French President Emmanuel Macron has sparked a fresh global debate on nationalism versus patriotism. Here is what I had written in August 2014. Good time to put it to a reality check.
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Sycophancy is one of important reasons for our present lack of balance in public life.Running down institutions instead of strengthening them is the result of this.Your interview with the author of Sarkari Muussalman should have a follow on episode.With the latest conviction of the guilty in 1984 riots the fate of reports on the 2002 riots by Lt.Gen Shah and similar first hand reports need to be reviewed by our justice system . Seems all politicos are guilty of supporting riots and allowing mob rule to become acceptable.
maybe one needs to listen to Kanhaiya Kumar – we were always this way – the difference being that what was discussed beind closed doors in the family – is now out in the open – family.
After reading this article, I feel even you have undergone a “PORIBOTON”
This article gives me feeling of sense and sensibility of being a human being. But when I think of the article you wrote on Virat Kohli recently, where he advised one of his fans to leave India, I get a feeling that you have justified the same majoritarianism, which you rightly condemned, over four years ago, in this article.
“Where I see the rise of an illiberal, irritable and sometimes petulant new India”
Shekhar, this is the title of your article. “Rise” and “new” are redundant words in it. The sentence should be reconstructed to somehow use the word: ALWAYS.
We Indians have been always illiberal, irritable and petulant because these are the traits of ANY person/people who suffer(s) from INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Yes, we as an entire nation suffer from this complex. Why? I don’t know!
Hindutva people are a little MORE illiberal, irritable and petulant because they suffer a little more from inferiority complex. Why? I can guess: Because they are hell bugged that no one believes in the concept of “Sonae ki chidiya” !!! If I want everyone to ENDORSE that something in me or something about me is THE BEST, then obviously I’m not sure about it myself. That’s my inferiority complex!
As an Independent Researcher in Psychology, I may humbly put that there is a high amount of error in raising children, which has been carried on from ages and which has been increasing. One generation of natural and error-less upbringing can begin the turn into a country of self confidence and prosperity. @gmybird
Till quite recently, had not thought of nationalism and patriotism being as dissimilar as President Macron – earlier George Orwell – has explained to us. The underlying assumption, even if not clearly articulated, was that the country we all love so deeply would be essentially a decent one, admired in many parts of the world for sustaining a genuine democracy when so many of what are considered its essential requirements / prerequisites were missing, much more in 1947 than today. If one reads stories / assessments in the western media – not out of any slavish devotion to the Caucasians – these are turning increasingly critical, expressing a sense of disappointment. Whether cause or effect, this heightened sense of nationalism seems congruent with a shrinking list of things that should make us feel genuinely proud. Hamara waqt guzar gaya, lekin the young should worry deeply about the path we seem to be moving down.
Sycophancy is one of important reasons for our present lack of balance in public life.Running down institutions instead of strengthening them is the result of this.Your interview with the author of Sarkari Muussalman should have a follow on episode.With the latest conviction of the guilty in 1984 riots the fate of reports on the 2002 riots by Lt.Gen Shah and similar first hand reports need to be reviewed by our justice system . Seems all politicos are guilty of supporting riots and allowing mob rule to become acceptable.
maybe one needs to listen to Kanhaiya Kumar – we were always this way – the difference being that what was discussed beind closed doors in the family – is now out in the open – family.
After reading this article, I feel even you have undergone a “PORIBOTON”
This article gives me feeling of sense and sensibility of being a human being. But when I think of the article you wrote on Virat Kohli recently, where he advised one of his fans to leave India, I get a feeling that you have justified the same majoritarianism, which you rightly condemned, over four years ago, in this article.
“Where I see the rise of an illiberal, irritable and sometimes petulant new India”
Shekhar, this is the title of your article. “Rise” and “new” are redundant words in it. The sentence should be reconstructed to somehow use the word: ALWAYS.
We Indians have been always illiberal, irritable and petulant because these are the traits of ANY person/people who suffer(s) from INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Yes, we as an entire nation suffer from this complex. Why? I don’t know!
Hindutva people are a little MORE illiberal, irritable and petulant because they suffer a little more from inferiority complex. Why? I can guess: Because they are hell bugged that no one believes in the concept of “Sonae ki chidiya” !!! If I want everyone to ENDORSE that something in me or something about me is THE BEST, then obviously I’m not sure about it myself. That’s my inferiority complex!
As an Independent Researcher in Psychology, I may humbly put that there is a high amount of error in raising children, which has been carried on from ages and which has been increasing. One generation of natural and error-less upbringing can begin the turn into a country of self confidence and prosperity. @gmybird
Till quite recently, had not thought of nationalism and patriotism being as dissimilar as President Macron – earlier George Orwell – has explained to us. The underlying assumption, even if not clearly articulated, was that the country we all love so deeply would be essentially a decent one, admired in many parts of the world for sustaining a genuine democracy when so many of what are considered its essential requirements / prerequisites were missing, much more in 1947 than today. If one reads stories / assessments in the western media – not out of any slavish devotion to the Caucasians – these are turning increasingly critical, expressing a sense of disappointment. Whether cause or effect, this heightened sense of nationalism seems congruent with a shrinking list of things that should make us feel genuinely proud. Hamara waqt guzar gaya, lekin the young should worry deeply about the path we seem to be moving down.