I offer my Sadar Pranam to the God within you. But I’m sorry @Actor_Siddharth ,you are wrong to compare ‘Hindutva’ with ‘Islamist’ wrt Fascism. I explain in thread below, & you may respond in your full capacity. cc @RituRathaur @ShefVaidya @Shubhrastha https://twitter.com/Actor_Siddharth/status/1103479551668117505

2/n Let’s begin with the direct definitions as per dictionaries & examples of words.

Image1(Shiddharth’s tweet).

Word 1: Islamist. It’s formed by adding -ist to Islam. Any idea what does -ist mean? Read on

3/n Refer image 1 & underlined portions. What do you find @Actor_Siddharth ? Don’t you find that it’s always about ‘a person’ & importantly that person:

1)advocates Doctrine
2)who is prejudiced

4/n Word 2: Hindutva
It is formed by adding suffix -tva to Hindu.

@Actor_Siddharth any idea what does it mean?Broadly speaking it means ‘state of being’. Being added to any word it means state of being (the word to which it’s added).Refer image with eg to understand better.

5/n So @Actor_Siddharth could you find any difference amid -tva & -ist?

Let me sum it up for you in case you didn’t understand.
: -ist is for ‘a person’ & ‘noun’ while -tva is an ‘adjective’ applied to vast segment.

Hence both are incomparable.

6/n Further you called Hindutva & Islamist as facist ideology. Now for either to be fascist, the root words need to be one ie Hindu & Islam. Because neither adding -ist nor -tva makes anything fascist. Moreover both words make sense only after being added to root.

7/n Now let’s first get to Fascist or Fascism.

Word 3: Fascism

It exalts nation & often race above the individual & that stands for a centralized autocratic gov headed by a dictatorial leader,severe economic and social regimentation & suppression of opposition

8/n So as explained earlier Hindu+tva means state of being Hindu & hence for this idea to be fascist, Hindu philosophy needs to be a sister to Fascism.

But where does Hindu philosophy bat for racial superiority? As far as I know it doesn’t even ask for autocratic government.

9/n Nor has ever Hindu philosophy asked forced suppression of opposition. It doesn’t qualify in any of the adjective what makes an idea fascist.

I really fail to understand how do you call ‘state of being Hindu/ Hindu+tva’ as Fascism. I’ll be happy if you could explain.

10/n now let’s read your tweet @Actor_Siddharth with literal meaning of Hindutva (state of being Hindu, as explained earlier).

“They are not Hindu fascists. They are Hindutva(State of being Hindu) fascists. Hindu is to Hindutva(state of being Hindu) as Islamic is to Islamist.

11/n ...Hinduism(I’ll explain -ism later) is ancient,peaceful religion that only recently has sprouted a cancer calling itself Hindutva(state of being Hindu).

Isn’t ur tweet oxymoron @Actor_Siddharth ?How can ‘state of being something’ b recent when that thing exists from long?

12/n Now let’s come to next word Hinduism.

Word 4: Hinduism
It’s formed by adding -ism to Hindu. @Actor_Siddharth any idea what -ism means? And how it degrades the value of Sanatana ‘Dharma’?

13/n Attached are images defining ‘Ism’. Hindu’ or ‘Bharathiya’ practice isn’t confined to unidirectional act though ‘ism’ is all about that. The beauty of ‘Being Hindu’ lies in its plurality & respectful node towards every Dharmic Way.

14/n The moment one tags ‘-Ism’ plurality is lost.

To explain this, below are the architectures of 3 distinct practices in order as:
1)Deconstructivism
2)Modernism
3)Expressionism

15/n One can see the distinctive feature which makes them different philosophies under the umbrella of Architecture. Have you (
@Actor_Siddharth
) ever heard of ‘Architecturism’ or even ‘Designism’? You couldn’t have heard as both are as plural as ‘Hindu’ idea or philosophy.

16/n How can you call it Hinduism if it has multiple ideas of practising life which includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and more. Now the point to ponder is why did the Indologist added ‘Ism’?

17/n If I consider it not to be a political motive, then certainly it was your failed understanding of Hindu practices. Why else would someone mock their own language? It’s like saying ‘Architecturism’?So whenever we say ‘Hinduism’, we are merely making fun of British.

18/n Further,had Hindu idea been an ‘Ism’, it should have had a Doctrine or a Guiding Book.But one may end his life researching but ll fail to find a single doctrine.

@Actor_Siddharth u further categorise Hindu practice as religion. I’m sorry to say but u r wrong here as well.

19/n The term ‘Hindu’ was used by king Darius-I to mention the province of Hi[n]dush, referring to northwestern India.

The people of India were referred to as Hinduvān & hindavī was used as the adjective for Indian in the 8th-century text Chachnama.

20/n The term 'Hindu' in these ancient records is an ethnic-geographical term.The Arabic equivalent Al-Hind likewise referred to the country of India.

Now if @Actor_Siddharth could explain how Hindu+tva (essence of people living beyond Sindhu river) is actually fascist?

21/n As we don’t interpret Christianity or Islam at our ease, one shouldn’t interpret Hindutva based on their own comfort.

By calling ‘Hindutva’ cancer , you have even shown your contempt towards the Honourable Supreme Court of India as well.

22/n The judge said that the misuse of the expressions to promote communalism will not change the “true meaning” of these terms.

Read @Actor_Siddharth

23/n We practice ‘Santana Dharma’ & there is a huge diff amid Religion & Dharma. Let me explain.

1)Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes” – Karl Marx

2) “Sukha Mula Dharma” – Chanakya

24/n The first German quote comes from the great scholar of West while the second Sanskrit quote comes by greatest ever of east. The first one translates as ‘religion is the Opium of People,’ while the second one translates as ‘Dharma is the root of happiness.’

25/n For people like you the two would be statements of two diametrically opposite stands though the nouns (Religion and Dharma) meaning same.

Religion is an institution while Dharma is to strive to be right. Dharma tells to reject the institution which shows the wrong path.

26/n Dharma signifies behaviours that are considered to be in accord with Ṛta, the order that makes life and universe possible and includes duties, rights, laws, conduct, virtues and "right way of living". Eg, ‘Rajadharma’ means King’s Duty, not Religion.

27/n @Actor_Siddharth let’s come back to the tweet (image 1)that you had responded to. You had shown concern because a Gang of Four wearing saffron thrashed a Kashmiri street vendor. That indeed was an heinous crime but did you care to do a background check?

28/n All the four culprits where caught. And eventually they came out to be Samajwadis. https://twitter.com/meslight/status/1103567984818302977?s=21

29/n In the meanwhile while you shamed ‘Hindutva’ just because some Samajwadi (Who aren’t even Hindutva propgator) attacked the poor Kashmiri wearing saffron, what was your reaction the blast in Jammu at the same time?

30/n I couldn’t find a single tweet from you condemning the radicalisation of Kashmiri youth who was just 16 year old and made the Granada attack. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/explosion-inside-bus-at-bus-stand-in-jammu-injuries-reported-2004007

31/n @Actor_Siddharth can you name the philosophy which lead to exodus of Kashmiri Pandits?

Can you find me a single terror attack done by Hindu goons that falls with sane intensity to any of terror attacks like Parliament Attack, 26/11, 9/11 etc?

32/n @Actor_Siddharth there are lots of things to be said but I rest my keyboard here. I’m sure you will ignore me like an insignificant man but trust me your misunderstanding shall corrupt many minds which for sure will contribute partially to global destruction.

N/n So this is my submission of strings of 32 tweets @Actor_Siddharth where I have tried to fix your misunderstanding about Hindutva. I’ll await ur reply though u may find me insignificant. Cc @Sanjay_Dixit @IndianInterest @TajinderBagga @vivekagnihotri https://twitter.com/aabhas24/status/1104320128122945536?s=21

So, for the thread of 32 tweets above, where I try to explain @Actor_Siddharth where he gets it wrong with ‘Hindutva’ & ‘Islamist. He retorts to block me. Such a coward in real life.