Is India A Nation? How Can It Be?

Recently, Government of India and some Indians were pompously offended by President Donald Trump reposting Michael Savage's comment referring to India and China as hellhole. Apparently, it is assumed that someone gives a fook about the offense taken. The question is, Is India a hellhole or is it something worse or better than a hellhole? It doesn't matter. Its a wretched country of awful people.

Grameen Bank said "bring the
account holder". A man carries
sister's skeleton to a bank to close her
account valued at US $240. 

The first and foremost thing that must be recognized is that Hindu Society is a myth. The name Hindu is itself a foreign name. It was given by the Mohammedans to the natives for the purpose of distinguishing themselves [from them]. It does not occur in any Sanskrit work prior to the Mohammedan invasion. They did not feel the necessity of a common name, because they had no conception of their having constituted a community. Hindu Society as such does not exist. It is only a collection of castes. Each caste is conscious of its existence. Its survival is the be-all and end-all of its existence. Castes do not even form a federation. A caste has no feeling that it is affiliated to other castes, except when there is a Hindu-Muslim riot. On all other occasions each caste endeavors to segregate itself and to distinguish itself from other castes. It is a social system which embodies the arrogance and selfishness of a perverse section of the Hindus who were superior enough in social status to set it in fashion and who had authority to force it on their inferiors.

Rini Sampath, Mayor of Washington DC

Each caste not only dines among itself and marries among itself, but each caste prescribes its own distinctive dress. What other explanation can there be of the innumerable styles of dress worn by the men and women of India, which so amuse the tourists? Indeed the ideal Hindu must be like a rat living in his own hole, refusing to have any contact with others. There is an utter lack among the Hindus of what the sociologists call "consciousness of kind." There is no Hindu consciousness of kind. In every Hindu the consciousness that exists is the consciousness of his caste. That is the reason why the Hindus cannot be said to form a society or a nation. - B. R. Ambedkar, one of the authors of Indian Constitution 

We are now seeing
the roots of casteism tree
taking up in the US  

 

Indian Americans looked the caste of Second Lady of the US, Usha Vance (nee Chilukuri) caste when JD Vance got selected as the Vice President in President Donald Trump's administration. I am certain most Indian Americans know and realize that Vivek Ramaswamy, candidate for Governor of Ohio is a Brahmin from South India given that its somewhat obvious from his name. Similarly people must have looked up the caste of Satya Nadella and Sundhar Pichai. Casteism is a special kind of racism limited to Indian castes and subcastes. 

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb Celebrates with FICA

Cleveland Asian Indians Celebrate Diwali

Mayor Justin Bibb participated in lighting the Diwali diya and photo opportunity with FICA (Federation of Indian Community Associations) members etc, in conjunction with Chia-Min Chen, Asian Liaison Community Relations Board, City of Cleveland and Angela Shute Woodson, Director of Community Relations; Senior Advisor, Community and Government Affairs Community Development.

City of Cleveland's Mayor Justin Bibb
celebrates Diwali with FICA 

City of Cleveland Mayor welcomes First Sikh to Police Department

City of Cleveland Mayor welcomes First Sikh Police Officer 

Mayor Justin Bibb: When I took office, Cleveland officers were still prohibited from having beards and visible tattoos—policies that didn’t reflect the inclusivity our city stands for. By working with our union and police leadership, we modernized those rules to create a more welcoming department. Today, I’m proud to welcome Officer Grewal, Cleveland’s first Sikh police officer, to our ranks. Your service is a powerful step forward for our city, and we’re proud to have you representing Cleveland. 

City of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb
with Cleveland Division of Police Officer Grewal

Dorothy Todd, Cleveland Division of Police Chief: “We are committed to having a diverse group of men and women who who patrol our communities. And I think this great,” said 

Sukhvir Grewal previously worked for the Alliance Police Department and served in the Ohio State National Guard. He speaks four languages. 

Pranat Agarwalla

Jai Shri Krishna

Kamala Harris (Democrat) India's Chitthi (Aunt) from Tamilnadu

So, Indian women are liberal and conservative, Congress/Rahul Gandhi supporters and BJP/Narendra Modi supporters. I haven't yet figured out a good reason for Indian women being liberandus; liberal yes, liberandu no. Maybe its their emotional nature. To each his own, I reckon. 

A few Indian American liberandus are dealing with depression, premature womenopause and performing quit America yagnas. We had a situation where millions of Indians hoped that Kamala Harris, the Indian origin contestant from Tamilnadu would loose and she did. Is adharma winning right now? Adharma is appearing as an avatar of dharma is devastating nations and peoples, even its own people.

The American Liberandu

A desi liberandu

Federation of Indian Community Association's Event At Solon Middle School, City of Solon, Ohio

FICA supported by its leaders Shekar Ganore, Ameet Bathiya, Keyuri Hazarnis, Hemant Kanodia, Abhijeet Runwal, Ritu Mahna, Deepa Rao, Amit Jain, Mitesh Bhandari, Naveen Ulli, Manish Ishwar, Yatish Desai, Nipa Turakhia, Somnath Roy, Sumit Shah, Dhrumil Patel is organizing Anand Mela for Asian Indian Community in Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown, Ohio. It will be held on September 28th at Solon Middle School located at 6835 SOM Center Road, in City of Solon Ohio. Indian cuisine by local Asian Indian chefs from various states and regions of India should attract a lot of participants. 

Anand Mela
Solon Middle School
City of Solon, Ohio

Solon Board of Education Members
Solon Schools, City of Solon, Ohio
Stephanie Abramowitz, Michele Barksdale,
Julie Glavin, John Heckman, Kevin Patton 

Solon Asian Indian Festival

City of Solon holds Asian Indian Festival

Solon Spring Festival

 

Mayor of Solon
City of Solon, Ohio
Solon Asian Indian Festival

Edward Kraus, Mayor, City of Solon
Solon Community Center, Portz Parkway, Ohio

The very supportive, City of Solon Mayor, Edward Kraus, participated in the first Asian Indian desi festival held at Solon Community Center. 

Participants included DJ TazBeats, Madhuralaya School of Music, Students of of the extraordinary teacher guru Lalit Subramanian, New Bachas on the Block, Antara Datta's Anga Kathak Dance Academy, Solon High School Hindu Students Association, Cleveland Bollywood. 

To participate in the next year's festival, contact Tracy Sullivan, Director of Community and Cultural Enrichment  or Rich Parker, Director of Recreation at City of Solon.

Sri Venkateswara Hindu Temple, Novi Michigan Complaint

Recall visiting Sri Venkateswara Hindu Temple in Novi, Michigan many years back. It was no different than any other Sri Venkateswara Temple. I was a bit surprised to see a complaint dated April 1, 2024! calling for Removing Board Members, End Discrimination and Restore Sanctity of this Hindu temple. 

1. Complainant notes that folks are deeply troubled. Why? How deep are you troubled? What are the symptoms of this trouble? Does the trouble call for a psychiatrist or psychologist? Pankaj, if you don't like this Sri Venkateswara Hindu Temple in Novi, Michigan; go to some other Hindu temple in Detroit area...or pray at home? 

There are too many temples in Detroit Michigan that under-serve Hindus anyway. Teaching of Hinduism is very poor. Teachers of Hinduism are foolishly stubborn and impractical. 

Hindu Temples

One can argue that Hindu temples do a disservice to Hindus, they make Hindus weaker, always have. Hindu temples are passive entities when they should be proactively run on the principles of Shri Krishna. Did Shri Krishna do poojas to address the problems between Kaurav and Pandav; hell no, he went to a war with strategy and tactics. Dharma can only be maintained through sustained competition. Shri Ram won by chopping off heads of Ravan, again and again until no heads grew. Chanting shanti, om shanti, is wishful thinking, it won't do anything.

Management of Hindu Temples

Timid and introverted temple boards don't want to take risks, don't want to do more good even if they can, just do the bare minimum poojas and play it safe. Maintain the status quo. If temple management became active and extroverted, it would help Sanatana Dharma, Hindus and  Bharat aka India exponentially. I am not optimistic about it; centuries of planned conditioning and selfishness is hard to overcome.  

Life has changed, Hindu temples must change too or risk going extinct or becoming obsolete in the future. Perhaps Indian governments and politicians want to keep things under their control through legislation. In any case, the liberandus and liberanduism gotta go. 

Sri Venkateswara Hindu Temple
Novi, Michigan

2. Complainant notes that board members of Sri Venkateswara Temple displayed arrogance and demanded preferential treatment for themselves. So what? It happens all the time, people are pricks. This is how temple power works. Power corrupts humans and they do adharmic shit or worse often. They are what they are, animals.

3. Complainant notes that board members exhibited discriminatory behavior towards specific volunteers without justification. Again, this happens all the time in every organization. Discrimination is intrinsic to Asian Indians specially with other Asian Indians; they might be nicer to other non-Indians. In the US, they would brown nose whites just like we did in pre-independence India. Just move on...go to a different temple or pray at home or just just don't pray...it won't matter. These things are not worth it in a short life. Its better to self examine our own faults/weaknesses instead of starting petitions. 

4. Complainant notes that they have falsely accused volunteers without evidence and introduced caste politics and favored individuals.  Again this shit happens all the time. Caste-ism, state-ism, town-ism, village-ism, language-ism, skin color-ism, food-ism and finally pubic-hair-ism; you name it and you will find it among Hindus and this shit is never going to leave us. It is ingrained in us because of our poor but qualified teachers, passive ideology and centuries of conditioning. This is how we are...this is how Indian organizations including temples are....just move on, these organizations are not worth it. There are too many wonderful things to do in our great country; parts of it are like a swarg/paradise, go see them. 

5. Board members used misused temple funds and purchased alcohol.....so what, why don't you try Stella Artois or Bud Light, it is a pretty good beer, its a short cut to nirvana and Lord Venkateswara. Knock, knock....doobies are legal in Novi, Michigan, right Pankaj?

6. Complainant notes mistreatment of temple priests. I doubt that there is any Hindu temple where this does not happen. Hindu priests are employees of the temple and they will get mistreated just like any other employee gets treated in society that worships Lord Shri Dollar. This is what corporations are, temples of Lord Shri Dollar. Now, Hindu priests have to work for Hindu management, that's gotta suck, I am not sure though.  

7. Now, Pew Research Center, I wouldn't believe anything that comes from this septic tank.

In conclusion, Pankaj Mian, this complaint at https://www.change.org/p/remove-board-members-end-discrimination-and-restore-sanctity is a dud. Bhai, understand religions first; then understand Hinduism, then understand Hindu temples as non-profit/profit organizations and their board, committees and their management....no? Its about status and power. But Pankaj notes that all temple board members are not stale, so work with these people...that's as good as its going to get. Some people can't see forest for the trees, they are intrinsically small. 

Hindu temple positions are volunteer positions but they get compensated in just an indirect way, it depends on the temple and the location. In worse situations, there are cases where personal properties/donations of naive devout devotees in Detroit have been grabbed and used for personal purposes, this shit happens and won't stop through a change dot org petition. Not paying proper wages to temple workers was in the news in New Jersey, BAPS Swaminarayan Temple.