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Notice that Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha, who never tires of lecturing the rest of us about Gandhi, has said nothing about the illegal, insurrectionary tactics of a tiny minority styling themselves “cockroaches.” This disgusting invertebrate, forever invoking Gandhi, has no objection to extra-electoral means of dislodging a democratically elected government, so long as the target is Modi & “Hindutva.”

Salil the pig.

Ahimsa goes back a long way in Hindu thought, including to the Upanishads. It is also central to the Buddhist & Jaina traditions. There is considerable overlap among these traditions in their treatment of ahimsa. In the Hindu tradition, ahimsa does not demand absolute non-harm. It calls for the minimisation of harm and is sensitive to context. The Buddha permitted the eating of meat under certain circumstances. Ahimsa therefore does not automatically entail absolute vegetarianism. Hindu traditions themselves have never been uniformly vegetarian. The point is that vegetarianism in Hindu civilisation has for centuries been strongly motivated by the principle of ahimsa. Buddhism did not originate the principle.

What an embarrassment for India, this abysmal quality of the opposition. India deserves better.

The central charge against BAPS was that it had requested that women not be present during its scheduled time at the Eiffel Tower because their presence was objectionable. That charge has now been shown to be false, and probably deliberately manufactured by forces hostile to Hindus. Your response, however, was to question why BAPS had gone to this public place in the first place. I didn't know BAPS was required to live by the Rajiv Malhotra manual of living. More apropos, your response was a tactical and political mistake - a rookie move. It did absolutely nothing to advance the Hindu cause and everything to harm it. When a Hindu organisation comes under an unfair and unjust attack based on a false allegation, the first order of business is to repel that attack forcefully. It is not the moment to lecture the organisation about some entirely separate question of judgement. You castigate Hindus every other day for their lack of strategic judgement. Here it was your judgement that failed. And now that the central allegation has collapsed, instead of acknowledging that failure, you redefine the issue and insist that you were right all along.

You haven’t grasped the full picture. These are preliminary attempts to ‘secularise’ garba. It sets the stage to later claim that there is nothing Hindu about it. Just like they are doing to Onam now.

Prominent Hindu accounts yesterday were lightning quick to condemn BAPS. Now that it has turned out to be a baseless smear, nobody has issued a retraction or apology.

Pretend journalist Miss Haider’s bowels strained by Eiffel Tower row.

It not only addresses the criticism; it settles the entire issue. BAPS is under no obligation to conform to your taste in social mores or your views on feminism. They have their own vows, disciplines and ways of doing things. If the authorities agreed beforehand to accommodate BAPS requirements, as appears to be the case, then this is a storm in a teacup. Its principal purpose now is to provide anti-Hindu opportunists with a stick to beat Hindus with. And Hindu fools like you oblige them by unthinkingly picking it up and handing it over.

Never rely on social media influencers like this chap for health or dietary advice.

Utter hogwash, and surprising that it comes from a doctor. Months ago I had asked Chatty to summarise the modern Indian “protein” affliction and saved the screenshots for exactly this kind of discussion. By the way, there is now interesting research suggesting that excessive protein intake is not necessarily benign either, with one recent study identifying a leucine-mTOR pathway by which high protein intake may promote atherosclerosis. I won’t cite the paper here because I would like you to do your own homework.

Tara - a quick response. First, there are not “over 50 versions of Manusmriti, and every one is profoundly different”. You are confusing manuscripts with versions. Scholars such as Olivelle have examined and collated more than 50 manuscript witnesses to the text. They contain textual variants, as one would expect of an ancient work transmitted over many centuries, but that does not make them 50 profoundly different Manusmritis. Second, “like all religious books” is the wrong category altogether. Dharmic texts are not “religious books”, or even “scripture”, in the Abrahamic sense. There is no Hindu equivalent of THE Book, a single text standing as the uniquely authoritative divine communication to humanity. Both Christianity & Islam make exclusive truth claims for their scriptures. Nothing comparable exists in our Dharmic civilisation. The Dharmic textual universe is vast and internally differentiated: shruti, smriti, itihasa, purana, Dharmashastra, Agamas, philosophical sutras and commentaries, among others. They possess different kinds and degrees of authority, and different traditions privilege different texts. So placing Manusmriti, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Bible and Quran into a common bucket called “religious books” obscures the very distinctions necessary to understand Dharmic tradition. This, alas, is a grave problem in India, the Nehruvian-Marxist legacy of post-1947 educational establishment. Modern Indians have been taught to look at their own civilisation through categories imported from elsewhere.

The true desh-drohis are human rodents like you, Amartya, Amitava G, Arundhati, Romila T and the sewage dwelling anti-Hindu Left/Marxist mafia that has darkened India for decades. Fortunately, you fellows lost. Comprehensively defeated by us Hindutva foot soldiers. All you can do in this very late innings of your pathetic existence is write lame slop and plead for Likes. Go home to mommy, Ramchandra.

Look at the terms used by this "Dr": GenZ, Gen Alpha - terms copied from the West, terms that refer to unique phases of American society, driven primarily by the world war, the US stock market crash, and cold war. None of them apply to India. There is no GenZ in China. Because they have self-respect and do not download culture from America. This "Dr" is a semi-literate who can spell. She has never had an original thought. Just like Tavleen-ji.

Like many Indians who have recently discovered the word “carbs,” your understanding here is half-baked. Nutritional discourse reduced to counting protein grams is adolescent thinking. The unhealthy turn in Indian eating habits of the middle class and above is tied far more to ultra-processed foods, restaurant culture, delivery apps, sugar overload, sedentary living, chronic stress, and collapsing physical activity. Traditional home-cooked Indian meals - rice or millets, dal, vegetables, curd, buttermilk, legumes, fermented foods, nuts, spices - sustained large populations for centuries, including people performing physically demanding labour. No one sat with spreadsheets counting protein grams because health is not reducible to a single macronutrient. It is the outcome of multiple interacting factors: diet quality, activity levels, sleep, metabolic health, stress, sunlight, community, and lifestyle. Traditional Indian systems also incorporated walking, physical labour, yoga, pranayama, seasonal eating, and moderation. Those matter a great deal. Meanwhile, a population with extremely high protein intake such as the USA is hardly a shining example of metabolic health. It is drowning in obesity, diabetes, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and ultra-processed consumption. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to dal & paneer. Now go home to mommy and ask her to educate you. If you return with another low-resolution response, you will be blocked.

This only shows that you are illiterate on the subject. Words are fungible and they migrate easily. By themselves they prove nothing about the underlying thing. To say that the shehnai is a Muslim import because the word has Persian colouring is no different from saying that the samosa is foreign because the word derives from sambusa. The Indian samosa is not the Central Asian sambusa. It is a distinct creation shaped within a very old Indian culinary tradition of filled pastry. The same applies here. The shehnai belongs to an old Indian double-reed tradition. Folk instruments such as the pungi or been are part of that continuum. In the South, the nadaswaram stands as a highly developed instrument of deep antiquity. Double-reed aerophones existed outside India too, in other lands and under other names. But India had its own indigenous reed traditions long before Islamic contact. To wave around a Persianised label and declare foreign origin is the mark of an imbecile. Another example from Goa. The village community organisation is today known by the Portuguese term Comunidade. By your logic, and Ram Guha’s, that would make it a Portuguese creation. But the institution is far older than the label. It is an ancient system of collective village ownership and management known as Gaunkari. Fools see a foreign word and immediately infer a foreign origin. I could give more examples, but even a wretched anti-Hindu hag as you should be able to grasp the point by now. Cc: @RajeevSrinivasa @RajivMessage