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Don't mean to be a negative nancy, but I **really**, really, dislike this trend of some Punjabi artists in the West now churning out artwork by making their own "covers" of popular magazines with photos from the protests.

Lot of genuine problems with this


For one, when these are shared on social media, the image is what captures attention, not the caption - a LOT of people are sharing these in groupchats/posting online with the assumption that they're real. Have had to correct some of my fam in India saying it's just artwork

This just adds to general misinformation, which is really not ideal at a time when we see coordinated efforts to spread that - the facts should stand out above all

Secondly, this gives really easy currency to those saying that farmers are protesting the bills because they're unknowledgeable; some Indian media outlets have already scored points off the National Geographic cover, "fact checking it", and inferring all info is as such.

Another problem is a lot of the "headlines" are lifted from other news stories - for example, the Rolling Stone "cover" literally copied the headline of IP Singh's great article (covered here). Give coverage to the people actually writing these
when your idea of India is rooted Hindutva, no Hindu is anti-national. if your idea of India is rooted in humanity, no person would be anti-national - nationalism is *an infantile disease* (Einstein), *cruel epidemic of evil that is sweeping over the human world* (Tagore)


people from times immemorial have used religion for its spiritual valence - radical, progressive political leaders have used theology & spirituality to advocate emancipatory politics rooted in love, universality, look beyond superficial differences that power leverages to divide

every single religion I can think of is rooted in patriarchy & horrors have been perpetrated in its name, words can't capture the shame & barbarity - but until nonreligious spiritualism & morality is widespread, we have to contend with religion, its resonances & internal shifts

danger with leveraging religion instead of religion-agnotic spiritualisms is what you see happening today - absurdly grotesque formations - RSS, Gandhi's own murderers, claiming Gandhi while refashioning his religious spirituality of ahimsa into political religiosity of violence

religion has significant but ultimately limited political value, where someone can use religion to draw on universal values of love, fraternity, morality to advocate for progress, the other can use the exact same language to justify hate, genocide, heterobrahminical patriarchy
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U r talking about -
Impalement of the Jains in Madurai
It was a pious Shaivite triumphal fiction with zero confirmation from Jain sources. In other words the Jains have never claimed that they were persecuted or impaled. If u can show in any

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I also noted the images displayed on the temple wall where this persecution is claimed were wearing the sacred thread which is common to Brahmins. So ,they were most probably

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In Buddhism case ,The Buddhist texts do mention their persecution at hands of Hindus .
But than i pondered
If People left Hinduism when they adopted Buddhism but if that was so ,than it should have happened to every other place where Buddhism spread

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Bonpo Religion in tibet,
Confuciaism,taoism in China ,
shintoism in japan,
Native Pagan traditions and
tengrism,Shamanism,Animism in South East Buddhist Nations
remained intact until recent takeover in last centuries.

So on what assumption can u

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Furthermore I found several holes within Buddhist narrative .
Eg - Balaji idol is Buddha's and Vaishnavas converted it later iwth hindu symbols on it.
I investigated and found - Balaji has four arms - no statue of buddha has four arms.