On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011 12:10:57 am ashok _ wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShOsMw7Afy8 > > is an interview with the good author, where he's undoubtedly Hindu > > leaning, but he's sort of balanced in his opinion. I lost all respect > > for him after his op-ed in August [0]. Has he been up to anything else > > lately? > > From the video it looks like he has been busy with l'oreal / godrej hair > dye ...
I heard the man talk recently at a book release function with Rajiv Malhotra. Swamy is an impressive and erudite speaker and a cunning user of rhetoric. In some ways he has done a great service to India, but his views are generally opposed by people who believe that he is not secular enough. He evokes the curious Indian paradox. His opinions upset the secular sensibilities of many Indians, but they are not religious opinions in nature. It is odd that secular people should be upset by non religious comments. The culprit lies in the fact that anything that is taken from ancient Indian (Hindu) society and regarded as positive is "communal" even if the content is non religious per se. Yoga has been accused by some in the US as being some sort of unchristian activity, and replaced with Christian yoga in some places I am told. The absurdity of calling Yoga a "Hindu and therefore a religious/communal act is eaxtly what defines Indian secularism. shiv
