Secular anti-Nationalism vs Cultural Nationalism

mar 17th, 2009

sounds like a very penetrating analysis.

in 60 years, the kkkangress has destroyed the moorings of indian/hindu civilization. something that the green brigade and the white brigade had failed to do for a millennium, the light-green-and-pink-chaddi brigade has managed in short order.

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From: Shahryar

Try to find this book: "INDIA: A Cultural Decline or Revival?" by Bharat Gupt   http://pseudosecularism.blogspot.com/2009/03/secular-anti-nationalism-vs-cultural.html   Secular anti-Nationalism vs Cultural Nationalism By: V Sundaram, IAS, Retd. I have just finished reading masterpiece of a book titled "INDIA A Cultural Decline or Revival"? by Bharat Gupt. The so-called educated people in India-usually pseudo-secular Indians with Western Education-take it for granted that Independence from the British Rule also ushered an era of cultural and social freedom in India. Bharat Gupt in this beautifully conceived and written book has carefully examined as to whether this is true or whether a dark age of cultural decline and barbarism descended on India after Independence. To quote the brilliant words of Bharat Gupt from his preface: "It is further imagined that in spite of its poverty, India is admired by the richer nations of the West as a culturally evolved nation. This self-congratulation, lingering from the euphoric days of our freedom struggle, sounds now like the thunder on distant mountains shedding not a glimmer of hope on our present lives. For most of us our memory is enough to be a lived-through account of the cultural decline that set in barely within a decade after freedom. Any analysis is sufficient to counter the smug belief, still fostered in schools and political speeches about the superiority of our culture, once voiced in Iqbal"s song, "Saare Jahaan se acchaa Hindustan hamaaraa". Very insidiously this rhyme nurses a misplaced conviction that while many other ancient civilizations were wiped out in time, India alone is indestructible.... The song takes special pride in stating that while the Greek and Roman civilizations, the so-called predecessors of the West, lost to ravages of time, Indian civilization alone remains immortal". ... deleted