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Night out by Girls against Indian Culture, says Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma

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Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma

Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma

Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma is out to define and codify Indian Culture. According to a report in The Telegraph, he has come out with 7 points to “understand what Indian culture is”, though he cited only 5. He reiterated his resolve to defend Indian culture and cleanse it of Western pollution, and even attributed the victory of BJP in Lok Sabha polls as a mandate for “saffronisation of the country”.

“If at all saffronisation has been done, it has been done by the 125 crore people of the country who gave us a huge mandate. They knew what is RSS, what is BJP. They have given us a mandate to run the country,” Sharma said.

Telling reporters that Westernisation may not be all good for India, he said, “Here, 15-year-old children don’t leave their parents. A 14-year-old girl wanting a night out maybe all right elsewhere but not in India.”

This is how he defined Indian culture: “Three generations cooking in the same kitchen and eating on the same table; the relationship between parents and children and the respect they have for each other; the emotions Indians have for each other and the relationships they respect…”

He further said, “My (Indian) values and books should be read before you read novels. Before youth go to gain wisdom from Thailand, Dubai and Singapore, they must gain wisdom from our own museums and heritage.”

The Minister vowed to cleanse India of “western pollution” and said that all 39 institutions that receivecentral funding, including the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and the National School of Drama, would be revamped accordingly. He also mentioned that education and culture ministers of all BJP -ruled states and Center will meet twice a year to chalk out the strategy. The revamp will include promotion of Sanskrit and rewriting of history books.

(Read:Modi Govt’s New Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Cleansing India of “Western Culture Pollution”)

A “cultural bureaucracy” will also be created by the Modi government for this purpose. “An IAS officer may not feel comfortable in cultural institutions, which may not be his cup of tea. We will develop a bureaucratic system to take care of these institutions,” he said.

BJP had come to power in 2014 in a bitterly fought elections. Of the 55.4 crore people who had voted , 17.2 crore people voted for the BJP, meaning only 31% of the electorate had voted for the BJP.

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23 Responses

  1. neeraj kumar

    My bad, I never knew any such official post really existed.
    Where there is a post, there is an abuser of it.

  3. Jyoti Prasad Das

    125 crore people of the country didn’t vote you to power to impose Talibanis rules impose upon themselves. The people voted you for bringing about a change. To bridge the gape between casts and religions. To make our country truly secular in every form. To make our country one of the best multi-cultured country in this world. Mr. Union Culture Minister, it seems you guys are started flying in the sky forgetting the ground beneath you. Come down when it’s never too late. Otherwise, these are those 125 crore people who de-voted Congress and it’s alliances to defeat. Mind it please.

  4. ambar das

    Those same 125 crore people of the country will vote you out and make sure BJP and other such fundamentalist parties are never ever again voted to power. Mr Modi, we believed in you, please don’t do this to us and yourself. Ban the corruption, poverty and the economic downfall if you can. All Indians are not Rahul gandhi.

  5. truth seeker

    PM is travelling western countries day and night to learn about their best practices, employing PR agencies from West to influence Indian people. Begging them to invest and bring R&D. All the ministers visiting western countries and sending their children to west to learn in their best Universities. Their food habits are westernised. On the otherhand, they want to keep poor Indians as poor by now allowing them to learn English, get better skils, learn best culture from them. What an unfortunate Government ruling unfortunate people!!!

  6. truth seeker

    Not allowing girls going out in night is justified by the elite. These rules apply to the loyal and ignorant lower castes and classes only as most upper castes/class have managed to leave the country, marry westerners, learn western culture, have relatives abroad, studying abroad, learned their food habits etc. Hindu babas love western devotee and girl friend. Just go to any mall, you find only the same people buying and enjoying western products and culture who voted BJP to power. Modi is God for them. I think the truth is something else. Jealosy of rise of lower castes and class through western culture. To make the lower caste coming up is a greatest challenge to the upper caste/class people. Continuous planning is required to keep lower people down. The talent theory that upper caste are brilliant is in that direction. They are actually well-educated westerners not liking others to be like them.

  7. Bhartiya

    Atleast the minister and BJP are nationalist in their thought process.
    I guess you guys have forgotten how we got under British rule at first place. We always aspired for western cultures without understanding it, and we lost everything. West is all about consumerism and is a capitalistic society. Beware about the harmful effects of following west. This people who are claiming to send back BJP and politicizing everything , remember you dont have any other option !! They are the best

    • venkata seshitha

      they are not the best but not as worse as others but that does not mean we have to accept whatever they say

      • Bhartiya

        Sometimes we should listen to others if they talk with right intent.
        We are not gods, and we dont know everything, humbleness will take us long way !

  8. Costly Truth

    please dont twist his statements. In this news article itself it has been given that a 14 yr old girl going for a night out is okay somewhere but not in india.he has only talked about the indian psyche. These xtitutes want to raise atleast one issue against BJP daily, but have been failing. Is he wrong, when he stated that 15 yr old children dont leave their parents in india? request you to read the context fully before commentgin negatively and playing into the hands of the paid media

    • Aditya

      Most of what he has actually said is harmless, and some is actually good, like promoting study of sanskrit etc. But it’s the context that makes it sound wrong. What’s with the “cultural bureaucracy”? Why “saffronize”? It’s militant Hinduism in the making.

  9. Deepak Raj

    First bring the PM back from the West…after that talk abt western culture you senseless minister.

    • John Dev

      Dude the reason PM travels is so he can sell the world on the potential of india. He doesn’t go around just for fun of it. I don’t know what communist thinking was instilled in your brain but if the economy needs to grow, it needs investment and to get investment, one has to sell the investors on the potential of the product

  10. Illogical Indian

    I am proud of this move by our dearest minister. Looking forward to have him bring back the caste system & the non reservation system which was supposedly overthrown by Ambedkar as well. After all according to the new govt. Fish die the moment they are out of water. So there is no slaughter involved. If they can come out with a rule like this for #meatban then I totally understand women are to only work at home, Men are to work in the fields (even in metros – if there is one!)

    • Illogical Indian

      What Im saying doesn’t make any sense – cause it was meant to have no sense in it in the first place.

  11. Priti Prabhune

    Concentrate on fulfilling all the promises made while campaigning for elections. If the hidden agenda was declared about saffronisation you could have lost miserably. WHAT YOU NEEDED TO CONCENTRATE ON MR. MODI… IS…
    Eradicating Poverty
    Eradicating corruption
    Grow out of the economic crisis first & strengthen the rupee value on priority.
    Stop calling Indians back from the west and make their lives miserable if you want to saffronise them instead of building the country’s economy.
    Stay focused & don’t indulge in petty agenda. The road is long and there’s a lot to be done.
    Why don’t you try Eradicating superstition and aghori babas who loot people of blind faith.
    Improve the school syllabus by adding chapters of the Indian Constitution in text books at various levels so all Indians know their rights. That would make more sense

  12. Neelabh Pandey

    I feel like such a fool having supported these guys when they were campaigning !! This is cultural fascism guys … I used to fight saying these guys are the answer blah blah blah … Well BJP , you made a Rahul Gandhi out of me !!! Lesson learnt man !!!

  13. bk

    Mahesh Sharma – go back to whatever Madrasa or Shakha you have come from. I would like to hear what your wife thinks about generations living and driving each other mad in the same house.

  14. Rohit

    He said so many nice things about Indian values and emotions. and one line relating to bloody night outs is all some fools could grasp.

  15. vkaku

    What culture are you talking about? The culture that did not have horrible taxation a few centuries back? The culture that did not have hunger nor poverty? The culture that did not treat women in a slavelike manner? The culture that was very open about sexuality?

    People who bullshit in the name of culture have never studied it.

  16. Milo Graham

    Here we go again. Can someone please shut these creatures up? We need a stable govt for the next four years, with jokers like this opening their mouth the BJP’s days are numbered.