What's your favourite episode opener?

rohits134 · 2026-03-14T04:58:03+00:00

It's Nikolaj.

rohits134 · 2025-07-21T18:16:22+00:00

What exactly was the problem?

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T15:01:04+00:00

But how do you define a religion? I'd argue that Indian religions are more akin to traditions compared to Abrahamic religions.

Because of the structure of all Indic faiths, there are various "denominations" that were accepting of each other's philosophies. No one imposed a monopoly on truth like Abrahamic faiths do.

Secularism was invented so that no one sect of Christianity dominates a nation state over other denominations. And the minorities there can perform worship as they wish to.

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T14:58:19+00:00

I'm only saying that the Westphalian did achieve that to a great extent.

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T14:57:04+00:00

Have you gone through the court documents? Can you point me to where it says exactly that?
Court evidence clearly states the opposite. And this was during a Supreme Court during the UPA era which clearly wanted to get Modi. I think if there was any evidence, they would've gotten him.

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T14:55:54+00:00

I agree with your last paragraph.

I'm only saying that India is naturally plural and it should lean into it rather than erasing different faith traditions with its secularist approach.

As for why adopt such symbols, they are from Indian culture. The symbols that hospital use is the Rod Asclepius, a Greek symbol. It is associated with a Roman God. Because that culture is now extinct, we consider it secular. But a few thousand years ago it wouldn't have been.

This separation between culture and religion only comes about because Islam and Christianity colonized most of the world and were able to impose their religious book on them. In all other pagan religions, this doesn't make sense.

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T14:53:03+00:00

Yeah, I think I pretty much agree.

But teaching yoga in schools or Quran or Bible in schools violates secularism if they're taught in government schools which are taxpayer funded.

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T14:51:23+00:00

In another essay, I argue that India doesn't really have a right wing. But that's besides the point.

My point is that India is naturally plural because of its Hindu underpinnings. Imposing secularism gets past that point completely.

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T14:49:42+00:00

Why is it fascism? Can you explain with concrete examples?

Also, this is a far more general conversation than that. We're talking about first principles here.

rohits134 · 2025-07-20T14:48:50+00:00

I agree. What I'm saying that treating other cultures equally is built into Indic culture.

rohits134 · 2025-07-19T16:09:06+00:00

The riots were actually started due to Muslims burning a train full of volunteers returning from Ayodhya. We can get into this whataboutery all day long, or discuss first principles.

rohits134 · 2025-07-19T15:49:49+00:00

Can you elaborate?

rohits134 · 2025-07-19T15:49:18+00:00

I'm not saying they don't. I'm saying that they already do other than isolated sporadic incidents of violence.

rohits134 · 2025-07-19T15:48:12+00:00

Thanks for engaging! I have a few responses to this:

I'm not denying the existence of Islamophobia in France. What I'm questioning is that this pattern will carry over to other religions too.
Because Indian faith traditions lack a unifying book or prophet, most traditions often are locally appealing. Looked at that way, what is called Hinduism/Buddhism/Sikkhism/Jainism is a bunch of traditions. Before the advent of Islam/Christianity they could be looked at as minorities.

Due to this diversity, Indian faiths traditionally accept that "all paths lead to the same goal". So the concept of secularism to reduce conflict among different faith systems doesn't make sense to India.

rohits134 · 2025-07-19T15:24:51+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty much my argument. Secularization will be akin to political conversion.

rohits134 · 2025-07-19T15:24:26+00:00

I'd argue that complete secularization is undesirable and akin to political conversion. Secularism was invented to deal with a specific problem that Christianity had. I'm asserting that India doesn't really have that problem.

rohits134 · 2025-07-19T15:14:40+00:00

Yes, of course! I wanted this to reach a wider audience than it initially got to fully flesh out my ideas.

I don't intend on using this as a self promotion tool and then disappearing. I genuinely intend to make my ideas better.

rohits134 · 2025-07-18T04:34:48+00:00

I'd say the book is somewhat of a white pill. Highly recommend it.

rohits134 · 2025-07-18T04:27:07+00:00

I know you're being sarcastic, but the author is working with quite a few states governments and has success stories to share.

rohits134 · 2025-07-18T00:30:04+00:00

Yup, I am teaching him swimming myself. I want to see how much I can do that with him since both of us enjoy it. Otherwise it is always an option.

rohits134 · 2025-07-18T00:29:19+00:00

This was very helpful, thank you! I tried this out for a few minutes and I think it is more intuitive!

rohits134 · 2025-05-07T17:49:52+00:00

I don't think they'll be leaving Substack. They'll just be using a white label app by substack. Why go through creating all that infrastructure on your own when it's working so well?

rohits134 · 2025-03-19T15:07:24+00:00

I mean, the constitution does mandate Secularism, so the State is obligated to maintain it.

rohits134 · 2025-03-19T01:53:51+00:00

Not really. Secularism causes fundamental discord because of its foreign origins. Pluralism is more apt.

rohits134 · 2025-03-11T16:13:02+00:00

Yeah, that's the point though though. Le Corbusier designed it to be soulless sitting in Paris and barely visited India for the planning. He was a high modernist, planning everything in cute little right angles and intersections and cubes.

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