Introduction:
Real crime of these eminences does not lie in the loss they have inflicted in terms of money. It lies in the condition to which they have reduced institutions. It lies in their dereliction - because of which projects that were important for our country, have languished. It lies even more in the use to which they have put those institutions. But the worst of it is that they have used their control of these institutions to pervert public discourse and thereby derail public policy.
They have made India out to have been an empty land filled by successive invaders. They have made present day India and Hinduism, even more so, out to be a zoo- an agglomeration of assorted disparate specimens.
They have belittled our ancient culture and exaggerated syncretistic elements which survived and made them out to have been an entire 'culture', the 'composite culture' as they call it. And all the while, they have taken care to hide the central facts about these common elements in the life of our people.
These intellectuals and their patrons have worked a diabolic inversion: the inclusive religion, the pluralist spiritual search our our people and land, they have projected as intolerant, narrow minded. obscurantist and the exclusivist, totalitarian, revelatory religions and ideologies - Islam and Christianity, Marxism- Leninism - they have made out to be the epitomes of tolerance, open-mindedness, democracy, secularism!
Most of all, they were able to work their mischief because of the control they came to acquire over institutions.
Also read: http://indiafacts.org/distortions-in-indian-history/
Real crime of these eminences does not lie in the loss they have inflicted in terms of money. It lies in the condition to which they have reduced institutions. It lies in their dereliction - because of which projects that were important for our country, have languished. It lies even more in the use to which they have put those institutions. But the worst of it is that they have used their control of these institutions to pervert public discourse and thereby derail public policy.
They have made India out to have been an empty land filled by successive invaders. They have made present day India and Hinduism, even more so, out to be a zoo- an agglomeration of assorted disparate specimens.
They have belittled our ancient culture and exaggerated syncretistic elements which survived and made them out to have been an entire 'culture', the 'composite culture' as they call it. And all the while, they have taken care to hide the central facts about these common elements in the life of our people.
These intellectuals and their patrons have worked a diabolic inversion: the inclusive religion, the pluralist spiritual search our our people and land, they have projected as intolerant, narrow minded. obscurantist and the exclusivist, totalitarian, revelatory religions and ideologies - Islam and Christianity, Marxism- Leninism - they have made out to be the epitomes of tolerance, open-mindedness, democracy, secularism!
Most of all, they were able to work their mischief because of the control they came to acquire over institutions.
Also read: http://indiafacts.org/distortions-in-indian-history/
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