Because this is BBC the government is forced to stop at intimidation and using legal means too. There are simply way too many global eyes on the incident. Prior to this government, the media was largely free to do anything they want. Modi seems to have taken the additional step to thwart any negative reporting. This is just terrible for the country. Not surprising given his overall approach to governing
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry but I really don't think this is true and almost any source would prove you wrong. Like this one for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Almost all countries up in the list are so called "Western", while India is number 46. Most sources would more or less agree with this index.
obviously indices created by the west would rank themselves higher. India has a much more robust democracy because Indians have several dozen political parties to choose from unlike the US which has only 2 recognised parties. India has had Prime Ministers from even very small regional parties that formed giant coalitions. Americans meanwhile are stuck with 2 parties they perpetually hate
You know that you are just throwing anecdotes around that don't reach any point right?
Just admit it, you are an Indian nationalist, who cares? Why should I be bothered by what you guys do at home? Just don't go around preaching how cool and open and democratic India is because anyone with a little bit of culture knows that it is only propaganda you're drinking and spitting.
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#103This is the favored tactic of Indian government when trying to intimidate the press (or politicians). [1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/it-raids...
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#104The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims. Before this documentary the 2002 Gujarat events were largely brushed aside as ordinary 3rd world sectarian violence but the BBC documentary shows that Modi personally orchestrated the whole thing. The complete balkanizati…
Oh boy! Secular south ? Clearly you have never been to india. Secession is not a possibility in fever dream. South is even more religious and conservative than north. Many actually like modi. my friend you are viewing india from a periscope whose view is too filled with bias. India is fine.
I near fell off my chair laughing at the complete confidence with which he called the south secular .. lol ..
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry but I really don't think this is true and almost any source would prove you wrong. Like this one for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Almost all countries up in the list are so called "Western", while India is number 46. Most sources would more or less agree with this index.
obviously indices created by the west would rank themselves higher. India has a much more robust democracy because Indians have several dozen political parties to choose from unlike the US which has only 2 recognised parties. India has had Prime Ministers from even very small regional parties that formed giant coalitions. Americans meanwhile are stuck with 2 parties they perpetually hate
You are clearly in denial, tell me what are the two parties that can form the central
BJP or Congress?
> India has had Prime Ministers from even very small regional parties that formed giant coalitions.
Key word is "has" what about the last 3 decades?
Having to choose between 2 or 1000 parties from is not democracy, India terribly suffers from incumbency peoblems. Most of those regional parties you talk about unless there is a significant change, most of the time, many seats are won back by incumbents.
During every elections there is horse-trading, bribing of voters, rigging, there have been major scams all which are not signals of a robust democracy.
Thousands of farmers protesting against a govt rule for almost an year is not a robust sign of democracy.
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India is not even a hundred year old democracy. It’s way too early to speak about its robustness as a democracy. Especially considering India has already had a non-Democratic period during emergency, which the previous leadership of the BJP understood the dangers of, since many of them were arrested then, but the current leadership seems keen on basically establishing as the norm. Unfortunately the hubris and over-co…
then imagine what the collective hubris and arrogance displayed by the people in this sub-thread would imply about their respective countries’ democratic nature.
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#107This is the favored tactic of Indian government when trying to intimidate the press (or politicians). [1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/it-raids...
It is interesting that it took Western media to blow the whistle.
You could write books about everything that is wrong with my country (many people do) but independent journalism is sacrosanct.
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I feel like the US is in a position to simply have some police deliberately fall for these scams, then wire over the $25k as the scammer instructs, then trace that money as far as the indian border, then demand the indian government repay it. The indian government can continue tracing and find the scammer to get their money back (hard), or just shut down the call centers (easier). Yes, I know this isn't the way inter…
Hit them where it hurts: Ban all family members of anybody in Indian government from entering the US for any reason. Not for school, nor a job, nor even a short vacation to visit other family members. Limit this ban to Indian politicians and their family members; most Indians should be unaffected.
Step 1 on the (very short) path to making the US dollar permanently lose its influence. Unless India starts invading Pakistan for conquest or population destruction, sanctions even on Indian politicians and their families go way too far (not to mention some of those sanctioned people would likely be top business leaders as well). The US is already testing its limits trying to go against Russia and China simultaneously. Economic warfare (for that is what sanctions effectively are) against India as well would be catastrophic.
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#109The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims. Before this documentary the 2002 Gujarat events were largely brushed aside as ordinary 3rd world sectarian violence but the BBC documentary shows that Modi personally orchestrated the whole thing. The complete balkanizati…
> The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims
I think the secular south would've been able to come to that conclusion before now; I already thought of Modi as a religious nut who was (at very least) highly complicit in the Gujarat violence. I'm a bit skeptical that this BBC documentary will be what breaks up india.