MaBaTha sees Hindutva as an ally, India must not serve fanatics in Myanmar
Summary
TLDRThis script provides a lesson on various legends and myths, emphasizing the importance of investing rather than just saving. It recounts historical and cultural narratives from Myanmar, focusing on significant events such as colonial rebellions and ethnic tensions. The script also discusses the current political and military situation in Myanmar, including the role of the Buddhist clergy, the rise of nationalist movements, and the military's alliances. It concludes with a critique of using religious nationalism to drive foreign policy, highlighting potential repercussions for India.
Takeaways
- 📢 Never practice nunchucks in a crowded room.
- 🚗 Avoid eating choli before a road trip.
- 👕 Take your shirt off before ironing it.
- 📞 Do not take a call near a swimming pool.
- 💸 Saving is not the same as investing; invest in mutual funds.
- 🔥 A villager in 1909 Myanmar believed that a man's arm could produce fire, leading to superstitions and myths.
- ⚔️ Myanmar's history includes numerous revolutions and wars, often influenced by ethnic and religious tensions.
- 🇮🇳 The Myanmar military has sought help from India amid an ongoing insurgent campaign.
- ⛪ Far-right monks in Myanmar have supported the military coup, leading to violent suppression of opposition.
- 🛡️ The Buddhist nationalist clergy in Myanmar view the military as protectors of Buddhism and the Bamar race.
- 🌍 Movements in Myanmar and Sri Lanka see Hindu nationalism as an ally against perceived threats from modernization and secularization.
- 💡 Myanmar's political landscape is deeply intertwined with ethnic and religious identities, often leading to conflict.
Q & A
What are some key pieces of advice given to 'Legends' in the script?
-Legends are advised not to practice nunchucks in a crowded room, avoid eating choli before a road trip, always take their shirt off before ironing it, and not to take a call near a swimming pool. Additionally, they should understand that saving is not the same as investing; Legends invest in mutual funds.
How did the villagers react to the incident involving Mong Pan in 1909-1910?
-The villagers were excited and believed that Mong Pan's arm catching fire was a supernatural event. They thought it signified that Mong Pan was destined to be Myanmar's new king.
What was the British colonial authorities' approach to managing unrest in Myanmar?
-The British colonial authorities attempted to manage unrest by recruiting immigrants from India to create a new elite that controlled land, capital, and administration, which led to deep racial bitterness.
What role did religion play in the ethnic Bamar national leaders' struggle during colonial Myanmar?
-Religion played a significant role, as ethnic Bamar leaders considered it more important to free their country from the 'kalar' (a derogatory term for Indians and Muslims) than from the colonizers. They associated being Burmese with being Buddhist.
How did the Myanmar military seek to gain support from India in recent years?
-Facing a successful insurgent campaign, the Myanmar military has sought support from India, engaging in diplomatic talks and inviting Indian military delegations, despite ongoing violence near the border.
What strategy did the Myanmar military use to control the influence of the Buddhist clergy after the 1962 coup?
-The Myanmar military established the S May Mahan Nayaka Committee, a state body to regulate the activities of monks, requiring them to carry government registration cards and making defrocked monks subject to prosecution in civilian courts.
What is the 969 movement, and how does it relate to Myanmar's political climate?
-The 969 movement, led by monks like Ashin Wirathu, promoted Buddhist nationalist ideas and alleged a Muslim plot to convert Buddhist women and take over the country. It played a significant role in mobilizing support for the military and fostering communal tensions.
How have recent changes in Myanmar's political landscape influenced its relationship with India?
-As Myanmar's military regime faces increased resistance, it has sought closer ties with India, seeing Hindu nationalism as an ally against perceived threats from Islam and Western influences.
What impact has the presence of non-governmental organizations had on the influence of Buddhist monasteries in Myanmar?
-The rise of influential, often foreign-funded non-governmental organizations has undermined the traditional influence of Buddhist monasteries, which were historically key providers of charity in rural communities.
What challenges does India face in balancing its foreign policy interests in the region?
-India faces the challenge of balancing its national interests with the religious and ethnic agendas of neighboring countries, particularly in maintaining alliances with Muslim-majority countries while addressing the growing influence of Hindu nationalism in its foreign policy.
Outlines
😀 Legends and Lessons
The first paragraph gives humorous and practical life advice under the theme of 'Legends,' emphasizing the importance of smart investments over merely saving money. It ends with an advertisement for mutual funds, suggesting that investing is crucial for financial growth.
😲 The Fire and the King
In the early 1900s, a villager's sleeve catches fire, leading to rumors of supernatural events and prophecies about a new king in Myanmar. This paragraph recounts the excitement and subsequent historical observations about colonial resistance and the British suppression of a rebellion in the province of Saging.
📜 Colonial Policy and Ethnic Tensions
The British colonial strategy of recruiting immigrants from India to control Myanmar created deep racial bitterness, which persists today. The paragraph highlights the importance of Buddhism to Burmese identity and the ethnic and religious tensions that shaped the independence movement.
🚨 Modern Insurgency and Military Tactics
Myanmar's military, facing a strong insurgent campaign, seeks help from India. The military continues to bomb rebel-held villages, reflecting its efforts to portray itself as a defender of the Buddhist state against perceived threats from Islam and the West. High-profile visits and patronage from far-right monks underscore the regime's strategy.
💣 Religious Influence and Military Control
The military's historical and ongoing efforts to control the Buddhist clergy are described, including the establishment of a state body to regulate monks. Despite these efforts, large sections of the clergy played crucial roles in sustaining protests and opposition to military rule, exemplifying the complex relationship between religion and politics in Myanmar.
🏛️ Buddhist Nationalism and External Threats
The emergence of the 969 movement and its transformation into the Maata group illustrate the deep-rooted Buddhist nationalist sentiments. This paragraph explains how these movements see external forces, including Islam and modernity, as existential threats to Buddhism, influencing the political landscape.
🌐 Regional Dynamics and Religious Alliances
The religious right in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, once hostile to India's influence, now see Hindu nationalism as an ally. This shift is part of broader regional dynamics where religious movements seek to draw new civilizational lines, influencing domestic and international politics.
⚖️ Faith and Foreign Policy
The potential risks of letting religious agendas drive foreign policy are discussed, emphasizing that India's national interests should remain the priority. The paragraph warns against aligning too closely with the ethnic-religious agendas of neighboring fanatics, advocating for a balanced and pragmatic approach.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Mutual Funds
💡Mong Pan
💡British Colonial Forces
💡Bamar Ethnic Nationalism
💡Tatmadaw
💡Hindu Nationalism
💡Ashin Wirathu
💡969 Movement
💡Civil War
💡Buddhist Nationalist Clergy
Highlights
Legends never practice nunchucks in a crowded room and never eat choli before a road trip.
Always take your shirt off before you iron it, and don't take a call near a swimming pool.
Legends don't just save; they invest in mutual funds. Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks.
A fire came out from Mong Pan's arm, causing excitement in Pagu in the winter of 1909-1910.
Hundreds of insurgents armed with swords and a single firearm marched against British colonial forces in Saging.
The colonial authorities recruited immigrants from India, creating a new elite that controlled land, capital, and administration.
Ethnic Bamar national leaders in colonial Myanmar prioritized freeing their country from Indians and Muslims over evicting colonizers.
The wheel of destiny is turning, with Bamar ethnic nationalists now looking to India and Indians for salvation.
The Tmador Army is desperately seeking help from New Delhi amid an insurgent campaign.
The Tatmadaw has marketed itself as a defender of the Buddhist state against Islam and the West since seizing power in 2021.
Far-right monks like Ashen Nisara and Ashen Chinda gained patronage from generals, supporting the coup.
The government's favorites include the monk Ovida, known for astrological forecasts and urging soldiers to shoot protesters.
Large sections of the Buddhist clergy played a key role in protests against military rule, leading to the first coup in 1962.
The Buddhist nationalist ideas took deep hold among monks, believing Buddhism faces an existential threat from external forces.
Religious right movements in Sri Lanka and Myanmar now see Hindu nationalism as an ally against regional influences.
Transcripts
here's the 30C lesson on what Legends
know never practice nunchucks in a
crowded room never eat choli before a
road
trip always take your shirt off before
you IR
it don't take a call near a swimming
pool and don't forget saving is not
investing Legends don't just save they
invest in mutual funds mutual fund
Investments are subject to Market risks
read old scheme related documents
carefully fire comes out from Mong Pan's
arm shouted the excited villager who ran
through the streets of pagu in the
winter of 1909
1910 lightning will strike those who do
not believe and tigers will devour them
the sleeve of his jacket had indeed
caught fire from a lit gerut which had
carelessly stuffed into one of his
pockets but science the Villager was to
be myanmar's new king kept mounting a
girl's silk handkerchief was carried
away by a kite it was said and an old
magical ring was found a white elephant
was cited and the schina Pagoda was
miraculously gilded later that year
historian Sr Ashton wrote hundreds of
insurgents armed with swords and a
single crude firearm marched against
British colonial forces in the province
of saging along the border with India
the Rebellion backed by local monks was
brutally crushed by police drawn from
across the border the colonial
authorities tried to tame their restive
colony by recruiting immigrants from
India creating a new Elite that
controlled land capital and
administration the policy engendered
deep racial bitterness that still runs
through independent Myanmar to be
Burmese means to be Buddhist one
Independence Movement slogan went ethnic
bamar national leaders in colonial
Myanmar scholar Matthew Bowser records
thought it was more important to free
their country from the kalar a
derogatory word meaning black used
interchangeably for Indians and Muslims
then evicting the colonizer the history
of Myanmar is the history of a
succession of revolutions and wars in
which strain changes come about gjs
hodkinson the commissioner of the pagu
division observed in
1888 the wheel of Destiny is indeed
turning and this time around the
Guardians of bamar ethnic nationalism
are looking to India and Indians for
salvation faced with an increasingly
successful Insurgent campaign the
country's all powerful tmad or Army has
been Desperately Seeking help from New
Delhi last week the tadar rolled out the
red carpet for an Indian army delegation
led by the military intelligence
directorates Major General charanjit
Singh D gun and even as myanmar's Air
Force has continued to bomb Rebel held
Villages killing civilians along the
border with India a vice Marshal aetra
IA Kapa was in Napa for talks to
influential sections of new delhi's
foreign policy establishment the Myanmar
military seems like a natural partner
for one the Tad's long-standing superpow
sponsor China has now deepened its ties
with the insurgence fighting the regime
like Hindu nationalists moreover the
generals see themselves as being
besieged by jihadism and ethnic
minorities often linked to the church
ever since it seize power in 2021 the
tatad has marketed itself as a defender
of the Buddhist State against assault by
Islam and the West alike far right monks
like Ashen nisara and Ashen chinda who
supported the coup gained patronage from
the generals the leaders of pro-military
religious orders commentator Ona writes
began to be seen on the streets of
Yangon and fancy mercedesbenz and
Bentleys drawing deris from an
increasingly impoverished population
fearful of alienating its core ethnic
bummer supporters the government of
former prime minister s sui had been
reluctant to act against vatu even
though veratu was banned from preaching
in 2017 for a year by the state run
Council that regulates all religious
activity in Myanmar he freely T the
country after the anti- rohinga violence
broke out in one speech he called for
Muslims crazy dogs that are I quote
breeding so fast stealing our women
raping them and would like to occupy our
country the monk was charged with
sedition in the summer of 2019 after
claiming the Prime Minister was sleeping
with a
foreigner surrendering to the
authorities just before the November
2019 elections like vatu the monk U
warawa has played a key role in
mobilizing on the military side even
setting up pro hunter militias drawn
from the ranks of the military-backed
Union solidarity and development
party as the Civil War in Myanmar has
escalated and the military has come to
sustain catastrophic losses militia like
these have become increasingly important
for the survival of the hunter they've
waged a brutal scotched Earth campaign
against opposition held Villages and
communities according to Ona the
regime's favorites include the month
ovida known for his astrological
forecast and for allegedly urging
soldiers to shoot protesters in the head
fearing the influence of the Buddhist
clergy over the popular imagination the
cause of multiple colonial era
rebellions the military moved to contain
their influence after staging the first
coup in
1962 in 1980 journalist and Scholar
bertl lintner writes the general nawin
regime created the S May Mahan nayaka
committee the state body which regulates
the activities of the country's
estimated one lakh
monks the monks were now to carry
government registration cards and there
were substantial theological changes for
example defrock monks were liable for
prosecution in civilian courts not
ecclesiastical tribunes the effort to
control the clergy historian Michael
Charney notes was not entirely
successful large sections of the clergy
played a key role together with st
students in sustaining the protests
which eventually overthrew military rule
in 2007 late in 2001 vatu emerged in
opposition to the pro-democracy monks
spearheading a new movement called
969 so named for the number of special
attributes and teachings of the Buddha
and a kind of report to the 786 number
used in Islamic
cultures together with his fellow cleric
ashin vimala we ATU alleged there is a
Muslim plot to marry and convert
Buddhist women before taking over the
country yes what some people call love
Jihad in India Furious over vaatu's less
than disciplined communal agit prop
which led violence to erupt across
rakhim the sanha council banned 969 in
2013 the organization was folded into a
new more structured group called maata
to carry forward its demands for race
laws which restricted conversions and
Interfaith
marriage even though the national league
for democracies election victory in 2017
proved a reverse to maata researchers
Amara thha and Marty neelsen observed
that the Buddhist chauvinist ideas had
taken deep hold among numbers of monks
who believed that Buddhism was facing an
existential threat from external
forces Islam is one part of this
perceived threat the scholars right but
so to is secularization modernization
and democracy the resentments of the
clergy were fueled by The Growing Power
of Civil Society underpinned by the
emergence of influential often foreign
funded non-governmental
organizations these NOS you see
undermined the traditional influence
monasteries and monks had obtained as
providers of Charity in rural
communities for the Buddhist nationalist
clergy the takad or myanmar's armed
forces were a kind of incarnation of the
country's precolonial Kings upholders of
the sovereignty of its territory the
Protectors of the Bama race and
Defenders of what used to be the state
religion that is Buddhism the political
scientists isan gilmas and Nicholas
Morrison note that movements of the
religious right in both Sri Lanka and
Myanmar which were once intensely
hostile to the Indian in diaspora in
those countries and India's preeminence
in the region are now beginning to see
Hindu nationalism as an ally even
Nepal's communist prime minister pushpak
Kamal dahal has sought to manipulate
India's domestic politics he's been
making high-profile Temple visits and
advocating for Sanskrit education like
islamist movements in Pakistan and
Bangladesh these Regional forces are
seeking to draw new civilizational front
to prop up their influence even though
the idea might seem attractive to some
in India letting Faith Drive foreign
policy would almost certainly prove
disastrous India's key allies in the
region after all include Muslim majority
countries in the Persian Gulf as well as
States like Indonesia and Malaysia India
needs to remain focused on its national
interests not serve the ethnic religious
agenda of Fanatics next door I'm Prine
Swami and I'm a contributing editor at
the print thank you for watching
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