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Last 5 years of my life has taken a new turn professionally, personally and the biggest of all is the way I

think about India, Indian culture, Itslegacy and identity. Growing up in a traditional middle class family,

education was always a key component. However, the concept of education was around the framework

of a person going to leading universities in the world. Also, given the dominance of leftist intellectuals in

the Indian academia the books that we read and the nature of news that we heard was always skewed

towards negative connotation to anything to do with Swadeshi values or Swadeshi way of doing things.

Negative connotation at times can be an understatement. I would be lying if I say that I never had

contempt to Swadeshi after reading, listening and watching stories planted by English media. My

fascination to the west and western concepts and contempt to swadeshi way was something I never

hesitated to talk about. From the vision of education, entrepreneurship, economy, ancient traditions,

vedas and Upanishads. My concept of educated was someone who graduated from leading university

like Harvard, Stanford. My concept of entrepreneur was someone who is English speaking and runs a

technology company. I never contemplated on what makes India so unique, so rich and the long

lasting legacy that it has created as well as the difference between India and Bharath. However, thanks

to a Western, English Speaking, Technology company, YouTube,for having changed the way I

think, perceive India, the great and ancient nation.

It was November of 2008, I spoke to a friend of mine who mentioned about this movie Guru,The

famous movie which was inspired by Dhirubhai Ambanis life storystarring Abhishek Bachan and

Aishwarya Rai. During our conversation, the character of Madhavan was something that we started

talking about and that really inspired me. A journalist in his late 20s writing such hard hitting articles

that destroyed a towering, shrewd person like Ambani was something that kept me thinking. Yes, I

started thinking about Gurumurthy, whom I had heard but had not bothered to read much about him as

he was not someone who was educated abroad in any of the leading universities and did not advocate

the Liberal society. But that conversation for some or the other reason made me google his name and

watch his videos. It was such an inspiring video that I still remember him talking about the Indian growthmodel, Caste as a social capital, the leftist assault on academia. The way he articulated those things

really inspired me to read more about India. I kind of felt guilty of not understanding the concept of

India, our identity, our value system, our cutting edge work in the field of science and medicine, last

but not the least the impact our respect for the family system. The more I read/watched his work, the

more was my yearn to get to know India better. I read his entire article section on gurumurthy.net in

couple of days. I was very much influenced by his writing style, backed by information. I decided to learn

more about India and started reading articles and started watching videos of Indias greatest thinkers in

the form of Arun Shourie and Dr.Subramanian Swamy. The more I read writings of these scholars the

more I realized that people of India were being brainwashed by the leftist academia into developing

contempt for anything to do with our ancient culture and tradition. What also trigged me taking a strong

opinionated view advocating swadeshi concept was the brazenness with which TV channels

provided/continue to provide biased reporting on anything to do with ancient Indian models.

What makes this ancient civilization so unique is something I started thinking about. Is it just the

diversity in language, customs, traditions, societal interactions? Or is there more to this nation. The

strength of a civilization is its ability to sustain and survive the assaults on its civilization. It is this

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made it complex was the job involved two components, integrating princely states to India and ensuring

law and order amidst worst riots that emerged post partition. Nehru took easier portfolios like external

affairs which had no challenge and impact on Independent India. Sardar Patel used both diplomacy and

force to integrate princely states and create a union of India. The most notable ones are Hyderabad,

Junagadh as well as to some extent Kashmir till Nehru intervened and messed things up by going in for

plebiscite without considering parliament which was illegal. Sardar Patel should have been bestowed

Bharath Ratna the very next day he integrated these provinces, but unfortunately due to Nehrus

jealousy towards Patel, that did not happen. Nehru bestowed Bharath Ratna on himself and Patel had to

wait till 1990 to get Bharath Ratna posthumously, one year before Rajiv Gandhi (who received it for no

contribution of his).

Unfortunately Patel who had kept Nehru in check died in 1950 and Nehru began running a dictatorial

government. Nehrus governance had a horrible impact on economy, external affairs and the worst

impact was on Indian society. Nehru, being a socialist was always left leaning who had contempt to

anything swadeshi and hence leftists started occupying posts of immense importance. From Krishna

Menon who was responsible for jeep corruption and our defeat in the war against China, PrashanthChandra Mahalanobis who started the five year plan which became a breeding ground for corruption,

Kuldip Nayyar, Krishna Raj who coined the word Hindu rate of growth to deflect the blame of

socialism towards our low growth rate, academia in key universities who focused more on everything

but anything to do with Indias grand cultural heritage which Nehru perceived as Communal. India

which was always respectful towards alternative ideas and practices saw tremendous change. The

growth of racisism and intolerance began in Nehrus era where anyone who spoke about swadeshi,

market economy were banished and incarcerated. The leftist historians dominated academia and

started painting a horrible picture of swadeshi to create inferiority and contempt towards anything to

do with our heritage. They went one step further to create bogus divisions like the Aryan-Dravidian

theory which were proved wrong by scientific DNA study.

The society changed its complexion because of such developments. There was an awe around people

who were educated overseas, who had a western mindset, who proclaimed themselves as rationalists

(Anyone who bashed India spiritual values), who was english speaking, who started a technology

company. Nehrus sychophants coined Nehruvian Socialism as something that was cool, something

that could solve problems of India. If you look at what Nehruvian Socialism is, its nothing but a copy

paste work of M A Feldman, a Soviet economist. Nehru was never a thinker as projected by English

media today. He just adopted something that was prevalent in the Soviet Union and his chelas called it

Nehruvian Socialism.

What makes Swadeshi so rich is something that I have always grappled. After reading some books and

listening to great thinkers one