Obscurantism
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He has lived in The U S A for 46 + years. He knew there the education system instills the idea of exceptional America in the minds of students. Summarily, ‘America First’. What Trump rephrases as ‘American First’. He calls this exceptionalism. This means
‘America’ is the Best, Supreme ... over the rest of the world. ‘America’ implies American Land, culture, society, ethics, life-style, values, language(s) and whatever you can imagine. Then He knew and studied there is ‘The Chinese Exceptionalism’, ‘The Russian Exceptionalism’, and then it struck him, Why should not be ‘Bharatiya Exceptionalism’. In His opinion and in his firm conviction, ‘Bharatiya-ta’ / भारतीय-ता is such an authentic exceptionalism since times immemorial.
So far so good.
He has some serious misgivings about saying ‘Indian’, For He is not sure if this word is evocative of and connotes with colonial past of ‘Bharat’ (or India).
So He is floating the idea / concept of ‘Bharatiya Exceptionalism’ possibly in contrast with ‘The American Exceptionalism’, ‘The Chinese Exceptionalism’, ‘The Russian Exceptionalism’, Is not Exceptionalism a essentially a glorified form of escapism only? In an attempt and will, longing for declaring yourself the Supreme, you simply isolate from the rest of the world. In other words, you just escape from the Reality -physical or mundane; of the world where there are many such other Exceptionalism already exist.
Again, Is it not fear of being dominated by the ‘others’ that you try to establish your supremacy?
What is wrong with being Indian? The word ‘India’ has roots in ‘indu’ meaning ‘moon’. And since times immemorial Veda and Jyotish, Vedic-Astronomy has The Sun, Moon as the pivot, axial basis for its ‘panchangaM’ / पञ्चाङ्ग / almanac.
So this word ‘indu’ / इंदु >’aindava’ / ऐंदव / ‘sin’, finds place in Veda. ‘Sini’ / सिनी is another form.
(वेदोक्त : सिनीवाली अमावास्या)
Perhaps he might be obsessed with the doubt that ‘India’ has origin in ‘Sindhu’ as has been so far we are taught. But tracing the root to इंदु / iṃdu / ऐंदव / aiṃdava is justified when we see that The Veda-dharma (and religion which means orthodox rituals also) were followed all over the world and Indonesia Malaysia were not exceptions. We can see this makes our claim for ‘India’ as the name of this Geographical region even more substantive.
‘Bharat’/ भारत or ‘Bharat-varsha’ भारत-वर्ष is also no less important and is equally respectable as ‘India’, we can say.
Being proud of one’s place, country, culture is one thing and imposing its Supremacy is quite another thing. The later emerges from the sense of insecurity and inferiority-complex which in due course, becomes superiority-complex.
American’, ‘Chinese’ or ‘Russian’ Exceptionalism is as much an escapism as is the ‘Indian’.
Jingoism or, in a way it is sheer Obscurantism, if one could say.
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He has lived in The U S A for 46 + years. He knew there the education system instills the idea of exceptional America in the minds of students. Summarily, ‘America First’. What Trump rephrases as ‘American First’. He calls this exceptionalism. This means
‘America’ is the Best, Supreme ... over the rest of the world. ‘America’ implies American Land, culture, society, ethics, life-style, values, language(s) and whatever you can imagine. Then He knew and studied there is ‘The Chinese Exceptionalism’, ‘The Russian Exceptionalism’, and then it struck him, Why should not be ‘Bharatiya Exceptionalism’. In His opinion and in his firm conviction, ‘Bharatiya-ta’ / भारतीय-ता is such an authentic exceptionalism since times immemorial.
So far so good.
He has some serious misgivings about saying ‘Indian’, For He is not sure if this word is evocative of and connotes with colonial past of ‘Bharat’ (or India).
So He is floating the idea / concept of ‘Bharatiya Exceptionalism’ possibly in contrast with ‘The American Exceptionalism’, ‘The Chinese Exceptionalism’, ‘The Russian Exceptionalism’, Is not Exceptionalism a essentially a glorified form of escapism only? In an attempt and will, longing for declaring yourself the Supreme, you simply isolate from the rest of the world. In other words, you just escape from the Reality -physical or mundane; of the world where there are many such other Exceptionalism already exist.
Again, Is it not fear of being dominated by the ‘others’ that you try to establish your supremacy?
What is wrong with being Indian? The word ‘India’ has roots in ‘indu’ meaning ‘moon’. And since times immemorial Veda and Jyotish, Vedic-Astronomy has The Sun, Moon as the pivot, axial basis for its ‘panchangaM’ / पञ्चाङ्ग / almanac.
So this word ‘indu’ / इंदु >’aindava’ / ऐंदव / ‘sin’, finds place in Veda. ‘Sini’ / सिनी is another form.
(वेदोक्त : सिनीवाली अमावास्या)
Perhaps he might be obsessed with the doubt that ‘India’ has origin in ‘Sindhu’ as has been so far we are taught. But tracing the root to इंदु / iṃdu / ऐंदव / aiṃdava is justified when we see that The Veda-dharma (and religion which means orthodox rituals also) were followed all over the world and Indonesia Malaysia were not exceptions. We can see this makes our claim for ‘India’ as the name of this Geographical region even more substantive.
‘Bharat’/ भारत or ‘Bharat-varsha’ भारत-वर्ष is also no less important and is equally respectable as ‘India’, we can say.
Being proud of one’s place, country, culture is one thing and imposing its Supremacy is quite another thing. The later emerges from the sense of insecurity and inferiority-complex which in due course, becomes superiority-complex.
American’, ‘Chinese’ or ‘Russian’ Exceptionalism is as much an escapism as is the ‘Indian’.
Jingoism or, in a way it is sheer Obscurantism, if one could say.
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