Via the Acorn, who in this excellent short-shrift to cricket-commentator-turned-pseudo Historian, Ramachandra Guha, adequately delivers the treatment the piece deserves. From the paragraph Nitin quotes,
We need to repair, one by one, the institutions that have safeguarded our unity amidst diversity…
I challenge Mr. Guha to name exactly one institution that has done all these.
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I know of one—but Mr Guha might well disagree. The Indian Army
Nitin,
That’s the whole purpose of my challenge.
These guys are actually America’s brown sahibs. Britishers were always very overt about what they were engaged in. It’s the Americans who are pugnacious enough to pretend that they have no clue. Same with their brown sahibs - arundhatis, d’souzas, guhas, amartyas, etc….
As far as “diversity” goes, this is another case of the 4M devils quoting the scriptures. 4M’s actually destroy cultural diversity; hence their penchant for iconoclasm. Secular iconoclasm has its eyes set on making Native culture and ways of going about into a shameful affair. I’ve seen the secular infected put their puja ghars in their shoe closets..