On Thursday 19 Jul 2007 1:53 pm, ashok _ wrote:
> As far as i can see, nobody on this list is denying any of the social
> ills you speak off.

The psychological explanation for this type of paranoia came from you in the 
first place: I quote:
On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007 2:57 pm, ashok _ wrote:
> ==Criticism is usually felt as a personal attack or insult,  an
> attempt to humiliate them. Sometimes criticism is taken to be either
> discriminatory or racist.
..end quote..

> Its not merely "hinduness" responsible for it, you see similar
> problems in different parts of the world, social stratification
> et.al.... Would similar social stratification in another country make
> them hindu too ?

Please tell me where else it occurs.

> The problem here is you are trying to trying to say the RSS agenda
> must not be condemned because lack of social reform is not being
> condemned equally.

By all means criticize the RSS, but unfortunately for the RSS's critics the 
RSS are perfectly right in pointing out the huge footprint of Hinduism. They 
tend to sing its praises - but I am trying to point out that the "unifying 
spirit" of Hinduism extends to the social ills and denial that Hindus are 
responsible for those social ills all over India. Indians all over India are 
united in screwing some lower stratum while they doggedly assert that the 
same thing occurs everywhere and is not a Hindu problem (EXACTLY as you have 
asserted above). Oh but it IS a Hindu problem. Do you mean to say the social 
ills in India are not a Hindu problem? It is someone else. The RSS perhaps? 

>
> You also make very sweeping assumptions of people and about their
> psyche without ever having met them.
>
> But this is not the first time, since you have written a voluminous
> tome on Pakistani society , whether ever having traveled there :)

You are of course entitled to your views - but this is a digression from the 
topic of Hindu irresponsibility and denial to talking about me and my 
characteristics. Are you trying to change the subject?

shiv

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