I am more Indian.
Kalki Koechlin is more Indian.
Adnan Sami is more Indian.
Strike that.
There is not more or less about it.
All three of the above ARE Indian.
Cheers, Doc
Serves you right, Doc.
LOL, Indians of convenience or necessity, sure.
It is immaterial who is Indian and who is not, only the ideas should be debated on any forum.
James Corden, Trevor Noah, John Oliver, all not american, yet discuss issues on late night shows. How does it matter?
If someone loves and cares about India's interests, I don't question their Indianness. This is an issue which Doc has created here today - and I've put up with enough anti-NRI nonsense where we get shafted from both sides whether we care about India or don't care about India, to keep putting up with it.
And that's why Zoroastrians marrying outside the community are ostracized as well . To think the Zoroastrians labelled the Vedic Devas as demons and revered Ahura Mazda only to preserve what's left of their religion in the land which reveres Devas , granting the exiles from their land - the Zoroastrians , the freedom to practise their religion and prevent entry to the natives and we're pilloried for not being liberal enough .P.S. About the fire temple bit, without going into Hindu temples which also do not allow entry to non Hindus, I will explain this.
There is a hugely elaborate process that is gone through (months, even years) to consecrate an atash (holy fire) before a new fire temple is set up.
The fire itself is derived in a hugely complicate way (it contains many elements of different naturally occurring and man made fires - including lightning, volcano, etc.)
The energies inside a fire temple would be destroyed in the presence of one not belonging to the ancestral faith. That is the reason non Zoroastrians are not allowed inside. Not because we consider you inferior or dirty or of impure blood.
Cheers, Doc
If someone loves and cares about India's interests, I don't question their Indianness. This is an issue which Doc has created here today - and I've put up with enough anti-NRI nonsense where we get shafted from both sides whether we care about India or don't care about India, to keep putting up with it.
It is immaterial who is Indian and who is not, only the ideas should be debated on any forum.
James Corden, Trevor Noah, John Oliver, all not american, yet discuss issues on late night shows. How does it matter?
Big big self goal ....
Cheers, Doc
Nope, not at all. If you think a PIO making legal campaign donations, is the same thing as foreign vested interests trying to direct India towards a path of doom through useful idiots like GND, then you're either terribly mistaken or terribly dishonest. Decide which one is more accurate.
lol. This is why I say the NRI shouldn't be allowed to have a word in Indian affairs. He thinks he is like the rich relative of yesteryears where he walks in with maal and advises people on how to do things, in case you missed it.
a) your effect trhough cash is ZIIILLLLCHHH. Any idea how much money the likes of ambani, adani and tatas give away every election? Your 'cash' is the chicken change of beggars in comparison to that.
b) I come from a family one of whose members was approached by BJP to become a state head- tere jaise do take ke khandaan ko ukhaad ke kya dikhaoon?
b) The only vlue you have is nuisance - typing away your stupid support long after the rest conclude a party is lame. Basically 'hot air' value.
Its not much different at all.
Both of you are ex India interests.
You have a blood link. So you are more credible. And politically acceptable.
Which is why Modi panders to you openly. While the same is done guardedly with non PIO interests and fund sources.
Cheers, Doc
Better than a descendant of rice eating converts who're up against a mirror image of their Semitic religion which is exactly what Hindutva is all about . It's one thing for Hindus to criticise Hindutva - like Tharoor did and fell between two stools of advocating tolerance for Hindus while admitting minorities had a right to practise , preach and propagate their faith and turned over to criticise Hindutva as being more similar to Semitic or Monotheistic faiths .His point is that he is a moron,,,,
a) Who says my money is going against theirs? It's all pooled together towards the same goal buddy. You're the one who ought to be worried.
b) LOOOOOOL, anyone can become a state head of BJP in Kerala, and please don't switch your state of origin/residence and magically become a Tamil Chola again.
c (it's c after b by the way, not b again lmao) - Your entire family is literally irrelevant in politics when stacked against the sheer amount of money I contribute by myself, I'm not even bringing my family into this. Your entire lives are little but nuisance value for us, keep barking.
I'm more credible than NGO's, and I'm also more credible than those who never truly considered themselves part of the people of this land as well. My allegiance in that part of the world is firmly with one country, unlike some others.So you are more credible
He panders to us openly because our interests align 100% with Indian interests. Unlike NGO's, and unlike some who sit in India but don't completely consider themselves one with the native population.Modi panders to you openly.
Better than a descendant of rice eating converts who're up against a mirror image of their Semitic religion which is exactly what Hindutva is all about . It's one thing for Hindus to criticise Hindutva - like Tharoor did and fell between two stools of advocating tolerance for Hindus while admitting minorities had a right to practise , preach and propagate their faith and turned over to criticise Hindutva as being more similar to Semitic or Monotheistic faiths .
What amuses me is that faith as presented by VSDoc best illustrated in why Zoroastrians marrying outside the community and non Zoroastrians not allowed entry into fire temples among other examples are all articles of faith - observed since millenia and therefore considered sacrosanct , but when such similar acts are observed by Hindus are ridiculed as outdated ,regressive , etc .
This holds true especially when rice converts paste articles out here ridiculing pushpak vimanas or plastic surgeries as practised by ancient India but get mumps when asked to comment on Immaculate Conception , faith healing , theory of evolution & the original sin as per the Bible .
And we're supposed to endorse your views and way of life as paragons of virtue . Why blame you when the English media is strewn with plenty of deracinated people of our faith whose raison d'etre is to riducule and belittle Hinduism and who give you enough fodder to chew and eject thru the same cavity , in your case .
It's actually incredibly different; but I don't expect someone blinded by political biases to understand. Frankly Doc, you're a man who claimed to be against massive incompetence, corruption and anti-Indian stances and in the same breath, on the same thread voiced full support to Congress and Rahul Gandhi. You wanna talk about self goals, that's a self goal.
And your buddy GND is busy trying to figure out which Indian state he hails from today and which letter comes after b.
What is your point?
Yes we are ancient cousins.
Yes this land belongs as much to us as it does to you.
Vedic Hindus (the settlers) came from us. We therefore do lay claim to this land.
You may agree or not. It is what it is.
Cheers, Doc