India´s Independence Day

If it's anti-British, we tend to be for it!

To be honest, I know very little about India, Indian history, or Indian culture. I'm not terribly drawn to it. Which is no reflection on the culture at all. As a nationalist, I am sympathetic to every country's desire for independence, so to that extent I would be all in favour of Indian Independence Day.

I don't think I've ever known an Indian person.

I posted the previous post almost simultaneously as yours quoted above here. The nationalism in India could perhaps have a place to be at least mentioned at this forum anyway. It seems there are some parallell movements in the general sense that the hindu nationalists, their equivalents to the extreme right or the Alt Right in the West, also emerged rather quickly within only a few years. Though in their politics the development came at least 10-20 years before it seems. That might be too difficult to try to discuss for me (I am not into political science at all but I like "common" history) but it´s a bit too much alike in the voting trends to be all different. Globalism is one factor of course, but maybe also the old problem of the "traditional parties" to loose ground.

Well, there was something inhuman in Mr Orwell too, or in his ideology more likely, if you ask me. Maybe there is something alien to us in the whole Hindu outlook that makes him look more inhuman for us, I don´t know if he really was so fanatical as to be considered such. Sleeping pills from the 80s would be good tonight! I would like a good night rest soon enough ;-)

India is the worlds biggest democracy and keeps an eye on China the last big communist dictatorship which are pluses.

I know westerners are only allowed to criticise their own societies,christianity and their own histories but what the heck ... I think India has a huge problem with the truly inhumane and wicked caste system which condemns millions to the direst poverty on religious grounds. The position of the untouchable class is particularly tragic.
Hindu nationalists have persecuted and continue to persecute christians and other religious minorities and no one in the west seems to be bothered.

They have a dreadful record of sexual violence against women . There have been some revolting high profile gang rape and child rape cases recently. - During the infamous Savitar death case in Ireland the Indian government lectured us on our lack of abortion procedures. A bit rich really considering their own rather patchy record on human rights.

A lot of Anglo-Indians and Goan-Indians are extremely devout Catholics throughout the English-speaking world. The term "Anglo-Indian" is not always accurate-some have Irish blood. One family I know who have been supporters of the traditional Mass for four generations are named Meagher, the Christian name Alannah has been passed down from an ancestral matriarch * although, apparently Germans claim the name also*
But a full-blooded cultural Catholic Indian is rare, a couple I've come across belong to the neocatechumenal way.
Many Anglo-Indians were forced to move after independence, people have told me stories about their fathers being unable to find work in India because of their mixed background

I wonder whether the many people in the English-speaking world who are constantly pointing at the Catholic and other churches' abuse cover-ups have even reflected for a moment at the bizarre reaction, by many of his followers, following the conviction of guru RamRahimSingh in India ? No one justifies sex crimes or the justification of the same but Catholicism is obviously not always at the worst end of the spectrum either.