Has India's zeitgeist changed for the better?
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Rabrindranath Tagore, Where The Mind Is Without Fear.
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Rabrindranath Tagore, Where The Mind Is Without Fear.
Is corruption, by Indians, a common cultural practice?
Do Indians stoically tolerate individual corruption?
Is a manifestation of corruption in India expressed in a mindset of religious offerings that are merely transactional between a devotee & an idol?
Give God cash & anticipate a reward?
Trade cash for a blessing from the Divine?
Why do wealthy Indians not only give cash to temples, but also crow about giving gold crowns, bars, trinkets & silver baubles to deities?
Why did Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy gift a gold crown studded with diamonds worth Rs 45 crore to the Tirupati temple?
Do India’s temples have more gold than the People's Bank of China?
More diamonds than DeBeers?
Pure gold Mahavidhnu idol tatue of pure gold. Three & a half feet studded with hundreds of pieces of diamonds & gold at Padmanabhaswamy Temple.
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabrindranath Tagore, Where The Mind Is Without Fear.
Is not Indian history replete with examples of the capture of cities & kingdoms after genetals were compensated?
At the Battle of Plassey did not Robert Clive buy Mir Jaffar?
Robert Clive & Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, 1757, Francis Hayman.
Bengal's superior military force capitulated of to an inferior 3,000 man army, raised by the East India Company
Mirjafar in Bengali & _meer jafar_in Urdu, are now pejoratives like quisling English & Jaichand of Kannauj in Indian history. The Urdu poet Allama Iqbal wrote, "Jafar(Mir) of Bengal & Sadiq(Mir) of the Deccan are a disgrace to the faith, a disgrace to the Nation, a disgrace to the Country."
Why did the pacification of Indian forts involve a monetary quid pro quo?
In 1967, was not Golconda was captured after the secret back door to the fort was left open?
Emperor Aurangzeb at the Siege of Golconda, 1687, unknown Indian artist.
Home to the Kollur mine, Golconda, the diamond capital, was then the world's only source of diamonds.
Did not Mughals vanquish Marathas & Rajputs with nothing but bribes?
Why did Srinagar accept a bribe to betray Dara Shikoh’s son Sulaiman to Aurangzeb?
Dara Shikoh & Sulaiman Shikoh Aurangzeb bribe Medini Rai, Raja of Srinagar's son. In 1660, Medini Rai, enamoured with the power & grandeur of the Mughal court, treacherously helped Aurangzeb kidnap Suleiman.
Are Indians still Hobbesian?
Are Indians only interested in themselves?
When will India awake to Tagore's "heaven of freedom"?
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