Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
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Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
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Re: Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
#2I had read on Wikipedia that Sikkim was annexed due to it being a failed state. This article stating that it was conquered like Tibet is an eye opener. And one I want to doubt.
Re: Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
#3While traveling through Sikkim, locals told me that both China and India were vying for Sikkim’s loyalty and India secured it by employing huge amounts of people. At the time I visited (2010) the anecdote I recall hearing was 70% of the workforce is government employed.
Re: Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
#4I had read on Wikipedia that Sikkim was annexed due to it being a failed state. This article stating that it was conquered like Tibet is an eye opener. And one I want to doubt.
Not for nothing that Satyajit Ray's "Sikkim" was (still is?) banned.
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#5Shows in great details Indira Gandhi was a real Ironlady who brought Sikkim into democratic fold removing the monarchy.
Much better than the current headline and marketing driven administration in present day India, plunging India down the rabbit hole of spiralling economic decline and for the sake of elections and power creating a divided India with Hindu agenda (appeasing majority).
Re: Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
#6I had read on Wikipedia that Sikkim was annexed due to it being a failed state. This article stating that it was conquered like Tibet is an eye opener. And one I want to doubt.
Not for nothing that Satyajit Ray's "Sikkim" was (still is?) banned.
Thanks. Didn't know about this film. The ban was lifted in 2010.
Re: Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
#7Shows in great details Indira Gandhi was a real Ironlady who brought Sikkim into democratic fold removing the monarchy. Much better than the current headline and marketing driven administration in present day India, plunging India down the rabbit hole of spiralling economic decline and for the sake of elections and power creating a divided India with Hindu agenda (appeasing majority).
No matter your political inclinations, you cannot unironically praise Indira Gandhi and denounce the current administration in the same breath. Even if they are ideologically different, they both have similar authoritarian tendencies and a common pathway to power - populism.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for nothing that Satyajit Ray's "Sikkim" was (still is?) banned.
Thanks. Didn't know about this film. The ban was lifted in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim_(film)
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If this isn't irony, I don't know what is…
Re: Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
#9Shows in great details Indira Gandhi was a real Ironlady who brought Sikkim into democratic fold removing the monarchy. Much better than the current headline and marketing driven administration in present day India, plunging India down the rabbit hole of spiralling economic decline and for the sake of elections and power creating a divided India with Hindu agenda (appeasing majority).
No matter your political inclinations, you cannot unironically praise Indira Gandhi and denounce the current administration in the same breath. Even if they are ideologically different, they both have similar authoritarian tendencies and a common pathway to power - populism.
No they are not the same - the current administration is clearly fascist.
Re: Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for nothing that Satyajit Ray's "Sikkim" was (still is?) banned.
Thanks. Didn't know about this film. The ban was lifted in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim_(film)
The next sentence states it was banned again after two months.
> In November 2010 [...] received an injunction from the court of Sikkim again banning the film.