Being honest Hindus that we are, the historical masters of looking within for the greatest truth there is, we must begin by 1st looking inside our own collars.
For our own faults. For why even Jews are not standing with us against Khalistani hateful, genocidal slogans like ‘Kill India.’
Why no one else is doing it either.
Because yes, there are some. Maybe more than ‘some.’
The sense I get of Bharatiya Diplomacy worldwide (its a reverse-engineered guess, following the cause based on the outcomes), is that our diplomats are very, very good at behind the scenes to-and-fro.
Covert negotiations.
To get a favorable outcome in strategic areas of interest and favorable trade relations as far as possible, yeah, in those areas you can count on them to shine like bright stars.
But when it comes to political matters, public diplomacy, the best we can expect from them is to make sure other players maintain their silence.
Getting someone to sympathize with our grievances or heck, even understand our way of thinking, and speak about it, seems like an exercise in double impossibility for them.
Part of the reason is our extremely poor marketing skills to the world. The other part of the reason – yes, its being brutally honest – is that we don’t have too many things to market to world right now.
Again, that may not be entirely our fault – or our diplomats’. We’re at a chicken-and-egg situation after all. If the “Rules-based-international-order” has rules mandating structural and institutionalized anti-Hindu hatred, then, there won’t be much we can do about to make someone listen to our side of the story. Or even to consider it a story in the 1st place.
But even when we do have such occasions, like, for a perfect example highlighting both issues (we are talking about stories here, aren’t we?), we should note the ‘worldwide success’ of movie RRR. Winning even an Oscar!
Again, we know that like everything else, Oscars is a far-left dominated institution. (for that matter, every so-called ‘prestigious’ award in all creative fields is).
And if that woke-far-left wasn’t addicted to anti-colonial discourse these days, do we honestly believe RRR would’ve won the Oscar?
Let’s move it to more obvious questions: If the RRR was about brown Muslim colonialism, slavery and subjugation instead of White British; and if the excellent Natu-Natu was performed in front of Shaniwar Wada, seat of Maratha Glory, or even Neta ji Subhash Chandra Bose’s, or heck, in front of Guru Golwalkar’s residence … instead of doing it in front of west’s darling Ukraine’s President’s residence, then, what are the chances it’d be declared ‘pure Nazi, Islamophobic propaganda’ instead of an Oscar worthy anti-colonial movie?
Sorry, my mistake. I mean ‘song.’
Also, while we’re on that point, I need to wonder about my mistake: As a Islamo-Leftist coalition at pains to avoid stereotyping, why is it that for Left-Liberals, we Bharatiyas only get these awards for ‘Song and Dance routines?’
We got 2 of them, didn’t we?
AR Rahman’s song Jai ho! in equally anti-Bharat Slumdog Millionaire , and Natu-Natu from RRR.
Why don’t we get 1 for stories?
Lagaan, from west’s favorite anti-Hindu cultural icon Amir Khan, was a much more iconic, traditional anti-colonial movie. In its truest sense.
Why not that?
Let’s take another example: Recently we landed a probe on the dark-side of the moon. 1st for any nation in this world. It caught the world’s attention.
All glory and praise to the ISRO and government for the achievement.
But did we market it properly?
Our PM said, in parliament no less, that “This success belongs to all of humanity and it will help moon missions by other countries in the future.”
If so, why didn’t our embassies across the world organize a live-streaming session for other countries’ people? And I’m not talking about posting it on X (formerly twitter.) No. An in person, large screen experience for influential people in those countries: politicians, diplomats, reporters, students and most importantly, their scientific communities and general public? And at the end of it, signing some kind of technological co-operation agreements and sharing and joint analysis of data collected by the moon lander, why didn’t that happen? Obviously big countries are capable of sending even manned missions on the moon, so they probably don’t need it much. But even they happily collaborated, didn’t they? When Vikram and Pragyan lander started sending their data back to us. Western scientists analyzed it too. And more importantly, the poor countries of Global South, they would’ve most definitely appreciated it. With true feelings of sharing a historical moment, given we were – and always will be – one of them. We already have sophisticated capabilities of multiple satellite launches in one go through PSLVs – and we do it on cheap. Way too cheap! Perhaps we could help them build some kind of microsatellites for their own needs, for scientific purposes. The kind our universities keep building. Whatever fits the best balance between national interests and kind outreach to help their people. Apart from any other space and science related co-operation, that might even be mutually beneficial from economic perspective. For example. Reliance and Airtel announced a satellite internet service for our country in recently concluded Bharatiya Mobile Congress. Could we provide something like that to countries of Global South too?
Yes, there’s a risk that we could’ve failed in our moon mission – again.
But that risk was there even when we did it all alone, wasn’t it? We could’ve failed and the world would’ve known about it anyway.
And even there, I believe failure wouldn’t have meant bad for diplomatic purposes.
“We, the people of Global South, We succeed together, and we fail together,” it’s a strong message. And I’m sure most of those people would’ve sympathized with us.
At least we believed in sharing. Both our successes and failures.
Its good either way.
Finally, its one of those fields that are not politically fraught with divisions. There’s nothing controversial about sending a lander to moon’s surface.
But forget any of that, even the camera attached to Vikram’s appendages was pointed to the side rather than down, where we could see its feet touching moon’s surface in a historic picture.
Let’s take one more example. Perhaps most politically direct.
Referring again, to the Pew opinion poll conducted about opinion of our country and our leaders across 23 countries.
Understandably, the tallest leader of our country, PM Modi… Bharatiya people have vast confidence in him making the right decisions about our nation and world affairs.
But…
Let’s not talk about this aspect of what foreigners think about our leaders and their abilities. (For the record, in US, this was about 21 to 37%, for those who had confidence vs no-confidence in Modi’s abilities to do the right thing in World Affairs.)
Let’s talk about a more fundamental point in the survey.
A substantial 40% had never even heard of him!
In younger people, those under 30, this number was a baffling 60%!
Let’s pause and think about it for a minute.
World’s most popular leader; the leader of world’s largest democracy; of the most populous country in the world… for world’s sake it’s necessary for other people to have opinions about him! And yet, 40% Americans in total and 60% under-30, have never even heard about him!
If this is the situation for a personality that’s the most popular thing in Bharat right now (Love him or hate him, everyone knows who PM Modi is and has an opinion about him, at least in Bharat), then, we can well imagine the fate of lesser beings and things and issues.
Part of it is definitely the money-power.
But we’ll get to that later.
What we can say for certain right now, is that foreigners – including maybe Jews – have not even a basic idea about:
- Who we are?
- What we’re like?
- What is our history?
- What are our issues?
Large amount of populations don’t know – or even care to know.
If they’re asked to write a 10-point short note about Hindus and Bharat, I’m even doubtful that large majorities of foreigners could make it past point 5.
So we cannot, in the glowing absence of hard, concrete evidence outlining foreign population’s opinions on us, declare them all bigoted anti-Hindu monsters. Not the people, nor their countries.
If they don’t even know about Modi, then we cannot realistically expect them to know about Khalistanis, much less about their ‘Kill India’ genocidal rhetoric.
Yes, that reflects a different kind of bigotry: the bigotry of indifference towards brown, ‘Hindoo’ people, Global South people. Unlike ‘Blue eyes, Blond hair’ white Ukrainians, foe example.
But that’s a different thing than having an active opinion on an issue. Whether positive or negative.
Yes, its also possible that once they know, it’ll turn out to be in widely expected Abrahmo-Leftists direction: Genocidal bigoted hatred for all Hindus and Bharat.
But until we actually have that data, we cannot, as good Hindus, make wild-speculations about other countries and their people being ALL bigoted monsters.
That’s called ‘prejudice’, and we Hindus are hard at work to eradicate it in our own homeland, and across the world, about us. Hence we shouldn’t do that to other nations and its people.
That being said…
There’s another, recent aspect of western style democracy that we need to take into account, when we talk about a ‘nation’s character’, it’s ‘voice.’
What that is, we’ll talk about it in next part.
