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Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

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Re: Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

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Post by sjnonweb »

0xDEF wrote: post #40

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. 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…

Complete balkanization of India? You don't know what you are talking about do you?

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Post by mikymoothrowa »

01acheru wrote: post #50
mikymoothrowa wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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

Re: Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

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Post by ajaynv31 »

0xDEF wrote: post #40

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. 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…

Lmao .. secular southern India - that’s a generalization that covers a population similar to all of America - the south is anti modi but for reasons completely unrelated to secularism .. also secession is such a fringe idea that it would make the secession movements in the USA look mainstream ..

source : me an Indian citizen who grew up in one of the southern states.

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Post by adapa »

0xDEF wrote: post #40

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. 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.

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Post by ajaynv31 »

0xDEF wrote: post #40

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. 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…

Also the riots happened more than two decades ago and most people don’t give a shit - you know how I know this - modi was a chief minister at the time of the riots and then went on to be the prime minister and is in his third term as prime minister .. you think people who didn’t give a shit back then are suddenly gonna rise up against a politician who is as popular as modi ..

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Post by oa335 »

MPlus88 wrote: post #87
InTheArena wrote: post #36

India is increasingly going down the slippery slope of repression that we have seen frequently in countries about 5-10 years before they lose their collective minds, and everyone wonders when the state "went bad".

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“The Hindus are bullies” is too broad of a generalization.

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Post by anaganisk »

poxwole wrote: post #77
cscurmudgeon wrote: post #58

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You do know OpIndia is Hindutva Propaganda Magazine

Anyone who share OPIndia links, we can safely assume, is a "Bakth", Bakth is equivalent for MAGAhat. Or they're in denial and think this kind of oppressive tactics are something to be proud of and come up with how its actually good for the nation. BJP has been nothing opressive, jailing people on sedition charges. Banning content that speaks against them. Calling anyone who questions them an Anti-National. Man, I dont care if Obama did it or Queen of England did it, but why the heck do you want to think its okay because they did it.

Re: Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

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Post by MPlus88 »

sjnonweb wrote: post #91
0xDEF wrote: post #40

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. 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…

Complete balkanization of India? You don't know what you are talking about do you?

Until the British arrived the subcontinent was a mishmash of thousands of fiefdoms that were at each other's throat. That looks balkanization to me.
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