Shatrubodh : An insight about the civilizational threats

When Devas and Rakshasas fight, the smartest trick Rakshasas use, is to trap Devas in their own morality. The path connecting the two points in time, looks rosy, heavenly, righteous, even ecstatic, because the kind of kick and high, that you get out of creating a very holy pious and moral self image, is incomparable to any other narcotic substance. Fortunately or unfortunately, our civilization has set for itself, such a high standards of moral behavior, that we can be easily trapped by any enemy, whether it is an insider or an outsider. So much so that even the most wicked of our civilizational enemies, can give us guilt trip with their words when we fight them using their techniques, and we will start to rethink our strategy to fight them, will get self conscious and will walk right into their trap when we are about to slay them and then they will rise up again, filled with confidence and treachery. And we? We backtrack hoping that the Rakshasas have a change of heart. Our own trait ...

No, this article is not about defining law. But in order to set the background, we must understand this from the social point of view. The codified version of the collective morality of a particular society which applies uniformly to the common populace to some extent, is called law. While there might be improvisations or exceptions made in the law as per the circumstances, law in general is reflection of the society for which it is drafted.  Let's hop on to Indian society, and ask ourselves a fundamental question: Who drafted the laws and legal system for this country in the contemporary world? Answer to this question is quite obvious, the white Christian British coloniser. If you look into the debates of imperial legislature in Britain, you'll get to know that they intended to enforce their version of morality on diverse Indian society or say Hindu society.While these laws look very distinct from religion, the reality might be otherwise. As previously stated, law is collectiv...

Three important objectives stated in preamble of our Constitution: Equality, Fraternity, Liberty (Let's ignore justice for a moment) Liberty- freedom. Freedom can be freedom to move and live and explore and have access to all economic opportunities or humanly pleasures. Freedom can, freedom to choose community, religion, religious practices. The first set of freedoms, aim at individual liberty, they keep individuals and individualism at focal point. The second set of freedoms, keep communities and community lives at focal point. Edifice of individual freedoms is Judeo-Christian dogma that all men are born equal. This eventually aims to atomise the society and put an end to a community life. While fraternity on the other hand again aims to promote communities, community lives and eventually community interests. Thus, liberty can either be described with respect to equality or with respect to fraternity. But aren't these two standing against each other, as how can atomisation ...

1946 provincial election took place for the assemblies of British Indian provinces. These assemblies were to elect the members of constituent assembly. Separate electorate concept was implemented in the elections. Means, Muslims were to have their own separate represention in Muslim majority seats of each province. Provinces of then British India, which are now in India were: Bengal Punjab Bihar UP(United Provinces, later Uttar Pradesh) Bihar CP(Central provinces. Today's Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) Bombay Madras Assam Orissa Out of these, Bengal and Punjab were partitioned. Assam's Sylhet district became a part of East Pakistan through referendum. Let's consider UP. In 1946 elections, 66 seats were declared Muslim seats and out of them 54 were won by Muslim League, which is roughly 82%. 1941 census report says, Muslim population in UP was 8,416,308. Very clearly. Next census took place in 1951. 1951 census report was created statewise. Because by then India had a fede...

 Any kind of insurgency always needs an intellectual ground or say intellectual backing. Enemies of Indian state, or the enemies of Indian/Hindu nation, look for an intellectual backing too. They get their intellectual backing by disproving or falsifying the narrative of India as a nation or a Hindu nation at times. Best way to do it is prove that India was systematically invaded by people from times immemorial, including the very Hindus who claim to the ancient custodians of this nation.  Further they try to create a narrative that India was never a nation at all, South India was always different, North India was always different, North East was always different, cleverly bypassing the fact that within today's India's boundaries people used to roam freely, without having a hint of being in some foreign land. Because the entire region was tied together by the civilizational thread, if not a political one. Christian missionaries, are not only responsible for conversion of triba...

Quite often I encounter people who say that India was never a nation.. It's amusing to see their deep love of a divided Bharat. I must reply them, that their knowledge of nationhood is quite narrow. I'm sorry to say, but there can be different basis of nationhood in different regions. In Europe nationhood was derived from ethnicity or linguistic basis, in middle East basis of nationhood was religious (Islamic caliphate) and in East, South Asia onwards, the basis of nationality was civilizational. In Vishnu Purana which is not some recent text Bharat is defined as उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् ।   वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततिः ie, “The country (Varsam) that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bharatam; there dwell the descendants of Bharata" people, despite the absence of a political unity in the administration of India, used to roam freely without having a feeling of being in some other foreign land. For a very long time ...