Khushwant Singh wrote this book soon after the 2002 Gujarat riots on Hindu nationalism and ‘likes of Narendra Modi’ posing threat to the very existence of India He predicted that if Sangh gets more power, they will put a ban on wearing skirts and attack people for not doing annual temple pilgrimages Well, it’s been two terms of Modi as PM, and BJP and Sangh are strongest than they have ever been. Been 20 years since this book was written. How much of this fear-mongering has come true?
@swati_gs And we have likes of Urfi Jawed who proves his point about Skirt, minority in danger all wrong 😉.
He is correct but in a different way. Leftists thought the Sangh was saffron but the reality is that Sangh is blue. And they gave us the distraction of saffron vs green to make way for the blue to set itself up as an ecosystem, peddle hate for saffron and normalize it so much that even RW eulogizes it. They made blue so powerful that it is now impossible to even write or discuss it, let alone criticize it. So Sangh did achieve everything Khushwant imagined, just not in the way he thought it was.
@swati_gs Nothing much change on ground.
@swati_gs aka the Slippery Slope logical fallacy argument. Throw that to the dustbin.
@swati_gs Urfi javed...
A fallacy. This assumption is exactly the kind of polarised perspective that has corrupted the young generation. Khushwant Singh forgot to mention the dire consequence of an assumption primarily made on extremity sample space. In 2002, a predictive timeline, saying the ‘obvious’ made him stand out today. Alright, embrace him but know this — a cultural narrative will always kill the genius in you. A Society, built by the likes of Khushwant’s narrative preaches you fear as the only choice. Anything that’s not in human’s control is almighty’s work—so it’s easy to bucket “nationalist” / “patriots” / “extremist” etc. If this generation can’t be curious enough to question up the messenger and only shove down the message — another generational pandemic is not far away. Rise above.
@swati_gs Such people became the Celebrity Authors and Thought Leaders in this Country 🙄
@swati_gs We ain't very far from those predictions.