Letters from the basement
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Letters from the basementJun 13, 2021
Letter 13: Indian state's continuing assault on Hindu festivals, language wars in Tamil Nadu temples, temple demolitions and secularism of Jharkhand assembly
This podcast covers everything about being a Hindu in secular, socialist India. We publish a new letter here on alternate weeks discussing the intersection of culture and politics in India from a Hindu perspective. If that’s something you are interested in, please subscribe to this podcast.
In this letter, continuing assault of Indian state on Hindu festivals, this time it’s Ganesha Chaturthi and Diwali; how the country remembered Malabar Hindu genocide; language battles in Tamil Nadu have reached temples in that state; Jharkhand assembly has established a new ideal for secularism; there is a pandemic of temple demolition; and Assam government comes face to face with illegal infiltrators.
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Letter 12: Partition horrors remembrance day, Periyarist government's assault on temples in Tamil Nadu, a deep-dive into Malabar Hindu Genocide
This podcast covers everything about being a Hindu in secular, socialist India. We publish a new episode here every week discussing the intersection of culture and politics in India from a Hindu perspective. If that’s something you are interested in, please subscribe to this podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts.
In this episode, we discuss the partition horrors remembrance day, Taliban take over of Afghanistan, yet another assault on Hindus in Tamil Nadu by the Periyarist government in that state and a deep-dive into what happened during Malabar Hindu genocide exactly a 100 years ago.
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Letter 11: August 15, is it really Independence Day for Hindus in India?
In this letter, I ask the following question. Is 15 August a day that deserves to be celebrated by Hindus in India as Independence day? To be able to answer that question, we need answer to another question. What did we gain independence from on August 15, 1947? The immediate response that comes to mind is, from the colonial rule of the British. We secured an ability to make laws for ourselves and an end to being treated as second class people in our own country. So, the question really is, have Hindus in India experienced any of these in the last 74 years? By the end of this letter, I will answer that.
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Letter 10: Right-wing, left-wing and Hindus in India
In this episode of letters from the basement, we examine the idea of right-wing vs left-wing politics and ask if this political dichotomy is relevant in the context of Hindus living in India.
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Letter 9: The Hindu rate of growth
In this 9th letter from the basement, we cover
- the celebration of Ramayanam month in Kerala
- Supreme Court of India tries to prevent 3rd wave of COVID in UP but not Kerala
- Indian judiciary doesn't believe justice delayed is justice denied
- Modi government’s sabka saath policy on full display
- Kerala's 80-20 formula for distribution of minority scholarships
- a deep dive into what is called the Hindu rate of growth.
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Letter 8: Dear Hindus.................a letter from Palghar
On 16th April 2020 hundreds of people armed with sticks, rods and other weapons assembled and brutally lynched to death two sadhus belonging to the Juna Akhada, Kalpavriksha Giri Maharaj and Sushil Giri Maharaj. Along with them their driver Nilesh Telgade was also killed. What makes this incident even worse is that it happened as the police simply stood by watching, like spectators. The police didn’t just fail in their duty to protect the sadhus. They in fact handed them over to the blood lusting mob. What happened in Palghar on that day is emblematic of how Hindus have been treated in India since 1947. We have been mobbed from every side by hostile forces. And the Indian state that we had empowered to give us equality and security has not just turned a blind eye but has become an active participant in our discrimination.
Letter 7: Undemocratic: the story of radical Left's war on democracy in India
Since 2014, when Narendra Modi was elected Prime Minister of India, the country has suffered a constant assault of agitations and riots orchestrated by the radical Left activists. Leftists resorting to these kinds of tactics to undermine the outcome of the democratic process is not at all surprising; that’s what they have been doing in our country and across the world whenever they lost control over the government.
In this podcast, I take a look at how the radical left has been subverting democracy in India through use of violence and has been attempting to deny us, the people of this country, the right to determine government policies. Watch to understand their tactics and methods.
My vlog on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): lettersfrombasement.in/2020/01/19/the-citizenship-amendment-act/
Letter 6: Kerala, Communists, Statues and Hypocrisy
Letter 5: Pinarayi 2.0 and A Game of Thrones in Kerala
Letter 4: Why is a Soumya from Kerala among victims of terrorism in Israel
Letter 3: Post-election violence in Bengal: 2021 season
As this perversion of democracy is still unfolding, the Indian state and those responsible for upholding the constitution have turned a blind eye. In this byte from the basement, I examine the cast of characters in this tragedy and identify those who are persecuting Hindus of Bengal and those who have abandoned them after promising justice.
Letter 2: Rahul Gandhi's (logic) free speech on COVID vaccine
Indian National Congress party’s owner and MP from Wayanad in Kerala, Rahul Gandhi has recently discovered the meaning of word “free”. But he is yet to discover that free doesn’t just mean getting things without paying for them but also for being able to think without restrictions. In this byte from the basement I look at what is driving his demand for free COVID vaccines and dive deep into the consequences of following up on that demand.
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Letter 1: Welcome to the basement