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This has been shown again and again by current administration and ruling party in India that power and ideology of pure Hindu state is more important than lives

This has been shown again and again by current administration and ruling party in India that power and ideology of pure Hindu state is more important than lives and livelihood. On a grand display in 2002 incident in a province in India [1], please read the whole NYT article, before commenting on it. Later on at display in Kashmir. Subsequently during national register and citizenship act protests where religious riots were used again to suppress a year of peaceful protests. Than again during university protests in New Delhi. Here again students were attacked inside the university, police beat and shot university students. Still even one person from ruling party who participated in violence or a cop who shot is to be prosecuted. On the other hand most of those opposing are being charged with terrorist charges. India to really progress out of poverty needs to first learn to respect its diversity and be united. Current administrations and ruling party’s policy has taken India on a downhill path of economic disaster, lower HDI, more poverty and more hunger. United Nations data and research don’t lie, India constantly slipped compared to its neighbours like Bangladesh on this index. So probably it will be better instead of hardline approach things change in India, otherwise it will be too late for a divided country to progress forward. It might on the other hand will move towards authoritarian dictatorship very quickly. India needs to come out of tyranny of majority and authoritarian mindset of current government for a change. I hope this same story and violence does not repeat in Bengal, where already violence is being promoted to unseat local government which does not believe in Hindu supremacy like the central government. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil...

miohtama 6y ago
India is objectively moving towards authoritarian dictatorship on many metrics: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/11/28/narendra-modi-threatens-to-turn-india-into-a-one-party-state https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/11/28/narendra-modi-... (And quickly)
- srean 6y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5VsGdPHsz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5VsGdPHsz0 A nice documentary. Its a little long though. Fair warning, it needs a strong (metaphorical) stomach if one cares about these issues.
quantgenius 6y ago
There is a lot of context missing in articles written like this, which mostly parrot the talking points of elements of the Indian media which support the Congress Party. India is not starting at the same place as Western democracies. You know about the scare tactics by some fringe right wing US politicians talking about how people want Sharia in the US. This is reality in India. There is a different set of civil laws depending on your religion. If you are a Muslim man, you can marry up to 4 women without the consent of any existing women you are married to. You can divorce a woman simply by saying the word "Talaq" 3 times etc. This was supposedly done because people should have the freedom to do whatever they wanted to do. In reality it basically gave Muslim preachers, who in offered to deliver banks of votes, enormous power and allowed them to subjugate women. The same people calling the current government Hindu Nationalists created this state of affairs when they were in power. The Supreme Court tried to fix this state of affairs. Google the Shah Bano case in India. And old woman was divorced by a man who already had four wives who wanted to marry a younger wife. Under the civil laws governing Muslims based on Sharia, after having lived her whole life as a middle class woman she was left completely destitute because she was owed essentially no alimony and had no rights to any property. The Supreme Court weighed in and reversed this, but on statutory not constitutional grounds. The Congress (a political party) government called a special session of Parliament to pass a law that reversed this because the Muslim preachers who hated this insisted that they do so or they would not deliver the votes they would otherwise deliver. These are literally the same set of characters who are now complaining about the BJP government. The BJP is slowly reversing this and creating a situation where people are treated as Indians, not Hindus or Muslims. So long as you believe female Muslims and those Muslims who want to live in the 21st century count, the majority of Muslims support this and support the current BJP government. Of course, the Muslim preachers and others who would prefer to have a medieval set of laws that allow them to exercise power hate this. Next time you read about the Hindu Nationalist government in India subjugating Muslims, remember the majority of Muslims have voted for this government twice in a free and fair election with secret ballots. Further, this government has brought droves of female Muslims who were actually subjugated and never previously voted out of fear, to the polls. Why would a group supposedly being subjugated vote for their oppressors and against the people supposedly wanting to free them of the oppression? There is definitely a noisy minority that hates what this government is doing because it takes power away from them.
sbmthakur 6y ago
Are you saying there was no violence by protestors on the Republic day? Would appreciate some references for the same.
- intended 6y ago
  Newslaundry did a great piece on it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgOg79F-Ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgOg79F-Ug sadly, comics are the best source of news on India. I can't believe how soon the new industry simply capitulated to the center. Its hilarious.
hesarenu 6y ago
The protesters attached police. There are pictures, videos. You can't push it under carpet and say nothing happened.

miohtama 6y ago

India is objectively moving towards authoritarian dictatorship on many metrics: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/11/28/narendra-modi-threatens-to-turn-india-into-a-one-party-state https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/11/28/narendra-modi-... (And quickly)

srean 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5VsGdPHsz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5VsGdPHsz0 A nice documentary. Its a little long though. Fair warning, it needs a strong (metaphorical) stomach if one cares about these issues.

quantgenius 6y ago

There is a lot of context missing in articles written like this, which mostly parrot the talking points of elements of the Indian media which support the Congress Party. India is not starting at the same place as Western democracies. You know about the scare tactics by some fringe right wing US politicians talking about how people want Sharia in the US. This is reality in India. There is a different set of civil laws depending on your religion. If you are a Muslim man, you can marry up to 4 women without the consent of any existing women you are married to. You can divorce a woman simply by saying the word "Talaq" 3 times etc. This was supposedly done because people should have the freedom to do whatever they wanted to do. In reality it basically gave Muslim preachers, who in offered to deliver banks of votes, enormous power and allowed them to subjugate women. The same people calling the current government Hindu Nationalists created this state of affairs when they were in power. The Supreme Court tried to fix this state of affairs. Google the Shah Bano case in India. And old woman was divorced by a man who already had four wives who wanted to marry a younger wife. Under the civil laws governing Muslims based on Sharia, after having lived her whole life as a middle class woman she was left completely destitute because she was owed essentially no alimony and had no rights to any property. The Supreme Court weighed in and reversed this, but on statutory not constitutional grounds. The Congress (a political party) government called a special session of Parliament to pass a law that reversed this because the Muslim preachers who hated this insisted that they do so or they would not deliver the votes they would otherwise deliver. These are literally the same set of characters who are now complaining about the BJP government. The BJP is slowly reversing this and creating a situation where people are treated as Indians, not Hindus or Muslims. So long as you believe female Muslims and those Muslims who want to live in the 21st century count, the majority of Muslims support this and support the current BJP government. Of course, the Muslim preachers and others who would prefer to have a medieval set of laws that allow them to exercise power hate this. Next time you read about the Hindu Nationalist government in India subjugating Muslims, remember the majority of Muslims have voted for this government twice in a free and fair election with secret ballots. Further, this government has brought droves of female Muslims who were actually subjugated and never previously voted out of fear, to the polls. Why would a group supposedly being subjugated vote for their oppressors and against the people supposedly wanting to free them of the oppression? There is definitely a noisy minority that hates what this government is doing because it takes power away from them.

sbmthakur 6y ago

Are you saying there was no violence by protestors on the Republic day? Would appreciate some references for the same.

intended 6y ago
Newslaundry did a great piece on it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgOg79F-Ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgOg79F-Ug sadly, comics are the best source of news on India. I can't believe how soon the new industry simply capitulated to the center. Its hilarious.

hesarenu 6y ago

The protesters attached police. There are pictures, videos. You can't push it under carpet and say nothing happened.