🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 thank you for this! so so relatable (but could not have articulated this): “My body viscerally reacts when I hear the chant, when I watch the bows of obedience and the glazed eyes of adulation. A sea of orange. Every nerve ending is frayed and I’m waiting for them to unleash a fresh bout of violence in physical or verbal form. I’m clenched in anticipation for unpleasantness. I hate these men in orange peddling ‘Hinduisms’.”
In awe of how powerfully u’ve expressed, was so succinct Smriti! The battle of harrowing down from all colours to a narrowing obsession with orange from a religious prism is quite troublesome to witness.
Hindus i’ve grown to believe are intrinsically most inclusive and largely as u mentioned quite personal in their religious beliefs. I still remember the song ‘ Mile sur mera tumhara, woh sur bane humara’ well that speaks volumes of the idea of India i’ve grown up in.
btw i have an orange kurta that i’m more at ease wearing at this point :)
excellent summary of what many people of India went through .. yes orange is perhaps better than saffron... we hope that tomorrow is better for all the people.. Imagine as Lennon sang if there were no boundaries no religion ... there would be no gaza ukraine .. you may say I am a dreamer but I am not the only one ..... i hope the world will respond!!!
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 thank you for this! so so relatable (but could not have articulated this): “My body viscerally reacts when I hear the chant, when I watch the bows of obedience and the glazed eyes of adulation. A sea of orange. Every nerve ending is frayed and I’m waiting for them to unleash a fresh bout of violence in physical or verbal form. I’m clenched in anticipation for unpleasantness. I hate these men in orange peddling ‘Hinduisms’.”
Thank you so much @raju 🤍. It’s a feeling I’ve held for so long and it just came out when I was writing this
In awe of how powerfully u’ve expressed, was so succinct Smriti! The battle of harrowing down from all colours to a narrowing obsession with orange from a religious prism is quite troublesome to witness.
Hindus i’ve grown to believe are intrinsically most inclusive and largely as u mentioned quite personal in their religious beliefs. I still remember the song ‘ Mile sur mera tumhara, woh sur bane humara’ well that speaks volumes of the idea of India i’ve grown up in.
btw i have an orange kurta that i’m more at ease wearing at this point :)
excellent summary of what many people of India went through .. yes orange is perhaps better than saffron... we hope that tomorrow is better for all the people.. Imagine as Lennon sang if there were no boundaries no religion ... there would be no gaza ukraine .. you may say I am a dreamer but I am not the only one ..... i hope the world will respond!!!