Leftist Morons Quotes

“The ingrained hostility to India’s Hindu civilisation also stems from the ill-informed claim that this is essential to preserve the nation’s secular fabric. Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate, is an ardent votary of this school of thought. In his book The Argumentative Indian, he argues that those who speak of a Hindu civilisation ‘are the promoters of a narrowly Hindu view of civilisation’.2 While conceding that ‘these old books and narratives have had an enormous influence on Indian literature and thought’—a rather supercilious way of describing thousands of years of civilisational achievement—he nevertheless views ‘the harking back to ancient India with the greatest suspicion’. The key to his thinking lies precisely in this inadvertent confession. For him, the very attempt to revisit ancient India is ab initio a tainted exercise, a matter of the greatest suspicion. This is an a priori conclusion, influenced by factors extraneous to the independent value and need of such a project. For a person of his intellectual calibre, to dogmatically label anyone wanting to ‘hark back’ to ancient India as a Hindu fundamentalist is, to put it politely, deeply disturbing.”
― Pavan K. Varma, The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward