Harshil's personal blog

Use of children and infants as the face of the protests is the new low among world and Indian protestors, and especially left. The rise of Greta Thunberg is one of the examples that how it serves multiple purposes. In Indian media, this disease has been started. From last two days, we are constantly getting news that how ‘brave’ women are protesting against the ‘archaic’ CAA law with their 20 days old and 30 days old infants. Few media houses went one step ahead and covered that how the infants are not being breastfed for days as their parents are protesting against the government. For them, this is instance of the bravery. In logistics, I learnt one  argumentum ad populum  (Latin phrase) which means appeal to people. Take an example of Farhan Akhtar who replied that so many people are protesting against this which means this must be wrong. But after this much use of children and infants in the protests, I have slightly changed it to  argumentum ad infantulum...

(The article was originally published on Indiafacts ) Jawaharlal Nehru—the first prime minister of India was also author of the numerous books specifically about history. History books written by Nehru matter a lot because these are books which are considered as the  standard source  for the one who is graduating in history or preparing for the prestigious civil services exams. Thus, distortions in such texts is dangerous as such bureaucrats often have no recourse to alternate ideas. They have to believe what it is written in the ‘ standard source’ . Now, instead of discussing the person, it would be more fruitful to discuss the argument itself. It is well established fact that Mahmud of Ghazni was an Islamic invader who invaded India, destroyed temples, looted huge amounts of wealth and converted people en-masse into Islam. Here is what Nehru writes about Mahmud of Ghazni in letter to her daughter Indira Gandhi: Of Mathura, Mahmud has given us a glimpse, which ...