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(82,333 posts) Sun Nov 1, 2015, 08:39 AM Nov 2015

India's tradition of secularism in doubt

By The Associated Press
Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, 8:36 p.m.
Updated 10 hours ago

NEW DELHI — First writers, then artists, followed by filmmakers, historians and scientists.

The chorus of India's intellectuals protesting religious bigotry and communal violence grows louder by the week with a single message for Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Protect India's tradition of secularism and diversity.

Protesters are angry and worried by a spate of deadly attacks against atheist thinkers and minorities — and by Modi's relative silence through it all. The silence appears to have encouraged some of his party colleagues to make comments asserting Hindu pride and superiority.

On Thursday, more than 100 scientists, including some of India's top nuclear physicists, space scientists and mathematicians, expressed their anguish at the ways in which they said that “science and reason were being eroded in the country.”

http://triblive.com/usworld/world/9358771-74/india-scientists-modi#axzz3qF7W5TBf

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India's tradition of secularism in doubt (Original Post) rug Nov 2015 OP

the BJP, of course, insists it's the REAL secularists (and the real Gandhists) MisterP Nov 2015 #1

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1. the BJP, of course, insists it's the REAL secularists (and the real Gandhists)

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Sun Nov 1, 2015, 03:18 PM

Nov 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-secularism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_foreknowledge_in_sacred_texts#Hindu_texts
incensed by such crude nationalistic mummery, the INC was founded by a gaggle of Theosophists (it's similar to a lot of processes in Pakistan and Indonesia, actually): even the "anti-superstition" campaigns are led more often by BJP Vedofascists(?) than bloodless INC technocrats, crushing small operators and local healers that might be too cooperative with the health system without paying "the Hindu party" its pound of flesh

you can tell a lot about a fight by looking at what both sides absolutely agree upon

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