"...a Hindu supremacist mindset..." sounds like someone doesn't want any competition to the American supremacist mindset. I don't see India starting all of the wars that we do. If this is indeed taking over India, let's wait and see what that means, before rushing to judgment, eh?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > The real purpose of Vedic science is the establishment of Hindu > supremacy. The main targets are the schools, both public and > parochial, where a massive Hinduization of history and science > curricula is going on. The fantastic claims of Hindu science > enthusiasts are dangerous because under the current regime, they have > a very good chance of finding their way into school textbooks. The > Hindu nationalist groups together run some 20,000 low-cost private > schools, teaching 2.4 million children, with nearly a thousand new > schools coming up every month (The New York Times, May 13, 2002). > These outfits also run special residential schools in tribal areas > and urban slums where they openly indoctrinate disadvantaged children > into hardcore nationalist ideology. These schools are the Hindu > equivalent of madarasas in Pakistan. Science teaching in these > schools is already heavily Hinduized. According to Tanika Sarkar > (1996, 243) who has studied urban schools run by the Rashtriya > Swayamsewak Sangh, "scientific education, whether on physics or > mathematics, is always concluded with Hindu textual approximation > mentioned as the real source of that knowledge. There is a confident > disregard of authenticated detail, and of boundaries between myth and > reality that postmodernists would appreciate." > > The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh's agenda of Hinduization of education > is now close to becoming the official policy of the Indian > government. The new National Curriculum Framework for School > Education announced by the current government in November 2000 > promises to inculcate patriotism and national pride by "indigenizing > education." A major component of indigenization will be highlighting > "India's contribution to world wisdom" which will include all the > usual items, from Ayurveda to yoga. In addition, the new curricula > will require that religious/spiritual teachings be "judiciously > integrated" with all subjects so as to raise the "spiritual quotient" > of the students.' After two years of court challenges, in September > 2002, India's Supreme Court allowed the government to go ahead with > the new framework. > > The real threat of Vedic science is not to research and development > in science, but to the educational system that is gearing up to > produce a Hindu supremacist mind-set. > > Prophets Facing Backward > Meera Nanda > > A must read for all Vedic Science, MIU/MUM and MSAE fans past and > present. >
