RedDevil@84
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Can't wait for him to become PM. It will be a riot, even literally.We're looking at our future Dear Leader.
Can't wait for him to become PM. It will be a riot, even literally.We're looking at our future Dear Leader.
Crazy. And here I was thinking the actual cases were 5 times more, at the most.
My very limited knowledge extends to the fact they have worked on our family land and home for nearly a century (Gujarat). The Bhil community as I remember as a child and going back since is basically a community who lives on the outskirts of villages and generally live for the day and get merry at night. Very peace-loving and never any issues that I have ever heard.Can someone explain the Bhil Tribe and their relationship with the Gujarat's government? Has it always been this sour?
He’s like a demi-god for the majority. He can even sell shit on a stick to them.India 1975-77
Interesting qs is if Modi did the same forced sterilisations that Indira and Sanjay did, would he lost popularity? After what happened with demonitisation I don't know.
Also what if she didn't call elections in 77, I have no idea what would have happened.
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A crying shame what parts of India has become over the last few years. A measure of a country is how it treats it minorities.
Unbelivable that the majority of the populace supports this. Empathy is dead.
I thought it was a US military base in agreement with the Maldivian government and tacit collaboration with India.Now they are opening a military base in the Maldives. For what? The Maldivan public is in an uproar and the hashtag indiaout is the most popular one in Maldives now.
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The twitter rage from the likes of DereK O Brein, Ra Ga and Tharoor amounts to nothing. If they don't dare to use their influence/money and get people on the ground to protest, there won't be any democracy to save.Tweet
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Chakka jam = sedition in India 2020The twitter rage from the likes of DereK O Brein, Ra Ga and Tharoor amounts to nothing. If they don't dare to use their influence/money and get people on the ground to protest, there won't be any democracy to save.
Again, why should BJP care about democracy or about opposition. They have been given a free hand to do whatever they can with the country. All the 4 pillars are compromised and filled in with a bunch of yes men.
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Modi's emergency looks decidedly different than Indira's. Emergency hit the rural and poorest the hardest while upper/middle class loved it and saw the sterilisation attempts as necessary to control population explosion amongst poor. Similarly I still hear some middle aged folks talking positively about Sanjay Gandhi as to how he empowered bureaucrats like Jagmohan to clean up cities of illegal construction.India 1975-77
Interesting qs is if Modi did the same forced sterilisations that Indira and Sanjay did, would he lost popularity? After what happened with demonitisation I don't know.
Also what if she didn't call elections in 77, I have no idea what would have happened.
This thought crossed my mind but I dont think they can censor internet publications. That just won't fly under 19(1)(a)^^^^ Above why I am for unmitigated freedom of speech rights. I would rather some loony right wing channel ran whatever communal diatribe than come up with some provision to empower Govt to ban more things. This seems like a perfect trap set by Govt to censor likes of scoll, wire, newslanudry etc. When would lefties learn that once you open up any possibility to censor for "right" reasons, ultimately it will be used for nefarious purposes also.
For the bolded part - after the various labour laws he and state govts are trying, and now the farm bill, not sure that that is true.Modi's emergency looks decidedly different than Indira's. Emergency hit the rural and poorest the hardest while upper/middle class loved it and saw the sterilisation attempts as necessary to control population explosion amongst poor. Similarly I still hear some middle aged folks talking positively about Sanjay Gandhi as to how he empowered bureaucrats like Jagmohan to clean up cities of illegal construction.
Modi on the other hand is definitely leaning on ever increasing populist schemes to maintain his popularity amongst rural folks. Be it may that most of the schemes are superficial in nature but the lesson he learnt from the much hyped Gujarat development model was that only the perception matters. Demonetisation successfully built up the perception that he is targeting black money, surgical strikers did the same with respect to National security. That is why he is not behaving like your standard right wing strong man when it comes to the confrontation with China, he knows that chances of selling the idea of beating China would be impossible if India side suffers huge casualties in a direct conflict. That is also the reason why he is not necessarily pushing the the kind of reformist economic policies you saw during Vajpayee's Govt. Though crony corruption to benefit a select few like Adani is still on-going. But it seems the Modi does not care about projecting India as a big economic story anymore and instead would be happy to turn back clock to the age of license Raj if it mean more direct contract and credit over the benefits being delivered to rural India. Upper class/Upper middle class is not impacted by current economic crisis and would happily support Modi/Shah for communal agenda, keep rural happy with populist schemes and then you can feck the middle class/lower middle class. It would cost them some cities like Delhi but allow them to capture bigger states.
BTW till date the most plausible theory behind Indira calling elections is that she lost the support of the army.
Yes for sure, they already arrested some Wire people in UP.^^^^ Above why I am for unmitigated freedom of speech rights. I would rather some loony right wing channel ran whatever communal diatribe than come up with some provision to empower Govt to ban more things. This seems like a perfect trap set by Govt to censor likes of scoll, wire, newslanudry etc. When would lefties learn that once you open up any possibility to censor for "right" reasons, ultimately it will be used for nefarious purposes also.
Yes, US today has much better speech protections than India today. But IMO the difference made by a more blanket Art.19 is minor. The court's understanding of the same consitution changes depending on if you look at 1975-77 and 2014-2020 or some other time (not that there haven't been awful judgements otherwise too, but I think the trend is clear now).Holmes, writing for a unanimous Court, ruled that it was a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917 (amended by the Sedition Act of 1918), to distribute flyers opposing the draft during World War I. Holmes argued this abridgment of free speech was permissible because it presented a "clear and present danger" to the government's recruitment efforts for the war. Holmes wrote:
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
I felt the lawyer argued that point pretty well, despite the gaslighting by the channel and the govt.Besides, one can argue that it is the communal diatribes that have brought us to this moment, but that is very difficult to prove of course.
But industry in general is also not happy with his overall policies. The Govt is definitely trending towards levying higher taxes to over come the slow growth. Heck middle class is going to be distraught budget and budget when Govt does not change tax slabs for tax benefits. They came up with some nonsensical change last time just to get some PR for giving benefits to some when in reality none were provided.For the bolded part - after the various labour laws he and state govts are trying, and now the farm bill, not sure that that is true.
Not disagreeing with your points. Unless you are in a utopia, it is impossible to have perfect freedom of speech law enforced anywhere. Even Scandinavian countries were at loss over the right thing to do when the protests over cartoons erupted. So there will always be such examples for a place like US also.Yes for sure, they already arrested some Wire people in UP.
You think this is because of the laws as they exist on paper, I think this is because the laws are just a rubber-stamp. In the US they can do crazy things on national security grounds (our sealed cover supreme court still has nothing on a FISA court) despite the blanket protection of the 1st amendment. And when free speech and really powerful state interests collide (during the first red scare for example), it was not the paper but the power that wins.
Yes, US today has much better speech protections than India today. But IMO the difference made by a more blanket Art.19 is minor. The court's understanding of the same consitution changes depending on if you look at 1975-77 and 2014-2020 or some other time (not that there haven't been awful judgements otherwise too, but I think the trend is clear now).
Besides, one can argue that it is the communal diatribes that have brought us to this moment, but that is very difficult to prove of course.
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Inb4 anti-nationals and getting slapped with UAPA and NSATweet
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Anti-national CAG flagging government misdoings