the argument I made that the bjp only believes in muslim baiting for winning elections. They have no coherent idea of what it takes to create a nation or the socialization process by which one can accomplish such goals. If today many in India stand against caste discrimination, this happened because of a socialization process that was engineered. social engineering is what every state does and should do in crafting and creating the populace in conjunction with its ideals.
Modi and bjp are not just morons, they are cowardly sniveling pieces who abandon their own. To abandon their own woman spokesperson to the wolves is disgraceful. And all this because modi and shah believe in electoral politics of incitement to win elections.
This should have been sorted out right after 1947 by having uniform principles, goes to show how badly nehru/gandhi miscalculated. Now the population is 200 million, when is that magical future date and economy when this will be dealt with?. in some magical 2050, with another modi?. who here has seen the future, who can ever be sure?. The purpose of power is to set the foundation stones right. once done , others can deal with issues of economy . Will the Indian govt do this once the population rises even more, relatively from the present 14% to 20 %?. Will the govt have the will, political will, can one be sure bjp will have the same dominance electorally in that future as well?.
All this because bjp confuses winning elections , economic schemes with social engineering . It is not the same, the first is necessary, second is useful but only through effective social engineering can you actually solve these issues. No attempt by bjp to take over all mosques/ effectively controlling the mullahs and mosques is necessary pre requisite to secularization of muslim community. And its own goals of hindutva leads to confusion, if it is ok for its own religious triumph, logically, can they deny others their own forms of religious supremacy?.
I understand the frustration but I am inclined to go with Akshay Alladi’s take i.e. no point in opening multiple fronts just for the sake of it. Even the anglo empire does not go about poking everyone mindlessly. Be strategic.
Imagine, what would India do, if it had 30 trillion $$$. You have state capacity etc, what will you do? .you still have to come to some version of this. No amount of state capacity can be enough without changing the norms and ideals of community/ society.
The current riots will only benefit the BJP electorally in the same way the Sweden riots benefited right wing parties in Europe.
You can’t even blame the Indian police for failing to maintain law and order given that the much better trained and funded Swedish police couldn’t do so either.
I notice the wester. media is largely silent in this.
Maybe because they have this tension in their demographically collapsing societies as well.
And it’s hard for them to find an acceptable anti-Hindu narrative here.
Overall Indians are not thekedars of secular liberalism.
Imo a Singapore like policy on religious intolerance is probably what is required. No point pointlessly offending any groups when you lack aukat to even have toilets for 100% of your own population and they have to go work as indentured servants overseas.
Praveen Swami’s article is typical liberal white washing of islamic extremism.
https://theprint.in/opinion/security-code/indias-blasphemy-battles-hindu-or-muslim-show-reason-has-succumbed-to-faith/992318/
1. Does not mention that Rangila Rasul itself was a response to sacrilegious publication on Sita.
2. HyperLinks to examples of Muslims supposedly killed by Hindus for Blasphemy. But when you click it goes to stories where Hindus were actual victims and Ms were perps.
What is the percentage of IVC ancestry in Pakistani Sindhis, Pashtuns, Balochis, Brahuis, and most importantly Pakistani Punjabi Muslims (lower castes like bhangi and kanjar, middle castes like kammi and tarkhan and lohar and julaha, upper castes like jat and syed and rajput)? For Saraikis as well, what is the percentage? Can someone do an analysis?
Is it true that Pakistanis from the Punjab and Sindh region generally have higher IVC ancestry and lower steppe & AHG ancestry than Indians in Punjab, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana..etc?
Also, I also read somewhere that among certain upper castes in Punjabi Pakistan like Jat, steppe ancestry is concentrated amongst the maternal portion of the ancestry, is this true as well? in a recent paper on so-called gypsies in pakistani punjab, lower r1a was found but lots of j-ydna and r2…etc, which is associated with higher caste in indian punjab
The closest living relics to the IVC peoples are mid case S Indians and Patels. IVC had a cline of AASI to iranic related. Even in the Western periphery samples, it was on average 25% in current data we have. It will likely go higher at sites within IVC and Eastern sites.
Many Pakistani groups have too much steppe and that takes them further away from relationship to the IVC. The indus nationalism is very ironic, given Indus Valley people are genetically closer to some Indian groups than any Pakistani groups because some Indian groups literally fall onto the Indus Valley cline. Also, the Indus Valley existence in all of Gujarat is conveniently always forgotten.
Get something straight. Indus valley itself had a range of AHG ancestry. Our data at the periphery shows it was 25%. Some samples are close to 50%. That is the periphery on the Western side.
The issue is that people forget IVC ancestry= AHG+ iranic peoples. They don’t understand it is two components.
Your series of informative replies I strongly appreciated. The so-called IVC ancestry in middle-caste South Indians is overloaded with AASI-like ancestry, somewhat different from the steppeless IranN-like ancestry found in the Rakhigarhi sample (it was over 75% IranN). In the Indus Periphery samples, the individual with the lowest AASI and highest IranN (i8726) had almost exclusively Pakistani groups as his/her closest living genetically similar descendants. This is highly remarkable. You can see it here: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f1d6e21eaf62c509f35ba0b89a64ac05-pjlq
I mention this because I read that higher IranN ancestry is strongly correlated with maternal steppe ancestry (if steppe ancestry is present). This was strongly revealed, amongst other things, by the medieval roopkund samples. Haplogroups like J and R2 specifically were signals for maternal steppe. Ofcourse, steppe was in YDNA as well but it is the maternal part which is striking. Whereas for AASI-shifted people, they are blessed with the steppe in YDNA to a far greater degree, with steppe nowhere to be seen in the maternal line. A plausible hypothesis I have is that IVC wasn’t that egalitarian as has been usually believed and that there existed an upper-class who seemingly associated themselves in a positive manner with the arriving steppe aryans (obviously some time after the destructive arrival, i am sure it wasn’t that cheerful at first), while the lower-class in IVC was utterly despised by them. These ancient feelings of the bloodthirsty chariot-warriers have passed down to some extent to many northwest indians and pakistanis. In Pakistani Punjab and Sindh, the lower castes as you know possess a lot of AASI-ancestry compared to the upper castes. However, the IVC portion of the genetic ancestry of the upper castes is usually strongly shifted to IranN compared to the IVC portion of the lower castes which is generally AASI-like or a half-half mix of AASI-IranN.
The Baloch in Harappaworld is also ofcourse IVC related, specifically IranN. Pakistan as a whole has greater Baloch and steppe on average than India, though individual groups like Jat Hindus and Rors in India possess far higher steppe than any Pakistani group. As you can see here, there are over 10 groups in Pakistan that have over 40% Baloch: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-9_HbzVQAMmkVx?format=jpg&name=large
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fefd4775150dce275c08452e27fe1c80-pjlq
Pakistanis on average have higher steppe and this obscures their IVC ancestry to some extent but I think the originators of all that was great about IVC were no doubt the IranN-loaded people. This is obvious when we reflect on the fact that the groups who dominate rural Pakistan and NorthWest India have in their IVC ancestry mostly the IranN-like ancestry, as compared to groups in South India who no doubt have IVC ancestry but it mostly has a greater portion of AASI-like ancestry. My assumptions are somewhat careless and perhaps even rude but I think they are close to the truth. The fact that Pakistan has greater Baloch and Steppe on average and the fact that they have in their IVC ancestry higher portion of IranN which is associated with upper caste and maternal steppe and the fact archaelogically, Pakistan seems to possess far more complex IVC sites like Harappa and Mohanjo-Daro no doubt reveals a lot. Plausibly, the incoming Aryans may have “appreciated this region” and specifically it’s upper-class people to a greater degree compared to what lay beyond the five rivers. Indeed, the caste system is extremely weak compared to India. National surveys in Pakistan show that around 30-40% of recent marriages in rural Pakistan are between different castes, whereas the percentage is like 1% even for educated Indians. Many things are normal in Pakistan between castes where murder would be necessary in India. Perhaps the Aryans didn’t construct that intense of a ban on interracial affairs in Harappa and Mohanjo-daro due to reasons that have been revealed by this post. Once again, these thoughts may be utterly wrong but based on what I have read over the years, I think it may be close to the truth if it’s not the bare truth itself.
Nationalism is a silly thing and the glory of India is the glory of Pakistan if we get rid of our prejudices. There was no Pakistan in 2200 BC. Many of the great Buddhist philosophers like Vasubandhu and Asanga were from modern-day Pakistan and they considered Patna (in Bihar) as a second home.
Both Pakistanis and Indians, even Sri Lankans to some extent (due to ancestry), can consider IVC their own. Regardless, India is a far more educated and economically developed nation and it’s archaelogical funding outclasses that of the Pakistani side 20 times or something. Most of inscripted tablets which are possibly evident of writing are from Pakistan and moreover, Pakistan has a far stricter definition of what a IVC site is compared to the Indians which is far more lax. The glory of IVC is still unknown to some degree because the poor Pakistanis haven’t excavated even the majority of Mohanjo-Daro which is the most complex IVC site, so you can forget about other treasures laying around Sindh and Punjab waiting to be found.
Unfortunately, I get the feeling that these treasures may be being destroyed even. Recently, a local controversy grew up which was reported by Sindhi newspapers in Pakistan that a bunch of villagers found ancient tablets buried deep outside their courtyard where a well was being modified and their children then proceeded to smash the tablets. This controversy wasn’t leaked out to the mainstream media due to fear of severe Western archaelogical outrage.
Tablets with engraved inscriptions have been considered one of the most complex expressions of IVC along with the rich hygiene system. India also has evidences of writing in IVC but it’s mostly on pots. I can only wish that archaelogists from India should take a grand trip to Pakistan and inform them of their true ancestors who are far superior to the desert lizard-eating Arabs and force them to excavate every single portion of Pakistan in search of IVC cultural artifacts and architecture. This cancerous “IVC belongs to India” or “IVC belongs to Pakistan” mentality is destroying the entire search for what IVC really was. No doubt northwest India also has many IVC sites but if the Indians keep preaching that IVC belongs to them, the Pakistanis will be drowning in their self-guilt and never focus on archaelogy strongly. Someone needs to tell them that Pakistan probably has far greater IVC culture laying around and that they need to wake up and start the search.
I can only wish that Razib the Great can take a look at this and give his take on my potentially silly words, hopefully someone can alert him.
hmm thanks for thoughtful response. Some stuff to mull over. Hopefully, we get more samples to fully clarify ancestral milieu of IVC. It was a racially mixed and cosmopolitan place. Will be hard to actually parse out what proportion IVC:aasi people contributed more or less. Regardless, I think that is an asinine task.
Many S Asian groups have a big chunk of IVC ancestry. I don’t really understand the prestige dick measuring for modern groups of who is closer vs. not by small amount. I mostly even only respond to Pak Indus Nationalist trolls about that type of stuff to troll them back and show the internal hypocrisy of their own games, recognizing full well the game in and of itself is dumb.
Why do you think Pak Indus Nationalists like to ignore Gujarat as part of the IVC proper? I notice that these people conveniently leave out Gujarat, a place unmistakably part of and deeply loyal to idea of the modern Indian state. Do you think it is a form of racialized hatred? They don’t do this with Haryana. I am of the thinking that it is two fold
1. Some shared ethnic groups, namely Jats/Gujjars/some Rajputs, and the racialized prestige among some groups, many of which are overrepresented in Pak, in the S Asian context that goes along with that
2. A theme of more respect for honor culture vs. mercantile culture
Also, this mtDNA vs. Y DNA proportion stuff is all about ratios. Good chunks exist among all groups with reverse ratios. When too hardline a stance is taken with rank order on that stuff, a huge plurality of exceptions is ignored. The reality is complex but should more simply be stated and accepted as such.
Subcontinentals are a complex tapestry of ancestries, with the Indus Valley being the biggest on average contributor, a civilization whose legacy, as you rightly claimed, should be owned by the whole subcontinent. I agree with this type of unifying stance. It is tragic that Pakistanis reject it in the name of Islam, polytheistic hatred, and racial association with Indians- leading to under investigation at best but desecration of sites at worst.
The caste system being weak is a recent phenomena. Please read the series of posts where Razib tears down Araingang’s argument.
https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/09/05/why-do-pakistanis-not-want-to-be-descended-from-hindus/
Not sure about maternal vs. paternal lineage. I am an example of someone with a more West maternal and a more East Paternal, with mt K1a and Y H respectively. And I’m Gujarati
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/pdfExtended/S0002-9297(18)30398-7
This paper should answer some of your questions on haplogroups.
Pakistanis have more steppe on average. It is just that the most steppe groups happen to be in India. Jatt Sikhs are bit more steppe shifted than Muslim Jutts and Hindu Jaats are bit more steppe shifted than Jatt Sikhs and Rors are the most steppe shifted, clustering genetically near some very shifted iranic groups like Tajiks.
I think your argument of more steppe+aasi is a comparison that works for Jatt Sikhs of India vs, Pakistani Jutts. But Hindu Jaats have less aasi and more steppe.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-0163-7_2
Good read for groups within India. I have university access. Hope you have access.
Here is a good paper on the IVC cline in ancestry.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/vagheesh/files/piis0092867419309675.pdf
The left wing – right wing architecture of politics came from the French Legislative Assembly during the 18th century. Monarchists and conservatives sat on the right side. Jacobins or the radicals sat on the left side.
Girondins, were originally part of the Jacobins, but decided to adopt a central stance, after sensing the radical plans for the monarchy by the Jacobins. The Girondins were eventually tried and executed by the Jacobins. Their influence was totally purged. The Jacobin-Girondin duality was a result of the Revolution’s consolidation when it began to acquire power.
BJP which has been by far the original thinker on the subcontinent with respect to jati, middle class, trade, economy & industrialisation now faces a Jacobin-Girondin impulsive phase.
To consolidate or to lead another sally is the tactical question. To hive the radicals off and enable them to consolidate a new political party is the strategic question.
After meekly going along with an Iran import ban on crude oil exports after the US prodded India to do so, it seems they may finally be turning a page and becoming more defiant of US diktat.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/jun/09/crude-oil-imports-may-figure-in-india-iran-talks-2463508.html
I also noticed that at the recent Summit of the Americas, a number of countries’ presidents boycotted the meeting (Mexico being the most important one) since the US refused to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
All these signs point to weakening US hegemony, which will probably be good for India in the long run. It makes no sense at all for India to submerge its national security interest (e.g. buying cheap oil) because the US told it not to do so.
I’ve been harshly critical of Modi in the past for submerging India’s interests because the US told him to. But it seems he finally, slowly, seems to return to his senses.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan failed to get an early July LNG shipment. Their energy crisis is about to get worse. Their new supposedly “experienced” economic team will have to rewrite their maiden budget because they forgot to add $7 billion dollars in debt due to foreign loans. The situation in Pakistan goes from bad to worse. Comically inept new gang.
‘All these signs point to weakening US hegemony, which will probably be good for India in the long run’
One couldn’t be more wrong…
You’re too obsessed with China, blinding you to the fact that the biggest threat to India is from within, often with the help of US-aligned NGOs and negative cultural influence.
First get rich and then worry about “cultural influence” and all.
India should get along well with USA, we got on their wrong side in cold war, pak ended up with nukes. Lets not be foolish once again in defying superpower. We need oil, we should ask them to help us on this. We also should stop their interference inside India. Until we get to 20 trillion dollars atleast. Lets get along as well as possible with usa. strategic autonomy is not worth much because it means nothing. once we are powerful, we will automatically have strategic autonomy anyway.
Lets not make virtue out of “strategic autonomy”.
No guarantees that even if India goes along with US or for that matter any other power, why would they give up a low cost high return leverage like pak against IN.
What is going to change at $20 T if US would still be at 7X our gdp. GDP is a good proxy for national capability. It is necessary but not sufficient. Do we honestly want to end up like SoKo and JP? High gdp but plunging birth rates and utterly dependent on a distant benefactor for security. Kowtowing to US did not prevent US from condoning increased CN National strength. In future they may have to Kowtow to CN anyway. Honestly JP and SoKo are still nestled within wider East Asian community where the history of national conflict has the features of an intra-civilization conflict rather than inter-civilizational one that we are faced with.+ JP is an island.
There is a difference between strategic autonomy and strategic defiance.
Yes we need western tech help but no need to be foot soldiers in service of empire. A lot of Chinese angst and perception of us is based on the behavior of certain sections of Indian society during China’s century of humiliation.
“It is dangerous to be America’s enemy but fatal to be its friend “—Kissinger.
The best option is to be an acquaintance.
There are no guarantees for anything. But sitting stubbornly by urself will lead to others allying with eachother. If we don’t do as us wants, they will once again engage Pakistan. What really matters is, do you have leverage over others, do you have ability to hurt others. We found out what it is to be on the other side of usa. We will not cross China beyond our interests. But the Chinese value us only bcos we can ally with the west.
Pretty interesting article.
“Why I Stopped Being A Leftist”
https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/why-i-stopped-being-a-leftist?s=w
Gaurav bhau, Omar uncle – can we get Gurwinder on the BP podcast?
Will ask Omar. Mukunda might be interested. Might be too confirmation bias though 🙂
almost everything he said i tend to agree with.
I am honestly looking for some moderate leftists to engage with – As i no longer see myself as of the left.
Well as u know , I am a moderate leftist 😉
@gaurav
Interesting to see how common this shift is among many of us. Personally humbling to see oneself as part of a historical process as i have a diminishing sense of rational distance while evaluating politics lately. It isnt just the identity stuff and disingenuous culture games that put me off, but I’m less of a believer in the competence of public institutions. Younger self would feel so betrayed right now 🤷🏽♂️
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31122-9
Interesting farming solutions presented here
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/vaiust/a_message_to_folks_here_hindus_live_in_a/
Holy shit. Even this trash sub is getting some sense
Getting their asses kicked for the last 8 yrs has knocked some sense into these leftiods. That’s why guys like Sheker Gupta are calling for a Hindu-Muslim Reconciliation.
Everyone there talks like an American teenager ffs. Hindu, Muslim, doesn’t matter. The Global American Empire will be the only winner.
If govt understands the concept of asabiya, it can proactively solve all this.
Govt shud run islamist stings, get ordinary people to support for jihad, violence, rioting etc and arrest all those taking part in it. And all those who maintain a conspiracy of silence. Make it impossible for islamists to openly discuss these ideas among muslims. Everyone shud think that the other is a govt agent and trying to sell them out. All rioting, violence requires coordination, that requires a safe space where you can openly talk ad uou wish. To radicalise and recruit. If everyone thinks the other one is a sellout, these ideas will not be spoken so openly. Leading to less trust in each other. Do this over 100 yrs
Indians are a confused lot, tjey can no longer summon their native spirit of maratha or sikhs having been colonized in their minds but they dont weaponize thr western colonial experience and their will to dominate and imprint themselves into the very way in which people think and act and see as appropriate to act. This conditiong that brits did to hindu elite should be replicated on muslims. Break their asabiya, get them to reflexively support constitutional values and criticise islamic ideas. Until all Muslims criticize these ideas as immoral as they are today, this battle wont be won.
Have red cards, yellow cards, green cards for mosques, organisations for islamists and those who give cover to islamists. One has to go after those who give cover to these radicals under guise of historicity and moral relativism.
I am making these arguments to show that “secular” paradigm itself can offer a lot of options, it also allows for conditioning and shap
ing morals. Gandhian /nehru/ congress bullshitery must end. Make a law that those who deny islamic bigotry in past or present will be arrested for giving cover to islamism. This should take care of left liberal loonies.
You can’t go around distinguishing between NS’ comments and Rushdie (as one prominent ‘constitutional law expert’ has done). If NS is in the wrong, then if anything Rushdie is far, far worse. She spoke off the cuff. He sat down and typed out a 500+ page novel (and all the drafts and redrafts that go with it).
So the solution is simple. More speech for everyone and no blasphemy laws. But it won’t happen. The BJP has a vested interest in prodding muslim sensibilities and brain dead left-libs think they are being ‘good allies’ by pandering to the most regressive spokesman for muslims.
The number of liberals defending rioting over mere words is startling. It is hard to believe that this is the straw that broke the camel’s back, especially since muslims have been at the forefront of several major protests (many jusitifed) since 2014. More and more fence sitters and moderates are looking at the public calls for “_sar tan se juda_” and will decide they like the idea of their head being attached to the neck.
If India ends up with a blasphemy law after this it will be in large part thanks to the insistence of liberals and it won’t end well for anyone, least of all muslims. Yes it is true that Nupur Sharma was being uncouth. But if one should expect a comment about the Prophet and a factual statement (if indeed the Hadith is considered to be a serious source for muslims) to invite riots then it is equally true that a thug like Yogi Adithyanath will roll out his bulldozers. After all, it is the liberals who keep telling us that Yogi is an irredeemable fascist.
We shouldn’t give a shit about being called fascists. They are giving cover to islamists by guilt tripping us. We are here to preserve our freedoms, do not call them liberals, call them islam apologists.
We are not interested in winning arguments while losing our every day freedoms.
I just saw video of woman who lost her son say she is proud as he fought for islam. Take their children away. No islamist should be allowed to bring up children in hate. State should stop children being radicalised.
Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
Mother, mother
There’s too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There’s far too many of you dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M
Conflicts throw light on the ability of ideas to serve society – so to speak, they provide a sieve that separates the chaff from the wheat – human agency is given a chance to prove its utility.
I have been scouring the media for evidence of counter-organization to the ongoing fracas. One of the news items that caught my eye –
https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/aligarh-city-jat-association-runs-a-campaign-in-support-of-nupur-sharma-22798144.html
Not one of the ideas inspired by the West – Arya Samaj, Liberals, caste abolitionists, democracy-pluggers, constitutional fundamentalists – have done anything on the ground other than to provide endless commentary. Including our own in-house Brown Pundits ICM fanatic 🙂
In the end, it is a humble jati organization in a small town that is mobilizing people and forming the bulwark to pan-Islam belligerents.
For reasons like these, I remain ambiguous on jati. Jati is dead, May Jati live long!!
My whole point has been about asabiya, jati does offer some asabiya, but it often works against larger H interest, many of these vote with mamta, dmk, lalu, mulayam, congress. One needs autonomy over schools/ temples to build asabiya along with freedom of speech. Yeah, there is nothing much I can do on the ground. Thats true. I can talk and donate to whom I think can do more, maybe participate in a rally etc if its close by.
In anycase, the answer is to weaken isalmic “asabiya”. inculcate it with secular ideals and fair critique of their faith. And strengthen H asabiya. ICM is to help build that larger block but it also requires fos and own institutions at at local level including temples, schools, services, ngos. And I take being called ICM fanatic with pride.
@phyecho1
Appreciate your candor and honesty. But this is about a larger point.
Someone on Indian Twitter mentioned that this is Modern India’s “Draupadi Moment” – all the nobles and elites and their ideologies are standing around while a woman is bereft in her moment of vulnerability.
Even Hindutva has strands of jati-opposition built into its psyche from its founders (Savarkar, Deen Dayal etc). What escapes the attention of every Indian ideology (whether imported or homegrown) is the prana (life-force) that animates the institution of Jati.
Ancient Indians (and medieval) were not irrational beings – jati served some fundamental need that is now shaded to us due to the mediation of the modern industrial society. But from time to time that need reveals itself to us brilliantly in short bursts.
Taleb remarked , purely from a fat-tail perspective, “….anything that has survived for millennia will surely flourish for another few….”
Yeah taleb said a lot of smart things, but mostly in bringing out rationale for ideas many have held for empirical evidence but never thought out the reasons and brought about concepts from markets to real world. I had a ” skin in the game” view long before taleb, did not call it as such. Lindy is until it isnt. Think about horses in wars. Does not work anymore. As to draupadi, its not the ordinary people, its the people in the sabha. The elites with power looking out. Ordinary people can only do things where they are capable of having long standing (weekly) organizations. Everything comes down to local asabiya. Or you are dependent on the major organisations, bjp/ rss are beneficiary of H helplessness as a consequence of our autonomy/ asabiya gutted down by congress/brits.
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What has happened in general is that the idea of empathy ate out the idea of fairness among the left. empathy left ate out fairness left. So it has become unhinged. I call this empathy hacking or pathological empathy. or tribal empathy. empathy looks for hierarchy of who is the most ” vulnerable” to fit their criteria to support. Paul bloom wrote an article on how empathy makes people tribal. In trying to stand against the majority, these people empathized with the “minority” to the point that they became tribal like surrogate mothers protecting their wards even when they do wrong. And they invested so much, they cant admit that the rightwing, ambedkar, savarkar were right to question islam. They dont have the intellectual honesty to admit they were wrong. They invested their entire prestige and careers on this. This is turning out like marxist economics. They got it wrong but cant admit it either. But they still have benefactors in west, because the percentage population in west is still small, no skin in the game. They will support fashionable ideas in India to hurt India’s credibility, it leads to division , its good as it weakens India. Keeps India on the leash and stops us also from escaping western orbit like china did. And they cant do it without fifth columnists.
i guess the beginning of the end to Iran being marginalized by US and Western sanctions. The underdogs are revolting.
Forty-one tons of wood laminate sheeting is on its way from Russia to India. The cargo isn’t newsworthy, but the fact that it’s traveling through Iran absolutely is—potentially marking the opening of a significant new trade corridor that strengthens Iran’s relationship with India…with big geopolitical implications.
IRNA portrayed the pilot as a partial realization of the long-brewing International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). That 22-year old initiative aspires to link the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf via Iran—connecting major ports and dramatically reducing transit times compared to alternative routes through the Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/test-russia-iran-india-trade-route-highlights-shifting-geopolitics
I’ve grown skeptical of overblown claims predicting the end of the US Empire and its reach. Russia is still co-operating in Syria with the US by allowing Israel a free hand to bomb civilian Syrian infrastructure, the airport being Israel’s latest target.
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve read breathless articles on the Iran-India port of Chabahar. Every year we keep hearing about new “breakthroughs” and yet every year not much changes.
Fact of the matter is that India has become much more submissive to US diktat over the past decade despite becoming a bigger economy. The trendline is really bad. Even on this blog, lots of people are scared of the US empire and keep making excuses for India increasingly being its bitch.
Yes, there is a slight improvement lately but the longterm trend is bad. Iran is weak and Russia isn’t going to return to USSR glory. Even assuming Russia wins in Ukraine, it will inherit a bombed out country with millions of emigrants in their best years having fled to the West. I was more bullish about China before they trapped themselves in permanent “zero Covid” nonsense.
IMO, the decline of the West is greatly exaggerated. It’s still by far the most powerful grouping, for better or worse, and will remain so.
I guess the US realizes it needs Russian stuff to stop inflation.
Not quite sanctions JUST FOR the US. That means others buy Russian stuff thru the US.
US Treasury allows energy transactions with sanctioned Russian banks. Transactions will be allowed with Vnesheconombank, Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, and the Central Bank of Russiatransactions will be allowed with Vnesheconombank, Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, and the Central Bank of
“For the purposes of this general license, the term ‘related to energy’ means the extraction, production, refinement, liquefaction, gasification, regasification, conversion, enrichment, fabrication, transport, or purchase of petroleum,” the statement reads.
This includes crude oil, lease condensates, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, petroleum products, natural gas, or other products capable of producing energy, it states.
Also included in this category is coal, wood, or agricultural products used to manufacture biofuels, or uranium in any form, as well as the development, production, generation, transmission, or exchange of power, through any means, including nuclear, thermal, and renewable energy sources.
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/russia_gl8c.pdf
The decline of the West, is just like decline of China. Both sides keep on predicating decline of each other, while neither side really ‘declining’.
But is India really “growing” enough
India won’t grow above 6-7 percent because it’s a democracy. All rich countries became rich before becoming democratic.
In Subcontinent, Pakistan economy grew much greater when it was under a dictatorship. Currently the best performing economy in the subcontinent is Bangladesh which for all practical purpose a one party state.
This is correct. What many people fail to account is that the West increasingly acts like one political unit. Most of the military policy is already decided at the NATO level. The EU has united the economies of Europe and the Ukrainian war has proved that the European leaders are willing to committ economic suicide for Atlanticism. And this is an Atlantic hegemony rather than an American one. There is no conceivable scenario where an American president could pull American soliders out of Germany and withdraw from NATO. Any so inclined president would also be powerless against Atlanticism. The militaries, diplomatic corps, intelligence agencies, businesses, entertainment and media of US, UK, France, Germany and other Western powers are all more loyal to each other than the countries they claim to represent. More people should study the West as one empire rather than a collection of different but allied countries.
@HJ
I agree with most of what you say, except one thing. America is the most powerful unit and “Atlanticism” is often a smokescreen for US imperial objectives. Like any empire, the US has to negotiate to some extent with its subjects but at the end of the day, they call the shots.
The reason why no US president can pull troops out of NATO is because the US deep state understands that a Europe dependent on US security guarantees is an enfeebled Europe and thus in America’s interest.
Trump’s nonsense about “them taking advantage of us” or “they are freeriders” is laughable to the US elite precisely because they know the real score.
I disagree. National loyalties don’t exist among the Western ruling class. For the average American diplomat, a rural white Evangelical is just as much an enemy(if not more so) as a Russian. Similarly, you will find British, French, German etc. equivalents in their respective countries. These people don’t care about American or British interests. They only care about the “Western, liberal, democratic” interests and this ideology has enemies both outside and inside their respective states. However, they will still use the national identies(Not supporting Ukraine is Anti-American!!) because thats the only way to get the peasants(rural whites) to fight in their militaries. Cleetus is not gonna die for gay parades in Moscow you know.
The West = America. European hegemony over the world has now ended, these things don’t happen over 5-10 years, civilizations decline over 50-200 years.Without US, there is no west. EU does not have a formidable army, most of its countries are over 40 median age, and most of its men of fighting age are immigrants or refugees. It does not have the capability to project power to secure vital energy resources and is fully dependent on Russia and OPEC. This is unlikely to change. So 400 years of European hegemony over the world is now over.
As for US, US is declining relatively to other world powers, but it will remain a superpower well until the start of the 22nd century, mostly because of its favorable demographics & geography and wealth of the natural resources on the North American continent. However internationally it won’t have the same sway as it once did before. Balance of power is shifting towards Asia, slowly but surely, like it always was for thousands of years.
Doubt power will ever shift to Asia.
Even before the 400 years of West domination, it was mostly western powers (Greek and Italians) who moved East, rather than the other way round. The West is still united, and East will remain divided. And just one power (China), cannot move the power balance towards Asia.
I hope religion becomes smaller deal in S Asia and it can merge into one nation or at least one large market.
Interesting article from a brown sepoy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/14/india-china-policy-ladakh-border-clash-quad-modi/
Interesting thread on the contrast between German and Soviet/allied attitudes to tank production. Troubling parallels with German army brass ever changing requirements and excessive focus on having the best with our own army and Air Force guys. In contrast the Soviets focused on producing large number of few models. More importantly the Soviets adapted their strategies and tactics to what they could produce in bulk.
https://twitter.com/witte_sergei/status/1536808901357625344
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61805848
-People in Pakistan urged to drink fewer cups of tea.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-13/energy-prices-in-europe-are-creating-power-outages-in-pakistan
Things seem to be getting more precarious in Pakistan. Another round of fuel price increases might be coming soon to please the IMF masters. I believe Imran Khan is going to use this crisis to launch massive protests.
More Pakistani drama. Huge power cuts are now occurring because Pakistan cannot pay Chinese power producers who built power plants under CPEC.
I suspect Beijing is hardening its line after the new government is widely seen as a US puppet regime. In addition, a series of suicide attacks have targeted Chinese nationals. Beijing seems to be operating under the “there are no coincidences” maxim, and assume that ISI knowledge, if not involvement, was present in the planning of these attacks (perhaps as part of a deal with the US CIA as a pre-condition for rapprochement).
Regardless, if Pakistan cannot ensure the safety of Chinese nationals in Pakistan and if their new govt is widely seen as being a puppet regime of Washington, why would Beijing be generous? Quid pro quo is the basis of all relationships. And so they aren’t willing to forget the debts owed but have simply shut off power in these plants until Pakistan finds the money. Problem is, Pakistan is broke.
Meanwhile, the IMF is pressuring Pakistan to re-negotiate these deals with Beijing as a pre-condition for bailout money. Pakistan, which was supposed to be deft and play two sides against each other to maximise advantage for itself, has haphazardly ended up between a rock and a hard place, squeezed by both but helped by neither.
A central problem here is the weakness of the Ummah. All the major power centers in the world are non-moslem (West, Russia/China). The only one with any potential to challenge is a Hindu nation. For a moslem country, this means playing nice to people who are either indifferent to your plight or perhaps even hostile.
modi’s communication has failed big time. bihari youths are against short term army recruitment (agnipath). the bihar c m , the ever chameleon nitish has not generated any jobs. not sure how yogi is managing on the job front.
lesser population and more privatisation is the only key as done in south and western india.
as some one pointed earlier, arts eduction ( b a, m a) needs to be discouraged in north india on a massive scale.
It’s not clear what is anyone protesting against??
What will happen if Modi Govt mandates conscription for all youths aged 18 and above? That’s essentially forced labour for subsistence wages without pension. Israel does it!
I see the whole of North India essentially as one large rent seeking mosaic of communities who keep depending on government doles (MSP prices, army pensions, caste reservations etc.)
The funniest thing is people celebrate such retards, Gandhi is on the bank note, people still sing praises of JP.
Reservation agitations are being done by well off folks like Jats, and Patidars.
Isn’t TN’s OBC+SC population 97% of the total. Basically they made everyone OBC, so no one is left to agitate for ‘caste reservation’ there.
‘Isn’t TN’s OBC+SC population 97% of the total. Basically they made everyone OBC, so no one is left to agitate for ‘caste reservation’ there.’
As i said, contrary to other ethnicities, Hindus in Dravida-land appear as Sundar Pichai on the internet while talking about other states, and Chuchundar in their home state.
I have seen this constant shitting on TN reservation being 97% among RW circles. You would think every household in TN is on the dole. But TN has a very good mix of private sector manufacturing + IT and even decent HDI. Overall TN contributes financially more than it gets back. Might be worth checking what makes it work?
Quotas might be having the effect that parties don’t have a low hanging fruit of promising reservations to every protesting group. It is a social compact that all “spoils” are going to be distributed as per each group’s numbers.
One of the reasons why UP/Bihar have not industrialized is that the landed elites (Bhumihar + Yadav) have not faced any real pressure to diversify away from agriculture. They force landless to migrate away to low paying jobs. The tiny employable slice also prefers to also migrate away to better climes/opportunities in private sector. The remaining detritus is like KK and his ilk who populate numerous but useless JNU *Studies departments.
There is a limit to how much rest of country can absorb the costs emanating from this dysfunctional. My fear is that we might find out this limit sooner rather than later.
“I have seen this constant shitting on TN reservation”
I was responding to Ugra spewing BS.
Ugra mentioned ‘caste reservations’ so I mentioned it. I do not defend the indefensible i.e. the poor governance and piss poor quality people of my home state UP and even more Bihar.
Ugra also mentioned ‘MSP prices’ the agitation for which was fiercest from Jats of Punjab-Haryana. Haryana gets less bang for buck on Central taxes than TN or any other Madraasi state, Punjab not far behind.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kerala/comments/etm07c/how_much_does_a_state_get_from_the_centre_for/
Ugra also quipped ‘army pensions’. Save Telangana all Madraasi states send more Army jawans per capita than Bihar, roughly similar to UP too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/roug4n/how_many_people_from_each_state_have_been/
You would never see a Gujjus or Marathi or Haryanavi bitching like Tamils about this ‘burden’.
When your movie stars act as politicians, and drill in this whole ‘we are better than Hindians’ or ‘we would be Switzerland, had not it been for these Biharis’ , and the population lap up like mana, then whole thing starts looking like a burden.
there are many categories in obc reservation. in krnataka, the new struggles are to go to a lower caste clasiffication by the relatively placed upper castes. like a 3c category group asking for a 2a category as the compitation is less there.
@Bhimrao,
My comment was not specifically directed to you but RW in general. I admit you are generally fair and balanced about the short-comings about UP/Bihar.
HR recently passed 75% for locals reservation, MH has whole MNS and SS agitation against “Bhaiyyas”.
Again I want all regions and IN in general to prosper 🙂
Save Telangana all Madraasi states send more Army jawans per capita than Bihar, roughly similar to UP too.
Interesting info, usually you Bimarus just beat your chests over how your states are the “muscle” of India.
i feel that the riots in secundrabad today is to makeup for the lost opportunity missed last friday.
surprisingly, major catchment areas for army recruitment such as punjab, haryana, western u p, uttarakand, even maharastra, karnataka and tamilnadu had very less riots.
something fishy??!!
There is no way to sugar coat any reform. Just like the farmers could see through the farm reforms, similarly army aspirants can see thru this army ‘reforms’.
The better way to cut down army expenses ( and pensions), is to gradually lower recruitment, or push the army to cut down on imported military hardware. I guess since either of them is not feasible the army high command must have grudgingly accepted Agni path
“Army aspirant”, “UPSC aspirant” – all of these are the fruits of the legacy of Jaiprakash Narayan and his followers (Mulayam, Lalu) – a deindustrialised region with absolutely no other means of employment other than Govt service.
JP actually studied at Berkeley, Iowa and Wisconsin!! Brought back the message of Karl Marx to UP/Bihar. A tragi-comedy of massive proportions.
Truly UP/Bihar is a fit case for Peter Turchin’s elite overproduction.
You say as if Bihar and UP were some sort Ruhr belt before 47, which got deindustrialized.
Plus JP had no impact on the economies of UP/Bihar. The followers of Marx are the folks who elect Marxists to parliament. Bongo-land, Mallu-land and Dravida-land
“The followers of Marx are the folks who elect Marxists to parliament. ”
New definition of Marxism drops!!
Laloo and Mulayam were straight through practitioners of Lohia and JP’s philosophies – which at its core – called for total societal revolution (Marxist prescription). At its core they wanted to capture power from existing societal elites.
Lohia and JP were upper caste men having access to foreign education (JP in the US, Lohia in Germany) and dabbled in abstract modern philosophies without any practical knowledge of electoral craft.
Mulayam and Lalu were street smart and applied their leaders’ thought in typical efficient fashion to electoral dynamics – in the Gangetic case – tribalism was jati & religion.
JP and Lohia provided the grand ideas as seeds, Mulayam and Lalu executed them to perfection. Alas, in the original universe of JP & Lohia (both soft Gandhians as well, in addition to soft Marxism), industrialisation had no role to play.
The decades of 90s and 2000s, when the rest of India was industrializing and urbanizing, Lalu and Mulayam were content with tinkering inter-jati dynamics to remain in power.
If socialism can be defined as the – apotheosis of total societal control via tribal levers, reduction of innovation to zero-sum games between communities and the elevation of government to an omniscient employment provider – then UP and Bihar are perfect socialist paradises (sarcasm).
If UP/Bihar achieved at least high HDI numbers like Kerala, there could be grudging admiration for the method in the madness. But there is nothing, literally nothing to show for the last 40 years from JP/Lohia-ite movements.
I have said again and again, Gangetic folks don’t know how to construct empires any more. Or identify neo-Marxism correctly! Still a long long way to go!
“to cut down on imported military hardware”
What?
Lakh dukhon ki ek dawa hai: give me more money.
https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/indian-air-force-114-fighter-aircraft/
This nautanki has gone on for 25 years now.
25 years!!! 36 planes bought so far.
Be grateful even 36 planes were bought. Considering the whole Rafael fiasco, i believe u would wait another 25 years, to buy the next lot.
Solution to army reforms
https://twitter.com/Me_Predictor/status/1537448160167337984
‘Solution is to get American security cover I guess. And believe it or not, I would actually be in favor of that if its on offer
NATO article 5 like protection in return for participating in American wars and for American non interference in political affairs is a good deal’
for American non interference in political affairs is a good deal
Whores should never expect their demands to be respected,
Good old read
https://www.dawn.com/news/1128845
Goes back to steppe: aasi. Look at answers on quora for biggest example of it. Trads and Biradri ethnosupremacist trolls running wild
Very poignant:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BODxQRVvtUI
Selective application of the law to punish protesters is a big red line.
Right wing ppl should keep in mind this sort of bulldozer demolition was also used against bjp supporter kangana ranaut.
Basically if you promote lawlessness only a matter of time before it is used against you.
https://www.ft.com/content/86752d68-8039-47c6-875a-559aca88b47c
The edwardluce Crap asks democrats to go to the people. But here, he says the opposite. american commentators/ western commentators in their own country speak one way, in others, speak the other way.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ndtv.com/india-news/nepali-not-indian-language-remark-triggers-outrage-ngo-apologises-3073877/amp/1
“More Hindu”
In general, Nepalis don’t like to be associated with India. I call it the litte brother syndrome. Similar to Canada vs USA, Scotland vs England, New Zealand vs Australia.
According to wikipedia about 10% of nepali speakers or 2 million ppl live in India.
And it is an official language in West Bengal and Sikkim.
And the contest seems to be in West Bengal, so this NGO person was being disingenuous to deny participation from Indian Gorkhas.
Classic divide and rule attempt
Gurkhas among most loyal
H have spent good part of 2000 yrs breaking themselves into tribes. Tribal mentality is the bane of all these issues. Every reforms goes against one or the other community because they see it exactly as that. Most of Indian reforms would have happened because there would be no visible group to become envious of.
Envy / jealousy is the root of the problem. H’s should forget this century to lead, this century should be about fusing the divisions within. We shall automatically rise in next one. I cant think of any other place where smart people write endless articles, twitter threads and stupidly say this is about “diversity”. what morons. “uc, brhms” want to take pride in their lineage, look down on others , dont want to intermix and when envy leads to witch hunt, start complaining. Envy cannot be got rid off. You can just keep people under the illusion that if they work hard, they too can succeed, but in order for this to succeed, there should not be visible differences.
West advanced because they took care of this “WEIRDest people in the world”.China dealt with Iron hand. India allowed envy to drive its politics through democracy. Ugra talks positively of “jati” in one context, in all other ways it hurts, he stays silent. Bihar allowed jatiraj to take over. It led to all smart people and pvt capital to run away, now it is a deadland where no one wants to come invest into anything productive. Depend on govt doles.
“modi’s communication has failed big time” . By far the funniest encapsulation of H mindset. a bronze age religion, built on tribalism of the period, cant get its head around to the concept of STATE/Governance/Judgement. All H’s, liberal or other wise suffer this disease. They think , its about “arguments, debates, samvaad”. They look at the west and think this to be default reason.
Nonsense, first comes trust, first comes diminishing the opportunity for envy to rise. I keep saying this many times. There is a physics of society. There is a psychological matrix , psychological states, at the level of individual and in larger groups. It is these things that really make the human world work as it is. capitalism won compared to socialism because incentives offered to individuals was psychologically a better suit to human beings. As E O wilson put it about marxism. “Good ideology. Wrong species.
There is a causality to human affairs, there is a psychological consequence as a consequence of belief and social systems people live under. These psychological forces add up leading to obstacles to reforms or help in furthering them. Islam also offers a certain psychological consequence, its effects also are clear. The threats offered, international incident of one person quoting something, thank goodness its happening now in modern world with everyone to know and yet it will be forgotten, and we shall be deluded into thinking its about colonialism, minority abuse etc. There is an opportunity cost to beliefs you have. Opportunity cost to social order you support.
Modi is one man, whose speeches wont change peoples sense of economic opportunity or sense of envy. The idea that Modi, the most popular lead in over 30 yrs, who won 2 majorities in Diverse country like India, that his communication is a problem. Laughable, time to see that problems lie elsewhere . My complain against modi is not on communication, it is about choices . unemployment has been up since 2014, that news has been buried . Most anti modi channels also never talk about it( zero content on actual matters). Manufacturing % as part of gdp is also down, from 16% to 12 % under modi tenure.
consider the idiot https://twitter.com/PankajSaxena84/status/1534386071991353345
“1. Is Lack of Unity our Problem? Is intermarriage a solution?
Political Hindus offering inter-caste marriage as only nirvāna to all Hindu problems suffer from amnesia of history and religion. Their diagnosis of an ‘un-united Hindu society’ as the source of our defeat is wrong.”
13. The problem of Hindus is not thus a ‘lack of unity’. Our problem is that we don’t have a well developed Ṣatrubodha. We are too nice. We don’t hate enough. We have a blurred idea of the ‘other’, the ‘mlechha’. And thus we have a blurred idea of the self. That’s why we lose.”
15. The ‘solution’ proposed by the political Hindus to solve the ‘lack of unity’ of Hindu society is more dangerous than the problem. They want everyone to necessarily ‘intermarry’. Regardless of how this will be achieved, it is a very evil and doomsday idea.
16. Idea behind this intermarriage proposal is this: a desire for a completely homogeneous society which has no diversity of life, customs, practices & thoughts. It desires a world so completely devoid of any differences that all art, literature, music and science have to die.
17. This lifeless leveling of society, this inhuman egalitarianism that is desired thus is inevitable when a completely frictionless society is imagined. All art, literature, music and science comes from our fundamental nature to create something different and new.
18. All artistic impulse is an impulse to be different. A completely homogeneous society is a completely artless and scienceless society. It is human nature to differ, to create identity and then be territorial about it.
19. This territoriality cannot be limited to a huge national or supra-national identity. We are biologically not wired to think in such big numbers. We can make sense of small groups like a tribe of a few hundred people. Bigger than that our minds are incapable of comprehending.
20. That is why the first para-individual identity that we create for territorial sake is the family with just tens of members; then the joint family; then the clan, jati, varna, desha and at the top only and always dharma.
21. We can make sense of bigger units like a nation or a desha, but only when it is parceled into smaller packets which keep repeating this order until the order of family which is biologically and intuitively graspable to all individuals.
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This is the reality,
@swati_gs gives empirical ground reality.
True. Lazy analysts reduce the definition of ‘jaatiwaad’ to ‘discrimination’, arguing that one can have pride in own jaati and not discriminate against other jaatis and problem is solved.
Actually, it doesn’t work that way. Let me try explaining… https://twitter.com/harshmadhusudan/status/1288938779059744769
The way jaatiwaad manifests itself is that for most Indians today, their jaati is their social-political identity, indeed their key identity. They may not actively look down upon other jaatis but still have little to do with them in terms of social interaction and relationships +
Result – only Pasis protest when a Pasi girl is gangraped-videographed by Adil & gang. Let alone Brahmins, even Valmikis or Jaatavs (fellow dalits) don’t join. When a Dhruv Tyagi is murdered by Alam & gang, Tyagis from Delhi & UP hold a Tyagi mahasabha to decide way forward + When a Khyala family is killed by Azad, Kandera Rajputs hold protest and raise fund
What ‘right-wing’ on Twitter call ‘Muslim on Hindu’ attack manifests as ‘Muslim on Pasi/Nishad/Tyagi’ attack on ground. Dalit groups try in vain to bring hundreds of assorted castes under one +
dalit’ label even as they refuse even ‘roti-beti sambandh’ among themselves. Jaatiwaad essentially manifests in the mind-boggling compartmentalisation of our society.
Ground reality shows that this compartmentalisation means that at any given point, the Hindu society is only +as strong as the strongest jaati.
Unless Hindus’ sense of identity goes beyond jaati, jaatiwaad remains
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If I had power, that person would be in jail and never see the light of the day again. Jail for all those who give flowery justification of jati. Jail for all those who give cover to islamist bigotry of past or deny it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deccanherald.com/amp/international/world-news-politics/china-once-again-shields-terrorist-based-in-pakistan-from-unsc-sanctions-1118900.html
Some things never change
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tonight-turn-chinese-phd-student-192921862.htm
Envious thugs. Hopefully caught and fully prosecuted. E Asians and S Asians being targeted for success and because seen as soft for smaller average stature. Very sad
https://www.yahoo.com/news/applied-green-cards-9-years-130048291.html
Minors aging out of green card. Sad
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/before-pakistan-gets-off-grey-list-faft-says-it-will-have-to-pass-onsite-test-101655484748220-amp.html
Great work Sharif!
https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-pakistan-shocker-two-hindu-teenage-sisters-raped-at-gunpoint-in-punjab-province-2961201
More Rape Jihad
uc, brhms” want to take pride in their lineage, look down on others , dont want to intermix and when envy leads to witch hunt, start complaining
Everyone and their mother on earth practices endogamy to secure wealth&status. WASP marry amongst themselves and no one calls them out on it. There’s a solution for this envy problem, Dalits,OBCs&SCs should read up on Advaita Vedanta instead of Marxism and they won’t be bitter anymore.
West advanced because they took care of this
They never got rid of it, the Woke idpol racket is quite the envy driven cancer. The Europeans also used Ethno-Nationalism to unite their Nations, we can’t do that. Hindi as National Language was Congress’s scatterbrained attempt at mimicking European Nationalism and we both know how that ended up.
Unless Hindus’ sense of identity goes beyond jaati, jaatiwaad remains
It is what it is. You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Islam and Christianity also have factions though they have stronger asabiya and stronger definitions of in-group and out-group. It will be good to learn some ways on how these factions are managed by them.
One broad theme in those cultures is that factional frictions are papered over by the lucre of conquest (ideological/economic/physical). Sadly but quite unsurprisingly that option is never on our menu. Instead we get endless debates maya/illusion, vishwaguru or to get rich first. To get rich, you need to go capture new markets and resource sources. That will trigger people to upskill themselves by literally “learning by doing”.
“Everyone and their mother on earth practices endogamy to secure wealth&status.”
If you heard about The Book WEIRDest people in the world, you will realize catholic church forced inter marriage leading to less over time. The question is of %age and its consequences on psychology.
Sure, you go to war with the army you have, but if the army is envious of each other and internally fight, its a losing one. Only 75 yrs since independence and already many are becoming willing fifth column for west and the rest. What drives them is envy, the envy is now reaching out all the way to west as well. As to ” reading advaita”, again laughable. Material differences and kinship differences cannot be papered over simply by doing bhajan.
Modern types are not using marxism at all. The answer is simple, incentives , both political and quota for ICM. And hierarchy of ICM getting a quota compared to someone who is not. Once one gets to 25% to 40%, all this will end.
Has the WEIRDest hypothesis pertaining to change in the catholic period been tested with samples from the time? If it isn’t upheld with clear change in frequency of gene variables associated with those proposed social changes then it won’t amount to more than a nice (bed time) story. If the test is yet to be done then it’s still a valid hypothesis but not necessarily a grounded fact.
Would be interesting to investigate. But that’s a rather new standard. Before, genomics, all we had was the type of circumstantial evidence presented like WEIRDest hypothesis. Definitely worth looking into.
But far more has been concluded, historically speaking, about human patterns of behavior, without such genomic hard evidence, than what WEIRDest proposes. Nonetheless, I think if there are concrete means to test such a hypothesis in objective terms, such as the type of genetic study you are suggesting, I am all for it. Makes sense to move up evidentiary goal posts, as tech improves. But we should do that with all hypotheses (I know you never said not to do this but just speaking generally). This is being done with stuff like the Black Death study Razib just tweeted about.
There are already works making those comparison within existing populations. I have of stuff like than being done among modern Britons. Though it is controversial because of the results, one of the authors even talked to Razib, Abdel Abdellaoui is his name.
This kind of research being extended to medieval and pre-medieval graves can help establish if those Church practices really had an impact. I saw this being suggested in the gnxp comment section over a year ago.
Primary answer to India’s problem. 50 yrs of social engineering. Then resources can be spent as it is spent in all other countries. In a rational manner.
Interesting article on the need for industrial capacity to sustain ammo usage in RUS-UKR conflict. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare
I hope Modi has not completely drunk kool-aid about efficiency from our copy-cat bean counters.
Surprised that BP is not discussing David Reich’s latest talk!
Steppes is not the Urheimat, only a secondary staging area. He is moving his focus to Anatolia/Armenia.
kindly give the link.
People have been floating Anatolia/Armenia > steppe for a while. Unless they’ve found some amazing new evidence, I don’t see what the big deal is.
Current genetic data makes it plausible but unlikely. IE y-chromosomes come from the European side of the unique steppe mix, indicating the European side was culturally dominant. Ergo, the language probably came from the European side. And the linguistic data doesn’t lend any support to Anatolia/Armenia over the steppe hypothesis either.
@Bhimrao
This topic should interest you.
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare
The West is finally realising what a land war with a continental power means. Fattened by easy wins over small opponents in the past 3 decades, they started thinking that drones, precision weapons and information warfare can turn a fight.
The large consignment of drones, anti-tank missiles and others from NATO total less than 10k pieces. Artillery and shells maybe 50k.
Russian forces are firing an estimated 7k shells into the front ……every single day.
This is basically WW2 and everyday is demolition day.
@Ugra
Russians are Russians. They will insist that their initial cost function is non-convex while the west cleverly bogs them down in the minutiae. Russians will say we got land, Americans will mock them for recovering 1% of what they lost in 90s.
My 6/6 hindsight : Strategically, Russia has completely lost this war against the west, even though it is winning against Ukraine. They have not captured much territory since early April. This is not superpower tier progress, more like India-tier progress.
Ukrainians will hold the line, as they did in Donetsk and Luhansk.
I think its even worse than India-tier progress. By this time India would have either won the war or lost it decisively.
Don’t you think at best it would be a stalemate like 65 or 71 (western sector). Something like this:
1) IAF loses twice as many aircrafts. Indian Air Chief makes silly excuses.
2) PN does not show up to fight and loses 25% ships in harbor.
3) India ‘takes’ 3000 sqmile of inconsequential desert land without a fight, Pakistan takes 500 sqmile of the same similarly.
4) Fake gallantry awards and citations galore.
5) Both Armies (lol) will get ‘betrayed’ by politicians at the negotiation table.
Against China same shit as 62:
100 sqkm lost. IA ‘backstabbed’ by the Chinese. Excuses excuses excuses …
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@Bhimrao
A lot of people are blackpilled about Russia’s vulnerability and “battle slowness”. The strategic picture is quite evident – Ukraine is now landlocked (slow asphyxiation), having lost its access to the Black sea and the Mediterranean. Russia makes more oil revenues than it ever did in its history.
I wonder what your expectation is of a “win” in 125 days. No modern war has ever lasted just 125 days – not even US-Afghan or even Coalition-Iraq!!
In case you didn’t know already – the Eastern regions of Ukraine where Russia has captured the areas which are the EU’s biggest ore zones of lithium, gallium and titanium.
https://www.icog.es/TyT/index.php/2022/05/the-mineral-resources-of-ukraine/
The comparison with India’s border wars is off the mark. The mineral hoard alone is worth an extractable 500 b USD over 20 years.
I dont think it will be stalemate. In terms of war itself, Ukraine will come to the table and Russia will extract concessions and land.
I used to also think the same way u do, that strategically Russia lost the war. But the more time passes, and the more i see other European countries just waiting on the wings for the war to end, so that normal supply (of gas and oil) resume, don’t see what Russians have lost, long term.
@Saurav
“I don’t think it will be stalemate. In terms of war itself, Ukraine will come to the table and Russia will extract concessions and land.”
Russia will beat Ukraine and carve meat.
But Russia has lost to the west i.e., if a half-hearted western operation can bog Russia down. Imagine what the real armies of UK+France can bring to bear. The US can’t even be considered on the same tier.
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“But the more time passes, and the more i see other European countries just waiting on the wings for the war to end, so that normal supply (of gas and oil) resume, don’t see what Russians have lost, long term.”
Europeans are good at feigning. They will massage Russian egos enough to get what they want, but then fuck Russians in providing things Russians need. Everyone from India, China, Europe, Lat-Am, Africa is actually fine with Russia taking over Ukrainian territory. Everybody except the global-chaudhari Anglo-sphere that has it’s reputation at stake.
As a commodity exporter not much harm can be done. Commodities are the real $$$. Long term loses will be huge to Russian tech and services industry. Who will build autonomous cars in Russia, who will lease them airplanes, service jobs will be lost … economy will stagnate, people and companies will fall behind others in the world.
What is China but India 15-20 years into the future?
Time is Vishnu himself.
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‘Long term loses will be huge to Russian tech and services industry. Who will build autonomous cars in Russia, who will lease them airplanes, service jobs will be lost’
That’s what i thought as well. But i think once enough time has passed (1~3 years), Corporations will again go back to Russia and their tech industry will also recover. Considering that outside of the anglo-world, but mostly China and India are waiting for war to end, to resume normal diplomatic relations.
In a world where even Taliban will be rehabilitated one way or the other, its too much to think that Russia will really suffer long term consequences.
Bhai Ukraine still has Odesa. From how things are going I do not think it will fall in any reasonable amount of time (say 1 million.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pakistan/comments/vf77xb/kalam_effect_pakistan_crisis_and_the_problem_of/
Lol “same people” and “common DNA” comments on this thread. Funny, when it is about economic and intellectual potential, then it is about touting similarities.
Otherwise, it is posts about Indians being “subhuman different species.”
Good stuff
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14.”
If people want to pedantic, then pedophile is inaccurate. |We can go with hebephilie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu6C2KL_S9o
Good joke about it ^
While he deserves full punishment, peace be upon R kelly.
Russia is making money because Biden is fucking with MBS. America is losing the mandate of heaven. MBS will win. I used to find American moralizing BS hilarious but this time they have stupidly actually put their money where their mouth is, Biden is not a smart man.
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“500 b USD over 20 years.”
India produces ~20 billion USD/year from non-fuel (or non-crude idk) mining.
Unless mineral prices increase dramatically. This is too high.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1114898/leading-mining-countries-worldwide-based-mineral-production-value/
Plus this is not free money, much of it will be needed to rebuild and sustain the bombed out ex-Ukraine.
People are making up numbers from 500-900 million USD/day for Russian war effort. This war business is costly.
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Why are cruise missiles so expensive? No way a small jet powered plane should cost >1 million.
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Bhai Ukraine still has Odesa. From how things are going I do not think it will fall in any reasonable amount of time (say <6 months). Landings, or naval action are impossible.
Odessa is Karachi, but the Black Sea is not the Arabian Sea. The trade route is effectively closed. All arms and aid are now routed overland via Poland. Odessa good for only sunbathing and surfing.
A mass produced 90 hp petrol engine (average car) costs 5000 USD in the West. Now imagine a gas turbine that is throttle-able and having precise output – not less than 100K. Add the (lack) of economics of scale. Then compute for system qualification.
Mineral resources are the reason why the Soviet union settled so many Russians in Ukraine in the first place. It is also the reason why Russia had no objection to Latvia or Lithuania joining NATO, inspite of them being closer to Moscow. You are looking at the crown jewel of the Soviet Union.
Sometimes wars are totally rational to one camp. Which is more important than capability or money. The side that has clarity of purpose has “economy of thought”. It will spend less time justifying itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmLnG3eNIo
looking at coke studio tour concerts-
what has happened to bangladesh? where are the mullas? by the way, bangladesh looks more hip that our bangla.
https://twitter.com/nisheethsharan/status/1538031089574367232
sadhvi pragya talking to gangster threatening her life, no wonder, she won.
she is a thug / bully talking to another thug / bully.
sad state of affairs in india
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
LMFAO. Who is editing this page? It is at the level of leftist revisionism.
India has most the culture wars badly.
I recently I have been thinking perhaps Hindu Banias as a whole are descended from urban Sramana (jain / buddhist) urban elites who converted to Hinduism rather than Vaishias in vedic sense (who according to oldest sources are cattle pastoralists)
Here are my reasons, maybe someone (warlock, lurker etc) can poke holes…
1. Sramana (jain, buddhism) religions seem primarily followed by urban elite starting with the second urbanization and were never mass religions in rural areas that made up the bulk of population.
2. Many communities of Banias in Gujarat for eg. have documented recent conversions from Jainism to Vaishnava Hinduism (by Vallabhacharya).
3. Jainism in particular prohibits agriculture as an income source due to inherent “Hinsa” involved. And in a pre-industrial society that leaves limited occupational niches.
4. Relatively High AASI admix in North Indian Banias can be explained perhaps by greater intermingling in cosmopolitan urban centres and a more relaxed attitude towards caste among Sramans vs Brahminical Hindu elites.
They can’t be direct descendants of ancient Indian urban elite, can they? Cities were population sinks until the 20th century. Studies have also shown that there was mass migration to cities of Roman Empire from the Middle East but they left no genetic impact on modern Europeans. The only predominantly urban community that has survived for the last few thousand years are the Jews, I think. But even their urban population frequently died off and most modern Jews today are descended from the rural poor of Russia rather than the urban population of Western Europe/Mediterranean/Middle East.
I don’t see how cities having negative TFR overall means there can’t be any direct descendants.
Pretty sure some people from large urban population centre would have some descendants and those descendants would be disproportionately from well to do families with resources to have kids.
Jews went through massive persecution and a recent holocaust and still survived. Banias, I don’t think ever faced that level of animosity.
Speaking of Banias. An apparent BP reader gets into a discussion with Omar Ali over the recent crisis in Pakistan.
Claims that the reason why Pak fell behind India & Bangladesh is because Paks view themselves as a “martial race” and look down on what they view as effeminate and weak merchants. This economics thing is simply beneath warriors.
I’ve read that Pakistani elites held this “martial racial theory” during the 1971 war, which justified the rape and genocide, but does it really exist today? Seems like a far-fetched theory.
https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/5Bpn1tsVkywcxoNgbKkFCN/Pakistan-and-the-art-of-trading-castes.html
‘What would India be like without the mercantile castes? I can tell you. Like Pakistan. Four conditions trouble scholars of Pakistan: Military dominance of policy; an economy subservient to national honour; revisionism in Kashmir and an inability to come to terms with an enemy (India) it is unable to defeat; and the inability of society to internally resist religious bigotry.
Eighty per cent of Pakistan’s army is Punjabi. All the four conditions we observed are Punjab-specific. More Punjabis live in Pakistan than in India. However, in the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires, there are five Indians from the Indian side of undivided Punjab. Malvinder and Shivinder Mohan Singh of Fortis Healthcare, Sunil Mittal of Airtel, Savitri Jindal of Jindal Steel, Brijmohan Lall Munjal of Hero MotoCorp and Gautam Thapar of Avantha. There is no Punjabi from Pakistan. Why? Because the conversion of Hindus has been the conversion of castes, not individuals (for a moment, let us discard the myth Muslims feed themselves about their Arab/Persian/Central Asian origins). All these individuals are from trading communities, Baniya, Khatri and Arora.’
Jaguars owner Shahid Khan is Pakistani Punjabi I think.
But made his way in America not Pakistan.
Malik Riaz, Nawaz Sharif, Mian Mansha, etc are all billionaires. There are a bunch of others. For most of Pakistan’s history it was ahead of India economically despite getting the least developed fringes or India. So jury is still out on that. And lastly, the Indian mercantile castes are mostly a successful rent seeking class like most others. And to be frank there was no other way since in a pre capitalist society with no central state, you require militant means to expand and still get to keep all that wealth accumulated.. something that the mercantile castes lacked.
Atif Mian has argued that Pak elites are atypical in that they are uniquely unproductive in their rent-seeking. All elites do rent-seeking, but some also pick sectors that have beneficial spillovers, e.g. Korean elites tended to choose export-oriented sectors. The amount of corruption in the Chaebols is legendary, but it was a form of corruption that made the country richer as a byproduct.
By contrast, Pak elites tend to focus on unproductive real estate or sugar plantations which are behind huge tariff walls (and so not much external competition).
Second, I’m not sure if I buy the general idea that the military is the bogeyman in Pakistan. America has consistently spent more on its military than Europe yet can anyone say they’ve suffered economically for it? Israel, until recently, was another example of a highly militarised state.
If civilian leadership were to gain upper hand completely tomorrow in Pakistan, I suspect the same kind of elite pathologies would remain more or less unchanged.
If you look at India, there’s plenty of implied corruption with Adani and Ambani, but at least both are outward-looking (even if Australians are unhappy with Adani’s coalmine etc). Ambani ropes in Silicon Valley investors to his ventures. That kind of internationalisation is completely missing in Pakistan.
@principia
‘Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Wednesday that a Chinese consortium of banks and Pakistan had signed a $2.3 billion (15bn renminbi) loan facility agreement, with cash inflow expected within a “couple of days”.’
https://www.dawn.com/news/1696153/miftah-announces-23bn-loan-agreement-with-chinese-consortium-inflows-expected-within-days
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Told you so. Pakistan was not in trouble, it was their regular ‘haay-tauba, allah reham’ . IMF package expected soon too.
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All this ‘rent-seeking’, ‘implied corruption’ bits are exaggerations. In India there is no other way to do business, just try getting a domestic electric connection or a DL. Corruption pays for the democracy in India. How else would election campaigns be funded?
Banias, especially the Marwari ones, including the ones who were involved in private banking were respected by common folks. Bania hate and caricaturizing is a Punjabi Muslim creation borne of religious-racial hatred and popularized by Bollywood.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1539440716635688962
This country is a racist transphobic homophobic xenophobic ableist classist Islamophobic misogynistic dumpster fire.
As such, seeing the American flag makes me want to vomit.
-Saira Rao
https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1539706259045109760
‘Everyday I see woke Indians and feel like apologising to the world. Then I see the vast majority of them are US citizens & feel thankful to the US for taking them out of India. The US is Christ incarnate – it suffers the insufferable, so that we in India do not. Thank You America’
https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1539440716635688962
Sadly a very common view among young Indian American women in my experience. Not sure how much of this is their genuine opinion vs adopting the the worldview of liberal elite. However, IA’s must understand that its one thing for a White or Black person with centuries of history in this country to say they hate America and another for an IA whose parents came after Bill Clinton to say they hate America. A community that is wealthy, has an outsized influence in politics, but has low patriotism and zero history in the country will face inevitable backlash.
https://twitter.com/vajrayudha11/status/1539668876681744384
‘Actually one can trace the origins of the concepts such as untouchability to the Sangam literature. Even with its Varna system Vedic society was still very egalitarian & simple. Untouchability was introduced to the Vedic Aryanas after their interaction with “Dravidians”.’
Oh my Periyar!
@Bhimrao
USDPKR went from 105 four years ago to now hovering at 212. Imagine if the Indian rupee went from 76/USD today to something like 150/USD by 2026. Would you be as sanguine? Everything is not fine.
As for the IMF deal, it will merely unfreeze the remaining 3 billion. Pakistan wanted to increase the package of aid but the IMF said no. The Chinese loan is just that: a loan. Pakistan hasn’t solved anything, it will continue to get poorer in dollar terms (which is what actually matters, just ask the turks).
Corruption pays for elections in America, too. I don't know why Americans persist in using euphemisms like "campaign contributions" when most of the times it's just bribes when billionaires are doling out cash. They are doing it with an expectation of a return of their investment, despite the pretensions otherwise.
Yet despite this corruption, America is wealthy. So the issue in Pakistan isn't corruption. It's the way in which elites rent-seek that's the problem, as Mian pointed out.
I’ve read that Hindus were the dominant merchant elite in Lahore and Karachi before partition. Probably fuelled envy.
https://twitter.com/AgentSaffron/status/1539444490246684672
“Hindus usually think of everything in terms of jati.
They thought of Sultanate, Mughals, Portuguese, British etc as just another jati with their own customs and traditions.
That’s why they had poor in group vs out group identity until late.”
A guy with 40k followers, getting to this basic understanding that many of us knew till now. But this is just a small opening, only when this reverberates many times that one might start noticing the difference.
https://twitter.com/SaamaanyaJ/status/1539497260328726529
“This is true. Even a 18th Kannada text corroborates this. They would wake up once in a while to see the enormity of the difference with some religions. Bhut the tendency was to establish an inter community interface.
That process simply didn’t work and they often realized late.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/22/opinions/bjp-hindu-muslim-democracy-modi-arundhati-roy/index.html
“Arundhati Roy: ‘The damage to Indian democracy is not reversible'”
https://www.cnews.fr/monde/2022-06-21/la-tunisie-pourrait-abandonner-lislam-comme-religion-detat-dans-sa-nouvelle
The new constitution of Tunisia abandons Islam as state religion. Matches with surveys showing MENA rapidly secularizing.
Lets see. Is there any measure by which we can check on this. When do other places go the same path?
Elections wherever free are a good proxy. The Moroccan Islamist party(PJD) lost big in last year’s election. Went from being the governing party with 125/395 seats to now just 13 seats. Hezbollah alliance also lost seats in the Lebanese election. Next year’s Turkish election will also be interesting to watch. Anecdotally, Turks are becoming extremely hostile to Islam. Having you religion tied to inflation rate of 70% has that effect.
islamist parties rarely have won in pakistan. So, I dont consider this good enough. The only real absolute measure I can see is secular criticism of islam as literature being produced and tolerated. Otherwise, people are just choosing the more effective governing side. That does not imply their sympathy with islamist worldview has come down. It could lead to cognitive dissonance though. But I dont see electoral democracy is the best fit to decide things anymore. Congress in India was dominant for 50+ yrs, Bjp now has won and things are different. 2 consecutive victories for trump could have changed things more in USA.
Its interesting nonetheless. willing to update my views on this. Lets see.
Anything interesting happening lately outside of the usual Hindu-Muslim-Woke non-sense?
@Prats,
Most consequential thing in India:
Vedanta is making a lot of noise about a 28nm IC and a display unit plant with Foxconn. Let us see what happens. Vedanta is so deep in debt, it was never a stellar company, Anil Agarwal has no experience in this. Fingers crossed.
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Air India is ‘considering’ buying 300 narrow bodies. That is a lot of planes. Air India acquires Air Asia(India), merger eminent. Merger with Vistara highly likely. Hope Tatas make a lot of money before the next air-travel recession.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa airlines to start soon. Indian civil aviation’s biggest names are in it’s leadership team. Good luck to them.
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Delhi RRTS trains about to start testing. The trainsets look like so beautiful 😍. Interestingly the Bombardier’s, made in India, will run on standard gauge (what Indian metros run on).
https://twitter.com/metrorailtoday/status/1538890669942403072
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Him many HSR lines do you think can be operational in India in 15 years ?
Delhi-Mumbai will be done. Maybe some section of Delhi Howrah. Let us run it and figure the economics out.
These lines expensive, given we will have to import everything from signaling to rolling stock idk if it is even worth it at the moment.
“The cost of Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail Project is estimated to be Rs 1,10,000 crore, almost equal to total capital outlay of Indian Railways in 2017. This expenditure for a route which is only 500 odd kilometres in length could become a burden for state exchequer in the years to come.”
https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy-politics/story/mumbai-ahmedabad-bullet-train-cost-japan-india-82221-2017-09-14
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Hard no to subsidized rail. Want Japanese trains, pay Japanese prices.
IMO Dedicated Freight Corridors are a far better investment.
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Draupadi Murmu is our next president.
IMO Pranab Mukherjee was the best Indian President in our lifetimes. But then he deserved to be the PM.
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1000 dead in Afghanistan earthquake. Om Shanti.
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a piece from me on caste in America is going to be in unherd.com on monday
Looks like Turkish TB2 and american eagle drones don’t stand up to russian AD.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/21/ukraine-us-drones-pushback/
Hope our generals did not over learn the lessons from Armenia-Azeri war. OTOH even russians are using tactical drones for better artillery targeting.
Turkish drones were overhyped because Armenia is a joke of a country. Against a real opponent, they are dropping from the sky like flies.
Drones work well in mountainous terrain of Azerbaijan/Aremia/Afghanistan.. I am not sure if they are as effective on flat plains of Ukraine against advanced air defence systems. The TB2 were actually quite effective in the early stages of the war, and are responsible for the abundance of HD videos of Russians getting blown up..
In the early stages of the war, Russia expected Ukraine to fold like a house of cards. You had BTGs running dozens of km ahead of the main army, completely isolated and unprotected. It doesn’t mean anything.
Once Russia understood they had to get serious, the drones started to drop like flies. It has nothing to do with mountainous terrain.
Far from an IMF deal being “1-2 days away”, the announcement that Pakistan will now impose a brand-new “supertax” on the richest confirms what many in the opposition were saying: it was mostly smoke and mirrors.
The IMF still has demands left that Pakistan needs to do. Will the corrupt Pak elite comply or will they flee abroad and take their money with them? Perhaps they can bribe their way out of enforcement.
Meanwhile, Pakistan lost their third concurrent LNG bid for July, which means that the energy crisis is set to deepen further.
Regarding, the discussion of Pak economy vs Indian economy, the divergence really started only in the late 2000s, although the gap is quite substantial now. As an example, smartphone penetration in India (44%) is double than that in Pakistan (22%).
I am skeptical of the mercantile castes and military theory. There are many nations without a large trading caste and with a large military who are much richer than India.
I think Pakistan missed out on a lot of global capital inflows which started in the mid 2000s due to its frontline role in the war on terror. This was ultimately a result of Pakistan’s insecurity vis-a-vis India. Where the Pakistani elite internally got it wrong was the under prioritization of literacy. Pakistan ranks well below its Muslim peers in literacy. This might have to do with the use of Urdu as a medium of instruction in Punjabi mother tongue areas.
‘I am skeptical of the mercantile castes and military theory. ‘
Everyone starts off like that. Even i used to be wary of caste theories.
Then came across Baniyas (who create wealth) and retired fauzis (who are mostly up their ass) and saw reality. Its just like my more-Hindu/less-hindu theory. Everyone takes a bit of time to warm up to it.
+1 about Bania supremacy.
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I could be wrong but, aren’t Pakistani Faujis wannabe Banias?
https://www.dawn.com/news/1272211/50-commercial-entities-being-run-by-armed-forces
The non-Banias of Pak Fauj run to Kaneda.
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The racial religious hatred of the non Hindu Biradri populations is definitely a strong phenomena. .
They cannot stand a darker, more AASI, and Hindu people working hard and succeeding
‘I could be wrong but, aren’t Pakistani Faujis wannabe Banias?’
Even the Banias of Pakistan AKA the lohanas and the Khojas are second grade Banias. Just like the ‘Rajputs’ of Pakistan are second rate Rajputs.
So when your original banias are not as good as master banias, how can ur fauzi become bania?
Article on how the use of Urdu instead of Punjabi stymies literacy in Pakjab: https://apnaorg.com/prose-content/articles-by-writers/Safir-Rammah/page-1/article-12/index.html
Vikram has identified the problem correctly regarding the economy. The war on terror is mostly to blame for the political and economic instability in Pakistan.. The spillover from Afghanistan that resulted in daily terror attacks evaporated avenues of foreign investment from the country and caused export oriented industries to flee and set up shop in India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. I remember that the time in Pakistan between 2001-2007 was that of fast growth and optimism (and no terrorism) but 2008-2016 was marred by one low point after another. While terrorism was mostly defeated, crippling power shortages were patch-fixed by power plants that used expensive imported furnace oil causing one BoP crisis after another that the country is still reeling from today.
However the literacy rate argument is quite weak. For anyone saying instruction should be in mother tongue which would resolved literacy, one can point towards Sindh to see that this does not solve this problem.. Sindh has both Sindhi and Urdu as official language and medium of instruction, yet Sindh’s relatively higher literacy rate is actually skewed by Urdu speaking migrants that dominate its urban areas and are quite literate. I don’t have the exact stats but I would not be surprised that the rural areas of Sindh (ethnic Sindhis&Baloch) might even have a literacy rate in the 30% which is quite abysmal. Coming onto Punjab, it actually has the highest literacy rate in Pakistan, so one can even argue that that Urdu as language of instruction is directly related to higher literacy rate.
The language problem is mostly resolved in Pakistan, and both English and Urdu have come out on top at the expense of local languages.
Political and cultural acceptance of Urdu does not imply pedagogical suitability. The fact remains that Pakistan is an outlier in the Muslim world and the greater Middle East when it comes to literacy rate. And this rate has been stagnant for nearly a decade now.
https://twitter.com/SushantSin/status/1540360194353291264
What happens in the US matters for India because of the power it holds over the global narrative in the English-speaking world. Popular culture in so many English-speaking countries is American culture, which transmits the values US espouses. Thus, SCOTUS backsliding hurts India.
American popular culture exports the values of the American left not the American right.
That guy is just an American lackey – a brown sepoy with a white savior complex. I’ve read most of his articles on FP and the vast majority of them sound like they’ve been written by a neocon sitting in Washington. The idea that US Supreme court decisions would affect India is laughable.
As for Abortion, it’s pretty much a settled issue in India, even hardcore Hindutvavaadis tend not to openly oppose it. India’s abortion laws are more in line with Western EU and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
But it’s a lazy excuse to blame poor literacy on Urdu medium instruction, when all the data points towards the opposite. Education has been neglected, partly due to financial and partly due to cultural reasons, especially for females which explains the poor overall literacy rate.
Pakistan also defines literacy as being able to read simple text of a newspaper in any langauge so the idea that only Urdu is impeding literacy is untrue when literacy in any language is sufficient.
Another point is that not all langauges are equal. Some are more developed because they were historically patronized by powerful central authorities. Those languages open up more economic opportunities than others, and none of the local langauges fit that bill. It would actually be economically harmful to try to impose native undeveloped languages on the masses when the masses are more interested in learning economically useful languages.
The Urdu medium use was one hypothesis, propounded by Pakistanis themselves. If thats not it, I am unsure what explains Pakistan’s low and stagnating literacy rates. I checked the education spending as %age of GDP and its not far too off other Muslim countries. Also, that will only beg the question.
Wow…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10942871/amp/Paedophile-Rochdale-grooming-gang-member-argues-shouldnt-deported-Pakistan.html
Islam is cancer.
It does not have to be so with early diagnosis and proper care.
Will immigration to the US naturally go down as US appears to have more problems? Probably the best path for immigration restrictionists is to advertise on full blast all the issues of the US. Western MSM is already doing a lot of work in the regards but immigration restrictionists probably could amplify it more.
No. Life in the US will continue to be much better than in the 3rd world for decades to come. The only reason why the US isn’t getting more migrants is because it has gotten more strict.
There doesn’t seem to be much momentum towards changing that; ask any Indian in the US waiting for his or her green card.
This thread ‘1cr in India vs $ 150,000 K in USA’ on a not particularly ‘India positive’ sub might shed some light,
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/ve9tl3/hypothetically_what_would_you_choose_earning_1/
The consensus seemed overwhelmingly in favor of 1 cr in India. I think even 10 years ago it hardly made sense for a high earner to move out of India, unless they found technically more interesting work.
@Vikram
1 crore puts you in the top 0.1% of Indian income earners.
Tech is a unique island. Ask any Indian doctor if they can get those kinds of salaries. Unless they come from a wealthy family which own their own hospitals/clinic, the short answer is no.
Even among tech, there’s a difference between mechanical engineers and software engineers. The former are paid much less in India. Most of those responses are only for software engineers, and even then for the most well-paid ones. In other words, a tiny part of the Indian workforce.
The comparison they are making: is it better to to be top 0.1% in India vs broad middle-class in the US?
That’s not an apples-to-apples comparison.
For 99% of Indians, emigrating is still a big uplift compared to what they can get back home. Discount a few percentage points extra for family ties and make it 90% instead. Still an easy deal for the majority.
Problem with most of these discussions is that many de facto Indian elites still delude themselves they are “middle-class”. They are anything but. So they have completely delusional takes of how most Indians live – including the actual middle-class. Even non-Indians like myself probably know it better because we actually read the income and consumption data from NSSO surveys, whereas many of them apparently don’t.
Oh certainly, the vast majority of Indians would jump at any opportunity to live and work in the US. I am just pointing out that the threshold for staying back in India has been falling. It used to be the scions of business houses that definitely stayed back, now its a high salaried set.
There is some location-inertia as moving yourself to another continent is a big step for most people.
A fair comparison to go to r/ABCDesis and ask them how much money they would need to make in order to move to India.
“I think even 10 years ago it hardly made sense for a high earner to move out of India, unless they found technically more interesting work”
Why people move countries is something that’s often not very straight forward as more money or better jobs. An Indian on a 10 cr salary living in a big city has ample job opportunities and no shortage of products in the supermarket aisles. But he will still breathe the same polluted air and walk the same congested streets as everyone else, unlike even a relatively poor chap in a developed Western city. I’ve seen more than a few couples in their mid to late 30s, moneyed after having worked in big companies or starting up move to the UK or other EU countries for precisely this reason – quality of life that just money can’t buy. And when it comes to doctors there is a flood of them waiting to leave, and the UK NHS is more than happy to receive them. Indians doctors (and nurses) are well established parts of the local community even in small towns in Wales or Scotland.
Even countries much richer than India like Turkey or Bulgaria have trouble holding on to their best and brightest, and even Poland has just about started to see a small fraction of those who emigrated start to move back.
This isn’t something the Indian govt is going to be able to do anything about for many years to come. But on the bright side, more and more countries are going to queue up to get the best emigrants that India has to offer given that Indian immigrants are just about the highest productive and least troublesome immigrants that one can get and this is something the govt can start to use as a bargaining chip.
Siddarth, I think this immigration argument has gone backwards. It used to be that the most skilled and motivated Indian engineers would be granted the opportunity to work in Western firms. Now, people think that they are skilled because they work in the West.
There are of course upsides and downsides to working and living abroad. But you dont see Indian doctors and engineers driving taxis in Toronto or NYC.
Agree that decision to work and settle overseas depends on number of factor. But in recent years (probably last 10-15 years) it has become tougher one to make mainly due rise in Indian small firms offering very good pay.
We have a big family and two of us have moved and settled overseas because our priority has always been fresh air and work life balance.
While the other two siblings after studying and working overseas decided to settle back in India due to streamlined career growth, better paying jobs, ability to afford someone to cook and clean the house and being able to enjoy to everyday Indian Big City dynamics including food, festivals and going out. By the way all four of us earn in the range of 1Crore per annum.
Four of us were raised in small town in Bihar but our priorities in life was the deciding factor. If I ignore the work life balance and fresh air, anyday I would choose living in an elite suburb of Mumbai, Delhi or Bengaluru.
So despite loud proclamations from Pak govt that the IMF deal was all but done.. it was not done.
Today, Pakistan announced new taxes on the salaried class, reversing a brief attempt to bribe the middle-class into docile acceptance. This is different from the newly announced “supertax” on large corporates. There’s also talk about going after NRP (non-resident Pakistanis) and their income.
Amazingly, the IMF still hasn’t sent Pakistan its Memorandum for Economic and Financial Policies (MEFP), which forms the basis of any agreement. That tells you that Pakistan still had a lot of work to do when they pretended a deal was done.
The IMF had also rejected Pakistan’s request for a bigger bailout package. Even if we assume a resumption of the previously on-hold bailout programme, it’s still too low for Pakistan’s needs.
Either Islamabad gets a bigger bailout or it will need to do ever-more drastic austerity cuts, combined with greater depreciation of the currency. This crisis is far from over.
I think Pakistan still is not heavily reliant on food imports. I dont think Pakistanis need anything apart from food, water and the chance to kill Hindus to continue being Pakistani. So all this IMF and loans stuff is going to make little difference. Pakistan is all about psychic wages.
Just important points on Gujarat , very prescient today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKXgHOldiUQ
https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2022/jun/24/religious-conversionshits-rohingya-camp-in-bengaluru-2469108.html
in the meantime, rohingyas in bangalore are being converted to christianity!!.
https://www.draliceevans.com/post/3-things-i-got-wrong-about-patriarchy
It is always interesting to see people change their views , who first try to explain purely on some rational basis and finally come to conclusion that religion and culture has to be accounted for.
https://www.draliceevans.com/post/3-things-i-got-wrong-about-patriarchy
she is convinced by the work of “weird” . There is no getting around social engineering. Every govt from here on should take this up.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-must-stand-human-rights-india-203189
“ Later this year, the State Department should designate India as a CPC and sanction individuals directly involved in the anti-Muslim pogroms during Trump’s 2020 visit. Yes, India will be unhappy, but the United States has sanctioned institutions and officials elsewhere in the region—including in Bangladesh and Pakistan—deemed guilty of serious human rights violations. India deserves no exception. And we can afford to press it. With a rising China on its borders, India needs us more than we need them.“
https://unherd.com/2022/06/americas-fake-caste-war/?=frlh
https://twitter.com/zuckmetaverse/status/1541337033745920000
some IM are more radical than arab M preachers. Best of both worlds it seems. benefits of media and no criticism of them or faith creates this kind of mindset.
benefits of media and no criticism of them or faith creates this kind of mindset.
Indeed, the Liberal-Ummah Alliance is quite strong. When Hindus try to stamp down on the Jihadists, the Libs attack Hindus and when Hindus are busy with secularists, they’re attacked by Jihadis. This one two combo keeps Hindus perpetually on the defensive.
Hindus are hopeless against the Liberal Media attacks, what with archaic fossils at the head of the Hindutva movement, they’re either intellectually incapable of defending Hinduism Or completely illiterate in the vocabulary required to refute liberals.
You clearly have not read what i have written before. Get over this ” arguing with the other side mentality”. Without costs for their exaggerated lies , there wont be a change. More screaming to their western liberal friends. No, they have to pay costs for lies . For denial of islamic bigotry, past and present.deal with islamists later. first deal with those who give cover in India. Any historian/scholar who denies islamic bigotry, past or present shall have to be put in jail for leading to disturbance in community peace, relations leading to fostering of enemity.
Islam has to undergo secular critique much like any religion.
Cracking down on Anti-Hindu historians will result in the western establishment lambasting India for being a “Anti-Free speech Nathzee Hindu Nation”. Is it really worth all this trouble?
Islam has to undergo secular critique much like any religion.
They’ll start a civil war if we try to reform their religious education systems. Screw that, it is not the job of Hindus to fix Islam. IM can have their Sharia laws, if they stop bothering Hindus, it’ll be fine.
If you give a fuck for what west thinks. you will never fix the problems. If you dont allow secular norms to flourish among muslims in India. You will be sitting with a permanent enemy with in. This is where rightwing blockheads reveal themselves. There is no getting around trying to utilize the best services of those who explicitly value those norms. apj abdul kalam is a great example. It is worth the trouble because you have to social engineer the society you want to have. That requires everyone should know no one outside can save them. They have to make deals with you, make compromises with you. No getting around that.
I bring caste into this debate. H’s suffer more traitors than anyone. Becauses of caste, in other societies like japan/ china, where people judge, once you are seen as traitors that is that. Here, you have entire network of personal relations cutting across political parties, even religion. brahmin network cuts across, even after change of faith. same with reddys . subramanian swamy is in bjp, but he has got great friends in “The Hindu”. Siddharth vardarajan gets away a lot thanks to his brahmin privilege.Just think about it. In which country would someone from same community defend likes of aurangzeb. All this comes from sub groups looking for favourable deals , in case the tide turns, after all H’s were not in power for centuries. All this is new. who knows if this will last. That mindset continues.
You have to use the hammer of law where such insanity prevails, cut away from friends, family of such kind. No dialogue with those who abuse it. You have a better time convincing razib than your own family on these things. That is insane. This insanity wont end by itself. Without costs to those whose actions stopped muslims to learn secular critique and introspection and build common norms for all and peaceful and prosperous India. You wont be getting anywhere. It is a mindset of a cuck to insist that your enemies, adversaries are not letting in you on a debate. You create the structure whereby they compromise. Here, in India. Not washington post or amerika or qatar.
grisly videos of 2 muslims beheading a hindu tailor for supporting nupur sharma in rajasthan and making it viral. It is time to implement as I said. And this time, any colonized left liberal gang that comes in the way has to be dealt with first. One death is too many. we have become too desensitized in accepting things as they are.
This is so disturbing. Islam is a mental disease.
“any colonized left liberal gang”
No one gives a shit about them. People indulge in ‘both side-ism’ give them attention. Amateur politicians, armchair analysts who live on SM chant ‘Zoo-bear’, ‘Zoo-bear’ all day, doesn’t change shit on the ground.
“we have become too desensitized in accepting things as they are”
Not really desensitized. BJP keeps winning. Bad behavior has costs.
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Overall I am pessimistic about India’s chances. It is the eternal low tier country.
People do bakchodi but no one really does much. Indians beg and cry for visas, brag about their sons studying in ‘Southern Methodist University’ or ‘GWU’. A low tier people fit for being peons and clerks. I have many friends who went to Kelloggs, Booth, Tuck, Wharton, Sloan, ISB, IIM-A, hardly any try to build things, many friends who went to GeorgiaTech, Stanford, Michigan, UIUC, … sab ke sab gaand chaat rahe hain goron ki, no creativity, no passion, growing fat, thinking silly things like ‘moving out of India’, or passing some silly exam is a lifetime achievement. They think someone else will do the heavy lifting, while they will get to shine in reflected glory. Someone will build a great company, they will slither up the hierarchy. Jubilant and ecstatic about dissolving into white-people world.
The ones who do contribute fall short on talent and money. Of all the Indians in America that I know, only one Mallu girl gives significant money for good in India. Everyone else talks-talks-talks.
Test for believing in something is giving money and serious time to it. Empty talk is noise, like that of a waterfall, loud but inconsequential.
This is the situation at 14%. Even uniform civil code has not been applied. CAA has not passed. What do you think will happen at 18%. Is there any country that is this stupid. Any people other than H’s this dumb?.
meanwhile. Modi hugs uae leader. JP nadda declares, modi is not just leader of human beings, he is God among Gods.
One does not even need to move one bit away from “secularism”. One just needs to act. But for some people, this is just fuel for winning next election.
Here is one simple act you can do right now. Declare that all those left/lib historians, activists who lied and denied about islamic bigotry will be arrested. All those who deny this reality will be arrested. Secular critique of Islam will become a compulsory discourse in India and shall be taught in every school and college from this day forward. No place for both sideism. Anyone doing it, jail time.
Disturbing blasphemy killing in Udaipur. Not much more I can say.
But I don’t think there’s much to be done. This stuff was happening in the 1920s. It is happening in the 2020s. It will be happening in the 2120s.
By the 2520s, humans will have interstellar empires and Islamists will still commit blasphemy killings.
This incident cannot be seen in isolation from the generalized increase in societal violence in India in the past 7-8 years. In the same Rajasthan , multiple instances of cow vigilantism including video recorded killings have almost passed the radar apart from a section of ‘liberals.’ There is a mainland hatewatch project which is worth perusing if you are not physically located here to gauge the extent of non-relenting hate based propaganda. This is combined with state bestowed impunity to the perpetrators.
India needs healing right now and a commitment to peace. Alas,that constituency is completely disenfranchised.
Actually it is the opposite; the Islamaphoic rhetoric in India is troubling but cannot be seen in isolation to 800 years of religious subjugation and the bifurcation of the nation along religious lines due to demands by Indian Muslim elites.
Meanwhile the admittedly very small minority of Muslim people that murders other people over for perceived slights against their Prophet is a global phenomenon see Charlie Hebdo in France, Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka, ISIS, Boko Haram, Blasphemy cases in Muslim countries etc. So it is not a phenomenon limited to places where beef eating is taboo like India.
I said that AI’s will come sooner than muslim reforms. It is safe to say that secular experiment and liberal/left assumptions of islam being same as other religions has been proven false empirically for the last 100 yrs. As we move away from unipolar moment in history. Western influence will be even less. Islamists too fill find much freedom and resources as well. I must say, last day was the only day I truly was contemplating immoral ideas and am ashamed for it. Do I have the iron to deal with this issue?.
No it seems. I have no interest in thinking further about this anytime soon. Immoral people will come to power for moral people are failing. Namo has been painted as evil incarnate. He is a much softer person for all we have seen thus far. People will be wanting someone tougher than him from now on.
Ruin from heaven, we can weather. Ruin from ourselves, we never survive.
Grow stronger and fight another day seems to be the moral of it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emMouCipTtI
heard/saw wendy dongier on print being interviewed by jyoti malhotra. some observations:
i) dongier looks shallow. she picks up one of the many peripheral/ non mainstream narrations of the popular indian stories, and pokes them into orthodox hindus to say that hindu’s mainstream narration is just a myth.
ii) she is more sold on the so called erotic aspects of our stories and gods. this is a continuation of her p hd thesis.
iii) hindus have sadly given more ‘bhav’ to this lady, than what she deserves.
iv) jyoti malhotra was pathetic, the usual fawning brown indian in front of a white god/godess. she never countered wendy’s rambling thought.
Agree. She comes across as quite shallow. Don’t know how she became such a big star in history circles.
Because folks like Jyoti Malhotra are even shallower. The less I say about Delhi’s old-elite wannabe culture the better. These people just want to appear ‘one of them’ in front of Goras. Nothing wrong with it, at the end of the day there are no clear KPIs in journalism of this sort.
They are having a good time, discussing convenient things, making appropriate sounds, trying to suck up to Global American Empire (or PRC in case of the Hindu). Every once in a while one of them will get a grant from Ford foundation or UN Democracy Watch or something.
All these are lifestyle journalists. We never see a big expose from them, pushing the boundaries, no investigative journalism on health, consumer products, monopolies, government waste, roads, no heavy well prepared interviews etc. Some write news, some do bakaiti on Foreign affairs, military, elections, or hindu-muslim.
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The best behaved and most self confident Indians are Gujjus and Marathis.
The gruesome execution in Udaipur is tragic and enraging, but there are a few silver linings.
1) Many liberal Indian spaces aren’t even trying to “contextualise” what happened, but straight-up condemns it. Not much wailing over “islamophobia” that you might have seen 10 years back.
2) Even the liberal media is covering it without censorship.
3) The suspects seem to have some form of connection to Pakistan, which suggests their radicalisation path wasn’t organic but “helped along”. In other words, it doesn’t seem to be an internal radicalisation exclusive originating within India at least, which would be more serious.
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I’ve read quite a lot of people saying they don’t feel safe. It’s important to emphasise that terrorism in India has seen a massive decline in recent decades. India is safer in this regard than it has been for a very long time. That’s obviously cold comfort for his relatives, but it bears keeping in mind.
I re-iterate my view that India would be best served in the long run by a state-sponsored ghar wapsi campaign. At the very least, the govt should take much more forceful action/control over mosques and educational institutes like madrassas.
Many liberal Indian spaces aren’t even trying to “contextualise” what happened, but straight-up condemns it. Not much wailing over “islamophobia” that you might have seen 10 years back.
On the other hand, I am seeing many liberal-ish Muslims trying to whatabout it. Back in the day, you’d hear stuff like “these are not real Muslims” etc. That seems to happen much less now.
Blaming it on Pakistan is what Indians do when they want to feel good and want to believe they control their Muslim population.
There are hundreds of videos on twitter with Indian Muslim preachers threatening (or rather chanting in their Barelvi way) the phrase ”Sar tan se Juda”. Not surprising at all that this happened, in fact its surprising it took so long. You don’t want to mess with Barelvis on the issue of blasphemy of the Prophet. And Barelvis are the majority amongst lower class/caste Muslims.
Agree.
This most probably has nothing to do with Pakistan.
Indian Muslims are sufficiently radicalized to do this independently.
The reason why authorities like bringing in the Pak angle in these cases is to cool down Hindu anger against Indian Muslims.
Blasphemy against Islam will only increase in India, no stopping it now. Hindus used to do hate speech in the past but steered clear from blasphemy.
Unfortunately, further bloodshed can happen. Muslim handles on twitter were baying for blood but are now acting like bheegi-billi. I fear some poor muslim(s) will get killed and then Hindus on twitter will become bheegi-billi.
There are hundreds of videos with Hindus chanting:
‘Jab Mulle kaate jaayenge, Raam-Raam chilaayenge’
‘Jahan dikhe ali ya chaand, phaado chaddhi maaro gaand’
This can get out of hand.
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IMO blasphemy should be the norm.
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In old cities/towns people are already too set in their ways to fuck with each other. In the highest riot hit Mau, in eastern UP, for example, Hindus and Muslims ask the other side to get out and take their valuables before burning their houses. There are hard checks and balances, ‘tribal street law’, people know the severe price of touching a Hindu (or Muslim) woman. This is why love-jihad is such a touchy topic.
When I was maybe five my mother saved a teenager(17-19 ish) brahmin boy from neighborhood who would have been bludgeoned to death by a Muslim mod for sliding his hand inside the back of a muslim girl’s kameez. My father had some clout and the Muslims knew the price of overstepping into our house. Some folks broke the windows, dented the gate but didn’t press it too far even though they could have forced entry. Later on the guy was handed over, tonsured, face blackened and paraded on a donkey. Similar things happen with muslims who over step and break local norms. I have seen things like forced eviction of Muslims from their own property fearing Hindu retribution and barring property sale for years to straight up murder.
Before you think otherwise, this lane-division and giving space is due to Hindu generosity not anything else. Barelvis don’t need to do anything in these old places as people walk in their lane. No one goes around blaspheming Muhammad in Ranchi or Gorakhpur or Jabalpur. The storm will come in cities, in Bangalore, in Delhi, in Noida, … here norms are not laid down, policing online space is impossible, blasphemy will become the norm.
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Overall I think it is good that these things are coming out and being talked about. Ex-muslim-isation is the need of the hour. It will gain more momentum going forward. The cost in lives lost even though heavy and very-very unfortunate can be borne. The riots no longer have the same intensity, lesser number of people are dying, police is getting better. Extremists are being cornered.
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Agreed, Pakistan is just a convenient scapegoat to placate the Indian right.
But I have a question regarding the Barelvi’s, aren’t they supposed to be less reactionary due to their sufi influence? I’ve always thought that it was the Deobandi’s that are more radical as it is similar to wahabbism in many ways.
@sameer
All Muslims are Sufi ‘influenced’ Muslims in the subcontinent, central asia, iran and turkey. They are just on a spectrum whether shia or sunni (deobandi/barelvi etc). The beliefs of Barelvism are a more older form of Islam that was prevalent and practiced in this region for centuries, while Deobandis are a reform movement that sought to purify this type of Islam from Hindu influences. This is why Deobandism is more common in the educated class, Barelvism is more common amongst peasants.
Barlevis are usually chill, except on one issue: Blasphemy of the Prophet Muhammad. They low-key worship the Prophet, venerate him in sermons and prayers etc just like Shias would worship Ali or Hussain or some NI Hindus worship the Cow. And they absolutely don’t tolerate blasphemy, it’s a single issue for them.. fourth largest party in pakistan (by votes) is TLP which is a barelvi party that is a single issue party about blasphemy, and most Indian Muslims are barelvis. It’s a big issue for them.
While Deobandis/Shias/Wahabbis might try to punish blasphemy through the state apparatus, Barelvis are not hesitant in actually killing the blasphemer outright, and celebrating the killer. Not sure why this difference evolved, but I am guessing this is because Barelvis are from the peasant class and have low or no trust in a central state as central authorities in India mostly existed to exploit the peasants. So they settle the score without the state.
You don’t want to mess with Barelvis on the issue of blasphemy of the Prophet.”
stupid to gloat about the murder. if history is any judge, this episode is not going to end well for muslims.
even in the days of the raj, british officials noted that most mischiefs are started by muslims, but when the dust settles, they come off badly. this pattern has generally held in india – riots are started by muslims and finished by hindus.
rajasthan is a congress rules state. bjp thrives on communal tensions. it is not going to pass on such a juicy opportunity for polarization.
“even in the days of the raj, british officials noted that most mischiefs are started by muslims, but when the dust settles, they come off badly.”
source?
https://twitter.com/SheenVader/status/1542156408904368129
‘This is a shit take #MsMarvel. You’re implying that Pakistan shouldn’t exist today and that the 2 nation theory was incorrect. Hindutva extremism led to the creation of Pakistan, an extremism we see on display as Muslims get lynched in India and Kashmiris are still imprisoned.’
“Hindutva extremism led to the creation of Pakistan”
Lmao.
Feel bad for Indian libs, imagine ceaselessly defaming your country and your government for decades on end, and Pakistanis still think you’re a fig leaf for Hindu nationalists.
I am hoping and will be impressed with India’s progress if there a no riots resulting in further deaths as a result of recent events.
20 years ago would be deadly riots for sure.
I don’t think Hindus will riot. Even if they do, Gehlot is a competent CM.
Unfortunately, murders can happen.
Islam is not just a religion. It is a transnationalist ideology. We have seen the calls for support from ummah and ummah supporting them back. This is the reality. I will end this here. I do not advocate different rules for different folks where possible. But one should in the end concede to empirical evidence and not allow oneself to be tied to some theoretic frameworks, no matter how idealistic.
we can now see the smartness of peshwas. but i feel that this was modi’s move.
i see two possibilities:
i) fadnavis will be pulled to central role.
ii) gadkari might come back to maharastra.
Not everting is a 4d chess. Seems the Maratha played hardball with the Peshwa, and Modi felt that leaving the Maratha on his own, could lead to a crash. So Peshwa is there to ‘assist’.
Maharastra needs a façade of ‘Maratha leadership’, and wont fully accept Brahmin leadership. It was true during 1700s, and its true even now. So Gadkari and Fadnavis will mostly play second fiddle.
ironically Shiva sena was a more broad based organization but with a microscopic minority leading it.
In retrospect, choice of DF back in 2014 seems to be a bad decision whose reversal will have cascading effect. Not only DF seems to have caused exit of leaders like khadse, tawde (not sure of their mass base) imagine what message it gives to other Maratha leaders who have been loyal to the party so far. Even worse what message will other obc leaders take from this.
Overall the bjp/rss high command seems to have decided that perennial tussle between UCs and OBCs needs to be managed by conceding to obc political representation. After KA and GJ, MH seems to be the 3rd state where OBCs extracted the cm post as condition for supporting bjp.
The flip side seems to be that CMs will be changed frequently like UK, GJ and tripura.
Oops, I was bit hasty!!!!
https://twitter.com/barandbench/status/1542751482084470784
I have no option but to comment. For Supreme court of India to blame nupur sharma. Blaming the victim under threat. This cowardly attitude by supreme court. This is a moment of clarity. All those who call themselves liberal/secular turned out to be cowards and opportunistic. They have no place in deciding the fate of this country and this civilization.
The blasphemy mind virus seems to be here to stay and civilised societies seem to have no counter to it (there was a low key outcry around censoring of a ‘blasphemous’ movie in the UK recently). Astounding that the world is powerless against a meme originating from an insecure, retarded mediaeval society.
Given no leeway from the Muslim side, Hindu society is also increasingly going to go down that path, paradoxically this may serve to increase Hindu ‘asabiyah’ in the short term. The Sikhs are already there as we saw with the nihangs hacking to death some poor peasants earlier this year and the shocking lack of condemnation from wider Sikh society.
Long term, there’s going to be no winners from all this (except maybe the BJP and religious parties like the AIMIM, PFI etc.)
‘Given no leeway from the Muslim side, Hindu society is also increasingly going to go down that path, paradoxically this may serve to increase Hindu ‘asabiyah’ in the short term.’
Every religion which wants to survive today, has to ‘Abraham’-ize itself. One faith, One God, One Book and so on. For Hinduism that faith is Hindutva.
On the Hindu ‘asabiyah’ front, it will differ region to region. Whatever nascent ‘asabiyah’ has grown within Hindu society, is due to Hindutva, so as long as Hindutva grows stronger, so will its ‘asabiyah’ . Wherever Hindutva is weak in less/non Hindu region, there will be weaker ‘asabiyah’.
Either you’re a Hindu or you’re not, there’s no such thing as a “Less Hindu”. SI Cultural&Religious traditions are indigenous to India, it doesn’t matter whether you call it Hinduism or Scientology, they’re second to none.
Every religion which wants to survive today, has to ‘Abraham’-ize itself. One faith, One God, One Book and so on.
You can’t pitch a religious Nationalism for all and then work your way back to some shady Homogenization project. Just look how well that kind of Nationalism worked out for East Pakistan.
We can call each “less” or “more” till the cows come home 🙂 but now is not the time for in-fighting. Every region/ethnicity needs to gird up its internal asabiya/solidarity against non-dharmic threats.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/dont-force-dmk-to-revive-separate-tamil-nadu-demand-a-raja/articleshow/92640910.cms
‘Don’t force DMK to revive ‘separate Tamil Nadu’ demand: A Raja’
I see that Dravidians have surely ‘gird up its internal asabiya’
While I agree with your basic conclusion here, Saurav is actually onto something with his “less Hindu/more Hindu” classification system.
While I would agree that South India still largely falls within the fold of the macro Hindu civilization, my sense is that it has always operated in a very different sort of world from the one that shaped the inhabitants of the cow belt. Andhra and Tamil Nadu in relation to the core areas of Hindu civilization seem to me roughly what Russia or Serbia are to England or Germany. Not wholly separate, yet nonetheless very different, even alien, in some quite fundamental ways.
Notice that Hindutva is weak both in South India and in Bengal. I think it is not a coincidence that both regions lack hard varna lines among non-Brahmins (i.e. dominant castes are still classified as Shudra).
South India in particular was also comparatively untouched by Islamic conquest, particularly of the Persianate variety that dominated the North, and its natives never adopted Indo-Aryan language either.
Personally, I would classify Hindu civilization into three regions:
1) A “core” region consisting of the cow belt + Punjab, Kashmir, and Gujarat
2) An “inner periphery” consisting of Maharashtra, Orissa, and Chhattisgarh
3) A few distinct “outer periphery” regions (Bengal, South India, parts of the Northeast)
Of course what this means (unfortunately for Saurav) is that Hindutva’s aims are entirely incoherent (if they weren’t already given the fragmented nature of Hindu practice along jati lines), as the factors that separate South India and Bengal from the Hindutva fold are rather fundamental to their cultural essence and hence not easily overcome.
‘While I agree with your basic conclusion here, Saurav is actually onto something with his “less Hindu/more Hindu” classification system.’
Finally someone who speaks English. 🙂
Just some modification to your regions
Core: Cow belt + Gujrat
Inner/ less Hindu region : Punjab, MH, Orissa etc. ( these states lie in a spectrum of Core — Less)
Outside/Non hindu: Kashmir, Bengal, S-India, North East ( these states lie in a spectrum of Less — None)
‘factors that separate South India and Bengal from the Hindutva fold are rather fundamental to their cultural essence and hence not easily overcome.’
Why is it unfortunate for me? LOL. I know (and have been hammering abt it for the longest time ) that Hindu regions have been carrying the cross for less Hindu regions for far too long, and its better to cut the gangrene before it spreads to core regions.
If a Hindu schism is enviable then so be it. We will see how the non Hindu regions survive..
There is no violent “solution” to this question. I’m not surprised by Quereshi’s gloating approval of the murder. It explains a lot why Pakistan is in the dumps today, because religious fanaticism took precedence over poverty eradication.
The only way India can avoid this fate of increasing religious tension is eliminating the root cause of conflict; moslem fanatacism. It’s not a problem to be managed but to be eliminated ideologically. A state-sponsored Ghar Wapsi is needed.
For that to happen, there must be an internal Hindu reform effort first. The shameful comments from the SC yesterday shows us there’s still a long way to go.
Shop owner in Amravati likely killed for post supporting Nupur Sharma
I’m sure Quereshi will justify this too.
Don’t understand how everyone thinks I’m gloating? I just explained how extreme Barelvis are regarding blasphemy that they dont hesitate to extrajudicially kill. In Pakistan, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was killed by own bodyguard for just calling “blasphemy law a black law”… he didn’t even blaspheme. His killer is celebrated a hero.
Did he really go as far as saying it’s a black law. I remember him saying something mild like it should be relooked at..
Yeah, you definitely didn’t come off as gloating, you were simply stating it in a matter of fact way.
Regarding the Barelvi’s, they seem to be in the news again, this time against Samsung for a supposedly blasphemous QR code. 23 people from samsung were arrested.
https://twitter.com/MirMAKOfficial/status/1542902936409612288
Protests and vandalism were allegedly led by TLP
As America becomes browner, they are going to find out that racism is a lot more prevalent in Europe.
1. https://www.tiktok.com/@b.khanfident/video/7115092732649016622
2. https://www.tiktok.com/@b.khanfident/video/7115320286442032430
There’s also a funny power dynamic going on. Most of these women are probably way outearning the local Italian waiters.
i experienced similar things in rome.
I was an exchange student in Germany in 2015, a group of us were heckled for bring from “burnighem, coz they smell something burning.” Not that I know the entirety of US, but many there seemed overly nice, like I didn’t need to get this attention but I did.
Alas, What i said few years back seems to be happening, inspite of me moving away from it. I once said life is a game of chance and fortune and barbarians need to stay long enough to get enough fortune blowing their way as to keep persisting . Consider this. Oil for decades in middle east, pak getting nukes because India was stupid in not claiming hegemony. west undergoing mindvirus of woke and deciding somehow islam uniquely among religions in oppressed. Rise of china and its axis with muslim countries. World moving away from unipolar moment. Ideas like secularism, liberalism etc, western ideals have no place without decisive western power backing them. In the next 100 yrs, we might just witness many of the ideas that were taken granted to start losing their sheen. It will take 50 yrs for this generation of believers to die or get old and new generation with better understanding of reality take the world forward in ways we have not seen since before the decisive victory of west. And then, there is AI. how it changes the world is still beyond my capacity to fathom. One does not know. Moral of the story is, grow strong and fight another day. But govt can take over all mosques, disband seminaries, regulate religion. That much, govt in India is well within its capabilities and rights to do. It is not good for Indian muslims either. For all talk of ummah, jihad, gustaki rasool etc, they do not want to actually face Hindus who dont give a flying fuck anymore. And with west losing power, they will not interfere beyond a point. Neither would chinese or arab countries.
I wanted himanta to become next PM. Indian muslims have decided to make yogi adityanath as the next PM. They are getting what they deserve. sadly, the rest of us are not getting what we deserve.
Sickularist Hindu:Shut your mouth about Muslims, Hindu Nathzee! New Generation is more lebral! We won’t have hindu-muslim tensions in the future with young progressives! The only threat to peace i see are Hindoos like you!
Next Generation of Muslims:
https://reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/vqfsao/no_he_is_just_misguided_child/
Next Generation of Hindus:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/vmd3aa/this_is_sad/
Reminds me of the girl who was in the video with Jagan.
Awful.
Some Telugus, and occasional Tamils and Bengalis, in the US make me want to throw up. I say this despite being surrounded by Telugu engineers. Faking accent, zero personality even on Indian standards, borderline anxiety disorder, scheming-begging to be in America.
Awful-Awful, idk what this does to the self-respect.
culture is created and maintained otherwise, it will degenerate. Hence one should have own autonomy in creating and maintaining one’s culture and civilization.
A Sri Lankan guy just ran sub-10 sec 100 meters (9.96). Sri Lanka also the only south asian country to have won a sprinting olympic media.
AASI = fast twitch ?
yeah Kerala has most track records too.
I’m an ACTN3 hybrid myself. . But overall though S Asians are very prone to endurance genes. They have the highest homozygous rate of ACTN3 slow twitch variation.
Hard to say which population is more fast twitch. I think South and NW dominate most of sports scene. The middle of the country not as much, but they are also rich areas. Maha does pretty well too.
Gujarat is awful. Our one olympic bronze medalist is an NRI from Texas, Raj Bhavsar. Ahimsa BS destroyed physical spirit of Gujarat. Rural areas and some Rajputs still have it. But mercantile culture went too far. It has had its benefits. But a balanced Khatri like approach would be best. Parsis have it, but they are a tiny portion of Gujarat’s population.
haryanvis / punjabis do quite well at combat sports, and also stuff like shot-put. They tend to be have bigger builds than other south asians
North eastern states are also overrepresented but seem to have smaller builds than other south asians.
I think UP / Bihar underrepresentation is partly economic.
Gujaratis underrepresented is cultural (gujaratis are overrepresented in the indian cricket team currently, but in the past there were very few)
Javelin and shot put sure but quite recently so elite with Chopra. Gama is a historical one in high weight class combat sports. But combat sports they only do well typically in low weight classes mostly.
You dont need a big build for most low weight classes. I think other places can so better for sure. And bigger build seems exaggerated. I’ve been to NW and rural areas too. People there eat more than other Indians and are a bit bigger structurally. But still a lot smaller than NW European and West Africna type people in bone structure and lean mass.
Gujarat cultural element is annoying as hell. Gangetic plain= terribly lost potential.
no rice eaters are fast in the short lap. historically south indians, including an anglo from karnataka were the 100m and 200m champions. rice gives quick energy. wheat eaters were champs from 800m and upwards!!!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/vqgeij/jk_bjp_leader_talib_hussain_shah_turns_out_to_be/
LMFAO
own goal
Something weird is going on Udaipur killers also have bjp links
https://m.thewire.in/article/security/as-photos-emerge-of-udaipur-killers-links-to-bjp-leaders-party-moves-to-damage-control-mode/amp
bjp is making serious attempts to get pasmanda muslims on its side. these voices are getting traction. even modi spoke of this outreach yesterday.
finally this may lead to gharwapsi if some reservation is thrown in, as is like for mazabi sikhs and neo buddhists.
Udaipur killers will get buttfucked in jail before being hanged if they ever make it through court hearings without getting lynched. Saw the video of them being ‘carried’ out off police station most likely after severe police brutality and another video of them getting assaulted, marginally escaping lynching, in court.
I have this theory: folks over estimate the odds of getting knocked out in boxing and underestimate the odds of getting killed by 4-5 normal people throwing random slaps, kicks and punches.
I think I finally understand the westen hinduphobia. It is deliberate because of rising India. It would not matter if India was not the other asian giant rising.
They want to humiliate us in order to get us to do something crazy that can lead to them justifying some harder measures against us. Eat humiliation, redress it domestically if it crosses some threshold. Dont do anything crazy. Just get rich and powerful for next 50 to hundred years. Become powerful enough that no action can hurt us. Until then, maintain internal asabiya, create institutions, structures to ensure this in a big way. Get rich/powerful for next 50 to 100 yrs. consolidate, maintain asabiya/ will by creating institutions. Reduce lib/left cultural hold.
They want us to do make mistakes out of rage.
https://apnews.com/article/religion-new-york-city-522aeec0050967ef7ed754020e9baf85
Zoroastrians will disappear. They don’t seek converts, don’t allow children of mixed marriages, and have pathetically low birth rates. How do they expect to survive?
https://twitter.com/kavita_krishnan/status/1543467382605492225
Indian communists have sold out to west. I find it dispiriting that our accusations are often true. How horrible.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/3-more-held-in-silchar-dyke-sabotage-case/articleshow/92643117.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst&from=mdr
an act of terrorism?. sabotage leading to floods?
https://theprint.in/go-to-pakistan/christian-mechanic-in-pakistan-gets-death-for-blasphemy-his-said-jesus-is-supreme/1025912/
https://twitter.com/waqargillani/status/1543960435694657536
Afshaq Masih, a christian mechanic from Pakistan has been sentenced to death by a Lahore court for Blasphemy. He allegedly said “Jesus is supreme”.
Insane country
Islamic Societies are a time portal to the 15th Century.
Concerned and scared for my future. I am 22 old and about to start my job. With the state of politics, and just nasty stuff from all sections of politics, I am worried how things will be in the near future.
If you live outside India : Baman devata kya bol rahe hain aap? Maje karo, beach pe jao. Jyada tension ho toh daan-punya karo.
If you live in India: Again, Bhai kya bol raha hai? Maje kar. Use Bangalore/Mumbai metro, in my days it used to be auto-wallahs and local trains. India sucked far worse 20 years ago. 3-4 LPA used to be a big deal, sarkaari naukari was the main thing, now I see 25 YOs making 30-40 LPA. There are interesting jobs. Much easier to move or travel abroad.
From terrorism, to communal riots, to Naxalites things have only improved. Communists have been destroyed. What is there to complain?
Remember the Indian medical students in Ukraine? 4 months on and they still haven’t been given spots in Indian colleges.
https://theprint.in/india/neet-not-an-option-medical-students-back-from-ukraine-seek-road-map-from-nmc-to-resume-course/1027225/
How can people whine about braindrain when this is how India treats its future generation(s)?
Why should they be given seats in Indian Medical Colleges? They went to Ukraine because they were not good enough for Indian med schools.
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“How can people whine about brain drain when this is how India treats its future generation(s)?”
Nah, my cousins spent 4-5 years preparing for NEET, with upto 3 drop years after school and still couldn’t earn a seat. Handing medical seats out is too much to ask.
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https://theprint.in/india/80-foreign-medical-graduates-fail-indias-licence-exam-heres-what-they-end-up-doing-instead/868875/
Most of these kids are not good enough to practice medicine in India.
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This is the best thing i have read in ages
https://thewire.in/film/leena-manimekalai-kaali-tribal-goddess
‘‘Kaali is not a Hindu goddess’
“These trolls are not human enough to have any ‘sentiments’ to hurt. They have nothing to do with Hinduism or faith. Their claim to Kaali as a Hindu goddess is a farce. Kaali is deeply rooted in tribal folklore. Her manifestations are embedded in regional and indigenous cultures and belief systems of South Asia beyond the Sanskrit-ised Brahmanical Hindu Religion,” she argues. “My Kaali is inspired from Tamil and Telugu village rituals where she comes on people as a spirit and eats meat, smokes ganja, drinks country arrack, urinates in the middle of the village, spits on filth and dances wild. I embodied her and chose to walk across the streets of downtown Toronto, the land of immigrants, to understand settler colonialism.”
A BJP leader responded to this argument by saying it does not justify Kaali being shown to be smoking in the poster. “Yes, we too see Kaali as a goddess with tribal roots. This is true of gods like Muruga and Krishna too. But we still pray to them across the country. So what is the point of this argument? Irrespective of the roots, we will not accept a picture of a God smoking tobacco, ” says Narayanan Thirupathy, a BJP spokesperson from Chennai. “Whenever these filmmakers are questioned, their first move is to divide our gods into Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical when we worship them all the same way. This argument is unacceptable.”
The film narrates the short tale of Kaali, the ‘pagan goddess’ descending upon a queer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) filmmaker in downtown Toronto – in short on Manimekalai herself.
“My Kaali believes in love and sharing. She accepts the cigarette from a Black street dweller at a park around Kensington market in Toronto and listens to reggae,” she continues. “When Kaali descends on me, the Queer Filmmaker, she will definitely hold a pride flag and a camera. Kaali is my embodiment. I have performed as Kaali.”
“As a cultural worker, I want to reclaim my body, my texts, my traditions, my cultures, my sexuality, my desires, my knowledge and my folklore from the fundamentalists. That is fundamental to my art practice and existence which is ingrained in decolonisation.”
Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra too had stated at an event that she saw Kaali as a meat-eating and alcohol consuming Goddess when asked about the film’s poster. She reportedly even stated that you could see sadhus (Hindu ascetics) smoking at certain religious destination in West Bengal.
“That is the version of Kali people worship (over there). I, within Hinduism, being a Kali worshipper, have the right to imagine Kali in that way; that is my freedom,” the West Bengal leader had said. Later however, when the party distanced itself from the comments, the Krishnanagar MP claimed that she never backed the poster.
In Tamil Nadu meanwhile, the DMK has maintained a stoic silence regarding the backlash and declined comment when contacted.
This is brilliant.
Tamil – check
Bengali – check
Woman – check
NRI – check
Movie, sex, alcohol, ganja, … – check
Queer, BIPOC, word-soup – check
if we observe some non mainstream left unionising efforts of organising pourakarmikas, anganwadi workers, one sees lots of catholics in the leadership roles. these are far left types. there was also one girl in karnataka who was arrested earlier. why is this happening? probably they are indian version of wokes? probably these catholics are brahmin converts??
Every country has its own version of the Jews lol
https://araingang.medium.com/south-asia-ancestry-map-637092c0728a
https://twitter.com/ArainGang/status/1540102312051363841?s=20&t=SZUew1hF6A5r412MAzAWgQ
Amusing in its irony.
Hindu Nationalist/Islamist, what a load of bullshit. I wish these old world losers wouldn’t carry their ethnic politics into the new world. We have enough problems in the country we actually live in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbKpiRe6WI
A short walk through a village in the Western Ghats region of Tamil Nadu. Beautiful scenery. Wish there was less litter though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQHLkXn_kHU
DRAVIDIAN-ORGASM
It is strange here, one gets more likes for some things, but other things where i said something smarter, gets less likes. Shows the bias in this space.
Eat Humiliation until you get stronger, dilute the content , institution of islamists. secularize them.
In a sense, I believe, rest of the world is trying to catch up to west, but west as we know it did not happen in short period of time. I would argue there was first a secularization phase, from 15th century onwards, top down, led by elites. Followed by development phase led by colonialism, which built both military capabilities and set the economic incentives and foundation in order. Finally the democratic phase.
We are trying to do all of that at the same time and hence flailing. China is actually following western model, led by elites(party) they build military/economic incentives foundation first.
Keep in mind that the West was not following any models. They were just doing their own thing, which just had the effect of making them more advanced that other civilizations. Perhaps worrying about the minutiae of developmental models just messes up things.
https://twitter.com/buddhimedia/status/1545401524473327616
“For those who think that if India gets allied with the US completely, their media will stop spreading propaganda & spewing venom against IND, this is what they are doing with Japanese leader. These shameless ppl have no decency at all.
BTW – Japan is a vassal state of the US.”
btw allying(camp follower) with US does not guarantee your interests either..
American elites can’t tolerate any country that doesn’t share their ideology, no matter how faithful that country is to the US in foreign policy. Just look at how Sweden is treated by the US media compared to Poland. Sweden is completely useless, if not hostile to the US yet they are praised by the American media all the time because they both share the same social ideology. Poland is one of the most loyal allies of the US, yet they are demonized all the time. India needs to keep its distance from the US. Yes, US has money but sovereignty comes before economy. Also, limit the cultural influence of the US. Don’t allow American companies to buy up Indian media/cultural companies. Any agenda pushing by other US companies should be penalized. I think it’s already too late, as English proficiency among Indians mean that they are already somewhat integrated into the Anglosphere.
I’ve been making the same argument but mostly to deaf ears on this blog. I think Indians criminally underestimate the long-term cultural threat that falling under the shadow of America poses to India.
This actually makes sense if you think about it. Poland being close to the US is merely pragmatism given their terrible geography. But US elites know that ideological subservience is much more reliable long-term than short-term pragmatism. That’s why Poland cannot be trusted but Sweden can be.
The rules applies to India. Why do you think the US establishment treats Modi with such contempt? Yet he keeps rewarding them by not choosing an independent path, instead hugging the US closer and closer…
If only India and China could come to some sort of border agreement. American cultural subversion is a far greater threat than any petty border disputes to both India and China.
Other than Iran, India has never given up anything of value. We do empty lip service.
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Aren’t the Quint and Wire American attempts at leveling the playing field against long time CCP shills like the Hindu?
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In mind-space it has always been a lost battle. In the deepest recesses of their minds, ALL Indians want to be a gora.
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It is probable the US was involved in the assassination of Shinzo Abe. Abe was in favor of negotiating a peace settlement with Russia.
Abe was in favor of detente with Russia.
From Asia Times
“Even though the Abe camp denied it, Tokyo was abuzz with chatter that Abe, who stepped down in September 2020, might toss his hat in the ring for a third stint as leader. Abe first served as premier from 2006 to 2007, then from 2012 to 2020.
Abe had been playing a behind-the-scenes kingmaker role since resigning. Speculation was rife that he was unhappy seeing Kishida walk back Abe’s signature efforts at detente with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”
https://asiatimes.com/2022/07/kishida-has-1-45-trillion-reasons-to-reboot-abenomics/
I wouldn’t put anything past CIA but I don’t actually think this is the work of the Americans. To me, the most likely motive was far-right nationalism.
Abe presided over the most unprecedented opening of Japan to foreign immigrants than any of other Japanese PM. Despite being viewed as right-wing, he was more of a neoliberal conservative.
We will probably never fully know, but Japan does have a history of far-right nationalists making political assassinations.
I doubt it. The risks are so great for very little reward. If its ever found out that CIA did this, Japanese-American relations would be extremely damaged. Japan is one of the few Asian countries that is firmly in the American orbit, something like 80% like the US, which is unherd of these days.
To me this just looks like a someone with mental issues. Japan has a huge number of lonely men in their 20s, 30s, 40s who really have no hope of anything. I think if guns were as ubiquitous in Japan as they are in the US, they would have similar number of mass shootings.