Digestion of Indian civilisation into rival civilisations: Being Different discussion board

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Building on the above article on how blind copying western civilisation is hollowing India and making Indians rootless, Rajiv Malhotra eminent thinker and writer positions the following scenarios of possible digestion of Indian civilisation into rival civilisations. It is imperative that Indians take cognisance of the rival civilisational dynamics which impact us. We cannot live in blissful isolation or blindly adopt western civilisational practices as being 'cool'. We need to be discerning and be very careful on what we adopt. I really like Narendra Modi' mantra 'we can be modern without becoming western'. 

Rajiv Malhotra

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The prediction of Narendra turning spiritual was being witnessed by family members even before the Sanyasi mentioned it after reading his horoscope and feared that one day they might wake up to find Narendra gone. As soon as he finished school Narendra left home in a spiritual journey that lasted two (1969-70) years and took him from Gujarat to Ramkrishna Mission and Belur mutt in West Bengal to the Himalayas. During this period he was incommunicado and no one knew whether he lived or died. After spending some months serving an ascetic in a remote corner of the Himalayas, Narendra finally returned home, appearing suddenly just as he had left. His mother and younger sister in tears of joy served him plain rotla and shaakh. With the passing of these events the prediction of becoming a Sanyasi had come true.

He left the very next day to Ahmadabad took employment with his uncle who ran a canteen in the State Transport dept. As a curious student he attended many political and social rallies and discourses by various political outfits but none inspired him, around this time Narendra got inclined towards the RSS, the year was 1971.

Vakil Saheb (Laxmanrao Inamdar) the chief of RSS Gujarat took Narendra Modi under his wings and brought him up as his own son. He moved out from his uncle’s house and took residence at the RSS shakha. His daily chores involved fetching milk at 5:00 am, making tea and breakfast for shakha officials, washing clothes and utensils, cleaning and mopping the entire building consisting of 8 to 9 rooms and having lunch at some swayamsevaks house by rotation and again returning to the shakha and making tea for everyone. This was Narendra Modi's routine for more than a year. Along with these daily activities Narendra found time to enroll into distance education course with the Delhi University and graduated in political science.

At this point when he was cooking, washing, cleaning and performing other chores for the Shakha and RSS colleagues there was no way for Narendra to have remembered what the astrologer had predicted so many years back when he was 12 years old about being a Sanyasi or a person as powerful as an emperor. As time proved, the Sanyasi element was soon in ascendance and the apprenticeship to become emperor had begun.

Bibliography: The Architect of A Modern State by MV Kamath and Kalindi Randeri

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