In 'Modian Consensus', Swadesh Singh talks about how the Nehruvian Consensus demolished the ideas of the Civilisational Consensus that had spiritualism at its core.
India should aim to get European investments that are clearly no longer going to China. That is where the dots of its efforts to save Asia from China’s dominance converge at its most basic.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
This villainisation of reputed historians like Satish Chandra or Bipan Chandra etc doesn’t make sense. What makes tye RW historians think they aren’t influenced by colonial discourse? The RSS ideology itself is affected by colonial era(for e.g. they deny Aryan migration into India despite even genetic evidence today). And they overglorify Gupta age despite its short comings. “Golden age” concept itself is in a framework of European historiography. And Nehru did the right thing by making Indian question those dubious “civilisational values” or traditions. Any society which doesn’t learn to question itself will fall into Stagnation. This lack of questioning/skepticism of ancients, and villainisation of Musslim heritage, is what plagues RSS led history.
This villainisation of reputed historians like Satish Chandra or Bipan Chandra etc doesn’t make sense. What makes tye RW historians think they aren’t influenced by colonial discourse? The RSS ideology itself is affected by colonial era(for e.g. they deny Aryan migration into India despite even genetic evidence today). And they overglorify Gupta age despite its short comings. “Golden age” concept itself is in a framework of European historiography. And Nehru did the right thing by making Indian question those dubious “civilisational values” or traditions. Any society which doesn’t learn to question itself will fall into Stagnation. This lack of questioning/skepticism of ancients, and villainisation of Musslim heritage, is what plagues RSS led history.