Hindu RW is the main reason for the rising racism against Indians.
They spread hatred against Islam despite 56 Muslim majority countries who have mostly good relations with India.
They mock the children of Palestine when the global sympathy is with Palestinians.
They rejoice the bombing on Iran despite Iran having good relationship with India.
The traits you described…. All these mentality .. aren’t exclusive to rural life. They are also visible in cities, corporations, politics, gated societies, and among highly educated people too….
That’s why I struggle with the term every time anyone use it for any wrong. It ties a negative mindset to a place and a people. As someone who comes from a village , the word means roots, community, hard work, and resilience to me not social backwardness…..
If the issue is casteism, call it casteism. If it’s selfishness, call it selfishness. If it’s feudal thinking, call it feudal thinking. Those words describe the problem more accurately than dehati….
Dehatism is a mental state & subconscious philosophy of life ingrained into people.
It has many connotations like jugaad mindset, chalta hai attitude, thuggery & connivance, feudal “jiski laathi uski bhains” attitude; etc.
In this context, it is selfish behaviour in public spaces with no regard for others. They think about their own comfort or comfort of only their community (family, caste, group) in public. This is the reason despite being 1.45 billion living closely we know so little about other communities & their practices. We do not care.
Most of the issues evolved from the dehat (rural way of life in India here) but never went away. For eg- female foeticide happened in cities but roots of this problem were in dehat, continued for centuries. Same with communalism, casteism, dowry demands & crimes.
To celebrate all this and thinking “mah lyf mah rulz” is dehatism.
लोकांनी पुणे सोडा ओ पण PCMC मध्ये धर्मांच्या मुद्दावर मतदान केलं आणि ज्या दादांनी ही उद्योग नगरी मोठी केली विकास केला त्याच दादांचा पराभव केला !
आणि आता तेच लोक दादांची आठवण काढत आहेत की दादा असते तर सकाळी च कामाला लागले असते .
अरे ज्यांना मत दिली त्यांना बोलवा की आता .
When BJP governs the city, "the challenge is truly unique".
When Non BJP party governs the city, "corrupt, incompetent, inhuman people bringing Mumbai to its knees."
Dogle to bohot dekhe, aise teegle and chaugle kahin nahin dekhe.
Many people, and especially infrajeets, may not like this, but Hindmata is not flooded because of the massive underground tanks built by the BMC under Aaditya Thackeray, along with other measures (credit where due).
But I saw some infrajeets calling those tanks glorified tankis. Here is another such account.
Link here: https://t.co/lWYhZVK3py
#Sutlej also basically proves that Congress and BJP both are psychotically anti democracy,
and want and have always wanted 2 party "rule" (not real democracy).
The best India ever did was under Nehru and then under coalitions.
Neither under super majority Congress (Rajiv Gandhi was a disaster) nor super majority BJP (Modi is triple disaster).
There is a good argument to be made that China has *more and better* democracy today (government working towards what majority of population wants),
than US and India.
Democracy is not just about the ability to vote or dissent, there is more to it than that.
And everyone in the world (any country regardless of it's government style) wants food, shelter, clothing, safety, healthcare. China does it way better than the world's biggest democracy and world's richest democracy.
Marrying and divorcing Hindu women thrice (none of whom have converted to Islam),
is much better than abandoning the one Hindu wife you had in the middle of the night.