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KirKS
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I had the privilege of working as a volunteer for a second book launch in the same month. The first one was Transforming India by Atanu Dey. That focused mostly on why India is poor, what policies caused it, and how India can become a developed country in our lifetime. We could gather over 600 students from various colleges in 5 events and drill down the message with the help of a very articulate author.

The second opportunity was away from the economy & policies, and focused on the organized external designs that are destabilizing the Indian civilization. The topic fits more into Religio-ethnic-cultural-politics angle (uff.. that was long). The end result is simple. There are various forces working to destabilize India.



If you thought that by now it was more of hallucination, no it's not the case. It is written primarily by Rajiv Malhotra, who is by far considered an authority on Indic civilizational topics in America today. He has spent the past 20 years of his life researching and methodically dissecting the events/causes/forces that are creating rift in the Indian society.

Yesterday, we arranged for a successful 3 hours of book launch & Q/A session with the author in Bengaluru. It took weeks of preparation, but finally went on very well. Today the same message was passed on at the premier IISc, Bangalore, with the launch of yet another new book "Being Different"

Video of yesterday's speech:
http://indiawires.com/4648/gallery/videos/video-rajiv-malhotras-speech-in-bangalore-launch-of-breaking-india/

Article with pics:
http://samvada.org/2011/news/breaking-india-a-major-book-by-rajiv-malhotra-released-at-bangalore/

What exactly is the theme of Breaking India, and the 6 provocations:
http://www.breakingindia.com/six-provocations/

This book is highly recommended to those who talk of :-
> Aryan-Dravidian identity separation,
> India has 'majority' and 'minority' concepts,
> "Dalits are separate from rest of Hindu society" believers,
> Indian media is "free" from ideological control believers to mention a few.
Very provocative & informative book.

I am happy that I got associated with this team and it was a bumper prize to have the witty Subramanian Swamy join us to launch the book with his fiery speech!

Your comments & questions on these subtopics mentioned above, pro or against the author's strong analysis is welcome.
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Bought just now, from Amazon. This is a topic very dear to my heart.

Thanks Kiran.
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KirKS;424339Article with pics:
http://samvada.org/2011/news/breaking-india-a-major-book-by-rajiv-malhotra-released-at-bangalore/



The way they are sitting sends a signal that they are not going to break anything anytime soon.
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sid_earth;424341Bought just now, from Amazon. This is a topic very dear to my heart.

Thanks Kiran.


Excellent! Actually I couldn't buy my copy yesterday in spite of working for 6 weeks to arrange the book launch :) Both books got sold out like hot cakes. I still have to settle for the excerpts I have heard & read.
I will buy it later this week.

The one topic which you must focus on is the 'minority' concept. He narrates the McDonalds analogy and rubbishes the whole majority-minority concept in India. Very powerful.

Give your excerpts when you read this. I have always despised the garbage Dravidian political ideology, which is hate filled and against the notion of an Indic civilization. This book just destroys the "Dravidian" separation from rest of India concept. The best part about Rajiv is that he is not afraid to take names.

By the way, his latest book "Being Different" just got selected as a prescribed text book in Delhi University. It was announced yesterday!
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I think the biggest hindrance in India becoming developed nation is compartmentalizing on so many fronts. Mind you this variety could be spice when everybody has enough to eat. When people's basic necessities are fulfilled they will be ready to appreciate different culture, food, religions etc, the diversity can be dynamite. heck we can tell from the surname which state/caste person might be from. You don't find this in many countries around the world. So this so much variety and on the top of 1 + billion people is ticking time bomb.
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Hmm... Interesting .. Lets see hope in our lifetime that is I assume another 40 yrs max we should see the India broke... I bet this will not happen.. Many so called Pundits/analysts predicted or visioned this but the country is still surviving and in some cases if not all thriving..
Right from its formation, every famine or every drought or every political assasination made this thinkers fantasizing this prophecy.. Only after 1990s such analysts starting accepting the idea that this country will stay together...
In my opinion the diversity is the one which is keeping us ( means us people from all states together).... as this diversity is acting like balancing thrust making sure no one ethnic group dominates the other(s).. Pakistan formed with keeping Islam as a glue in sticking all the different ethnic groups ( i.e Punjabi,Sindhi, Baluchi, Bengali etc) and it curbed all the diversity out of insecurity of this enthinc break up and promoted islam as state policy.. however still country broke on the basis of language... Countries break when one group imposes or thrust its own culture on other.. Our leaders where visionary in that sense .. they made the national language hindi but along with thay they officially recognized 22 languages as national languages ....all the states are free including its govenments in the useage of its own language.. this is just one example ... If at all should India break, It would have broke in 1960s when country is going through famines.. in 1970s when conuntry is gonig through political instability, in 1980s when its going through serious insurgency in Punjab.. .If its survived this period then its going to stay together ..No matter what is being fantasized by analysts/econocrats/ technocrats .. etc. we grew up hearing this predictions ... I love to hear more ..

its really interesting .. that if one cannot find such countries around the world that means its going to be doomed ..
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Jaggudada;424363I think the biggest hindrance in India becoming developed nation is compartmentalizing on so many fronts. Mind you this variety could be spice when everybody has enough to eat. When people's basic necessities are fulfilled they will be ready to appreciate different culture, food, religions etc, the diversity can be dynamite. heck we can tell from the surname which state/caste person might be from. You don't find this in many countries around the world. So this so much variety and on the top of 1 + billion people is ticking time bomb.


Right on the line my dear Friend :)) . Now I do agree with you on this one.
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Allama,
You should write more often in these kinds of topics. I see a good depth of knowledge in your writing, not just the post quoted above.

allama;424416Hmm... Interesting .. Lets see hope in our lifetime that is I assume another 40 yrs max we should see the India broke... I bet this will not happen.. Many so called Pundits/analysts predicted or visioned this but the country is still surviving and in some cases if not all thriving..
Right from its formation, every famine or every drought or every political assasination made this thinkers fantasizing this prophecy.. Only after 1990s such analysts starting accepting the idea that this country will stay together...


Famines, political instability and others you have mentioned were serious. Yes.. but India survived which is a great thing.

What Rajiv Malhotra is exposing systematically is the external interventions today. If you have 52 minutes to spare, watch the same book's launch speech by Rajiv from Dallas, TX. He wasn't keeping good health on Sunday when he visited Bengaluru, so we had to make him speak without standing. But this Texas speech is simply awesome in summarizing his (co-authored) entire Breaking India book.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByaheAphduQ

Since I have watched it many times, I will give a detailed excerpt also for the benefit of those who can't watch the video fully.

He starts off his speech, quoting "Purva Paksha", the need of knowing the opposing point of view. This part of debate technique was historically legitimate in India was covered first. You might want to refer to Adi Shankara and his debates to learn more about Purva Paksha technique.

Then he covered something that totally surprised me.. I consider myself a bit involved in learning contemporary Hinduism, I am actively involved in debates on the social networks on Hindu dharma, among other ways to keep me engaged with Dharmic traditions. But hearing a few things about the "Project Breaking India" took me by surprise. We all would have heard of the political side of pseudo-secularism or 'secularism' in quotes as a fundamental threat to the unity and integrity of India, its culture and its people. But this Breaking India project, an Intellectual, emotional & psychological breakup of India, conceptually scared me. Is it some man's wild dream or something that is already deep rooted, taking most Hindus & secular Indians by surprise?

He systematically covered a possible physical breakup of India, starting with Dalit Freedom network, funded by White Christians of Denver and other places. Then he talks about 1040 and Joshua projects aiming at massive conversion of Hindus and other native coreligionists of India. Then he talks about Tehelka's undercover operation to expose the anti-united-India activities of the church via Joshua projects on rural side of India. He particularly stressed on the the ownership of land in rural area by churches, strategically using them to convert people.

Gospel for Asia in Dallas, using religious hate speech was covered in the next part of his speech. European Lutheran church in Scandinavia and Germany, that uses Human rights argument to isolate India politically, and then police India via church backed networks was highlighted.

Then he covers the mega strategic tool used by those who want to sideline & suppress Hinduism in particular, using strong political muscle. US Commission on Religious Freedom, Clinton setup commission, to monitor religious freedom across the world (except USA, of course). Very surprisingly, it's Watch list has India in it, along with Islamic extreme state like Afghanistan!! He claims that religious freedom is actually too much in India, if you live and observe it, but this commission purposefully paints Hindus as the bad guys. Anyone with even 15 days of vacation through the vast country of India, would not believe an ounce of that India=Afghanistan argument when it comes to religious freedom. It's a shame that a public funded group in the world's most powerful democracy, is painting such horrendous picture! Rajiv peels layer by layer, as to how most of the 'complaints' & 'testimonies' about India, are from those supported by Joshua, Lutheran, Dalit Freedom network kind of anti-India conversion networks. And, there's no cross examination allowed by Sanatana Dharma Hindu organizations like Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Pejavar Matha, Sringeri Shankara matha, Varanasi Hindu sabhas, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Arya Samaj and Ramakrishna mission. Essentially this is a one way propaganda mission to put India and Indians on the defensive! He talks about 15 commissioners - Muslims, Christians (Worldvision kind of open Christian conversion organization backed) & Jews. No Hindu/Jain/Sikh/Buddhist commissioners nominated. Rajiv Malhotra's 600 page book's chapter 17 exposes each of these commissioners, their backgrounds linking to church and how they are trying to break India via an agenda.

Then be backs up the timeline to give us a holistic view of how this whole break-India conceptualizations started 200 years back. He covers Robert Caldwell, an evangelist missionary and others of 19th century, how they created Dravidian-Aryan division theory. How they used distortion of Saint Thomas' "influence" on Thirukkural etc. in South India.. how their ideology is used today for a distortion that Hinduism is a 'Brahmin' conspiracy and if you get back to Saint Thomas' ideology, you will go back to original Christianity in the south! Dravidian & Dalit concepts are being grouped to form a common anti-Hinduism umbrella. Third kind of divide is the minority identity against Hinduism, which already cost India two physical parts during the 20th century.

Then he covers what would most interest my social media buddies. The systematic media management part, using mainly foreign Christian sources. Talks about 'Christian Media in India' book (I didn't catch the exact title or author), the money sources, the control of Indian media, making news agencies (NDTV, Times of India, The Hindu kind) planting Christian-twist stories, producing journalists with their ideologies, networking with international wires to make them 'world wide' news material all the way to NY Times, Christian Science Monitor etc. Talks about many of them being fabricated systematic spread of rubbish. This part was well observed by folks on Twitter in India, but Rajiv's claim of such a deep rooted network to this extent just shocked me! Maybe we should buy his book by paying $20 and read more on this chapter closely.

Then comes the most bizarre bed partners fact. The axis of leftists (US, mostly South Asia academic, like Ford Foundation) and rightists (Western Christian, like Rockefeller right of center foundations) working together in this effort against Hinduism in India. Western Right takes on Christianity basis and Western Left takes on the basis of secularism, human rights etc. He also exposes Indian left are in bed with Western Christian Right!

Unbelievable collaboration of opposing ideologies per Mr.Malhotra!

He then moves on to the assault on Sanskrit, Gurus, anything core of Hindu is from this combo of ideological attacks, well funded from the West.

Then he challenges the notion of minority concept itself.
[INDENT]Rajiv's words mostly as is: "If you were to go to India, and see a MacD restaurant with 20 employees, you would not say its a minority restaurant. What matters is that this is 1 of the 50,000 branches of the world. You don't take one restaurant as a minority. Same way, one church in India is a part of Vatican global empire. The Bishop is appointed by Vatican. Their property is indirectly under Vatican's rule. So Indian Christians are a part of huge multinational. Not just Catholics, but Mormons, Baptists, Lutherans etc. Just like you don't give MacDonald in India a minority privilege, you can't give a church in India also a minority status. Similar stuff for Mosques too based on the global Islamic empire. If they are independent local concepts, yes, they should be treated as minority. But if a church or a mosque is a part of a large multinational conglomerate, including funding, how can it enjoy minority privilege in India?"
[/INDENT]He continues: Not just the numerical strength locally, but a group must be looked as a global strength too. Christians and Muslims being billions in this world, they are in no way a handicap minority group in India. That should be the criteria. Top down appointments from head quarters from foreign country, including total control of funds & operation, how can Christians & Muslims can be termed minorities?

He then moves on to the topic of the fear of human rights policing as a strategic tool to keep Indian political leadership terrified, unlike China. When the US condemns human rights, within two weeks China releases its own human rights to condemn US! But Indians academics, religious leaders or political leaders hardly study US to counter the 'human rights' baton.

Indians are weak because the leaders don't know where they should stand when it comes to these systematic religious & cultural attacks from outside. He then covered the in-fighting among Hindus. Neo-Vedantins fighting among each other. Sufism in Delhi, via music, creating inferiority complex towards Hinduism was covered.

Hindus need to know what is non-negotiable for internal unity, and also what is needed to counter external aggression. Per Rajiv, Indian Hindus hardly know how their difference with rest of the world, can form a unity among them. Covers analogy among Western unity from Hagan's time (?). Europeans' uniqueness, Euro centric identity, was contrasted with the rest, creating the whole 'West' concept, uniting French, English, German etc. He then briefly talked about another book, coming up, with the Indian Hindu history, ideology, philosophy, identity, with a contrast to others is essential to make Indians know who they are.

Let me know your thoughts, objections, rebuttals & observations, and we can discuss further.
- Kiran

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PS: 2 more videos from last Sunday's Bengaluru book launch function. Subramanian Swamy's speech, on the occasion of Breaking India launch:

Dr. Swamy on Myths of Aryan Invasion Theory and conspiracy to divide India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRRKYPNKRM

Communal violence Bill is anti Hindu - Dr Swamy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgFh8LoQz0
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This is what happened in my mind when I stumbled on this thread.
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KirKS;424339

If you thought that by now it was more of hallucination, no it's not the case. It is written primarily by Rajiv Malhotra, who is by far considered an authority on Indic civilizational topics in America today. He has spent the past 20 years of his life researching and methodically dissecting the events/causes/forces that are creating rift in the Indian society.

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Wow. What an impressive biodata. This guy should be an authority in Indian civilization and I should learn a lot from him. Let me watch this 53 min video. Even though it is long, it will be worth it.
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2 mins passed
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Wait a minute. Haven't I seen this guy somewhere?
Where?
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I think I saw him in R2Iclub itself, in some thread.
Let me search
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WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOSH
My God!
OMG
OMG!

Isn't it the same scumbag disciple of Nithyananda who shamelessly supported that serial rapist, sex maniac. murderer?
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What is happening here? Why are we promoting such shady characters?

[video=youtube;8PIeXOhATmc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PIeXOhATmc&NR=1[/video]
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sid_earth;424341Bought just now, from Amazon. This is a topic very dear to my heart.

Which topic?

Going by KirKS' summary: Foreign (non-Hindu) intervention in (Hindu) India? Foreign-hand in Maoism? Aryan-Dravidian divide? Fear of Dalit religious conversion? Minority status for non-Hindus? Indian Left in bed with western Christians? Human rights policing by west?

....or McD in India? :)

Which is going to split India?

Layman, is that the same guy? LOL! You beat Jani to it!

In his words, "I surmise that Ranjitha, the Tamil actress in the scandalous videotape, was practicing Tantra with him. He taught her the self-control she had to achieve before any intimacy."
http://www.medhajournal.com/geopolitics-guru/973-why-swami-nithyananda-must-resign-now.html?showall=1
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