Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

 Values of Indian Constitution Endangered: Heading Towards Hindu Rastra? Values of Indian Constitution Endangered: Heading Towards Hindu Rastra? Posted on 27/01/2024 (GMT 08:50 hrs) Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. He who laughs Has not yet heard The terrible tidings. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice! And he who walks calmly across the street, Is he not out of reach of his friends In trouble? It is true: I earn my living But, believe me, it is only an accident. Nothing that I do entitles me to eat my fill. By chance I was spared. (If my luck leaves me I am lost.) They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad you have it! But how can I eat and drink When my food is snatched from the hungry And my glass of water belongs to the thirsty? And yet I eat and drink. I would gladly be wise. The old books tell us what wisdom is: Avoid the strife of t...

  An Incessant Struggle for Being a Homogenized, Pasteurized, Essentialist and Standardized Akhanḍa Hindu Rāṣṭra: Bharatiya Janata Party An Incessant Struggle for Being a Homogenized, Pasteurized, Essentialist and Standardized Akhanḍa Hindu Rāṣṭra: Bharatiya Janata Party Posted on 22/01/2024 (GMT 08:00 hrs) DOI:  10.13140/RG.2.2.14648.93443 License:  CC BY 4.0 Introduction The day’s 22nd January, 2024. The nation-state of India is witnessing the worst day in its history. The “Ram Temple” in Ayodhya is being inaugurated by an incumbent Prime Minister of a Constitutionally Secular nation! What a sorry, sad, extremely saddening, disheartening state of affairs. The Idea of India as posed by the stalwarts such as Gandhi, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh and others lay in the dust, trampled by the cacophonous, commodified spectacle of the Hindutvavadin’s dream-project: the undivided Hindu nation-state. It is nothing more than a politics of exclusion, of getting hold of the electorat...