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    Anti-National Humanist
    Anti-National Humanist
    Anti-National Humanist
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    Anti-National Humanist

    By Ankur Mutreja

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    In this essay, the author is trying to answer the question: is there a political possibility of existence of a humanist as an anti-national humanist? Being a humanist, the author has high respect for human dignity, which he finds getting compromised in the nationalist violence. He wonders if it is possible for humanists like doctors to not become the externalities of nationalism labeling the blood in saffron, green, red, black, and white! He elaborates on the strategies of nationalists, the attributes of anti-national humanist existence, and the lessons from the past, to make out his case. Whether he has succeeded or not is for the readers to decide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnkur Mutreja
    Release dateAug 6, 2018
    ISBN9789353212698
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    Ankur Mutreja

    Ankur Mutreja published his first book in the year 2015 entitled "Writings @ Ankur Mutreja" as a non-professional endeavour mainly comprising short essays. Soon he realized the book needed to be drawn into easily presentable forms for the less involved audience; so, he derived three more books from the same entitled "Sparks", "Flare", and "Light". These were his introduction to the world as a writer/essayist. But, of course, a writer is a thinker first, and a good thinker doesn't think in genres. Ankur Mutreja has not set up any countours to his writings. He just thinks and expresses. So, he pens poems while wriitng travelogues, as in "Kerala Hugged"; incorporates fiction in essays, as in "Claims on Privacy"; and amalgamate satire, critique, and philosophy, as in "Anti-National Humanist". But that shouldn't stop him from writing poetry and prose. So, do enjoy his book of poems entitled "Nine Poems" and the fairy tale of his love with nature in the travelogue-cum-romcom entitled "Annapurna Circuit Trek".

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      Anti-National Humanist - Ankur Mutreja

      Anti-National Humanist

      -- Ankur Mutreja (Author and Publisher)

      http://ankurmutreja.com

      Copyright © 2018 Ankur Mutreja

      Thank you for downloading this book. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to your favorite retailer to discover other works by Ankur Mutreja. Thank you.

      ISBN: 9789353212698

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      1 Introduction

      2 Nationalist Strategies

      Motherland/War Mode

      Protectionism

      Xenophobia

      Law

      History

      Language

      Culture

      National Symbols

      Propaganda

      Sports

      Consociation

      Gangstalking

      3 Anti-National Humanist Attributes

      Minimal Defense Forces

      Fake Respect to National Symbols

      No Participation in War

      No Non-Violence Nonsense

      Persistent Petitioning

      Good Health and Fitness

      Safe Distance from Nationalists

      Respect for Human Dignity

      Internationalist Attitude

      Skepticism towards Religion

      Self-Love and Tranquility

      No Employment in the State

      Resistance to Nationalism

      4 Lessons from the Past

      Albert Einstein

      Karl Marx

      Emma Goldman

      Rabindranath Tagore

      Leo Tolstoy

      5 Answering the Question

      -Notes

      (Do have a look at my other book Annapurna Circuit Trek: Fairy Tale of Love with Nature)

      INTRODUCTION

      There is no idea more inchoate than that of nation. Each author has defined it differently. Anderson has defined nation as an imagined political community necessitated as such by the refashioned imagination arising from the transition of human mind from the God's omniscience to his own omniscience, gained from exposure to novels and newspapers¹. Gellner, on the other hand, has not attributed the emergence of nations to any gradual process like refashioned imagination but to a false, fabricated invention designed to coincide with the territorially existing state². The above two authors have obviously defined nations as new political entities replacing dynasties. Stalin defined nation as a historically constituted territorial political community with a common language, economic life, and culture³. Stalin's definition covers everything but fails to correspond with a single nation. Bauer, another communist, divorced culture from territory and defined nation as an intangible entity comprising of people tied by a common culture irrespective of their geographical location⁴. Hitler defined nation as a purely racial territorial entity closed to any kind of naturalization process like adoption of culture, language, etc⁵. Grosby has defined nation as a territorial community of kinship and nativity; i.e., either birth inside the national territory or naturalization is a prerequisite for the membership of the nation⁶; something closest to the Indian concept of the Hindutva nationalism⁷. Renan, a liberal nationalist, defined nation as a daily referendum dependant on the will of its people to continue to live together; this conception of nation is non-xenophobic compatible with liberal values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights⁸; something closest to the Indian concept of constitutional or pluralistic nationalism⁹.

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