So this is the first post of 2024 and this is not about investing. This post is about something more important- reclaiming and owning up to our civilisational heritage and why is it so important.
Like me, most of you would have grown up in an India with middle class values wherein going to a temple wasn’t important, doing great in schools and getting ahead in life was and rightly so. We also were told that India was mostly ruled by weak Indian kings who were fighting amongst each others and this was used to their advantage by first the Arabs and later the British. Also, it was a given that our major temple/spiritual towns were dilapidated, filthy and congested with not even a notion of basic infrastructure in place. This, we were told also reflected on the fact that the religious places weren’t as important as say a Vetican is. We always dreamt of going/settling in Europe and praised their cities for the sparklingly clean roads. All in all, our country was deservingly poor, filthy and regressive.
Anyone who wore a tilak in school was looked down upon. We grew up in times when it was fancy to say, oh I’m not a Hindu but atheist when we didn’t know what either of the two meant. We said it because the celebrities and the powerful said it and we thought this was a way to prove we aren’t less progressive. I personally didn’t visit a temple for over 15 years because I truly believed my faith wasn’t important and going to a temple meant being tricked by a greedy Brahmin. Cracking jokes on religion was acceptable and truly progressive, but only on our religion.
We read in our textbooks that the only two kings worth their salts have been Ashok and Akbar, both were proponents of peace, interfaith unity and were indeed great. Ashok got us Buddhism and Akbar saved us from killing each other. And ofcourse, the only beautiful monuments were built by the Mughals and rebuilding a temple was a sin, a certificate of regressive behaviour.
We also were told that India had this Ganga Jamuna tehzeeb where we never fought with anybody but only because the RSS came along in 1980s that we had riots. That December 6, 1992 was the day our secularism died and we shall forever abhor the RSS. Talking positive about the RSS or the current ruling party at school or work led to social ostracism, punishments and remained an absolute taboo.
And weren’t the British so benevolent for giving us Railways and English?
So what am I trying to say here. We are going to witness a historic event on January 22 this year when the Pran-pratishtha of the Ramjanmabhumi temple is going to take place and a historic wrong will be made right. Now this isn’t something you’ll expect out of me, right. Why would someone as educated as me will be happy for a temple? Isnt it more important that a hospital was built at the disputed land? Shouldn’t we be ashamed that the secular state is involved in rebuilding a temple of all things? Aren’t we a secular state and does this not impinge on our constitutional values?
If you have any of the above or similar questions, I must congratulate you for being a victim of the larger left-liberal conspiracy of guilt-tripping you.
If one has to rule a large populace with vibrant culture, one must make them mental slaves. The easiest way is to ensure that the younger generation considers everything about its own heritage as filth and regressive while also selectively being brainwashed by planting a porpoganda in the name of history. Once you teach your kids a morphed history, they’re more than happy to mock their own values. And in a generation or two, they are so cut off from their own land that they begin to detest it. This is exactly what has happened with us, beginning first with the British and later carefully nurtured by the Indian state itself through its army of left-historians.
Ask yourself this question, if every civilisation which faced the crusades of Arabs was converted in less than 10/15 years, be it in Persia or in Egypt; why did India still remain the only continuous civilisation with largely the same values even after centuries of both Arab invasions and the colonial rule? The reason is that our nation was full of valour and cultural pride for which both the kings and the common men and women laid their lives for years and years together.
It was not without a reason why our temples were desecrated but we still have the place in our control. It was not without a reason why we still treat Kashi, Somnath, Puri, Ayodhya, Ujjain and Rameshwaram with reverence. If all our kings were weak and fond of opium, why is your name still the same as used by your forefathers centuries ago!
The left historians post independence used history textbooks as a potent tool to obliterate everything that was great about our past and replaced that with everything which went wrong. Like Vikram Sampath says, if Indian history textbook only has the list of wars we lost, how does India still exists? There must have been some wars which we won!
The leftists will try to either try and negate the history of our great land which they did for over 65 years since Independence or now they’re trying to guilt trap you into not calling their bluffs. They are the same lot who for 35 years since 1980s said there was never a Ram temple in Ayodhya. This was later disproved by the excavations conducted by the ASI and upheld by the Supreme Court judgement of 2019. So now they’re trying to say, why can’t we build a hospital or a library there! Ask yourself this question, does India with a gdp of almost $4 Trillion not have hospitals that unless you build one at the Ramjanmasthan, our population will not get health benefits!
These are the same people who will say, oh why are you sending a moon mission when people are dying of hunger! This argument is so pathetic that it’s laughable. They want you to close all technological research, all scientific institutions, all banks and hotels till every person in this country has been lifted out of poverty. Sounds logical. So ask them how will you generate the money to lift people out of poverty! And then they will run away like chickens. The leftists want India to remain poor, filthy, and deprived so that they can further criticise it for being so backward. Then they will say, oh Indian railway stations are so dirty. Basically, their sole agenda is to indulge in this psychological warfare using us as their tools.
Watch any American superhero movie and you’ll see them saving America from all problems. You make one such movie in India and you are a far right anti secular fanatic!
Friends, life is not just about getting wealthy. We must also read and learn about the glorious civilisation we are fortunate to have been born in. The pride in being Indians and Indian-ness must be revitalised. So next time someone try to guilt-trap you, beware and fight back!
PS- my favourite guilt trap moment was when one leftist YouTube channel was crying as to how building broad highways and airport and railway station in Ayodhya has robbed the town of its old congested lanes,and how sad is it that the people of Ayodhya can’t enjoy their evening in peace because so many tourists will visit! Just slap them hard and move on in life!
Jai Shree Ram!
Life is all about Compounding! 