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Ed India going down the Dictatorship road fast...

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Susheel said:
The Congress party has won with a massive majority in Karnataka so they seem to be safe for the moment. Of course, BJP will continue its efforts to sabotage the government...we just have to wait and see what happens.
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The COngress party is no bargian either...it is corrupt as hell, but compared to the BJP.....
 
Modi is in the US chasing photo-ops while the North Eastern state of Manipur burns.
Indian security forces partisan; Manipur groups write to UN

Basically it seems to have been a government supported attempt at harassing the largely Christian Kuki tribes, not so much to further the "Hindu" cause as to evict them from the forest region and hand over access to protected lands to his corporate cronies.
 
I voted for BIden in 2020, and will vote for him again given the competion, but I admit I am a bit digusted by his fawing over Modi. it is one thing to deal with a government in a cold formal way another to embrace them.
 
Susheel said:
Modi is in the US chasing photo-ops while the North Eastern state of Manipur burns.
Indian security forces partisan; Manipur groups write to UN

Basically it seems to have been a government supported attempt at harassing the largely Christian Kuki tribes, not so much to further the "Hindu" cause as to evict them from the forest region and hand over access to protected lands to his corporate cronies.
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The outrages perpetrated by Modi and his cronies appears to have no bottom.
 
One of the most hilarious incidents this past week was the release of a big budget retelling of the Ramayana called Aadipurush (Ultimate Man) starring the Bahubali star Prabhas. The producers and directors wanted to cash in on the right-wing crowd and expected to rake in the moolah and enjoy free promotion by the government, as with the Kashmir Files and Kerala Story. In fact, the RSS and sibling organizations across India were gearing up for mass ticket buys and distribution. However, the film itself seems to have triggered their ire. It does not seem to adhere to their "classical" brahminical sentiments and some of the dialogue was too colloquial that it hurt their delicate sense of propriety. In the southern Telugu-speaking states, the Hindu ire has been pretty subdued as they are more afraid of the rabid Prabhas fans.
Two things have happened though...The director has requested the government to provide him with security and the producers have decided to re-record dialogues to make it more Sanskritised and acceptable.
 
Mr Obama said in an interview last week that India may "start pulling apart" if the rights of minorities weren't protected.

In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour were widely reported in India.

"How should a president engage with those kinds of leaders, either in the naming of them or in the dealing with them?" she asked

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted that there were many "Hussain Obama in India itself" who needed to be taken care of"

Full story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66016432
 
The Atheist said:
As a backdrop to the unrest, India is about to try landing a rover on the moon. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-india-66199759

I'm giving 3:1 it fails.
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Actually considering a great deal, India's indigenous space program hasn't been that bad. It is more a credit to our first Prime Minister and the firm scientific foundation he established with stalwart scientists like Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhaba.

However, there is current criticism on the excessive focus on pre-launch religious rituals in the current administration. My Brother in Law worked with the ISRO and rose to the level of the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Trivandrum and the also Director of the ISRO's commercial satellite launch division. He retired a few years ago despite being offered an extension because of the excessive incursion of politics in the institution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUffpQKzxbw
 
Susheel said:
One of the most hilarious incidents this past week was the release of a big budget retelling of the Ramayana called Aadipurush (Ultimate Man) starring the Bahubali star Prabhas. The producers and directors wanted to cash in on the right-wing crowd and expected to rake in the moolah and enjoy free promotion by the government, as with the Kashmir Files and Kerala Story. In fact, the RSS and sibling organizations across India were gearing up for mass ticket buys and distribution. However, the film itself seems to have triggered their ire. It does not seem to adhere to their "classical" brahminical sentiments and some of the dialogue was too colloquial that it hurt their delicate sense of propriety. In the southern Telugu-speaking states, the Hindu ire has been pretty subdued as they are more afraid of the rabid Prabhas fans.
Two things have happened though...The director has requested the government to provide him with security and the producers have decided to re-record dialogues to make it more Sanskritised and acceptable.
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Oddly enough I have some sympathy for the disatisfaction with the modern dialogue. I find that pretty annoying in historical films myself.
 
Ramayana isn't historical. The colloquialism was used for the character of Hanuman a tribal warrior. Now, logically they wouldn't be talking in sanskrit couplets.
 
RE: Thread title

By the end of 1932, the NASDAP held a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. In August 1934, Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany. Is that a fast travel down the road to dictatorship, or a slow one? It seems pretty fast to me.

This thread has been going on longer than that. Is India any closer to installing a dictator?

Even Putin needed to play musical chairs with the presidency, and get some constitutional changes, to reach the dictatorial position he currently enjoys. Has India made any "progress" along those lines?

At what point does "fast" become "slow"? At what point does "going down the road" become "not really"?
 
theprestige said:
By the end of 1932, the NASDAP held a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. In August 1934, Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany. Is that a fast travel down the road to dictatorship, or a slow one? It seems pretty fast to me.

This thread has been going on longer than that. Is India any closer to installing a dictator?

Even Putin needed to play musical chairs with the presidency, and get some constitutional changes, to reach the dictatorial position he currently enjoys. Has India made any "progress" along those lines?

At what point does "fast" become "slow"? At what point does "going down the road" become "not really"?
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I am sure by your standards unless there are storm troopers marching down the streets rounding up " Undesirables" We need to have nothing to worry about. The situation in Manipur is bad with the government implicated in much of the violence against Christian ethnic groups there. In West Bengal the BJP worked hard to instigate poll violence at local elections. It's not that the BJP is not trying. Dissidents and critques of Modi continue to be harassed or arrested under extraordinary ordinances.
 
Also another primary reason why the Modi-Shah duo and their theocratic backers are unable to expedite their totalitarian grasp is because of a relatively strong "woke" community that is actually working against heavy odds to put a damper on their goals.
 
Susheel said:
I am sure by your standards unless there are storm troopers marching down the streets rounding up " Undesirables".
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I thought the BJP already had stormtroopers marching down the streets in the form of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - although they may not actually be rounding up “undesirables”.
 
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