People in UK, USA etc are going nuts because India put craft on the moon. Comments include well India has poverty, people shit in the streets (ever seen a UK town on a Friday night, or Skid Row recently), there is caste system , widows are burned, yadda yadda yadda.
Ok about caste. UK politicians, academics push for caste quotas and reservations. Instead of affirmative action for poverty its based on caste. So if you are backward caste and wealthy you get job and university admissions. if you are not such classified you’re stuffed!
Instead of replacing this a former Labour MP said “well higher castes are better off sociologically”. What does that even mean. Result is stagnation, lack of meritocracy, and lucrative trade for human traffickers. And then the right lot go nuts at illegal immigration.
Yet the right wing anti-immigrant crowd join hands with the left to spout the myth of caste system being cause of poverty in India, blaming it on the non existent Aryan invasion. In reality Modi is backward caste and former president Ram Kovind is Dalit.
Now on widow burning and sati, it was never as widespread as made out. In fact Marathas and others were tackling it. And what was still happening in Europe at the time? Women burned at the stake accused of witchcraft.
The last official execution for witchcraft in England was in 1642, and as late as 1775 for Germany. But lynching for witchcraft continued in parts of Europe until the 20th. Inquisition itself boasted that it had burned at least 30,000 witches over 150 years.
If sati happens today it is part of the problem of domestic violence, abuse, and need to strengthen civil society. Of course it can happen anywhere given the circumstances.
Now who helped NASA space program? Arden unreformed nazis! Wernher von Braun was a member of the Nazi Party, an SS officer, and one of the German scientists and engineers who got the U.S. to the moon.
Of course in the space race, USA was beaten by USSR and the launch of Sputnik. Sergei Korolev is the man responsible for the first human spaceflight. Yet he had been put into the gulag by Stalin.
Gulags were essential backbone to industrialization of the USSR and communism in general. Yet this is barely mentioned when Soviet space milestones celebrated. Just as with nazis helping NASA.
But when India launches satellite to the moon the effluent muck emerges talking about poverty and caste. Yet India used no slave labour. Has no gulags or logai. Had no Nazis working for it. Yet somehow this is worse.
(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread posted by @RanbirS11414092 on August 25, 2023, with minor edits to improve readability and conform to HinduPost style guide)
