Are the seculars & liberals in India, losing the hopes for social survival?

The Semantic Trap of the ‘Western Paradigm Prison’

‘Seculars & liberals have lost moral authority only because they condone all crimes against Hindus from conversion to killing.’ - Tweeted @sgurumurthy

‘Sadly both are clueless!’ – Respond tweeted @madhukishwar

The above tweets motivated me to raise and explore the answer to the above question, in view of my unusual background and experiences.

I was once a staunch ‘PeriyAr’ E.V.R supporter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periyar_E._V._Ramasamy )& hence experienced the extreme mind set of the seculars & liberals. I was convinced that the ‘nationalism’ of India was anti-Tamil & anti-Tamils, justifying the demand of the separation of Tamilnadu, from India.

Fed up with the dominating selfish emotional trend in public life, during the rule of the Dravidian parties in Tamilnadu, I diversified to music related application of Physics to the ancient Tamil texts. In the process, I discovered how ‘PeriyAr’ E.V.R & the seculars & liberals, unconsciously led themselves to become the victims of the anti-Swadeshi colonial conspiracy. (‘The Dravidian Movement & Rescuing Tamilnadu’; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2014/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_10.html )

Also I doubt if the ‘seculars & liberals’ are aware of the ‘probable pitfalls in the western based rationalist approach’ (http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2014/09/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_19.html )

If they continue to be the prisoners of the western paradigm through the following semantic trap, they will become irrelevant to the Indian society.

‘The semantic trap of the western origin words; like caste, religion, Hindu, nation, nationalism, classical & folk; denying the evolution of the Indian rooted meanings and concepts through the process of modernization without westernization, is now effectively challenged.’ (‘What is wrong with importing Euro-centric nationalism to India? A criticism on Romila Thapar’s ‘ON NATIONALISM’ ; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2016/07/what-is-wrong-withimporting-euro.html )

In my view, seculars & liberals in TN are in the process of alienation from the common public, speeded up during the Modi era.

The resulting decline of the political parties supported by the seculars & liberals, unless reversed, may lead to depriving the potential opposition to the Modi govt, essential to serve the interests of the Indian democracy.

Fortunately the opposition from RSS serve the purpose of safeguarding the interests of the country and democracy. ((The Modi governments reform agenda continues to face opposition from the RSS. http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/the-modi-governments-reform-agenda-continues-to-face-opposition-from-the-rss/story/244680.html  )

Also R.S.S is emerging as the only mass based organization to rescue all the Indian languages, facing demise due to the onslaught of the English medium western worshipping education business. (‘Why RSS, the only option, to rescue the TN Tamil Medium Education & hence Tamil?’; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.sg/2015/11/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_10.html ) 

Minus the ‘periodic’ social oxygen supplied by the ‘cow vigilantes’ & ‘over enthusiastic censor officials’ deleting few words in the documentary on Amartya Sen (note below),  are the seculars & liberals in India, losing the hopes for social survival?

‘Also as the pro-Hindutva writer S.Gurumurthy, the editor of Tamil weekly ‘thugLak’, had rightly observed, the fast weakening of the Congress party, will not prove to be good in the interests of democracy. In the interests democracy & to strengthen a right opposition to BJP, anti-Hindutva scholars, need to distance themselves, from anti-Swadeshi forces with camouflaged ‘Anti-Hindutva’ masks, and be familiar with the ground level realities, & emerging new polarization- pro-Swadeshi & anti-Swadeshi polarization.’ (http://veepandi.blogspot.sg/2017/06/why-karl-marx-on-castes-in-india-noam.html )

Note:

 ‘When AIADMK leader Jayalalitha replaced DMK leader Karunanidhi as TN CM after the previous assembly elections, the Tamil word & the picture for ‘sun’ – சூரியன், the symbol of DMK, were removed from the school text books all over in TN, by the officials of the education dept (like the above censor board officials), a great mockery witnessed by TN public.’;http://veepandi.blogspot.sg/2017/06/why-karl-marx-on-castes-in-india-noam.html  

Why Karl Marx on castes in India, Noam Chomsky on Nandigram and Amartya Sen on Modi, were wrong?

Physicists knew that the application of the laws of macro-Physics to micro-Physics (Quantum Physics) would lead to wrong results, while in the convergence region, both of them have the link of joining- the higher limit of Micro-Physics & the lower limit of Macro-Physics.(https://socratic.org/questions/how-does-quantum-mechanics-differ-from-classical-mechanics ; ‘Our analysis shows that classical and quantum matter waves are distinguished by two different choices of the dynamics of their amplitudes rather than two values of Planck's constant.’; http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-8949/90/10/108009  & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_limit ) Unaware of the changes in the world of atoms and molecules, & continuing the pre-change perception w.r.t the objects consisting of those atoms and molecules undergoing changes, may lead to wrong observations.

Physicists will not fall into the trap of extending their skills of macro-level observations, unaware of their limitations to the micro-level world of atoms and molecules.

Like the caution practiced by the Physicists living in the macro-physics related world, while approaching a problem in micro-physics;

The socio-physicists making observations at the macro-level, need to be cautious in the observations at the micro-level. Failures in observing the caution may lead to absurd observations. Unless one is familiar of the ground realities of the society at the micro-level, such failures become inevitable.

For example;

Divorced from the ground level realities and relying on the media and books, even great scholars, would make wrong observations and predictions on India. That was how Karl Marx predicted that the railways and the modern industries would help in destroying castes, as shown below.

“ The railway-system will therefore become, in India, truly the forerunner of modern industry.------ Modern industry, resulting from the railway system, will dissolve the hereditary divisions of labor, upon which rest the Indian castes, those decisive impediments to Indian progress and Indian power.”

-          Karl Marx on ‘The Future Results of British Rule in India’ in the New-York Semi-Weekly Tribune.

India, at present, is mainly perceived by the anti-Hindutva scholars, as polarized into pro-Hindutva & anti-Hindutva camps at the macro-level. Such misconceived polarization helps to camouflage the actual multi-dimensional contradictions at the micro-level. 

Worse will be the case of the great scholars with preconceived notions w.r.t India;

Misleading them to make wrong observations as in the cases of Noam Chomsky and Amartya Sen.

The preconceived notion of the great scholar Noam Chomsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky ) with respect to the then leftist rule in West Bengal, misled him to the wrong observation on the Nandigram struggle. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandigram_violence  & https://mronline.org/2007/11/26/response-to-noam-chomsky-howard-zinn-et-al-on-nandigram/ )  The people of the West Bengal, during the later general elections, disproved the wrong observation of Noam Chomsky, by dethroning the leftist rule.

Like Noam Chomsky, the prominent economist and the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen ) had commented before the parliamentary elections; "As an Indian citizen I don't want Modi as my PM... He has not done enough to make minorities feel safe,"

In contradiction to the above statement by the scholar Amartya Sen, living abroad, Maulana Mahmood Madani, general secretary of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, had revealed “There is a perceptible change and circumstances are different now. Muslims in Gujarat are economically better off than in several states which have so-called secular governments in power. More innocent Muslims are in the prisons of Maharashtra than in Gujarat. The human rights record of several states with secular governments in power is deplorable and the economic situation of Muslims in West Bengal is shocking. These states don’t have a Modi at the helm. We cannot ignore this ground reality,”

Subsequently BJP won in the elections in Gujarat, even in the Muslim dominated constituencies confirming the above statement.

India is now in a transition phase in which a growing section including the minorities and the youth are fed up with the negative hate divisive polarized politics and aspire for a positive, inclusive, corruption – free, & development oriented governance leading to a hopeful future.

 

Another weakening sections consisting mainly middle aged and above, still live in the past and try in vain to waste the present to settle the scores of the past. The minorities belonging to this section are angry with those Muslims like Maulana Mahmood Madani, for openly expressing their above mentioned support to Modi. Sad that Amaratya Sen had identified himself with that weakening section through his wrong observation.

From pro-Hindutva & anti-Hindutva polarization, India is now in transition towards pro-Swadeshi & anti-Swadeshi polarization.

Unaware of the changes in the micro-world of world of atoms (ordinary people) and molecules (micro-level leaders) , & continuing the pre-change perception (pro-Hindutva & anti-Hindutva polarization) w.r.t the objects consisting of those atoms and molecules undergoing changes, may lead to wrong observations, ignorant of post-change pro-Swadeshi & anti-Swadeshi polarization.

The people of West Bengal proved that Noam Chomsky was wrong on the Nandigram struggle. In the ensuing parliamentary elections, the people of India will prove that Amartya Sen was wrong on Modi.

The above written before the parliamentary elections, was validated by the subsequent results of the parliamentary elections, selecting Modi, as the PM of India.

Anti-Hindutva ‘celebrities’ like Arundhati Roy need to be aware of the pitfalls of the decaying polarization of pro-Hindutva & anti-Hindutva.

Do thug leaders associated with separatists, regional chauvinistic, Casteist, etc divisive movements, by posing themselves as anti-Hindutva, succeed in securing support from anti-Hindutva ‘celebrities’ like Arundhati Roy?  If true, will people like Arundhati Roy, Amaratya Sen & Noam Chomsky, wake up to identify their failure w.r.t the ground realities of the society of India at the micro-level, leading to their wrong observations at the macro-level of India, due to their misconceived pro-Hindutva & anti-Hindutva  polarization at the macro-level.

Other all India parties like Congress, etc relied on their misconceived pro-Hindutva & anti-Hindutva  polarization at the macro-level to oppose PM Modi, and hence witnessed more and more alienation from the masses.

Also as the pro-Hindutva writer S.Gurumurthy, the editor of Tamil weekly ‘thugLak’, had rightly observed, the fast weakening of the Congress party, will not prove to be good in the interests of democracy. In the interests democracy & to strengthen a right opposition to BJP, anti-Hindutva scholars, need to distance themselves, from anti-Swadeshi forces with camouflaged ‘Anti-Hindutva’ masks, and be familiar with the ground level realities, & emerging new polarization- pro-Swadeshi & anti-Swadeshi polarization.

Pro-Swadeshi will strengthen a person and his/her country to preserve the diversity, in the unity of the globalization.

Note:
1. . India’s film censors have ordered that a documentary about the economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen be altered to remove words including the 4 words  “cow”, “Hindu India”, “Hindutva” & “Gujarat”, the director has said. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/indian-film-censors-demand-removal-hindu-cow-film-nobel-amartya-sen ) If true,PM Modi need to rectify the unpardonable pitfall, in the functioning of the censor board. When AIADMK leader Jayalalitha replaced DMK leader Karunanidhi as TN CM after the previous assembly elections, the Tamil word & the picture for ‘sun’ – சூரியன், the symbol of DMK, were removed from the school text books all over in TN, by the officials of the education dept  (like the above censor board officials), a great mockery witnessed by TN public.

2. I value the great contribution of Noam Chomsky to the modern linguistics. My research discovering 'Musical Phonetics in tholkAppiam' (The journal from the International Institute of Tamil Studies, Taramani, Chennai- 2013; http://www.ulakaththamizh.org/JOTSAArticle.aspx?id=223  ) revealing the universal music grammar for matching the lyrics in all syllabic languages with music;

in association with the current researches on 'Mathematics & Music' may lead to the realization of Chomsky’s prediction:  "the rise of the new field of mathematical linguistics, a field that submits to abstract study the class of generative systems meeting the conditions set forth in universal grammar.";

which, in  turn, will lead to developing 'unbelievable' applications, involving NLP (Natural Language Processing)