@onthebrinkofjoy A child named “excuse.” They have billions of them and somehow none of them ever include themselves. The Mughals, the British, colonialism, partition... It’s all just cope peddled by the ruling class to dodge accountability. It's so bad I'd chose Raj over Republic of India anyday
@momentmemori At least make a proper comparison. Have you ever even been to Hong Kong?
Compare Hong Kong with Mumbai—not with some random small town. Visit Hong Kong someday, and you’ll understand the difference.
@onthebrinkofjoy It’s been 80 years since the British left. Japan ate two nukes 80 years ago yet it’s India that still looks like a nuclear fallout zone. What you said at the end is the real core issue here and bringing up the British only dilutes that point. It's time to take self-responsiblity.
the british empire fell but only the transfer of power transitioned from one ruling class to another. the fate of the poor and the marginalised remained the same. one oppression indistinguishable from the other.
i was there at the BAPS event last sunday. that looked like a cult that had nothing to do with Hinduism. they segregated men and women almost everywhere including in the hall where inaugural ceremony was ongoing that PM himself blessed by sharing a personalized recorded video.
if these are the ambassadors of my religion and country in France, i am afraid things are only going to get worse. someone needs to step in and stop what's coming.
and you will still find religious women in this country defending their own tools of oppression while these fucks continue to weaponise religion to control & police women and their presence even outside of this country
hindu group (india) - forceful exclusion of female staff
christians (france) - catholic church has never had a female pope
all religions are misogynistic. i don't understand why women continue to practice and support these men-centric patriarchal cults.
La tour Eiffel est restée fermée lundi, après des consignes pour limiter la présence des femmes lors de la visite d'une délégation hindoue https://t.co/f4HLyx07iR
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This sounds completely unreal but I double checked and it's true: the Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday due to a Hindu sect that demanded that all women "make themselves invisible" so their 93-year-old guru wouldn't have to see them.
The sect in question is BAPS - "Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha," which roughly translates to "the organization of Swaminarayan followers who believe in Akshar Purushottam, based in Bochasan" (a village in Gujarat).
It's a very wealthy organization with deep ties to Modi's BJP (Modi is himself from Gujarat), known for building mega-temples around the world and whose doctrine demands absolute obedience to a living guru as the sole path to God.
It's not their first controversy: in 2021, the FBI raided their massive New Jersey temple after workers - mostly Dalits, India's lowest caste (the so-called "untouchables") - alleged they'd been lured to the US on fake religious visas, had their passports confiscated, and were forced to work 13-hour days for about $1 an hour, confined to a guarded compound (see https://t.co/kTNzdZWtoe).
Long story short, they just opened a new mega-temple in France (the website: https://t.co/4g6HW9bBPy) - specifically in Bussy-Saint-Georges (30km away from Paris) - presented as "the biggest Hindu temple built in continental Europe in a traditional style" (https://t.co/exbFjzLe2k).
Their guru was there for the inauguration and, as you do, wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower while in France. But, thing is, his doctrine dictates that women must not be in his presence.
And here is where it gets unreal: when his entourage requested a private visit, the Eiffel Tower's management actually agreed to the terms and ordered all female employees - including subcontractors - to hide (https://t.co/Sm7yb5LMFq).
This was on Saturday and, France being France (in a good way), on Monday the women who'd been told to make themselves invisible made themselves very, very visible: the staff went on strike and shut down the Eiffel Tower.
So there you have it, unreal but true: the Eiffel Tower, symbol of the French Republic, is closed because a 93-year-old Hindu guru refuses to be in the presence of women.
(picture below the picture of their guru on his visit, taken from https://t.co/4FRKezWJvq)