From: VHP INT'L HQs DELHI (Goutam Chatterjee) vhpintlhqs@gmail.com
The Colonial Native Vs The Hindu - Dr. David Frawley, (American Institute of Vedic Studies, New Mexico)
The Colonial Native Vs The Hindu
Dr. David Frawley, (American Institute of Vedic Studies, New Mexico)
A defeatist tendency
Exists in the psyche of modern Indians perhaps unparalleled in any other country today. An inner conflict bordering on a civil war rages in the minds of the country's elite. The main effort of its cultural leaders appears to be to pull the country down or remake it in a foreign image, as if little Indian and certainly nothing Hindu was worthy of preserving or even reforming.
The elite of India
Suffers from a fundamental alienation from the traditions and culture of the land that would not be less poignant had they been born and raised in a hostile country. The ruling elite appears to be little more than a native incarnation of the old colonial rulers who haughtily lived in their separate cantonments, neither mingling with the people nor seeking to understand their customs. This new English-speaking aristocracy prides itself in being disconnected from the very soil and people that gave it birth.
There is probably no other country where
It has become a national pastime among its educated class to denigrate its own culture and history, however great that has been over the many millennia of its existence. When great archaeological discoveries of India's past are found, for example, they are not a subject for national pride but are ridiculed as an exaggeration, if not an invention, as if they represent only the imagination of backward chauvinistic elements within the culture.
There is probably no other country where
The majority religion, however enlightened, mystical or spiritual, is ridiculed, while minority religions, however fundamentalist or even militant, are doted upon. The majority religion and its institutions are taxed and regulated while minority religions receive tax benefits and have no regulation or even monitoring. While the majority religion is carefully monitored and limited as to what it can teach, minority religions can teach what they want, even if anti-national or backward in nature. Books are banned that offend minority religious sentiments but praised if they cast insults on majority beliefs.
There is probably no other country where
Regional, caste and family loyalties are more important than the national interest, even among those who claim to be democratic, socialist or caste reformers. Political parties exist not to promote a national agenda but to sustain one region or group of people in the country at the expense of the whole. Each group wants as big a piece of the national pie as it can get, not realizing that the advantages it gains mean deprivation for other groups. Yet when those who were previously deprived gain power, they too seek the same unequal advantages that causes further inequality and discontent.
India's affirmative action code is
By far the most extreme in the world, trying to raise up certain segments of the population regardless of merit, and prevent others from gaining positions however qualified they may be. In the guise of removing caste, a new castism has arisen where one's caste is more important than one's qualifications either in gaining entrance into a school or in finding a job when one graduates. Anti-Brahminism has often become the most virulent form of castist thinking. People view the government not as their own creation but as a welfare state from they should take the maximum personal benefit, regardless of the consequences for the country as a whole.
Outside people need not pull Indians down
Indians are already quite busy keeping any of their people and the country as a whole from rising up. They would rather see their neighbors or the nation fail if they are not given the top position. It is only outside of India that Indians succeed, often remarkably well, because their native talents are not stifled by the dominant cultural self-negativity and rabid divisiveness that exists in the country today.
Political parties
In India see gaining power as a means of amassing personal wealth and robbing the nation. Political leaders include gangsters, charlatans and buffoons who would stop short at nothing to gain power for themselves and their coteries. Even so-called modern or liberal parties resemble more the courts of kings, where personal loyalty is more important than any democratic participation. Once they gain power politicians routinely do little but cheat the people for their own advantage. Even honest politicians find that they cannot function without some deference to the more numerous corrupt leaders who often have a stranglehold on the bureaucracy.
Politicians divide the country
Into warring vote banks and place one community against another. They offer favors to communities like bribes to make sure that they are elected or stay in power. They campaign on slogans that appeal to community fears and suspicions rather than create any national consensus or harmony.They hold power based upon blame and hatred rather than on any positive programs for social change. They inflame the uneducated masses with propaganda rather than work to make people aware of real social problems like overpopulation, poor infrastructure or lack of education.
Should a decent government come to power
The opposition pursues pulling it down as its main goal, so that they can gain power for themselves. The idea of a constructive or supportive opposition is hard to find. The goal is to gain power for oneself and to not allow anyone else to succeed.
To further their ambitions
Indian politicians will manipulate the foreign press to denigrate their opponents, even if it means spreading lies and rumors and making the country an anathema in the eyes of the outside world. Petty conflicts in India are blown out of proportion in the foreign media, not by foreign journalists but by Indians seeking to use the media to score points against their own opponents in the country. The Indians who are responsible for the news of India in the foreign press spread venom and distortion about their own country, perhaps better than any foreigner who dislikes the culture ever could.
The killing of one Christian missionary
Becomes a national media event of anti-Christian attacks while the murder of hundreds of Hindus is taken casually as without any real importance, as if only the deaths of white-skinned people mattered, not the slaughter of the natives. Missionary aggression is extolled as social up liftment, while Hindu efforts at self-defense against the conversion onslaught are portrayed as rabid fundamentalism. One Indian journalist even lamented that western armies would not come to India to chastise the political groups he was opposed to, as if he was still looking for the colonial powers to save him!
Let us look at the type of leaders
That India has had with its Laloo Prasad Yadav ( ex CM Bihar), Mulayam Singh Yadav ( ex CM UP) or Jayalalita to mention but a few. Such individuals are little more than warlords who surround themselves with sycophants. Modern Indian politicians appear more like colonial rulers looting their own country, following a divide and rule policy, to keep the people so weak that their power cannot be challenged.
Corruption exists
Almost everywhere and bribery is the main way to do business in nearly all fields. India has an entrenched bureaucracy that resists change and stifles development, just out of sheer obstinacy and not wanting to give up any control.
The Congress Party
The oldest in this predominantly Hindu nation, has given its leadership to an Italian Catholic woman simply because as the widow of the last Gandhi prime minister, she carries the family torch, as if family loyalty were still the main basis of political credibility in the country. And such a leader and a party are deemed progressive!
The strange thing is
That India is not a banana republic of recent vintage but one of the oldest and most venerable civilizations in the world. Its culture is not trumpeting a militant and fundamentalist religion trying to conquer the world for the one true faith but represents a vaster and more cosmic vision. India has given birth to the main religions that have dominated East Asia historically, the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh, which are noted for tolerance and spirituality
It has produced Sanskrit:
Perhaps the world's greatest language. It has given us the incredible spiritual systems of Yoga and its great traditions of meditation and Self-realization. As the world looks forward to a more universal model of spirituality and a world view defined by consciousness rather than by religious dogma these traditions are perhaps the most important legacy to draw upon for creating a future enlightened civilization.
The irony:
Is that rather than embracing its own great traditions, the modern Indian psyche prefers to slavishly imitate worn out trends in western intellectual thought like Marxism or even to write apologetics for Christian and Islamic missionary aggression. Though living in India, in proximity to temples, yogis and great festivals, most modern Indian intellectuals are oblivious to the soul of the land. They might as well be living in England or China for all they know of their own country.
"They are isolated in their own alien ideas as if in a tower of iron. If
they choose to rediscover India, it is more likely to occur by reading the books of western travelers visiting the country, than by their own direct experience of the people around them."
India political leaders and media people created conditions for learning English
Look at this English sentence: "They wound their business and came back to India". I read the word 'wound' in the sense of hurt or injury. Of course it was used as the past tense of word 'wind'. Now the word 'wind' can also mean a breeze when it was pronounced differently. So it is all confusing. Is the word 'put' is pronounced in the same way as 'cut' or 'but'? In 'walk' or 'chalk' the 'l' is silent. In a Hindi picture "Pyare Mohan" Dharmendra asks his boss, Omprakash, who was also his English teacher,- "If 'do' is pronounced as 'du' then 'go' should be pronounced as 'gu' which in many Indian languages means human excreta. A man who has passed M. A.(English) has to consult a dictionary to know spelling and pronunciation of English words.
INDIAN COLONIAL WESTERN EDUCATED Vs HINDUISM
From: bk chaudhari - bk_chaudhari@hotmail.com;
Why does modern Indian psyche prefers slavishly immitate certain western intellectuals?
The simple answer is a breed of "MUNH-KALE",(MACALYANS), has infested us like a plague!
Only our Mattra Shakti can do something about it.
When Jijabai will be educated, Shivaji will itself be educated.
Let us learn to respect and recognise our Mattra Shakti.
From: Chinny Krishna - chinnykrishna@gmail.com;
Any language is just a tool for communication. The IAS imbroglio is something being made by politicians to further their own narrow ends.
Properly designed intelligence tests are language neutral.
Your blind pathological hatred for English is surprising. If we want to compete in a global economy, English helps. The only reason why India is emerging as an alternate to China for manufacturing is because of the English-knowing pool of people we have.
Develop other languages but do not destroy something we have just because your enemy used it once. All our local languages have enriched the English of today.
Dr. S. Chinny Krishna
From: Shreejana Panta - sijupanta@gmail.com;
Friday, August 22, 2014
I don't speak Hindi and my country was never a part of Great Britain. Anyway, subject matter is interesting. In low scale level, what could be done?
As a mother, I speak to my child in both my native language and English. Native language is important mostly for me, because I want my child to be able to have communications with my in-laws. Secondly, bilingual children are smarter. But I also do not agree that we should teach our children our native language. Sometimes kids don't want to talk to other language than English. As a perspective of mother, being able to understand what my child is saying is more important than how is he saying. Sometimes children draw to express themselves, sing, yell, play sports till they get really tired. As a mother I understand everything.
It would be really nice if we teach our children Sanskrit. Veda, Upanishad, and lots of great books are written. I am afraid 100 years from now, how those scriptures would be? Is it possible to start teaching Sanskrit, let's say on evenings and weekend?
Yatha yogya, tatha kuru------
vilasni narayanan - vilasni_n@hotmail.com
English is here to stay, not just in India but all over the world. Countries that at one time scoffed at English are now busy getting their young to learn the language. One reason why Indians have been so successful wherever they have gone is because of their mastery of this language. so instead of wasting time arguing whether India needs English we should try to find a common Indian language, like Sanskrit that can unite the country, like the Chinese have Mandarin, and at the same time encourage the growth of each community's mother tongue, just like the Chinese are good at Mandarin and each community's own dialect. We are lucky in that many of our ethnic communities have their own language and script. What is sad is that many of our younger generation do not know their mother tongue or any other Indian language but only English. This is what has to change not the learning of English which is essential for interaction with the outside world.
Vilasni
suresh maheshwai - scmaheshwari38@gmail.com;
Why not do something against the Hindi and other vernacular papers which are making us learn English words through local language newspapers. First of all, bring these Hindi language stupid
Editors to book for harming the interest of the Hindi people.
suresh maheshwai
अंग्रेजी भाषा की गुलामी से हम आज भी आज़ाद नहीं हो पाये
Monday, August 25, 2014
From: SHREE RAJIV DIXIT - shreerajivdixitahmedabad@gmail.com;
वन्देमातरम ,
हम कैसे आज भी अंग्रेजी व्यवस्थाओ की आधार भुत अंग्रेजी भाषा के गुलाम है जाननेके लिए निचे दिएगए लिंक खोले
https://ia601707.us.archive.org/0/items/rajiv_dixit_audios_64kbps/Angrejee_Bhasha_Ki_Gulaami.mp3
From: Suryakant Patil - kant.patil@gmail.com;
Thursday, August 28, 2014
My Own Language V/s English -- the discussion:--
Every person, section of society, state loves and uses it's local language or mother tongue. This is correct and be practiced. Every person has the right to love, develop, improve, use or otherwise seek growth of his own language. As for me, I very well communicate in Marathi, Hindi, English and have some useful learning of Kannada and Gujarati.
Language in itself is the most expressive of the mediums of learning & communication. The more languages you know, the more you can learn and communicate better with more & more people. It bridges the gap and should build better Goodwill among-st people. It should never be used as a tool do divide people. We in India have a very vast variety of languages and dialects used. I would advocate for all people to master as many languages possible for them. I also am happy that even the electronic media and internet and Google had to adopt several Indian languages to improve its reach and utility.
Language for me is also a means to develop better understanding and relationships between human beings, to increase your intellectual and social reach.
I would therefore conclude to say that let's leave the language fight and work for better understanding among-st us and work and contribute our part in the true interests of the nation.
Suryakant Patil
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From: bhagwat goel - bhagwatgoel2000@yahoo.co.in;
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
GURUUTSAV; is communal because it is in Hindi /also Sanskrit
but Teachers Day is not because IT IS IN ENGLISH. ALSO TIME TO INVESTIGATE IF THESE PARTIES ARE STILL LOYAL AND RECIPIENTS FROM BRITISH.
ALL MAJOR LANGUAGES OF INDIA HAVE ROOTS IN SANSKRIT AS ALSO EVEN PARTLY TAMIL. HINDI WORDS ARE IN ALL LANGUAGES. HINDI IS SPOKEN ALL OVER INDIA EVEN IN TAMIL NADU.BANGLA IS MOSTLY SANSKRIT. YET MUMTAZ MAMTA HAS OBJECTIONS TO PLEASE MUSLIMS. , EVEN WHEN SHE HAS REALISED THAT SHE WONT GET HINDU VOTES AFTER THE WAY HER GOONS ARE HARRASSING HINDUS IN AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE THEM TO LEAVE.DEREK 'O' BRIEN IS CHRISTIAN FIRST YET THIS TRAITOR DARES CALL HINDUS COMMUNAL.
GURU IS NO LONGER ONLY HINDI WORD BUT USED INTERNATIONALLY. I HAVE 1974 EDITION OF COLLINS POCKET DICTIONARY EVEN THERE 'guru 'IS THERE.
UTSAV IS EVEN AS COMMON.
( REAL REGRET IS AGAINST MEDIA PARTICULARY ENGLISH ONE. THEY START FOLLOWING EVERY BAD IDEA LIKE MINDLESS SHEEP MANY TIMES WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE).
HOME MINISTER AND HRD MINISER ,TIME TO MAKE A SURVEY IN MADRAS UNIVERSITY AS TO HOW MANY WOULD LIKE TO STUDY HINDI. SO THAT MOUTHS OF THESE RACISTS ARE SEALED FOR EVER.
OTHERWISE BAN STUDY AND USAGE OF HINDI IN TAMIL NADU AND SEE HOW PEOPLE DROWN KARUNA, JAYA, VAIKO RAMDAS ETC IN THE SEA.
BHAGWAT GOEL
India needs to strategize for the future.
We should recognize that for most of the Indian elite, their umbilical cords are linked to the west. Many of them are/were educated in the US or Europe, and most of them have their children studying or working there. Due to colonial genes, acceptance and recognition by the West is critical for average middle class Indians.
The danger is that we are going to replicate their failed models when they are in decline. They will try to sell us everything they have, and we will buy it because of our colonial genes. They will hire more Indians to head global companies as showpieces in order to penetrate our markets.
The reality that the West is in decline and many of its institutions are failing has still not struck us and we will continue to try and imitate them – including their dysfunctional family systems. We should recognize that we are a civilization and not just a market. Today, funds are in search of markets and not the other way round. Instead of heading global institutions, we should prepare to acquire them.
Civilisationally, we are nearer to the East than the West. The need is to recognize that the old debate about big business or big government is passé. Our ability to look beyond Marx and market into our thriving communities and bazaars will provide us answers to many issues.
Will India, as Aurobindo mentioned, rise from the ruins of the West?
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From: dbudhoo2000 dbudhoo2000@yahoo.com [TheBecoming] <TheBecoming@yahoogroups.com>
To: Venkatraman Ns nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com [Sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2014
Subject: IMPOSITION OF HINDI ON NON HINDI SPEAKING STATES
Imposing the national language is that an issue? Nonsense, I think it should be encouraged. Think about the invaders for a moment!!!
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From: ganesh@watapi.com - ganesh@watapi.com;
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
I really appreciate your efforts to make Hindi our National Language. Because English is a Lethal language!
I live in a rural area - surrounded by forests - and there are several tribal settlements
in and around these forests. The tribals speak only KANNADA - the local language.
They do not go to school, they have no need to learn anything. From childhood, they
are taught how to make a living in the forests, in tune with nature.
There is no reason why these tribals need to learn HINDI - or any other language!! They
are happy as they are!! They use native medicine prepared from Herbs and Leaves that
they have learned from their forefathers. They are not concerned with what happens in
the next city or town, let along in the capital (Delhi) or elsewhere in the world.
Right now they do not know about the flood havoc in J&K - they do not see the TV or listen to the Radio or read newspapers. They are busy eking out a living, they have no time for all that!
But your idea/suggestion is excellent. The entire population of our country can learn HINDI - and totally boycott ENGLISH - which is a foreign language. If the entire population of our country learns HINDI from childhood, then our country will be a HINDI speaking nation.
It will be truly fantastic!
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raadhaa bhagat says:
August 5, 2014
सब हिन्दी समाचारों , कार्यक्रमों , चलचित्रों , आदि आदि में उर्दू और अंग्रेज़ी के भरपूर शब्द क्यों होते हैं जब की उर्दू और अंग्रेज़ी के समाचारों , कार्यक्रमों , चलचित्रों , आदि आदि में हिन्दी के शब्द नहीं होते —– विदेशी शब्दों से हिन्दी समृद्ध नहीं लोप हो रही हैं यदि विदेशी शब्दों से हिन्दी समृद्ध होती है तो उर्दू और अंग्रेज़ी को भी हिन्दी शब्दों से समृद्ध होना चाहिए किन्तु उर्दू और अंग्रेज़ी समाचारों , कार्यक्रमों , चलचित्रों , आदि आदि में—–हिन्दी शब्द नहीं होते ———
हिन्दी शब्द लोप जैसे : —-
"विषय" का स्थान " मुद्दे " ने ले लिया है और "विषय" लोप —-
"दुर्घटना" का स्थान "हादसा" ने ले लिया है और "दुर्घटना" लोप —-
"झग्गा – सुथन" का स्थान "सलवार – कमीज़" ने ले लिया है और" झग्गा – सुथन" लोप —-
"प्रति दिन" का स्थान "रोज़ मरा" ने ले लिया है और "प्रतिदिन" लोप —-
"अंतराल के पश्चात" का स्थान "AFTER THE BREAK " ने ले लिया है और "अंतराल के पश्चात" लोप —
"चल चित्र" का स्थान " MOVIE / CINEMA " ने ले लिया है और "चल चित्र" लोप —-ऐसे अनेक अनगिनत उदाहरण है
suresh maheshwai - scmaheshwari38@gmail.com;
Why not do something against the Hindi and other vernacular papers which are making us learn English words through local language newspapers. First of all, bring these Hindi language stupid Editors to book for harming the interest of the Hindi people.
suresh maheshwai
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