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BJP won Uttar Pradesh Election 2022

Sometimes I feel I made a terrible mistake, staying on, when there were so many opportunities to settle into a dollar- or Euro-dominated job abroad.
Sell that flat in Punjab you once mentioned and buy some little business in Sweden? Should get you a resident permit - and ultimately a passport. :D
 
Not enough money. Maybe buy a little business in Cambodia.
You should still be able to find a job there. In education? Don't let sentimentality cloud your judgement a second time. Bangladesh may not live up to expectations.

When you leave, you may want to say - in baritone - "despising for you the city, thus I turn my back. There is a world elsewhere."


:D
 
You should still be able to find a job there. In education? Don't let sentimentality cloud your judgement a second time. Bangladesh may not live up to expectations.

When you leave, you may want to say - in baritone - "despising for you the city, thus I turn my back. There is a world elsewhere."


:D
You are amazing.

I haven't read it for forty fifty years, perhaps more.
 
You are amazing.

I haven't read it for forty fifty years, perhaps more.
Although I double-checked, I know the monologue, and a few others such, from memory. One of the great joys of my life.
 
Spine chilling.

Why did he even write this play?
There is no grand-narrative or overarching, authorial agenda, I assume. He is too intelligent to be consumed by one. Like everyone else, he is influenced by tradition. There is Homer and Virgil in the background. He also really does hold the mirror up to nature. He is showing what is. At the same time, very subtly, without proselytising, he educates us.
 
If Indians want a Hindu Rashtra... as per democracy they can.

Indian Hindus are possibly the most insecure majority who despite being 80% in number are desperate to dominate minority. Feels weird. You wouldn't find a parallel example on the planet now or in the past. The same insecurity gives Indians an itch to "prove themselves bigger" against Pakistan, a country which in comparison is only 15.9% in population and 26% on land size. Pretty pathetic! That's why we call them Indians and they call themselves Indians equally happily. Insane! Isn't it?
 
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There is no grand-narrative or overarching, authorial agenda, I assume. He is too intelligent to be consumed by one. Like everyone else, he is influenced by tradition. There is Homer and Virgil in the background. He also really does hold the mirror up to nature. He is showing what is. At the same time, very subtly, without proselytising, he educates us.
True, but every play had a theme; what was this one? patriotism betrayed, and betrayal betrayed? Coriolanus certainly belongs to the towering tragic figures he has created, perhaps more than any other; can you think of a comparable? A noble soul sickened by treachery and ingratitude.

If Indians want a Hindu Rashtra... as per democracy they can.
No, they can't. The majority cannot amend the constitution at will. It cannot tamper with the basic structure.
 
True, but every play had a theme; what was this one? patriotism betrayed, and betrayal betrayed? Coriolanus certainly belongs to the towering tragic figures he has created, perhaps more than any other; can you think of a comparable? A noble soul sickened by treachery and ingratitude.
Sure, those themes work. In the end, the tragic hero is modeled on Aristotle's description. He falls not because of malice but a tragic flaw of character - hubris that often inexorably shadows greatness. But perhaps, you are right. While this archetypal theme, based on Oedipus, is very common in tragedy, Coriolanus is particularly tragic. No wonder Beethoven loved it. It so keenly parallels his life.
 
Sure, those themes work. In the end, the tragic hero is modeled on Aristotle's description. He falls not because of malice but a tragic flaw of character - hubris that often inexorably shadows greatness. But perhaps, you are right. While this archetypal theme, based on Oedipus, is very common in tragedy, Coriolanus is particularly tragic. No wonder Beethoven loved it. It so keenly parallels his life.
I cannot think of Beethoven without two visions coming to mind. One is about the charming way in which his friends would lure him to play in spite of his fixed determination not to play at any and every request - the being left to himself in a room with a pianoforte, from which everyone slipped away in ones and twos, the increasing attention to the instrument, then the first few reluctant notes, then the abandonment and the obsessed drive to make music, while the friends listened with rapt attention from the room beyond. The other is of the old man, totally deaf, escorted to the first playing of the 9th, sitting in blank disappointment at the end, until he was turned gently by his minders to see the audience in a wild frenzy of applause.

Coriolanus is so Beethoven in this play; one can imagine the way it might have been treated, perhaps, more than any of the symphonies, one of the piano concerti. Really have to think about it.
 
Indian Hindus are possibly the most insecure majority who despite being 80% in number are desperate to dominate minority. Feels weird. You wouldn't find a parallel example on the planet now or in the past. The same insecurity gives Indians an itch to "prove themselves bigger" against Pakistan, a country which in comparison is only 15.9% in population and 26% on land size. Pretty pathetic! That's why we call them Indians and they call themselves Indians equally happily. Insane! Isn't it?


Maybe... but being a democracy if the majority of the populace wants a Hindu Rashtra then they can have that. 80% is more than a 2/3 majority.
 
It's all clear now.


The BJP has won Uttar Pradesh. Although I don't think this is a fair victory. But Hindu liberals and Indian Muslims think that hate has prevailed. Lot of sane Indians have no hope left.



It's also clear that BJP is going to win the 2024 National elections by hook or crook. They have islamophobic agendas like the Uniform Civil Code and NRC/CAA to create more polarization. Let's not forget EVMs.
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2024 might be the last National election for India. As many Hindutva intellectuals have expressed their wish to abolish Democracy and Elections.


A civil war seems very likely.


What should we do to prevent catastrophe?

@jamahir @Joe Shearer @SIPRA @DrJekyll @Pajeet @Rollno21 @aryadravida @xeuss @Chak Bamu
A few of my Hindu Indian colleagues are very disappointed ,,, they say we see no alternative to confront BJP.

Why do Indians hate Muslims so much? Isn’t a lot of the history Indians claim from the Muslims? Isn’t a lot of the wealth Indians claim the British stole of and from the Muslims? Isn’t one of the wonders of the world, that India proudly displays (Taj mahal) from the Muslims.
Indian Muslim rulers genocide fellow Muslims, but always gave special space to Hindus of the sub-continent.
 

And people wonder why India has no opposition party.

INC should rename itself ROFLMAO party because that is what they have been providing on a consistent basis since 2014.

The Script
Step 1 - Poll Debacle
Step 2 - Introspect
Step 3 - Holy trinity resigns
Step 4 - Holy mother gets re-elected as party president
Rinse, repeat

Slavery mindset is so institutionalised among Congressi buddhas that if freedom stands in front of them along with a billion dollar cheque, they will still choose to prostrate in front of the holy trinity.

Stupid media persons still refer to INC as the 'principal opposition party'. I don't know whether to laugh upon how untrue each of those 3 words are, or feel bad that it is the truth.
 

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