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Ramesh Patel's avatar

its bulshit articles usal guised under liberal democratic intellectual but it is of wrong and deceitful; assumption . Congress was following its own political strategy with its economic policy without an iota of depending on indian communist. Fact is that except emergency which was supported by CPI that too Indira gandhi would have managed emergency but to to add topping on ice cream , she manage support of many small party . it is fact that many so called journalist and writer do get support and financial assistance from many USA foundation to criticise indian communist and I hope you are not one amongst them. But i pity your abysmal ignorant of congress state capitalism and side by side development of capitalist economy . To day India does have full fledge market driven economy and there are many examples of private sector success story communist parties could never stop this exponential growth of IndiAN ECONOMY . In Fact you are crediting this buffoon what they do not deserve . Example of their fool hardy was to walk out of UPA I on nuclear deal bill in parliament and they lost both credibility and say in government on certain policy matter. All the communist party of India, there is no inner democracy inside party and no free organizational election during their plenary session. why?

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if the govt takes over operation of temples, there is a danger that Hinduism will look even more like evangelical Christianity or Hasidic ravers in a few years.

also imho, secularism of the state creates the conditions for individual secularists (who see all religions as distinct but through the same lens)

over time, this leads to more and more secularists and fewer pious practitioners of religions. so it is natural to expect organized religion to be at odds with secularists.

in fact, organized religion reacts to this by more overt "marketing" efforts.

the danger is in the hijacking of less organized/centralized religions by those looking for a mop. these forces of division make a mockery out of one or two pockets of an organic culture and then portray it as the root of all evil, while pointing the finger at another group. if such people dont get laughed out of power, they possess the power and influence to carry out an intellectual genocide (and they are very easily convinced of need to do that in order to retain power)

Reservation, in India, is not a secular law because it can be easily twisted/interpreted to imply that Hindus have/need reservation, while non-Hindus dont. Legalese aside, the proponents of identity politics are in a quandary: majority of the nouveau ruling class of India does not "look" like BC/SC/ST anymore. eventually, this obvious uplifting of these historically discriminated-against groups is going to be brushed under the carpet and UC-looking Indians will be made poster children of various nefarious causes so as to justify a generational dislike of "invaders" and their purported descendants (even if they have to be imported).

The best solution, imho, is to have excess primary school capacity so that every child (and then some) can get a full education. this is not a time to declare capitalism and decree the demise of socialism. it is the time to use socialism to re-invest/re-invent India's schools to first-world standards.

divisive politicians will never support this because it educates the masses and cancels reservation/vote-bank politics. if everyone has guaranteed primary education, there is no need for reservation in education or workforce. one only has to tackle workplace discrimination after that, and than can be done without reservation laws. the sugar daddies of divisive politicians (who are mostly outside India) will never fund or support building better and more public schools in India because it will actually advance India. imho, the debate should be about what is India as a country doing for its underprivileged children instead of being about the merit of reservation, or any party's impact on the most common religion in India. if there are not enough schools, India is failing its future.

eventually, unchecked, this blind opportunistic identity politics can easily lead to Hinduism getting singled out as a 21st century version of the 4th reich.

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