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Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India
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“Hero worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship.
The concept of nationhood we took so unthinkingly from nineteenth-century Europe is too constricting for our diversity.
If you want self respect, Dr. Ambedkar said, change your religion.
If you want equality, change your religion.
If you want power, change your religion.
That religion which forbids humanitarian behavior between men is not a religion but a penalty.
That religion which regards the recognition of human dignity as a sin is not a religion but a sickness.
That religion which allows one to touch a foul animal but not a man is not a religion but a madness.
Everyone knew religion was India's line of no return. Beyond that line lay chaos.
To the philosophers of ancient India the forest was the symbol of an idealized cosmos. The great Indian philosophical academies were all held in groves of trees, an acknowledgment that the forest - self sufficient, endlessly regenerative - combined in itself the diversity and the harmony that were the aspiration, the goal of Indian metaphysics.
The assault on the senses. The caress of the senses. Surely God made India at his leisure.”
― Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India
The concept of nationhood we took so unthinkingly from nineteenth-century Europe is too constricting for our diversity.
If you want self respect, Dr. Ambedkar said, change your religion.
If you want equality, change your religion.
If you want power, change your religion.
That religion which forbids humanitarian behavior between men is not a religion but a penalty.
That religion which regards the recognition of human dignity as a sin is not a religion but a sickness.
That religion which allows one to touch a foul animal but not a man is not a religion but a madness.
Everyone knew religion was India's line of no return. Beyond that line lay chaos.
To the philosophers of ancient India the forest was the symbol of an idealized cosmos. The great Indian philosophical academies were all held in groves of trees, an acknowledgment that the forest - self sufficient, endlessly regenerative - combined in itself the diversity and the harmony that were the aspiration, the goal of Indian metaphysics.
The assault on the senses. The caress of the senses. Surely God made India at his leisure.”
― Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India
