Anti-National Humanist
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In this essay, the author is trying to an answer the question: is there a possibility of existence of a humanist as an anti-national humanist? He wonders if it is possible for humanists like doctors to not become externalities of nationalism labelling the blood saffron, green, red, black, and white (even pacifists die in war between nations).
Ankur Mutreja
Ankur Mutreja is an advocate by profession and a writer by choice. He 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)
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Copyright © 2018 Ankur Mutreja
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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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