Do you think that opposing Karmakand and astrology is equivalent to designating Indian Culture?
Murli Manohar Joshis problem is that he does not know what Indian Culture is, he thinks of it as Hindu Brahmanical culture. The ultimate test of patriotism, of belief in the destiny of this country, is to fight against imperialism in the current juncture. To my mind, Marxists, progressive thinkers, socialists have been in the forefront of this fight in this country in the last 100 years. So why should they have to take lectures in patriotism from Murli Manohar Joshi. Where was he in the freedom struggle? After all he was not that young. Lots of school and college students participated in the freedom struggle but I am not aware of him paying any role. Are there parts of our heritage which we can claim as our own? We have claim lots our heritage as our won. For instance the development of mathematics which happened long ago- Lancelot Hogben refers to it the origin of algebra, the concept of zero the whole numeral system all of them are major contributions. India has made major contributi
