Which thoughts are those, @MinOfCultureGoI? The one where he said the Nazi purge of Jews was something India "should learn and profit from"? Or - there's more, see thread. https://twitter.com/MinOfCultureGoI/status/1362620425059119108

Golwalkar: Muslims, Christians "must lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges —not even citizen’s rights." These his profound thoughts @MinOfCultureGoI?

Read Golwalkar's "Bunch of Thoughts" whom @MinOfCultureGoI is celebrating today. He said Sikh, Buddhist, Tamil, Dravidian, Dalit, OBC, feminist identities and causes were all anti national, divisive. He celebrated Islamophobic bigotry as national sentiment.

The openly Nazi stuff of Golwalkar is in We, Or Our Nationhood Defined" that RSS claims to have distanced itself from. But Bunch of Thoughts is an RSS bible, and that itself is chock full of fascist stuff. India's Culture Ministry under Modi is hailing him as "inspiration".

Golwalkar in Bunch of Thoughts: “The Hindu in Bharat can never be termed “communal”….The national life-values of Bharat are indeed derived from the life of Hindus. As such he is the "national" here, and never “communal”. (ibid p 344) Who then was communal?

Golwalkar elaborated on seven forms of communalism, including the communalism of groups that held on to a non-Hindu identity - i.e the Muslims and Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists. Why Sikhs and Buddhists? Because they refused to identify as Hindu!

Golwalkar, BoT: Sikhs & Buddhists were also communal, because they had once belonged to Hindu society but later “began to consider themselves as being different from Hindu samaj and dharma, and who on that premise demand separate and exclusive political and economic privileges…”

Golwalkar in BoT identified Tamil parties like Dravida Kazhagam & Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as communal because they asserted the linguistic & cultural distinctness of the Tamil people and the backward castes. @CMOTamilNadu that's who your pal the central Govt sees as inspiration

Golwalkar also counted as ‘communal’, “those who rouse controversies in the name of "touchability" and "untouchability", "Brahmin" and "non-Brahmin" and fan hatred, enmity, selfishness, and demands for special privileges” - i.e the Dalits & backward castes.(BoT p 346-47)

Golwalkar condemned reservations as “divisive talk”: “We must cry a complete halt to forming groups based on caste, creed, etc., & demanding rights & privileges in services, financial aids, admission in educational institutions and all such other fields. (Bunch of Thoughts p 351)

Golwalkar: “There is now a clamour for 'equality for women', 'emancipation from man's domination'! Reservation in positions of power is being claimed on basis of their sex, thus adding one more 'ism'-'sexism!'- to the array of casteism, communalism, linguism, etc. (BoT p 253)

Hey @MinOfCultureGoI clarify if you find Golwalkar's thoughts against Sikh, Buddhist identity, against SC, OBC reservations & women's equality & emancipation, to be an inspiration? We know @narendramodi keeps repeating Golwalkar, that the Hindu can never be communal, terrorist.