When we speak of the genetic origin of modern South Asia, the theory of Aryan invasion is predominantly mentioned. Mr Arvindan Neelakandan, co-author of ‘Breaking India’, says, “India is the last standing pagan civilization-Hindu civilization”, during a talk on ‘The Proxy Invasion’ with Mr Sandeep Balakrishnan at the Mangaluru Lit Fest on 30th November 2019.
Mr.Sandeep, while elucidating on the strategies of Foreign NGO’s and Missionaries to target India’s civilization he mentioned three tactics “Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and through various NGO’s”. In addition to him, Mr Arvindan also echoed the same narrative and presented a few examples which included the ‘Phantom Comics’ and explained how they were used to manipulate the psychology of the readers by projecting Phantom to protect everyone from the ‘Eastern Darkness’, which he pointed out later that they were implying it to the ‘pagan cult’.
While addressing the audience regarding the idea of reservation policy, Mr Arvindan quoted Dr B R Ambedkar stating that “Dr.Ambedkar says, a secular nation is not supposed to have minorities based on religion”. While further discussing on who should be given the reservations again Mr Arvindan invoked Ambedkar’s idea and stated, “Dr.Ambedkar said, socio-economic aspects should be considered for reservations; You can give reservations to gender minorities, you can give reservations to ethnic minorities, you can give reservations to linguistic minorities, but why should you give reservations to religious minorities? It’s absolutely not needed.”
Mr Arvindan concludes his argument by saying, “The US sees leftist as very useful intervention forces into Indian polity. All these have joined to fight against the last remaining pagan culture, and we have the responsibility of protecting it”.
Written by Ruchika Rajshekar