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   by nit_ 7y ago

   https://www.news18.com/news/business/indias-gdp-growth-hits-... This was a few months ago. India's annual growth rate is still higher than Pakistan's. https://www.reuters.com/article&#x2F
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   by nit_ 7y ago

   This planet money episode explains it pretty well. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764433918/episode-770-when-in... NBER report: https://scholar.harvard.edu/gopinath/publications&#x2F
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   by nit_ 7y ago

   They've broadly been peaceful in nature. It's immoral to paint the entire struggle as being violent. People are just trying to uphold India's founding principles. Police brutality has reached a new low as well.
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   by nit_ 7y ago

   Current govt caused the recession. The damage demonetisation did (especially to the poor) is painfully obvious. No significant upside. The reduction in economic activity was so pronounced that satellite images could pick up on it. Growth
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   by nit_ 7y ago

   The level insidiousness needed to use asylum as a way to undermine India's secularism is something only the BJP(right-wing hindu nationalist) can have. People fleeing persecution can obviously be sheltered in a nonsectarian manner.