The History textbooks that we study in school only dedicated a few pages for the brave warriors who protected their dharma despite being put under the most gruesome tortures that humankind has ever seen, while dedicated 7–8 chapters for the Mughals and the empires of other Islamic invaders.
For the first time in the history of Independent India, the Indian Elites are clueless about how to regain control over information and the narrative. It is frustrating them. It is making them desperate, angry and abusive, leading them to create fear psychosis by shouting “Idea of India is in Danger”.
After years of sterilisation of our history we as a Hindu community are ok with demonization of our religion, our culture and even our very own identity.
The book is not only about how the film "Buddha in a Traffic Jam" was made, it is also about the journey of the author and the most importantly journey of the till now uncoined concept of "Urban Naxal". I recommend it to all parents who are invested in their children's well-being and need to protect them from ideological contamination.
हमारी सभ्यता में "मुक्तचिन्तन" की परंपरा का विस्थापन "आईडोलॉजिकल स्कूलिंग" नाम की बीमारी से हो गया है। हमारी प्राथमिक और माध्यमिक शिक्षा मुख्य रूप से इस देश के नौनिहालों को "हुक्म का गुलाम" बनाए जाने के लिए ज़िम्मेदार है।
India is a new country, only 72 years old. Bharat, on the other hand, is at least 6000 years old. We need to know this because we are not Indians, we are Bharatiyas, an identity lost in the pages of so-called 'Mythology'.
Here are some compelling reasons, and myths that have been systematically built and fed into almost six generations of Indians since India's year of Independence, it is the dissection of a calculated seizure of collective social, economic, cultural, political and historical narrative by a lobby of intellectual bandits, over the last seven decades.