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Depends on your leaning. Modi is moving India away from the Socialist Democracy it used to be. And a lot of policies such as Land Acquisition act, Labour codes,

Depends on your leaning. Modi is moving India away from the Socialist Democracy it used to be. And a lot of policies such as Land Acquisition act, Labour codes, Farm laws etc are progressive if you're capitalist leaning but probably retrograde if you're socialist.

wolverine876 5y ago
Democracy, freedom, human rights don't depend on my leaning, unless you are against those things.
- long_time_gone 5y ago
  It's possible we are seeing a global political shift, where that is exactly what identifies your leaning. We have seen an increase in authoritarianism (and support for authoritarianism) over the past 10 years [0][1]. [0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2020.1757468 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2020.1... [1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/05/10/450552/drivers-authoritarian-populism-united-states/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/20...
- sreejithr 5y ago
  Do you have citations? I don't see how any of those have been affected more so than any of the previous Congress governments. If you're talking about the various protests, the fact that they happen is proof that democracy is working. Just because someone doesn't agree with a government's policy doesn't mean democracy is dead. There hasn't been a Tianenmen square in New Delhi.
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    This looks like sea-lioning to me. This thread and the news are filled with examples.
puranjay 5y ago
Modi’s policies uniformly have the same pattern: big announcement followed by a massive PR campaign, initial delivery, but later once media attention fades, either a quiet retraction or absent follow through. This is either a pattern of grabbing media attention. Or its a symptom of an administration that has a single power center (Modi) and once his attention shifts, the policies and programs get ignored. Neither of those two things does people any good.

wolverine876 5y ago

Democracy, freedom, human rights don't depend on my leaning, unless you are against those things.

long_time_gone 5y ago
It's possible we are seeing a global political shift, where that is exactly what identifies your leaning. We have seen an increase in authoritarianism (and support for authoritarianism) over the past 10 years [0][1]. [0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2020.1757468 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2020.1... [1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/05/10/450552/drivers-authoritarian-populism-united-states/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/20...
sreejithr 5y ago
Do you have citations? I don't see how any of those have been affected more so than any of the previous Congress governments. If you're talking about the various protests, the fact that they happen is proof that democracy is working. Just because someone doesn't agree with a government's policy doesn't mean democracy is dead. There hasn't been a Tianenmen square in New Delhi.
- wolverine876 5y ago
  This looks like sea-lioning to me. This thread and the news are filled with examples.

puranjay 5y ago

Modi’s policies uniformly have the same pattern: big announcement followed by a massive PR campaign, initial delivery, but later once media attention fades, either a quiet retraction or absent follow through. This is either a pattern of grabbing media attention. Or its a symptom of an administration that has a single power center (Modi) and once his attention shifts, the policies and programs get ignored. Neither of those two things does people any good.