india issues

Modi is now trying to crack down on social media because of the criticism that he has mismanaged the Covid Crisis. Once again:Put a religious fantatic in office (or someone who built his career pandering to religious fundematlists) in charge, bad things happen, guaranteed.

NPR: Crowds Of Indian Farmers Gather For Days To Protest New Agriculture Laws They protested here in Bellevue and other places all over the country. It looks like there was a big protest in London as well. A few of my neighbors were miffed they blocked the freeway I-405) for a short period of...

Since it seems determined to isolate Muslims how long before India sees it's next act of Terrorism as frustration mounts?

Well, India has hit a new low as keyboard warriors vie with each other about how bigoted they can be. Poster proudly announces how he cancelled his food order after his request for a Hindu delivery person (specifically non-Muslim) is denied. The company essentially told him that they would...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/india-to-rethink-colonial-era-law-criminalising-gay-sex If you were largely indifferent towards LGBT rights you might ask why, if most people who were charged with and convicted of this offence had committed "sex offences against children, would it...

Not trolling, but this is not the first time I have encountered racism by non-Whites. http://www.dw.com/en/attacks-on-africans-expose-indias-racist-inclinations/a-38207117

Diphtheria is back in the southern Indian state of Kerala and so far it's killed two children and left forty more ill. That's an easily preventable disease that's mostly considered a relic of the 1950s. Muhammad Niyas is a physician in Kerala and watched one of those children die, a death he...

India's supreme court decided that a previously struck down colonial era law criminalizing sodomy and such is still the law of the land (thanks for that dead Britons, btw). Surprising move given their recent rulings that were generally more progressive. Wonder how long its gonna take to fix...

I don't know if anyone has followed this, but on December 16th an Indian university student boarded a bus with a male friend after having seen a movie. Over the next several hours the two of them were assaulted by five men and the girl brutally raped and sexually violated with a steel bar before...

Indian courts challenge Facebook, Google content NEW DELHI - US companies Facebook, Google and Yahoo, and other internet firms, have been ordered by two Indian courts to remove material considered religiously offensive, the latest skirmish in a growing battle over website content in the world's...

What if this man goes on a killing frenzy now that he's been released? What's to stop him going on the rampage? He seems quite popular with the other inmates: BBC What do other people think?