Rotting Wings And The Lacking Wits
“Icarus crafted two wings to fly to freedom, but forgot they were never made to make him soar so high.” — me cause I couldn't find a quote to fit the situation better
I watched Samay Raina's comeback video today, and it made me think of the situation this country is in.
In a country where politicians get away from saying women should enjoy rape and nobody bats an eye, but only one unfunny joke can pull out so much outrage from the common people. It shouldn't really be such a surprise that India has become the land of fools.
The golden bird is dimwitted now. With both of her wings slowly rotting away.
Now let's come to the main topic as to why I'm making such a criptic post in the first place. This is supposed to be a rant post so let's get into it.
Right Wing in India is the single most illogical and irrational thing in this whole country's human history starting from Harappa to present day.
There support for the Hindutva ideology, or the “Hindu Rashtra” they want this country to become, or even their multiple attempts to protect the “sanskriti and culture”. It is all senseless and somewhat hilarious to think about. Given half of them barely even read the books of things the founders of the ideology said about. And the other half aren't even aware of what their own religious texts of scriptures mention.
I find these people no better than Islamists in their behaviour or ideologies, only that they just exist in a different orange font.
The whole Hindutva ideology is based on the writings and ideas of people like Savarkar and Golwalkar. Which are a whole horrendous topic on their own.
Having read some parts of Savarkar's book ‘Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History’ and having a look into the kind of things he believed in. It is now really hard for me to believe the ideology that he's credited as the father of, is any better than him.
Savarkar's ideas in his books not only range from being Aryan supremacist or dismissive of other religions like Buddhism or Sikhism and calling them as Hindus. But he was also in support of this disgusting idea that the kings and rulers of older times should have done revenge rape on Muslim women as an way to assert their dominance.
Not to mention he had a very stupid idea of how History.
Golwalkar is another that the Right Wing Hindutva supporters love to death. I do not know if they are educated enough on his support of the Holocaust, or are they simply following whatever is fed to them by the narrative of this ideology. Whatever it is, they aren't worth to even speak about the future of this country. Let alone bring changes to it.
One more thing that I find super frustrating about Right Wing in India is their behaviour to the casteism. Yes, Casteism wasn't originally a part of Hinduism. Yes, saying Hinduism automatically has casteism in it is wrong. But so is denying casteism ever existed in India.
Right Wing loves to pretend as if Casteism was a propaganda spread by Britishers to divide the country or convert Hindus. While in reality, Casteism has already started to take hold in the society long before that since the mediaeval period.
Denying it is just pure hypocrisy and egoistic.
There are too many faults in the Right Wing, starting from their claim to protect Hinduism and the sanskriti. While they know shit about Hinduism and what the original texts like Vedas and Upanishads even say. And if you point that out to them, they'd being out some wrong evidences without even context to support their claims.
The best example of this is the not to recent outrage that happened on the topic if Ram ate meat or not. Though the video was posted by Dhruv Rathee and neither do I trust him or his views, and neither have I bothered to watch his video. I did came accross a lot of posts and videos that were claiming Ram was vegetarian and they have proof.
Which was hilarious tbh. Because in one perticular post that I came accross, they werr literally throwing in verses from Valmiki Ramayan — and not giving context and translating it properly — to justify their claim.
They also posted some Rig Vedic verses that were again without context. The most hilarious part? Thise verses were not even mentioning humans but rather cannibalistic demons.
And this is the level of dumassry the right wing shows.
[ I had a similar debate with a family member too not long ago, and yes I'm very frustrated to say she too had no idea of what she was talking about]
Other than that, we already know how stupid the whole Bajrang Dal is, and what shitfuckery they go around doing. That deserves it's own rant post so I'll leave it to that.
Right Wing's so called dreams of making India an “Hindu Rashtra” has always been shit and outright fucking disgusting. And it will continue to be shit.
India is not only just the country of Hindus, but since the ancient times has also been the country that has been native to Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and all the other tribal religions. And it would also continue to be the home of all others like Parsis, Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Claiming India should be an Hindu Rashtra is saying you do not give a flying fuck about anyone of all these people. And that is exactly what Right Wing is.
I would credit the Indian Right Wing fully to why and how foreigners or even Indians themselves have such shit view on Indians and Hinduism. Because the presentation is so bad, it is bound that the assumption would be bad as well.
This however does not mean I agree witn anything the Indian Left Wing say. Left Wing supporters in this country is as hypocritical as Right Wing supporters.
The only difference being Left is fully anti Hindu, and somehow has this weird idea, terrorism has no religion or that our dear old neighbour is the most peaceful country in this whole planet.
The most stupidity Left Wing shows claiming we should view Islamists and Muslims differently and seperate from eachother. And then turning around to say all Hindus who talk about welfare and safety of Hindus are Hindutvavadis.
Now isn't this simply ragebait and hypocrisy? (God I've used that word in this post more times than any political parties have done any actual welfare in this nation)
Left Wing even after having the potential to stick to their original ideologies have done neither that nor anything else that would make me personally want to follow them.
Their constant ignorance for issues that are faced by my people while leaving no place to take a stand for everything else that is wrong with other situations in this world. The Left Wing feels extremely west centric and anti Indian to me.
And ofcourse there are those brilliant minds among them as well. Who have somehow decided any or every issues of genocides that Hindus face are solely the fault of Hindus or “brahminical ideas”. May it be the situation with Kashmiri pandits, or the multiple religion centric terror attacks or situations in Murshidabad or even Bangladesh.
With both wings of ideologies being shit in this country, I can't help but be frustrated with the lack of centrist ideologies or centrist political parties in this countries. There isn't any proper balance in anything. We are doomed. We have always been doomed.
We might laugh at America or Americans for being “dumb” or not knowing anything that happens in the world. But in all honesty, currently India isn't very far from becoming the second America in terms of having political ideology wars or people just simply being too foolish to even have basic critical thinking skills.
In a country where people are still fighting over whether marital rape is a crime or if speaking any other language than the regional one should result in violence. Where real issues are very skillfully ignored to debate on comedians and movie actors. There's isn't much that you can actually do for this country, because the people are simply too dumb.
You cannot help the people if they are so hellbent on drowning. It's now simply a game of luck to be born in this nation and live a good life.
