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Wrapping up the "caste" panel, we hear powerful words from Dalit Activist and Senior CoHNA Member, Aldrin Deepak, who has lived and worked in the Bay Area for decades. #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 1/n
“None of my Hindu friends have ever asked me about caste. The Cisco case is where I HAD to come out as a #Dalit” -Aldrin Deepak #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 2/n
“Has oppression happened? Yes. But it has nothing to do with what is happening in America. Why has this become center-stage in California?” -Aldrin Deepak "Dalit discrimination is nothing but hatred toward “minorities of minorities." #BreakingIndiaADecadeLate 3/n
Our Caste panel now features Dalit Researcher and Activist, Prerna Thiruvaipati, who is a voice for Dalit communities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana @PrernaThiruvaip. #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
“A lot of people are coming back and embracing the path of their ancestors. They are coming back to Sanatan Dharma” - @PrernaThiruvaip 2/n #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
“Hindu daughters, Sadhus, Sanyasis, our knowledge systems, and gau matas are under attack.” @PrernaThiruvaip #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 3/n
Our next speaker, Pt. Satish Sharma, author of "Caste, Conversion A Colonial Conspiracy: What Every Hindu and Christian must know about Caste", delves into history & contemporary culture to lay out the history of how this narrative was first created #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
"Caste is the complete antithesis of everything our Sanatan teachings. They are mutually exclusive philosophies" - @thebritishhindu #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 2/n
“Caste” is an inherently hierarchical and endogamous system, deployed for the first time by Christan missionaries in India on 4th January.” @thebritishhindu #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 3/n
We now discuss one of the most important weapons being used to bludgeon the Hindu community -worldwide! A panel of scholars & activists from Dalit & other backgrounds discusses “Caste and Exploitation of Indian Faultlines”. #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater #Hinduism #dalit #caste
Dr. Arvind Sharma opens the panel, with caste and cognitive dissonance. "Hindu thinkers themselves realize that descriptions in the (Dharmic) texts, which we take for granted now, as reflecting reality, did not correspond to reality" @aravindasharma #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
“We should delve deeper into the historical evidence or the field reality of the so-called caste system, instead of being misled by an extreme focus on the texts and generalization assumption that the texts corresponded to reality” @aravindasharma #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha closes the panel on #Hinduphobia in Academia, with a rapidfire address, covering his own personal experience + his professional research on the topic. An animated discussion followed. Wait for our replay to hear that :)
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“I was and have always been a proud Hindu, a proud
Indian who speaks up for his values and civilizational heritage” - @Zeit_MjGM on fighting academic #Hinduphobia at @Cambridge_Uni . #IntellectualKshatriya 2/n
Indian who speaks up for his values and civilizational heritage” - @Zeit_MjGM on fighting academic #Hinduphobia at @Cambridge_Uni . #IntellectualKshatriya 2/n
“Discussion around the abrogation of Article 370 soon transformed into questioning the very sovereignty of India” - @Zeit_MjGM #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 3/n
The panel on #Hinduphobia opens with Dr. Kundan Singh comparing historical trends of the treatment of subjugated people at the hands of colonial powers. And how despite political correctness today, Hindus remain the one group who can still be "othered" #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
“What has happened to the Aztec people has basically happened to the Hindu people as well.” - Dr. Kundan Singh #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 2/n
“Wealth was looted from us, but more than that, intellectual wealth.” - Dr. Kundan Singh #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 3/n
Today’s session of #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater concluded with a data packed session analyzing “Constructing India - The Western Discourse on India's Fragments,” Some hard-hitting observations from Dr. Sarita Seshahgiri, Divya Nagraja, Richa Gautam 1/n
Dr. Seshahgiri emphasizes that research findings tend to exclude diverse demographics and are based on researchers’ preconceived notions #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 2/n
“To reconstruct our fragments, we need to understand how urgent it is to reclaim our civilizational value” -Dr. Seshahgiri #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 3/n
Highlights from our power packed panel,
India in the Battle of Civilizations, featuring @RajivMessage @MadhuKishwar @GeneralBakshi #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
India in the Battle of Civilizations, featuring @RajivMessage @MadhuKishwar @GeneralBakshi #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
“If our course curriculum feeds poison” to the young people “parents are helpless” - @MadhuKishwar #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
“Truth has to be based on empirical facts” -@GeneralBakshi #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
