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It is not wrong to demolish the old and build something new in its place. I'm all for it. Culture should never be (rather, cannot be) static. The problem with
by butterNaN 4y ago
It is not wrong to demolish the old and build something new in its place. I'm all for it. Culture should never be (rather, cannot be) static.
The problem with RSS/BJP is that their focus is more on demolition; their 'new' department lacks things like basic aesthetic sense. Their vision lacks originality, indigenuity in all things. They seem to simply imitate dominant forms (currently western culture and capitalism), and make surface-level adjustments and call it 'Indian'.
One would argue even their vision of neo-Hinduism itself is essentially a copy of traits from Abrahamic religion, but surface level adjustments such as what deities to worship. There is no philosophical inquiry any more, in fact anything other branch than _Bhakti_ ("devotion", or personally I would call "blind devotion") is rejected. Anything that doesn't conform to hierarchy is rejected.
Their monuments aren't inspiring, their plans for the future are lazily researched, everything they do seems a shallow copy something else. The very currency notes they introduced are ugly.
- kranner 4y ago> The very currency notes they introduced are ugly. Also, the paper is flimsy, the colour runs if you get them wet, and the visually-impaired can't tell them apart [1]. Classic BJP last-minute my-nephew-can-do-this-cheaper implementation. [1] https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-india-s-blind-people-struggle-to-recognise-new-banknotes-13231 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-india-s-blind-people-s...
- Sai_ 4y agoYes. These guys worship Ram, a reticent and self effacing king, while also making the largest cricket stadium in the world and naming it after an active politician - Modi. Their hero worship of both Ram and Modi is a type of political bipolar disorder.