1. Oliver Stone was attacked for his movie on Alexander The Great as it showed that he was defeated in India. However that is the historical reality. But it irks the west wehn Hindus are not dhown as meek cowards. Indeed if this was the case India would not have had independence
2. Gandhi is now portrayed as the ideal icon for Hindus: defeatist, passive, never fight back, eschew modernity. But his ideas were less workable than urban planning under the Khmer Rouge. Indian independence struggle started with Hindu revolutionaries.
3. Such figures swore oath in front of Durga and Kali Mata. British left India because with the formation of INA and naval mutiny they would not guarantee to hold on by force. Hence Churchill had his revenge with creating Pakistan.
4. Mathew Arnold had composed his famous lines andhad the Buddha and similar Hindu sages in mind when he wrote the following famous lines:
The East bowed low before the blast,
In patient deep disdain;
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.
The East bowed low before the blast,
In patient deep disdain;
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.
5. Little did the poet suspect that his tribute to Hindu spirituality would be twisted to embellish an imperialist version of Indian history according to which the meek Hindu had always been preoccupied with sterile speculations, and seldom stood up in defence of his culture.
6. This is the weak narrative they prefer so the Hindu should be obedient and take orders but if if speaks up for himself he is then a fascist. But history tells a different story. while their own ancestors ended up in the museum, the Hindu pagans fought across 800 years.
7. And they fought with extreme heroism buntil they destroyed the Mughal empire in the 18th century. This is the level of resistance is unmatched in the indigenous pagan world where most ended up in the museum so of course it hurts these losers who now rely on artefacts.
8. Making a mythical past with Viking warriors and the music of Richard Wagner. fact is that Hindsu resisted and defeated the remnants of Islamic imperialism. But the latter was helped by the British. If Churchill had had his dream all India would have been Islamic.
9. Can anyone imagine how the west would fare if we had all India converted to Islam as Aurangzeb, Maulana Azad, Maududi, and Churchill dreamed of. It would dwarf all terrorist atatcks to date.
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