Speaking of India, my first impression is that it is dirty and messy, and the strange thing that more than 3 million people can jump into the Ganges during the epidemic is also done in India, and every year in order to celebrate the "Big Pot Festival", from April 11, 3 million people have jumped into the Ganges, and the huge flow of people has forced the local police to give up control.
Indian believers bathe in the Ganges
In the hearts of Indians, the Ganges is the lower and lower galaxy in Indian mythology, which can not only wash the soul but also cure all diseases, but the final result, on April 12, the Indian Ministry of Health released data, and the confirmed cases in India increased by 170,000 in just one day.
At the same time, in the celebration of the Ugadi Festival, Indians did not wear masks and also teamed up to throw cow dung at each other, and on April 15, there were 200,000 new cases in the country. At present, the total number of confirmed cases has reached more than 14 million, ranking second in the world.
Why are there so many strange things in India, and how sacred is the Ganges in the hearts of Indians? What kind of gap between rich and poor is hidden behind the world's fifth-highest GDP?
India is the largest country in the South Asian subcontinent, bordering Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and China in the northeast; Neighboring Myanmar to the east; Facing Sri Lanka in the southeast across the sea, in the northwest is the conflict-prone Pakistan, east of the Bay of Bengal, west of the Arabian Sea, the coastline is 5560 kilometers long, the population of more than 1.3 billion, is second only to China's population of large countries.
India is densely populated
But India is completely different from China, although for a long time India was called an ancient civilization, but in fact it is neither a "civilization" nor an "ancient country", and ancient India, which originated in the Indus Valley, is a whole region, not just a small area called "India" full of complexity and diversity today.
What is our definition of civilization? It is a country or a territory that has a single script that has never appeared in India. Even now, India has about 2,000 languages, 55 scripts, and 19 well-established languages are designated as the official languages of India.
Therefore, whether it is a civilization or an ethnic state, India is not a single entity similar to China. It is more like a melting pot of cultures, from ancient times to modern times, from Asia to Europe, coupled with the influence of more than 100 different ethnic groups, so that its culture is always diverse.
Whether it is language or writing, there is no unified standard, saying that the good point is the cultural museum, and the ugly point is the cultural hodgepodge. Until now, India has not been a completely unified country, and if we have to find a unified India in history, then I think it should go back to 1858.
When britain established the East India Company in India, and then unified the borders, unified policies, unified national defense and unified currency, India achieved great unification to some extent, but it was too late. The caste system, religious beliefs, and the division of the native states have been imprinted in the bones of generations of Indians, and the superstructure can be unified, but the spirit and faith cannot.
Moreover, under the influence of religion and caste system, how weak is the innate rebellious mentality of human beings. This is to say that it is replaced by Chinese, it has long been hit by a stick, either you die or I die.
All classes of the Indian caste system
Although the "non-violent non-cooperation" movement largely reflects the desire of the Indian people for independence, it also reflects the wavering and compromise nature of the Indian national bourgeoisie in the anti-imperialist struggle, and they have never thought of resorting to force.
After the end of World War II, India established a republic in 1950, which is an independent sovereign state on the surface, but in fact it is still divided. The most obvious manifestation is its ethnicity and religious beliefs, there are many multi-ethnic and religious countries, but India is absolutely unique.
China is also a multi-ethnic country, but there is a premise for great unification, and 56 ethnic groups support each other; In terms of religious belief, there is freedom to believe in religion and freedom not to believe, and no one will force you to do what you don't like and no one can deprive you of the right to choose.
India is not, almost no one in India is not religious, and their choices are also very wide, including: Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc., of which Hinduism accounts for up to 83%.
Indian religious reliefs
From the beginning of 200 AD to the present, Hinduism has flourished for nearly 2000 years, the most important thing is that these religions are incompatible, even incompatible, there is a movie in India called "My God", this film through an alien landing on the earth, the film through a fantasy journey of an alien on the earth, a profound exploration of Indian culture.
Peeling off the inferiority of their religion like an onion, exposing the true face of hypocrisy and deception of various religious institutions, just one film satirizes several major religions in India, and I really have to admire the courage of the director and screenwriter.
After all, this is a magical country that believes that the Water of the Ganges can cure all diseases, women have no position of power, and the power of religious belief is deeply rooted in the hearts of Indians, not only affecting India's politics and economy, but also pervasive in their lives.
For example, in the famous Hindu code of law, the Manu Code, it is believed that women are born with red faces, and if men have a physiological reaction, it is a woman's sin, and Indian women never have the right to speak and choose. From the moment they were born, they were indoctrinated with the idea that they would follow their father at an early age, a husband at an adult age, and a husband who died from a son.
In India, the harshest words are never uttered
Indian women march for equality
It is to greet his ancestors for eighteen generations, but "you will definitely have a daughter." Under the influence of such a culture, women's status is getting lower and lower, and they are becoming less and less respected, as if they are born as vassals of men.
At least 1 million baby girls die in the womb every year in India, and those who are not miscarried are drowned by their fathers. As a result, India now has a serious imbalance between men and women, and the end result is to become the current "rape power".
We often say that girls' floral skirts should not be a reason for boys to commit crimes, and while calling on girls to protect themselves, this society should also tell those boys that respect is mutual, and girls need to be protected.
In India, however, they could not understand that this was not only a religious influence, but also a cultural opposite. Therefore, in the face of the huge belief system, many laws have become a blank piece of paper. As a result, India is also trapped in its own cultural siege, and the people inside do not know the outside world, and the people outside do not understand their ideas. The most important thing about the European Renaissance was the emancipation of ideas, which broke the shackles of Catholicism, because in the process of social development, people saw the class solidification and economic inefficiency under the rule of religion.
However, India has created an inherent "god" in the history of the development of human civilization, so there will be the fallacy of the Ganges water washing the soul; Only after death will there be the innocence of being buried in the Ganges and being reincarnated into the upper class.
After learning about India, I didn't know for a long time who should be sad, maybe India is a strange existence in our eyes, then the same is not the same in their eyes. Therefore, the confused people are the happiest.
On July 12, 2016, the Indian Post Office did a shocking thing, officially selling the water of the Ganges, the Ganges originates in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and the Deccan Plateau, flows through India and Bangladesh and then flows into the Bay of Bengal, I once read an interesting passage on the Internet, saying that the most tragic thing about the Ganges is that it flows through India.
Indeed, no river has ever been so badly ruined, and Indians believe that the Ganges is holy water, but have you ever seen a person who brushes his teeth, washes his face, cooks, and buries with water with holy water?
There are many crematoriums on both sides of the Ganges, some of them directly sprinkle ashes into the Ganges, some poor people have no money to be cremated and just wrap it and throw it in, and some people sit by the Ganges and wait for death.
In the eyes of many saints, it is their long-cherished wish to go to the holy city to worship the god Shi Po, to bathe in the Ganges, to drink holy water, and to be buried in the Ganges after death. Indians believe in the purifying power of nature, but have you ever asked the opinion of the Ganges, but where the Ganges has a soul, it is estimated that it will roar up to the sky and scream at the heavens and the earth.
The number of E. coli per 100 ml in the Water of the Ganges is more than 100,000, while the who published the safety line is only 500, and the majority of E. coli is found in the feces, well... This is the smell of the Ganges.
Water of the Ganges
Coincidentally, the most direct manifestation of religious and ethnic conflicts in India is the conflict between the Indian states. In the case of multi-religion, multi-ethnicity, and multi-linguality, it is difficult to form a unified national perception in India. So although India is a typical democracy, it is a true portrayal of a small government and a big society.
Since the 1990s, India has frequently changed the central government, changing six ruling parties in a year or so, with the shortest being only 13 days in power.
The iron-clad India, the prime minister of the flowing water, do not know how long the mana boundless Modi old immortal can hold out. In India, people's incomes are low, not only because of their caste system, but also because of the weak power of the central government.
As far as the administrative region is concerned, there are 28 Indian states, and the so-called Heavenly Emperor is far away, not to mention that this "emperor" is still a sick straw. As a result, india is decentralized, and it is difficult to have a unified decision and plan, whether it is economic construction or infrastructure.
Moreover, the states are independent and even game-oriented, they are not willing to complement each other and it is difficult to maintain the consistency of goals, the industrial chain is broken, and India's industry has never developed. Hearing here some friends will be confused, there is no industry to support the 1.3 billion Indians on what to eat?
God closes a door for you, and it opens a window for you, and India's agriculture is enough for them to be self-sufficient. To the north is the mountainous region, in the center is the Indus-Ganges Plain, and in the south is the Deccan Plateau and its coastal plains on the east and west sides, which account for 40% of the total land area.
And most of India belongs to the tropical monsoon climate, coupled with alluvial soils and tropical black soils suitable for agricultural production, crops can grow all year round, at the same time, most Indians are vegetarian, which eliminates the cumbersome process of raising chickens, ducks and fish. Life is not too good, but it is not too bad.
India has a well-developed cropping industry
Life is nothing more than fish drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge. Since Indians don't care, why should we, as bystanders, point fingers? In addition to religion, one of the most obvious features of India is its caste system.
The caste system was a social system created with the Aryan invasion of India, its original intention was to ensure the right of the Aryans to govern, and to maintain a certain number of people in various jobs, but with the Mamluks and other foreign Islamic rulers to rule India, the caste system was adjusted, coupled with the solidification of British colonial rule, and eventually evolved into the current hierarchical order system.
The caste system can be divided into Brahmins, Chaturis, Vedas, and Shudras from top to bottom, among which Brahmins were originally self-appointed by the Aryans, which is why in India the whiter the skin is higher, the Brahmins are hereditary and have a monopoly on education, and the Shudras, who are indigenous Indians, are labeled inferior.
They were the worst, had no power and no land, and had to work as servants in high-caste homes, and they were also hereditary. That is to say, the master will always be the master, and the slave will always be the slave.
As a Sudra, you can only be a slave for generations, and unless India makes a radical change, instead of hoping for a miracle, it is better to pin your hopes on the happiness of the next life, at least you can feel better.
The status of all classes in the Indian caste system
In fact, the caste system has not been abolished, as early as the time of India's independence, the caste system was abolished, and even made clear provisions in the Constitution. However, the influence of religion is so deeply ingrained that this identity discrimination has not disappeared, which is why I said earlier that many indian laws are dead letters.
Today, even as India's economy rises, this dirty and chaotic magical country has not changed. The slums are still dilapidated; Trains also have no doors; Open-air toilets can be found everywhere; The gap between rich and poor remains enormous.
In fact, many times It is India that has taken its own road to death, when the British colonists left, leaving India with the number of road, railway and other infrastructure kilometers second only to the United States, however, the divided India has never developed.
In 2019, India's highways were only 1500 km. China is as high as 140,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world. Another reason for India's backwardness is its illiteracy rate, which reached 35 per cent in 2001 and 26 per cent even a decade later in 2011.
Passenger trains in India
India is a relatively backward country in the eyes of most ordinary people, but India has always had a dream, it wants to become the hegemon of South Asia, but it does not know whether this wish can be realized.
After reading the history of India, I suddenly understood that the original book is the same text, and the car is on the same track. Although Qin Shi Huang's book-burning pit Confucianism hindered the development of ideological diversity to a certain extent, it gave Chinese people roughly similar values, and it was our identity that made the Chinese nation unite and resist desperately in the face of aggression and many hardships.
Because our history is the history of struggle, the history of defense based on cultural unity, the rise of a country should not only look at GDP, but most importantly, the people's life is well clothed and fully satisfied.
India is unique in its unique style, and we should also take our own road, the world, the waves of sand, only do not forget the original intention, in order to stand in an invincible position.