mishra Posted May 6, 2024 Posted May 6, 2024 On 5/5/2024 at 1:59 PM, coffee_rules said: More breaking bangles Can you read beyond this? India’s academic freedom has been in steady decline for a decade. This is well documented: in the 2024 Academic Freedom Index update produced by V-Dem, a project on democracy based in Gothenburg, Sweden, India is ranked in the bottom 20% of a list of 179 countries and territories on metrics such as ‘institutional autonomy’ and ‘freedom to research and teach’. In the day and age of social Media, Such promotions of toxic Individuals by so called “beyond borders (Global Good Umbrella ) organisation” makes easier to expose themselves too.
coffee_rules Posted May 13, 2024 Posted May 13, 2024 RRR says Indians are choosing prosperity over democracy. mishra and AuxiliA 2
Vijy Posted May 13, 2024 Posted May 13, 2024 9 hours ago, coffee_rules said: RRR says Indians are choosing prosperity over democracy. R3 is en route to senility now. no need to take him seriously coffee_rules 1
bowl_out Posted June 2, 2024 Posted June 2, 2024 On 3/27/2024 at 5:33 AM, Prakat said: In the social realm, hate and bigotry targeted against India’s 200m Muslims are being fuelled by aggressive and often violent Hindu nationalism. Public discourse has coarsened to the point that if you criticise the government or its policies you are “anti-national”. If you speak for secularism, you are “anti-Hindu”, a “Sickular Libtard”. Rather than upholding the constitutional ideal of secularism and equal citizenship, the state is complicit in demonising Muslims, bulldozing their homes and promoting anti-Muslim laws while consciously infusing statecraft with a Hindu character. I read this crap about hate for Muslims and Hindus demonizing them.. WTF are these writers smoking? Can they list some instances instead of random fear mongering.. Not some random isolated incidents, but real systemic violence as they claim
bharathh Posted June 2, 2024 Posted June 2, 2024 38 minutes ago, bowl_out said: I read this crap about hate for Muslims and Hindus demonizing them.. WTF are these writers smoking? Can they list some instances instead of random fear mongering.. Not some random isolated incidents, but real systemic violence as they claim This is only going to increase now that the Congress has consolidated the Muslim vote. Hate mongering is going to reach a new level - which will unfortunately further alienate muslims from the rest of the country. Only solution is for prominent muslims to take the narrative back and prevent their ghettoization. It won't happen though. Muslims love the option of using the victim card when they are not the sole majority.
bharathh Posted June 2, 2024 Posted June 2, 2024 There is going to be an exponential increase in the number of articles in trying to exploit the North-South divide, Caste divisions, deride India's growth through freebie politics in the name of women empowerment and of course so-called minority genocide. Democracy will die a thousand deaths everyday and "fascism" will increase according to this articles denying what the voters have voted and the message that it should actual deliver.
jf1gp_1 Posted June 2, 2024 Posted June 2, 2024 On 3/27/2024 at 4:03 PM, Prakat said: Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi Toxic majoritarianism is just part of the story, says the policy scholar illustration: dan williams Mar 23rd 2024 A dark shadow of creeping authoritarianism looms over India as it prepares for its 18th general election. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp) government of Narendra Modi is set to win a third term and surveys show that the prime minister’s personal popularity is at an all-time high. But his governance, built on aggressive centralisation, legitimised by a cult of personality and undergirded by an exclusionary Hindu-nationalist ideology, is eroding India’s democracy. If unchecked, the consequences for the country’s political, economic and social fabric will be grim. The most striking evidence of this is the fact that the space for the political opposition, media, academia and civil society to freely express their views is fast shrinking. Genuine democracy requires the active, public contesting of ideas and policy. In its place, the government is systematically weaponising investigative agencies, tax laws, sedition laws, anti-terror laws and laws regulating foreign funding of ngos to disproportionately target opposition politicians and criminalise dissent. The most brazen illustration of this is the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi’s chief minister and a popular opposition figure, on March 21st, just as the election campaign was hotting up. New, insidious forms of political centralisation are being legitimised. Two state governments have been stripped of their powers to function as autonomous elected governments and brought under central control—first in Jammu & Kashmir, which was converted to a Union Territory when its special status was revoked, and later in Delhi. This, coupled with an administrative culture that increasingly supports the personality cult of Mr Modi, jeopardises a long-established principle of federal co-operation and dual accountability for the centre and states. Parliament, meanwhile, barely performs its deliberative function, and the judiciary is increasingly reticent about protecting civil liberties. That power in India’s democracy is increasingly centralised and autocratic is now well documented. But its implications demand greater reflection. In the political realm, new federal fault lines are emerging. India simply cannot be governed with stability and coherence by a narrow, powerful centre that eschews federal consensus. Given India’s diversity of language, region and religion, specific language- or ethnicity-based assertions of statehood require accommodation. India’s federal system has provided this, allowing for the expression of multiple identities within a nation-state framework. Hindu nationalism is impatient with the principle of accommodation, seeking instead a singular national identity within “One Nation” governed by “double engine” efficiency (to borrow the bjp’s slogans), driven by bjp governments at the central and state levels. This ideological framework erodes the political credibility needed to mediate assertions of ethnic and regional identity. Its limits are already evident in the north-eastern state of Manipur, for example, which has been gripped by ethnic violence for almost a year. In the economic realm, growing disparity in development between the relatively more prosperous southern and western parts of India and poorer but more populous northern states is placing strains on long-accepted principles of tax-sharing and representation. Moreover, economic growth and the emergence of a national market is placing new pressures on inter-state co-ordination. India needs a new federal compact and stronger federal institutions. Instead, the bjp’s proclivity for centralisation is creating a more polarised federal politics that makes consensus and co-operation difficult. At the same time, technology has legitimised a new kind of welfare politics: one that removes traditional intermediation by local leaders and state governments, enabling in its place a direct, emotive connection with recipients built around the cult of Mr Modi as sole benefactor. Welfare schemes are branded as personal “guarantees”, replete with photographs of the prime minister. Neelanjan Sircar, a political scientist, characterises this as vishwas (trust) politics—a politics premised on the deification of the leader in return for voter trust. Vishwas politics encourages a preference for welfare as direct benefits for which the leader can claim direct credit in areas ranging from cooking gas to toilets. Embedded in this is a subtle social contract that positions welfare as largesse of the leader rather than a moral obligation of the state to rights-bearing citizens. Citizens seek accountability and demand welfare services through local state actors, whether politicians or bureaucrats. Today this is being sacrificed at the altar of a centralised vishwas politics. In the social realm, hate and bigotry targeted against India’s 200m Muslims are being fuelled by aggressive and often violent Hindu nationalism. Public discourse has coarsened to the point that if you criticise the government or its policies you are “anti-national”. If you speak for secularism, you are “anti-Hindu”, a “Sickular Libtard”. Rather than upholding the constitutional ideal of secularism and equal citizenship, the state is complicit in demonising Muslims, bulldozing their homes and promoting anti-Muslim laws while consciously infusing statecraft with a Hindu character. Indian secularism is about principled distance between state and religion. It found expression in the anti-colonial freedom movement as an antidote to the politicisation of religion that had fuelled a competitive nation-building culminating in partition and violence. Secularism was a path to peace and toleration in a multi-religious society. In independent India, the constitutional commitment to secularism, liberty and equality was the foundational source of India’s global influence. This is now at risk. India’s elites and even opposition parties are increasingly reticent in their defence of secularism. In debates in India, the authoritarian proclivities of past leaders—including the period of dictatorship in the 1970s after Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency—are used to play down fears of democratic erosion today. They were spasms rather than the first signs of permanent change in the body politic, goes the argument. The truth is, in the 1970s India fought the emergency to preserve and deepen democracy. Today’s methods of centralisation and repression are not only more sophisticated and systematic but have broader political and institutional approval. Add in toxic majoritarianism, and India’s democracy is now a long way from its constitutional ideal. Consequently, fault lines in India’s political, economic and social life are widening. Preserving democracy is a struggle all Indians must undertake. Their future prosperity depends on it.■ Yamini Aiyar is a public-policy scholar based in New Delhi. Source: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/03/23/yamini-aiyar-laments-the-damage-done-to-indian-democracy-under-narendra-modi Forget whats happening in islamic countries in our subcontinent. Can she write the same about whites in africa. Look at the drop in White population across african countries since 2000. SA was 20% -25% white at the start of this century. Today they are less than 8%. Genocide? Demonizing Whites? Democracy damaged? toxic majoritarianism?
straighttalk Posted June 2, 2024 Posted June 2, 2024 On 3/27/2024 at 7:53 AM, BacktoCricaddict said: The more I think about it the more I am convinced that - if there is a threat to India's democracy - it is less due to BJP authoritarianism and more due to the opposition's ineptitude. When a political party's leader's only qualification is the family into which he was born, and there are enough people who still think it is a valid qualification, it is a fiefdom, not a democracy. Until there is a credible alternative vision - from credible people - to achieve developmental goals in a different way from the current way, the current way may just be it. You nailed it .bjps toxic communalism coupled with total control of media and govt agencies needs to be stopped .but who will vote for opposition when they are either inept or corrupt or both.
bharathh Posted June 3, 2024 Posted June 3, 2024 (edited) 4 hours ago, straighttalk said: You nailed it .bjps toxic communalism coupled with total control of media and govt agencies needs to be stopped .but who will vote for opposition when they are either inept or corrupt or both. You repeat a falsehood enough times it becomes a truth Edited June 3, 2024 by bharathh AuxiliA 1
Vijy Posted June 3, 2024 Posted June 3, 2024 5 hours ago, EnterTheVoid said: Bad times ahead for the Aiyar gang No one (of note) takes her seriously here
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