Does Veeky Forums rate Indian Literature?

Does Veeky Forums rate Indian Literature?

name me five great Indian authors who aren't Salman Rushdie, Rabindranath Tagore, and Arundhati Roy

Rupi Kaur

Tulsidas, Kabir, Surdas Kalidas, Chanakya.

Vikram Seth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Arvind Adiga
Kalidasa
Ruskin Bond

i like european lit that takes place in india. also, some of their religious texts are v. legit. it seems much less homogenous than a place like china, so i imagine there are several different literary traditions, but they are probably all extremely western-influenced and only worth reading for the specialist.

Does the Pali canon count?

Indian philosophy > European philosophy
Eurocentric Veeky Forums plebs will deny this

The highest caste Indians are Indo-Europeans.

1) There is decent evidence for some strains of Indian thought having roots in pre-Aryan India. You also have many important thinkers in Hindu philosophy that came from the southern regions such as Ramanuja.

2) Those Indians are descended from Indo-Aryans in the same way Europeans are, in both cases an invading group mixed with the locals, it's not like modern Europeans have way more of a claim to the Indo-Europeans then other groups descended from them.

3) When it comes to comparing and evaluating the comparative value or virtue of ideas, the racial makeup of the person discussing them is irrelevant.

You must be really stupid because all of your points are. 1) Dravidians are the streetshitters of today, they most certainly are not intellectual contributers to anything. 2) The peoples Indo-Europeans mixed with in Europe, like the Basques, are much more similar than dysfunctional sub-continental brown people. 3) The racial makeup of a person is 100% relevant to such ability. Hence why one race is responsible for all of it. You couldn't be further off, but I assume you're brown so par for the course here I guess.

The really distinct parts of Indic religion, like karma and renunciation and moksha, are non-, even anti-Indo-European. Look in the Rig Veda for any of that - it's not there.

Indian religion/Hinduism is actually the closest thing we have, barring arguably Zoroastrianism, of Indo-European paganism.

RK Naryan

Dude...save your intelligence for somewhere that isn't Veeky Forums. You're dealing with literal mouthbreathers here, who truly believe that their Veeky Forums memes have given them an accurate view of the world. Just leave them be. As an Indian/Hindu, I appreciate the sense you've shown, but you're wasting minutes of your life responding to people like those above.

Aren't modern Indians fairly racist toward one another though? From what I've been told, "India" is by no means a unified culture, it's filled with many different regions with histories and traditions that consider each other as different as, say, France and Britain consider each other today.

I am pretty sure I've read "Aryan" Indian scholars of Vedanta claiming that the Dravidians are racially inferior or degenerate, or that their mixture has diluted the achievements of the Aryan stratum. I also knew a North Indian guy who said that once.

I understand it's difficult to accept that your culture (and intelligence) derives from the Aryan people who invaded your land 4000-5000 years ago, but don't pretend like you're some arbiter of truth if you're going to deny it in face of definitive genetic data, the caste system that was designed by the Aryan elite to decrease further outbreeding, and the fact that you still speak an Indo-European language. That's just the way it is.

>it in face of definitive genetic data, the caste system that was designed by the Aryan elite to decrease further outbreeding,
How do genetic data provide a rational for the caste system? It just shows its consequence, not its purpose or function.

Do you see the comma between the part about genetic data and the caste system? Did you miss that those were two points in a list of three?

Call me when you have access to a toilet, Sanjay.

I'm the guy the pajeets are mad at itt for telling them that their culture, language, and the intelligence of the higher castes derives from Aryan conquerors.

As a westerner, I would rather live in a culture that received its traditions directly from the Aryans instead of having our religion be a convoluted and distorted Jewish interpretation of Aryan Zoroastrianism.

Penis

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Krishnananda

Why did all the writers listed here write only about faith, religion and spirituality?

C. Rajagopalachari