99% of Indians dropping references to Hindu scripture are insufferable

I’m Indian. Born a Hindu though I don’t practice much. I now live in India after a dozen plus years abroad.

I’m saying this to establish my bona-fides as an Indian Indian uniquely positioned to comment on Indian ways of doing things seen through a global lens.

What pisses me off

I find insufferable the habit that most Indians have of dropping references to ancient Hindu scripture read in transcription and translation, barely understood and vaguely connected to the topic at hand.

I call these responses from Indians The Great Indian Reply

Is it because I have a colonized mind — which happens to be the usual response to anything critical of Indians by Indians?

In this article, I will build a case for the only reasonable response to the generic Great Indian Reply which uses broad, non-specific responses based on Hindu scripture that we, as a society are collectively guilty of, is to summarily dismiss it.

If the outcome of the case is that I have a colonized mind, I’ll lay that it out there for everyone to see and laugh at.

Here is one example of the Great Indian Reply in the wild.

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