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Argentine youth takes to Indian culture from Sanskrit songs to mediation and spiritualism
By R.Viswanathan - I had the most unusual night club experience in Argentina last weekend when I was in “Groove” one of the trendiest night clubs of Buenos Aires. The DJ was not playing Salsa, Samba or Reggaton. Instead, the club was vibrating with Sanskrit songs... Read full article
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May 27th, 2012 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0”Argentina, an agricultural power with abundant land, water and potential, can supply India with edible oil, pulses and other food requirements in the long term.
In return, India feeds and nurtures the Argentine souls with spiritualism, yoga and meditation.
I call this as the Alimentary Complementarity between Argentina and India...
I say....:
I call this a very cunning plan from our most enlightened and very honorable Indian Gurus....
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“For the Argentines, the Indian culture is not just a passing fad. It has become mainstream and part of every day life and thought process for thousands of Argentines old and young.” Oh yeah, of course man, or whatever passes for language by the 'New Yoof'.
May 27th, 2012 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So, Argentina are supposed to provide food for millions and in return they get this nonsense.
That should improve the bank balance.
Ha ha ha ha.
As anyone with any real concern with life before death, as well as after (as the old Christian Aid slogan put it), could tell you Chris, its a (spiritual or otherwise) virtue in itself to provide food for millions!
May 27th, 2012 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
May 27th, 2012 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But will Indian be in the Queue with US, EU, Japan and TEN other countries complaining to the WTO accusing Argentina of tying imports up with red tape after CFK and Co imposed a system to pre-approve or reject every purchase from abroad?
I take it that the Indians will want to sell goods to Argentina.
Trade is a two-way thing.
If Argentines want to learn more about the Indian culture but cannot go to India for some reason, they can visit Suriname (Large Surinamese hindustani and Indian muslim community who still have a strong connection with their roots from India and Pakistan), Guyana, Trindad and trinidad and tobago. Small of those communities (immigrants from Guyana with strong ties to their culture from India/Pakistan) can also be found in the Brazilian states of Amapa and Roraima.
May 28th, 2012 - 06:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, the impre ssion that I have when I read something about Guyana, Suriname and many Caribbean nations, is that they look so out of place in the Americas. It would be great if the LatAm media paid more attention to those countries. Most of us really know nothing about them.
May 28th, 2012 - 07:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ground reality Indians dont even know where is Argentina. they really dont know nothing about this country. there is hardly 200 to 250 indinas that too working for It companies or from sindh comunity people those have least intrest in religion. sindhies are more into the small business, can be said like shops but there also they dont sell anything what truly represents India. This movment of Mr Ravishankar so called guru, yes he is now a days playing a role of social activest in India by offering his art of living to negeciate between indian government and other antigovernment groups. yes he is becomeing very popular in india also giving tough compitition to ISKON. only one big company what is dealing in argentina in full fledge manner is BAJAJ with its best mother cycles called PULSER in Inida and ROUSER in Argentina. unless what ever comes from india like goods is all stupid at present. yes this is true what has been said about agrculture in this artical. many Indian business groups are in process of purchasing land in Argentina for Argiculture and many has alredy purchased. Still whenever you meet any Argeteniean they call you stright HIndu. they dont know even Inida have many other religions also. the birth place of buddha and etc. so they only know a bit about India this is becuase of few discovery cahnnel programs that itttt nothing else. yes India and Argentina is going to share a big intrest in long term future when it comes to food industry.
May 28th, 2012 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0also for the people those are saying something about yoga or meditation. i have a bit objection. please if you dont know something then dont try to insult others culture. we indians specailly those live in india and educated, rich calss and poor also respect juses and all pother religions. so be a bit repcetful about us. you hv problems with argentina but dont abuse hindutva. yes say whatever you want to say about gurus definatly they have coomercial benifits in all these program, is strickly prohibited in vedas.
deeepak
May 28th, 2012 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long time ago, before the Europeans knew of the existance of the Americas, people from India were called “Indios”. But because of Columbus messup with his calculations, this name was taken to refer to the native people of the new America. Hence, a new name was given to the people from India, in Spanish.
An “Indú” in SA is a person from India, while the religion is called hinduismo.
I know very little about India myself, other than you produce the most fantastic Mathemagicians (not a typo) in the world, Mahatma Gandhi, and a bit about your class system. I worked with a Purohit for a few years, and he, or rather his wife, introduced me to the Indian cuisine, a strong impression, in many senses of the word.
I'm very much looking forward, as an Uruguayan, to know more about your culture in a hopefully near future.
Best regards from a little country hidden in the south.
India also of course had a strong progressive and unjustly demonised woman leader, the brave brilliant and beautiful Indira Gandhi, so theres another similarity with Argentina =)
May 28th, 2012 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9 nooooooooo you are wrongggggggg. this may be according to the so called media and books and ruling party in India but the reality is someting diffrent. what we Indians are still suffring from and because of this so called politicaly family called Gandhi, where as they dont have anything to do with real gandhi family. they belong to the nehru family, this is called name politics what they are using of gandhi :) the truth about indra gandhi you can ask from any sikh in Inida or in UK. okyyyyyy
May 28th, 2012 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so this is also a advice for you and your country dont be in the impression of any family politics. dont let your country become like india became :( and after 62 years of indepandence still we are living the life of slaves. even things were much better in the time when we were slaves at least we knew we are slaves and one day we will get freedom but now we are indepandante but not free to live our life with respect abd honour. socilty has been totraly curropt and nation also, what argentina is also suffring from :(
so dont let your country become a family politics business of any so called fake personality :) open eyes and see the truth :)
#10 I actually agree with you on family politics, but surely that comes out of more deep rooted class and cultural forces in the subcontinent which Indira, perhaps more than any other leader, tried to uproot, ie fighting caste and the maharajas, deepening India's socialism, being a strong woman leader in a patriarchal culture and so on. Not that she achieved everything she seemed on the brink of achieving in, say, 1971, and the emmergency seems to me like a mistake - but in reaction to the hostility real vested interests (as well, I must admit, as pressure from below for even more radical change). As for her relationship with the Sikhs, a religion and community I admire, that really did take on the shape of a tragedy. I really don't believe she was a communalist, and the separatists were not even supported by most Sikhs; the bodyguards who eventually killed her were actually taken on after the confrontation, ith the intention of showing India that it was not a communalist situation. A message turned into its opposite when they riddled her body with dozens of bullets, but the impunity Congress seemed allow to the reprisal pogroms was very wrong. And none of the family have measured up since, especially not Rahul who (have I got this quite right?) can't even win a provincial election that he personally prioritised over becoming Prime Minister!
May 28th, 2012 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Mercopress writers, they must have some really bad guides for BA.
May 29th, 2012 - 06:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0I've never stepped on a club that plays “salsa, samba, and reggaeton”... I guess Mercopress likes to hang out in the joints by the Villa 31 and fuerte Apache.
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