Who is responsible? Clearly, it is the sedimentation of 900 years of Muslim and British rule, compounded by the apologetic lack of national pride in the Nehru-Gandhi era of six decades. When USA got Independence, in 1776, they discarded everything British – form of government, driving on the left, tea, formality in attire and conduct, dogs as pets, cricket, billiards, rugby, etc, replacing them with their own alternatives and adopting coffee, cats, baseball, football and pool, etc. When India got Independence in 1947, Congress leadership merely amended “President” for the “Crown” in all legislative, administrative and legal procedures. India transferred her slavery from Stuart Dynasty to the Nehru Dynasty. The same suppression of nationalist enterprise, the same master-slave governance, the same police-control and the same neglect of health, education and welfare continued for 60 years. It shall take at least one generation of cleansing of the mind to revive self-pride among Indians. A nation that once dominated the globe in education, sciences, social-culture, trade and commerce is not just blissfully ignorant of its glorious past, it is right-royally ashamed of it. Anybody but Nehru, as the first prime minister of India, would have ensured India became a global force, with veto power in the UN, the Rupee trading at par with pound sterling, its passport valued more than that of Japan and Hindi as an official language in international fora. Oh Fate! Thou art so wicked!!

What is the way forward? India’s young minds, poisoned from kindergarten onwards with false history and sense of inferiority, are slowly becoming aware and breaking their shackles. A lot needs to be done to overhaul systems inherited from the Mughals and the Raj. Restoration of faith in India’s rich heritage can be done only when false history and propaganda is eradicated. History of contemporary and medieval India must reflect the events as they truly occurred. The role of stalwarts other than Nehru-Gandhi, viz, Netaji Bose and his Azad Hind Fauj, Veer Savarkar, etc, in India’s freedom struggle; the cruelty of rulers like Akbar and Tipu Sultan; the sacrifices of Sikh-Gurus in fighting Islamisation; the contribution of non-dynastic Congress leaders like Sardar Patel, Lal Bahadur Shastri, PV Narasimha Rao, et al, needs to be acknowledged in history; the nepotism and corruption of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty needs to be highlighted, along with their limited but over-hyped contribution to India’s sputtering growth; the reasons and lessons of the Emergency of 1975 must be an important chapter in Indian History taught in schools.

There needs to be some forceful thrusting of national pride in India’s business and industry. Not just cities, roads and localities bearing foreign legacy must be renamed. All condominiums, products, produces, models and enterprises should bear ethnic names, within a set time-table. English should be replaced with Hindi as the official link language. Opposition to this should be overcome with education, motivation, appeal and, if necessary, by force of legislation. Nationalism must be enforced where it does not come naturally. Respect for the national anthem, national flag and other national symbols must be rigidly enforced. These cannot be disrespected under camouflage of secularism. Hate speeches or social-media posts against the security, sovereignty, integrity or secularity of India must be suppressed with a heavy hand. Rights like Freedom of Speech and Religion must be taught in all schools to define their boundaries under the Constitution.

India needs to occupy its rightful place as leader of the world, it once was. No longer can heritage be the only aspect of pride for an Indian. The world has much to learn, from India, in all fields of human endeavour. India’s mental-slavery is as conducive to India’s security as nudity is to a woman’s modesty!!

Samples of mental-slavery in day-to-day life in modern India

While Anglicised city names have been restored, roads, buildings and institutions continue to bear colonial names. Metropolises have been renamed but their High Courts are not. There is monetary incentive for renaming cities – huge contracts are doled out for repainting city names at railway stations, airports, milestones on highways, etc, and reprinting railway time-tables, office stationery etc. There is no such opportunity for appropriation of public money in renaming roads and complexes in cities and towns of India. Also, renaming has been confined only to Anglicised names and Muslim city names has been avoided, till recently. This has less to do with mental-slavery and more with appeasement politics.

In food habits, dance and music too, Indians are going more western than the westerner, who is edging towards Indian cuisine and vegetarianism. This tilt is not because Western cuisine, dance or music is superior to India’s, it is just a question of shame in being Indian.

True, some brands are of foreign origin and have penetrated Indian markets by dint of their quality and class but it is also common practice to alter brand-names to appease local pride. Japan adopted Panasonic and English model-names for their cars. Suzuki is sold as Maruti in India. India too could sell their products under Indian names and make their products popular worldwide through quality and value-for-money. Exotica has its own attraction.

Names of Roads and Landmarks:

Bengaluru – Richmond Circle, Cox Town, Langford Town;

Kolkata – Piccadilly Square and Elgin Road;

Chennai – Pycrofts Road, Elliot’s Beach;

Puducherry – Goubert Avenue, L’eveche St, Surcouf St;

Mumbai – Flora Fountain, Cuffe Parade, Wodehouse Road;

Ironically, New Delhi (not Nai Dilli) has the least English names owing to compulsion of naming of roads and institutions after world leaders and the Nehru-Gandhi family.

While Travancore became Kerala, Madras State became Tamil Nadu, Cawnpore became Kanpur, it took many decades before Allahabad could become Prayagraj and Faizabad became Ayodhya.

There is vociferous opposition to renaming cities with Muslim names back to their ethnic names. There is no ripple when ethnic names are surreptitiously replaced with Muslim names, even five decades after Independence. Indians are barely aware of:

Indur becoming Nizamabad and Elagandla renamed Karimnagar, both in Telangana;

Khadki became Aurangabad in Maharashtra;

Kundinapuram became Ameenabad in Andhra Pradesh;

Lakshminagar renamed Muzzaffarnagar in 1986 in Uttar Pradesh etc.

Over a hundred places in India need to be reverted to their ethnic names – Ahmedabad, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Moradabad, to cite a few.

Food Habits:

In public, we prefer pastry to laddu, burger to kachori and ice-cream to kulfi.

India’s reality dance-shows on TV abound in hip-hop, crunching-n-popping, robotics and salsa with nary a performance of bharat-natyam, kathak, odissi, manipuri or mohiniyattam – by far the superior and more intricate dance forms.

In music, Indians have all but forgotten the sitar, sarangi, tabla and bansuri for guitar, drums, clarinet and saxophone. Even in songs, western influence of rap, pop and rock is overshadowing sugam sangeet and Hindustani music.

Relations:

Families and friends calling elders by name, addressing relatives by the generic uncle/auntie rather than the relation-specific chacha, bua, mausi, mama, etc; using Mom and Dad rather than maa and pitaji, are loud pointers to a deeply ingrained feeling of inferiority in our ethnic systems and culture.

Brands:

Tongue-twister names like Mitshubishi, Matsushita, Toshiba, etc, were not changed by Japan to appease the Americans, despite Marshall Aid after Hiroshima-Nagasaki; and Samsung, Hyundai, Daewoo etc are as Korean as they come. Indian psyche tells a different story. A sample of the shame in being Indian in trade and business is:

•             Fabrics are branded Peter-England, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Louis Philippe;

Food Products: Indians use Kelloggs, Cadbury, Nestle, Cerelac, Lactogen, Farex, Weikfield, Fortune, Horlicks, Bournvita, Complan, Pediasure, Tropicana, Real Juice, Kinley, Aquafina, Sprite, Fanta, Miranda, Lipton, Nescafe, Pillsbury….But sneer at Dabur, Patanjali, Aashirvaad, etc.

Toiletry: Ponds, Nivea, Cinthol, Lux, Lakme, Park Avenue, John VI, Axe, L’Oreal, Sunsilk, Garnier, Colgate, Sensodyne, Listerine, Oral B, Whisper, Stayfree, Gillette, Surf, Rin, Tide, etc, are OK but not Dant-Kanti, Himalaya, Ayush or Himani.

•             Automobile models are:

•             Tata (Harrier, Nexon, Tiago, Altroz).

•             Hero (Splendor, Passion, Glamour).

•             Maruti (Dzire, Ertiga, Ciaz, Brezza).

•             TVS (Jupiter, Apache, Victor).

•             Apartment Complexes are called:

•             Godrej (Prive, Exquisite, Rivergreens)

•             Prestige (Finsbury Park, Elysian).

•             Nitesh (Hyde Park, Columbus Square).

•             Sobha (Clovelly, Palm Court, Orion).

•             Puravankara (Whitehall, Somerset House, Venezia).

•             DLF (Ultima, Primus, Crest).

Some Indian products and brands like, TATA, Amul, Haldirams, Himalaya, ITC, Nirma, Parle, Vadilal, chai, basmati, ghee, etc, have brought India some international recognition. Why should Indian companies be called Britannia, Colgate, Pidilite, Cavin Kare, Proctor &Gamble, etc, when law requires at least 51% Indian equity in all foreign or multi-national business enterprises? It is a challenge to find more than 10 Indian brands in any field of Indian commerce.

Even in architecture, India has aped the West with total disregard to India’s tropical climate, so ill-suited to low-ceiling, glass-facade high-rises, requiring air-conditioning with attendant greenhouse-gas emissions. This, as opposed to the traditional designs of high-ceilinged, airy havelis or buildings circumvented by verandahs. Even invaders did not construct any building with western designs. This craze is driven by India’s phoren-returned mental-slaves determined to create an America within India. Vijay Mallya’s UB Towers in Bengaluru is testimonial to this slavish mind-set.

India’s film industry, about five times the size of Hollywood and producing as good a cinema as any in the world, is not ashamed of being called Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood, etc, like some cheap isotopes of the original. Hindi TV channels are called Star, Zee, Sony, Colours, Zoometc instead of some Hindi names.

Indians happily share their “privacy” details with Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok and a host of parasitic foreign apps but are averse to sharing fewer details for Aadhar Card and AarogyaSetu, an app hailed worldwide, for protection from Covid-19!!

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They are slaves that aren’t proud of their heredity
Most slavery is forced; India’s mental-slavery is willfully embraced!!

Merriam-Webster defines “slavery” as submission to a dominating influence. It is a system in which principles of property-law are applied to humans, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell individuals, like property. Slaves have been used and abused throughout history. Slaves invariably are procured from foreign countries. By extension, “mental slavery” would mean mental submission to an alien dominating influence. This naturally has repercussions on a nation’s security. No people can be secure, if their minds are under foreign occupation – eroding pride in their culture, language and customs.

Indians have been victims of mental-slavery for centuries. India’s heritage of flourishing arts, sciences, trade and commerce attracted hordes of invaders over the last 900 years. Blessed with abundant resources, myriad fauna and flora, spices, a geo-strategic location commanding the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and a way-of-life of Vasudhaiva-Kutumbakam – the world is one big family, made Bharat a very attractive place on earth. Muslim invaders suffered repeated humiliating defeats, on the banks of the Indus, but India’s distorted history, written by invaders and the Congress Party, ascribed easy victories to them since the 11th Century. The failure to convert India into an Islamic State has united the entire Islamic world to this end.

The Europeans searching a sea-route to India, discovered America instead in 1492, reaching India after another 200 odd years. While the invaders failed to convert India for 800 years, they did succeed in sowing seeds of disrespect, disbelief and disregard – bordering on shame – in the Indian minds for their highly scientific, organised and cultured way of life. Thus, while India is a sovereign, democratic and secular republic, her people are deeply mired in monarchial values and a deep bias against their original heritage. These values and bias has adversely affected India’s society and security.

Foreign invaders could not have surpassed India’s rich cultural heritage with anything better. Their devious solution was to indoctrinate the natives against their beliefs and customs; questioning the scientific logic behind them. India’s Jyotish-Shashtra, based on a deep understanding of orbital periods, intensity and periodicity of radiation of the Sun, Moon and the planets and their effects on the human body, was pooh-poohed as mumbo-jumbo.To date, while the world publishes only sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and tide timings, even vernacular newspapers in India publish extracts of the Panchang giving out rise and set timings of all planets, the timings of zodiacal transfers, the tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, ritu, ayana along with auspicious and inauspicious timings for various activities. The illiterate invader, with skills and knowledge limited to horse-riding, swordsmanship, wining, dining, plunder and rape, was flummoxed with the breakdown of a lunar day into segments more elaborate than lipid profile of blood. So, the invader started ridiculing the concept of muhurats, rahu-kaal and auspicious directions and days for travel, etc. Indian calendar follows synodic-lunar observations, ie, movement of both sun and moon vis-s-vis the earth, to determine the length of a day. Consequently, the Tithi changes at varied hours daily, unlike the date-change at midnight in other calendars. The Indian system obviates the necessity of an additional day every four years (Leap Year) to adjust the errors due to inaccurate measurements of duration of each unique day. Instead of using the advanced Indian calendar, Indians proudly use the Gregorian system of time-keeping.

Ridiculing consumption of ghee exposed the invader’s ignorance of microbiology. Vedic India knew the structure of the human body and understood fatty acids, saturated and unsaturated fats, good and bad cholesterol, blood urea and lipids. Naturally, they progressed from ill-effects of butter on human body, to ghee, with a simple step of heating butter, making it healthy for consumption. While a small amount of butter is fattening and bad for cholesterol, ghee could be consumed in copious amounts with no harmful effects. It also could be stored for long periods without refrigeration. Still, ghee is branded as bad-for-health and linked to desi-ness, a trait rendered shameful through indoctrination. Now, the firangs are surreptitiously turning to ghee while the sahibs devour butter, cheese, olive-oil and peanut butter.

Most rituals followed by desis were pronounced unscientific and witchcraft. Leaving of footwear at the entrance, washing hands before and after a meal, eating with hand, rinsing of mouth after meals, etc, were all mocked at as being savage. The invader, ignorant of ill-effects of bad-hygiene on human body, did not comprehend the might of the invisible but omnipresent germ and bacteria. Vedic sages had all this knowledge, duly chronicled in Shushruta-Samhita, Charaka-Samhita, Yoga-Sutra,etc. Sushruta-Samhita, compiled circa 800 BCE,had 186 chapters on 1,120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants, 64 preparations from minerals and 57 preparations from animal sources. The invader, some 2000 years later, was just learning to do wuzu before namaaz. The Church forsook even this ritual of personal hygiene. Yet, both these invaders castigated the Indians for their orthodox practices. The neo-educated Indian readily adopted the modern standards of hygiene; wore shoes inside the kitchen, used hanky for nasal excreta, did not wash hands, used fork and knife to eat and was polite enough to not rinse the mouth after meals. He eschewed ghee for butter and cheese; ate refined sugar for gud/boora/khand, white bread for bran-infused rotis; chocolates for laddu and smoothies for chhaas. Never has ignorance prevailed over wisdom so blatantly as in the Indian subcontinent, through mental rewiring.

As is wont of any invader, local languages, literature and education were forcibly denounced and replaced with Arabic (Urdu) or European languages. Today, English, spoken by less than 0.02% and understood by 10.67% Indians, is not only an official language, it is the only link-language, at the expense of Hindi, spoken by 43.63% and understood by over 57.09%. Pride in regional languages, in India, surfaces only when Hindi is proposed as a pan-India official and link language – the greatest opposition coming from Tamil, spoken by 5.7% Indians. Other than Hindi, no other language is spoken by more than 8% Indians, still mental-slavery proudly accepts English over Hindi. India is the only nation in the world, which has its own languages but uses a foreign language for official and legal purposes. If English were absolutely essential for growth, nations like China, Japan, Korea, France, Germany and Italy, who eschew English with the same abhorrence Tamilians eschew Hindi, would not be leading in every technical field. Having English as an official language is a shame, India’s mentally-enslaved bourgeois is unable to shake-off. Hindi is considered an imposition on regional languages; English is not.

Mental-slavery impinges on security. Security of a nation no longer depends on military might alone; it is tightened or loosened by economic tools. USA, Russia and China exercise influence over countries through loans for development projects, infiltrating their banking systems. China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, to revitalize the Silk Route, is a masterstroke of economic hegemony cloaked in global convenience. India is losing billions of dollars due to her over-reliance on foreign brands, thereby compromising her balance of trade and economic sovereignty.

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