Comments on: Ignorance as an Opinion Piece

By: larissa

larissa — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:16:17 +0000

As regards the silly comments about how Hhindus persecuted Buddhists by Naqvi, I recall it was either Huen Tsang or Fa Hien who wrote that he was unable to distinguish between Hindus and Buddhists in Kashmir. That should tell the author something. It is the same way till today in places like Nepal where Hindus and Buddhists celebrate each others holidays…(of course the country now is Maoist and different)..But now even Nepal is rapidly turning Christian as well….The Koreans have mostly given up their Buddhism…you see it of import in Japan…

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By: Bhavananda

Bhavananda — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:57:32 +0000

The fact that Muslims and Christians have been appointing themselves as experts on Hindu history is only corollary to the principle that they have been victors, who have ruled over the Hindus for over 800 yrs. It is then hardly surprising that history has been written by the victorious.

All this big talk of “Unity in Diversity” is simply big talk to keep the rule going, because Hindus have always been diverse, never united!

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:38:02 +0000

It is quite amazing how Muslims and Christians so coolly appoint themselves as experts on Hindu history.

By: Harshit

Harshit — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:30:36 +0000

??? “Mayawati busy erecting statues of Buddhist figures” ???

Since when did Mayawati or Kanshi Ram or BR Ambedkar become “Buddhist figures” ?

By: Harshit

Harshit — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:16:14 +0000

I agree with Madhav. Javed Naqvi is an Indian indeed. (I remember he used to come on some news show on DD about 10 years ago.)

An Indian distorting Indian history to defend Taliban cause. It all makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

By: larissa

larissa — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:56:39 +0000

I would add that apart from the destruction of their centers of learning, and apart from the wholesale massacre of Buddhists of Cental Asia and Afghanistan by barbaric invaders, Buddhism also became very over intellectualized–losing its connect with the lay people. This is one reason for its decline in India even before the Islamic invasions. Sure it enountered some hostility from Brahmins as any new movement enounters hostitliy, but not to the extent that they resorted to wholesale massacre of Buddhists as the author of the above article asserts.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:30:18 +0000

There is a bit of Taliban in every Muslim, from Javed Naqvi to Saeed Naqvi to Javed Akhtar. Mocking other faiths, fudging history, inventing “facts” and denying reality comes naturally to them.

These “English outside, Taliban inside” Muslims have a fan following in some deranged Hindus who have addled their brains with marxism and Nehruvian secularism. But essentially, these kind of Hindus are only “useful idiots” for the Muslim “intellectuals.”

Actually, what Naqvi does in the above opinion peice is the “you too” strategy. In this, when one finds facts about oneself that are shameful and too difficult to digest, then he turns around at others and alleges: “You too are like this.” This is what Naqvi is doing in this writeup.

By: Madhav

Madhav — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:12:38 +0000

Good work. Keep more of those coming. One minor thing Sandeep,
I think Naqvi is an Indian citizen based in Delhi. He just contributes articles to the dawn on issues pertaining to India in his own puke worthy way.

By: raj

raj — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:57:55 +0000

“Sigh. Now we have to contend with Indian history pontificators from across the border. As if our homegrown stalwarts aren’t enough.”

I beleive that Jawed Naqvi is a Delhi-based indian journalist.