Across India, anyone who dares or could dare to express political disagreement with the Modi government risks going to jail on trumped up charges, in which trial and bail are difficult.
The court also set aside the HC order that had sought explanation from NIA on why it ‘whisked away’ Navlakha to Mumbai while his bail plea was pending.
NIA affidavits opposing the bail petitions of rights activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao and Shoma Sen had content similar to Pune Police’s findings in 2018 & 2019.
The NIA says Delhi HC is ‘patently without jurisdiction’ after the court asked the agency to present records in connection with Navlakha’s transfer to Mumbai.
Supreme Court's move to let single judge benches hear bail pleas must not end up like govt pronouncements – good to read about but with little impact on citizens' lives.
The activists, who were directed in March to surrender within three weeks, moved the plea seeking extension of time on ground due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Citing coronavirus pandemic, civil rights activists Gautam Navlakha & Anand Teltumbde sought more time from Supreme Court to surrender to prison authorities.
There’s a subtle radicalism in a name like Siraj being spoken with national pride. His success is read as proof that someone from a working-class, Pasmanda background can achieve this status.
Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.
One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.
just would like to know why pmcares cant be audited…??
I agree. I have always been putting out my opinions on government policies, good or bad. But lately, I have been thinking twice before sharing anything and recently I have completely stopped sharing anything against the Modi government, as a result of a ton of abuse and threats even mild criticism draws.
I find a lot of persons openly abusing PM and HM on various media platforms. Even then the leftist media is bent upon to propagate that the freedom of expression has been curbed. It proves once again that they are not only the greatest hypocrats but also carry extreme negativity.
Remember before writing anything. Writing against bjp, Namo or rss. Is same as against hindu, against Indian army and against whole nation. The people who reflected him again and put your congress party in garbage are not stupid. So keep your stupid idea within yourself. Their are so many traitors like you are roaming in country freely. People like you should be hanged or ended in tihar jail.
Wow what a befitting reply to this cheap Journalist
I wonder why Mr Shekhar Gupta is hiring such biased and idiots
Mr Shekhar Gupta please wake up it’s a humble request
These leftist liberals are shameless. They wouldn’t be able to sell their rights to sane adults, let’s see how long they dance with their brainless youth population. Once they grow they’ll also realise your lies and how they were betrayed for 65 yrs. Eaher to see you eat shit in the next election, commie.
Your articles are so biased that it makes one laugh in amazement at the length you can go against the elected prime minister of the country. You never learn to peddling complete untruths. You hide more than you reveal. Rest in peace.
So why are these people not able to get bail. You mean Mr Modi has clout over courts also. Hypocrisy is if the same courts do not convict leaders like Gandhis or Vadras then it is all vendata because courts have not taken cognizance of their alleged misdeeds but where courts take cognizance and do not give bail still it is submission to regime.
When the lower courts are deliberating on bail, Arun Mishra of the Supreme Court intervenes, even before the verdict is passed and effectively denies bail!
Yes..supreme court has become keep of BJP.Till government wants they cant get bail..shame on such government who has hijacked everything
Indians already having ideologically indoctrinated journalists like you, who are more interested in peddling their own concocted narrative which fits in with their ideology.
Ms Swagata Singh: You do not adddress the substantive issues raised in this article but resort instead to a knee-jerk defence of Modi’s fascist, violent, and authoritarian Hindutva doctrine.
Fact is, just like in the Emergency under then PM Ms Indira Gandhi, people are simply vanishing into jails with no due process – legal or ethical. And then too, middle class Indians like yourself defended the descent into fascism by asserting that democracy was the last thing India needed and a “benevolent dictator” like Indira Gandhi was what the nation needed. That flirting with fascism was an all out process: the media was muzzled, people were rounded up and sterilised, torture and disappearances were the norm, the police had unfettered powers, Sanjay Gandhi went berserk and ran the country like his fiefdom and India descended into violence, chaos and fright.
Exactly the same thing is now happening under PM Modi – with the added burden of an economy that was tanking, even before th COVID crisis, the COVID crisis and Chinese aggression at the borders. Meanwhile, middle class Indians like you are lulled into believing that all is hgunky dory with a 56 inch chested Gujarati looking after you and making the Chinese shit in their pants. And besides, the Ram Mandir is getting built so one might even get protected by divine intervention right?
As the French diplomat Josepf de Maistres said:
“Every nation get the government it deserves”.
To the author – in that case how are you not in jail?
You are a virulent anti-Govt, anti-Modi ‘journalist’; but you are as free as the rest of us and you continue to be free.
That means your article is a falsehood.
The very fact that you are able to write an article like this means democracy is safe. Only left-liberals are shouting, since their market within the minds of the people is gone. The people have seen the left-liberals for what they truly are – hypocrites.
For 65 years, we heard you all ears full. You invaded everything from media to text books to KG cartoons. It became too much and we threw up. For a change, we are hearing the other side for 6 years and for the moment, it is not dull. For this reason, to mark you guys up as some kind of martyrs is a joke which you are trying to play upon us. You guys were always preaching sacrifice, so what is the complaint. Please sacrifice and the other side is offering a full monty and their turn for worse will come eventually. After all it is a cycle. Go to sleep bro.
Dear Shivam.
Please check your facts on Bheema Koregaon. The FIR and investigation done by Pune Police has proved these Urban naxals role in inciting people. Kidly understand that Pune police have filed charge sheets.
Dear author of this article and your Modi-haters friends,
1) Please go and do some research, Who kept Sheikh Abdula in prisons for 17(seventeen ) long years and why ?? . If you do not find out then please note It was J L Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira G s governments . Why ?? If you apply your mind you will know the reasons . JLN to Indira were knowing and understanding the mindset of Sheikh Abdula family . why you want to ignore ? Either you do not have knowledge of history of Post-independence India or you deliberately want to present it the way you are tutored by you political masters .
2) I have been reading articles on ThePrint for the last 18-24 months. I have read more than 100 articles by you and your brand of Anti-Modi writers . ARE YOU writingthis article from any PRISON in India . if you and your brand of Anti-Modi brigade are free , than why you are spreading misinformation about freedom of expression in India ???
We also know who filed and where cases were filed against Arnab Goswami of Republic TV, and Sudhir Chaudhary of Zee TV and why .
3) The era when print or audio-visual media could create pro or anti Government narrative in India has ended in first decade of 21st century. Now average person is having multitude of channels , Gadgets , platforms to know the truth and express his/her views on what is happening around . He/ She is wise enough to see through the game politicians, media ,play out . For what ever reasons you may be sympathetic to our erst while ruling exploiters ,but by and large COMMON PEOPLE OF COUNTRY ARE NOT. PLEASE NOTE .
Hindus were forced to slavery by 1200 years of Muslim rule followed by 200 years of British rule (Christian Rule), first time after 1200 years a pro-Hindu leader emerged , and all Muslims and Christians and Leftist, Naxals are crying, Modi and Amith Shaw are creation from Hindu victimhood, The writer’s name is Shivam Vij, but he is a converted Christian and a congress leader
All anti-nationals ., Naxals , Islamic Jihadists,mask themselves as activists,NGOs and writers. please parcel them to Pakistan.
Fully correct. Whatever done by minorities are always justified. The opposition could not write proper stay application against the CAA
for stay by the Supreme Court. Let them improve their writing skill..
Third class Propogandist article from a third class media outlet.
Indians have roundly welcomed the excision of these evil intellectuals from civic life.
One of the most welcome decision taken by the Modi government is to put behind bars people who justify violence, encourage violence, help the desetruction of society and state in India.
Shivam Vij misreads the Indian mind yet again. No wonder he has not won any election, not even to the local Press Club or the Ganesha Mandal or the Muharram Samiti.
The whole article is bullshit, you guys have no work other than ti criticize our PM but don’t worry we will again and again vote for our great leader. He is here to rule for the next 2 terms. Those who deserve to be in jail have to be in jail.
Look at what an elected government in Rajasthan is going through. So the people of Rajasthan are also being put through the grinder because they didn’t bring the bjp to power.
You guys are far removed from reality. You people are simply far too afraid of one straight leader that India has got. It upsets all your calculations, frauds and scams, loot and nepotism and kickbacks abs and all. Above all even if Modi is a bas_______ well, he is still our own bas_______.
So just shut up.
Your master is the one who’s afraid.. jailing students and human rights activists!! You might call Modi a bas*.. but we have worse names for him.. like dictator, anti-national, bigot and incompetent!
How much you are paid Shivam, for writing this trash.
Article has nothing for reader, except and undertone for jihad
What venom?! Only facts have been written! Want venom – go watch Arnab!
Shivam…take a deep breath man .I wonder sometimes aren’t you bored of repeating the same thing every time you write about Modi – Amit Shah – BJP .
There are scores of people like you which include politicians , civil society members , media personalities who criticize Modi & his policies every day but i don’t see them in jails or being silenced. Look at yourself .According to you , you shuold be in jail long back for criticizing Modi , but here you are , a free person criticizing Modi every day .
So my friend just for a change stop this anti modi rant for few days .
Mr Modi has reached where he wanted to reach in life – he has become PM – there is nowhere else to go. Questions regarding this kind of treatment being met to critics will not be asked of him because they will be asked when this era passes. And people who will be left to answer them will be the RSS. Look at RG – he has to answer questions from the Nehru era – a time when he was not even born!
The second institution which is suffering long-term damage is the judiciary. It has forgotten that its constitutional role is adjudication. The role demands strict neutrality – when future generations will demand accountability, this lack of neutrality will be held against it.
I hope other readers (including Shivam Vij himself) realise why some people atleast support RG – not because they are elite or corrupt or don’t love India – they do so because they value naysayers. And as Shivam Vij points out, democracy needs naysayers. We cannot and must not be like China.
” shoe i am ” you STUPIDO. IT IS TIME THAT DISRUPTORS ARE PUT BEHIND BARS AND A MESSAGE SENT TO FOREIGN POWERS SUCH AS CHINA THAT THEY CANNOT USE MAOIST KILLING SQUADS AND THERE RINGLEADERS AGAINST INDIA AS FORCE MULTIPLIERS ( CERTAIN PROZELYTIZERS USE THIS LEFTIST AND MAOIST COVER TO ATTACK HINDUS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS) . How many of this extremist leftist were seen on ground helping during pandemic ? WHEREAS RSS and large number of HINDU ORGANISATIONS WERE PUTTING THEIR LIFE AT RISK HELPING POOR PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN RESOURCES. This LEFTIST were used as a means by your political bosses to create havoc and thereby increase poverty by oppossing developement. PLEASE CONCENTRATE ON BIHAR ELECTIONS AS MY 50 YEAR OLD BABY MUST NOT RISK HIS LIFE IN PUBLIC. MAMMAMIA!!!!!
False narrative. I always keep my my eyes straight on almost each and every political and social events of India. The way the so-called liberal and antiindia groups flocked together and trying their level best to destroy the thousands of years old Indian culture is really alarming. In the situation like this Mr. Modi is the best alternative to save the Indian culture. The way the antiindia groups indulged in corruption and have been opposing all the popular actions of the government and supporting the antiindia programmes of the sessionist groups, the most common peoples of India even who had never been interested in politics moreso remained deeply devided in millions of sects and groups hating and zealousing each other are now flocking together each and every day seeing the very existence of their life and culture at stake. The peoples of India could see and understand well what had happened and are still happening in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh against the original culture of India. Not only that, they also realised, what would happen in India most specifically to their customs, culture and religion, if the so-called liberals or Congress could come to power in the centre.
I would suggest this author is put into jail for peddling lies. CAA does not take away anybody’s citizenship. It gives citizenship to the minorities from Pakistan Bangladesh and Afghanistan. India has no obligation to give citizenship to illegal Muslims from Bangladesh.
I would suggest that this retard, “gary” who has chosen a creative name as an it cell coolie be put to jail first for being a complete and utter waste of space.
Speaking against the country and wishing India to be broken into pieces or praising Pakistan openly by raising her flags or eulogizing terrorists and criminals and drug lords are not great examples of expression of free speech. If the problem is Modi then there should be an effective strategy crafted to attack Modi directly without incurring electoral impacts. That requires some strategic brains and deeper thinking and clear positioning of ideas, but with competitive appeasement politics that does not pan out very well for the so called secular opposition parties. The result is often calling names, attack on Hindus as if they are majority punching bag that when you punch get you the bounty of votes from other side. If you want to attack Modi attack Modi don’t attack the whole of Hindu community or India’s identity or worse still praise China and Pakistan or the Tukde-Tukde gang that wants India to be split into separate nations so it suits their type of politics. Free speech requires imagination to capture mind space of the people and that is what is lacking in the opposition parties now. Time for some intropsection before dishing out free advice to Modi.
Sanghi troll army is going to be here any minute and start hurling abuses towards Shivam for speaking out truth. You can count on it! They are the enablers of Modi’s fascist regime. But when the whole nation goes down the tubes they will pay the price too, the sooner they learn this lesson the nation could perhaps still be saved, else we are headed to hell in a handbasket.
A little less democracy would do no harm to Indians. After all , seventy years of democracy could not provide basic facilities for the poor and the country was looted right and left. What Indians got instead are a bunch of lumpens like Laloo, Bhaloo, and Pappu.
Hindutwa is an Agenda which Indira Gandhi did not have. Moreover it is RSS that guides and run this Govt. which is unseen which Indira Gandhi did not have. Opposition was divided then also when Indira Gandhi declared emergency and did try to suspend even elections for some time but this Govt. do not want to suspend election while this has used all loop holes in the law which is basis of forming Election commission, to its advantage, this is also gift of previous Congress Govt. that played with the election commission and made suitable amendments to make it docile. Congress Leadership or for that matter political parties in India have always depended on the mistakes that ruling party makes and take it to the people while it awaits on the wing giving sense that this is the party that is coming next. But narendra Modi is very clever at that and is doing his best not to allow such things to happen at lease giving sense to the people that nothing of the sort is going to happen and he is going to continue.
Abey O bangali, you improve Waste Bengal first then talk about RSS.
Utter BHAKWAS indeed! What is free speech? Read Article 19 of the Constitution of India with stringent attention to Art.19(2) to 19(6). Even without the same the so called Rights violated can be seen to be calling for action per the Indian Penal Code. I and every right thinking person, I hope, would acknowledge that deeds like, hurling bombs at Parliament house at least won’t be claimed as a violated Right by the Modi Government by your Good conscience!
What this man is writing? Is he out of his mind or feigning ignorance or a deliberate ploy to mislead people? The political prisoners he mentioned are no more than terrorist and criminals. Is this Shivam really a journalists or paid by enemies of india? Sometimes I really wonder about the intentions of The Print who publish such rubbish and nonsense.
Give examples, where Modi government has put anybody in Jail for having different ideology.
It is my challenge to any so called intellectuals to prove me wrong.
Modi is the best PM, India could have got.
This govt is the most intolerant ever to any criticism . It does not believe in the concepts of accountability and transparency so integral to the functioning of a true democracy . India is on a slippery road towards a fascist rule but our citizens are in a coma ! If they don’t wake up and protest now, it may be too late !
Instead of regretting, all real and patriot Indians would remember Modi for fighting corruption and putting the corrupt behind bars. It doesn’t matter if the corrupt person is a politician. Modi is the first PM who is totally incorruptible and patriot from toe to head. India’s corrupts that includes most librandus are using all tricks to put pressure on Modi but they fail again and again. It’s not easy for corrupts to tame an honest leader like Modi with unflinching public support and GOD on his side.
You idiot how much lies will you keep on repeating. If voices are stifled how is that every alternate day, you and yoir ilk spread lies and abuse Modi. Go and lick 10 JPs feet. That is the only thing you can do. I dians have put that behind them. Yes and Maoists supporters and abbaters will remain in jail as that is their only place where they can rot. This country will not tolerate violence engineered by congress, leftists and their stooges in the media who fan it. For long the minority appeasement card has not worked so there is now a new design of engineering cohesion of Dalit Muslim and chest beating that they are getting raw deal. Modi Shah have not learnt politics from air conditioned newsrooms. They have slogged for 40 years plus amd learnt how to takemon amd defeat anti national forces including likes of you. Keep more articles ready on similar lines. Modi Shah are here to stay at least for the next 25 years.
Sure this country will tolerate violence by the right-wing and BJP bhaktards
Most of indians, don’t care, they are cowards to say anything against government. Those who say are put in jails and others fear it. Modi is definitely like dictator like indira Gandhi but his faulty economic decisions along with enemity with neighbors will cost india badly.
Every one was how someone peed in his pants on confrontation on LAC and left LAC and made buffer zone in his own area and left his own area.
Funny ??????
The Print is anti national media and hence encourages urban naxal like Shivam Vij
Thank you for telling us what we should and should not regret about. Will you also like to direct me how to breathe? Or how about what I should feel? Would the majestic personalities among the all-knowing intellectuals be so kind to sprinkle their wisdom among us brain dead masses, for we clearly don’t have ability to think for ourself, in your opinion. For why else would all the so-called secularist and leftists and socialist be loosing elections one place after other, surely it must be because we don’t know how to think for ourself not because you are too incompetent to even be considered for ruling.
Just would like to know the source of funding of Print- RGF? ISI? ISIS?
just would like to know why pmcares cant be audited…??
I agree. I have always been putting out my opinions on government policies, good or bad. But lately, I have been thinking twice before sharing anything and recently I have completely stopped sharing anything against the Modi government, as a result of a ton of abuse and threats even mild criticism draws.
I find a lot of persons openly abusing PM and HM on various media platforms. Even then the leftist media is bent upon to propagate that the freedom of expression has been curbed. It proves once again that they are not only the greatest hypocrats but also carry extreme negativity.
Remember before writing anything. Writing against bjp, Namo or rss. Is same as against hindu, against Indian army and against whole nation. The people who reflected him again and put your congress party in garbage are not stupid. So keep your stupid idea within yourself. Their are so many traitors like you are roaming in country freely. People like you should be hanged or ended in tihar jail.
Wow what a befitting reply to this cheap Journalist
I wonder why Mr Shekhar Gupta is hiring such biased and idiots
Mr Shekhar Gupta please wake up it’s a humble request
These leftist liberals are shameless. They wouldn’t be able to sell their rights to sane adults, let’s see how long they dance with their brainless youth population. Once they grow they’ll also realise your lies and how they were betrayed for 65 yrs. Eaher to see you eat shit in the next election, commie.
Author is right. MODI IS WORSE THAN HITLER AND ALL INDIANS HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Modi is afraid! And thin-skinned!
Your articles are so biased that it makes one laugh in amazement at the length you can go against the elected prime minister of the country. You never learn to peddling complete untruths. You hide more than you reveal. Rest in peace.
Goebbels would be proud.
Blah Blah Blah ..
The print is anti Modi and want to fire the small issue. Suggestion to look into your country tand its past
So why are these people not able to get bail. You mean Mr Modi has clout over courts also. Hypocrisy is if the same courts do not convict leaders like Gandhis or Vadras then it is all vendata because courts have not taken cognizance of their alleged misdeeds but where courts take cognizance and do not give bail still it is submission to regime.
When the lower courts are deliberating on bail, Arun Mishra of the Supreme Court intervenes, even before the verdict is passed and effectively denies bail!
Yes..supreme court has become keep of BJP.Till government wants they cant get bail..shame on such government who has hijacked everything
Indians already having ideologically indoctrinated journalists like you, who are more interested in peddling their own concocted narrative which fits in with their ideology.
Ms Swagata Singh: You do not adddress the substantive issues raised in this article but resort instead to a knee-jerk defence of Modi’s fascist, violent, and authoritarian Hindutva doctrine.
Fact is, just like in the Emergency under then PM Ms Indira Gandhi, people are simply vanishing into jails with no due process – legal or ethical. And then too, middle class Indians like yourself defended the descent into fascism by asserting that democracy was the last thing India needed and a “benevolent dictator” like Indira Gandhi was what the nation needed. That flirting with fascism was an all out process: the media was muzzled, people were rounded up and sterilised, torture and disappearances were the norm, the police had unfettered powers, Sanjay Gandhi went berserk and ran the country like his fiefdom and India descended into violence, chaos and fright.
Exactly the same thing is now happening under PM Modi – with the added burden of an economy that was tanking, even before th COVID crisis, the COVID crisis and Chinese aggression at the borders. Meanwhile, middle class Indians like you are lulled into believing that all is hgunky dory with a 56 inch chested Gujarati looking after you and making the Chinese shit in their pants. And besides, the Ram Mandir is getting built so one might even get protected by divine intervention right?
As the French diplomat Josepf de Maistres said:
“Every nation get the government it deserves”.
To the author – in that case how are you not in jail?
You are a virulent anti-Govt, anti-Modi ‘journalist’; but you are as free as the rest of us and you continue to be free.
That means your article is a falsehood.
The very fact that you are able to write an article like this means democracy is safe. Only left-liberals are shouting, since their market within the minds of the people is gone. The people have seen the left-liberals for what they truly are – hypocrites.
Usual anti modi rant !!!
For 65 years, we heard you all ears full. You invaded everything from media to text books to KG cartoons. It became too much and we threw up. For a change, we are hearing the other side for 6 years and for the moment, it is not dull. For this reason, to mark you guys up as some kind of martyrs is a joke which you are trying to play upon us. You guys were always preaching sacrifice, so what is the complaint. Please sacrifice and the other side is offering a full monty and their turn for worse will come eventually. After all it is a cycle. Go to sleep bro.
Dear Shivam.
Please check your facts on Bheema Koregaon. The FIR and investigation done by Pune Police has proved these Urban naxals role in inciting people. Kidly understand that Pune police have filed charge sheets.
Dear author of this article and your Modi-haters friends,
1) Please go and do some research, Who kept Sheikh Abdula in prisons for 17(seventeen ) long years and why ?? . If you do not find out then please note It was J L Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira G s governments . Why ?? If you apply your mind you will know the reasons . JLN to Indira were knowing and understanding the mindset of Sheikh Abdula family . why you want to ignore ? Either you do not have knowledge of history of Post-independence India or you deliberately want to present it the way you are tutored by you political masters .
2) I have been reading articles on ThePrint for the last 18-24 months. I have read more than 100 articles by you and your brand of Anti-Modi writers . ARE YOU writingthis article from any PRISON in India . if you and your brand of Anti-Modi brigade are free , than why you are spreading misinformation about freedom of expression in India ???
We also know who filed and where cases were filed against Arnab Goswami of Republic TV, and Sudhir Chaudhary of Zee TV and why .
3) The era when print or audio-visual media could create pro or anti Government narrative in India has ended in first decade of 21st century. Now average person is having multitude of channels , Gadgets , platforms to know the truth and express his/her views on what is happening around . He/ She is wise enough to see through the game politicians, media ,play out . For what ever reasons you may be sympathetic to our erst while ruling exploiters ,but by and large COMMON PEOPLE OF COUNTRY ARE NOT. PLEASE NOTE .
Hindus were forced to slavery by 1200 years of Muslim rule followed by 200 years of British rule (Christian Rule), first time after 1200 years a pro-Hindu leader emerged , and all Muslims and Christians and Leftist, Naxals are crying, Modi and Amith Shaw are creation from Hindu victimhood, The writer’s name is Shivam Vij, but he is a converted Christian and a congress leader
All anti-nationals ., Naxals , Islamic Jihadists,mask themselves as activists,NGOs and writers. please parcel them to Pakistan.
Fully correct. Whatever done by minorities are always justified. The opposition could not write proper stay application against the CAA
for stay by the Supreme Court. Let them improve their writing skill..
Third class Propogandist article from a third class media outlet.
Indians have roundly welcomed the excision of these evil intellectuals from civic life.
One of the most welcome decision taken by the Modi government is to put behind bars people who justify violence, encourage violence, help the desetruction of society and state in India.
Shivam Vij misreads the Indian mind yet again. No wonder he has not won any election, not even to the local Press Club or the Ganesha Mandal or the Muharram Samiti.
Tu toh bahot sad hoga. Jaake dariya mein dub mar.
The whole article is bullshit, you guys have no work other than ti criticize our PM but don’t worry we will again and again vote for our great leader. He is here to rule for the next 2 terms. Those who deserve to be in jail have to be in jail.
Look at what an elected government in Rajasthan is going through. So the people of Rajasthan are also being put through the grinder because they didn’t bring the bjp to power.
You guys are far removed from reality. You people are simply far too afraid of one straight leader that India has got. It upsets all your calculations, frauds and scams, loot and nepotism and kickbacks abs and all. Above all even if Modi is a bas_______ well, he is still our own bas_______.
So just shut up.
Your master is the one who’s afraid.. jailing students and human rights activists!! You might call Modi a bas*.. but we have worse names for him.. like dictator, anti-national, bigot and incompetent!
How much you are paid Shivam, for writing this trash.
Article has nothing for reader, except and undertone for jihad
hi how are you still able to speak so much venom if there is no free speech.
What venom?! Only facts have been written! Want venom – go watch Arnab!
Shivam…take a deep breath man .I wonder sometimes aren’t you bored of repeating the same thing every time you write about Modi – Amit Shah – BJP .
There are scores of people like you which include politicians , civil society members , media personalities who criticize Modi & his policies every day but i don’t see them in jails or being silenced. Look at yourself .According to you , you shuold be in jail long back for criticizing Modi , but here you are , a free person criticizing Modi every day .
So my friend just for a change stop this anti modi rant for few days .
Mr Modi has reached where he wanted to reach in life – he has become PM – there is nowhere else to go. Questions regarding this kind of treatment being met to critics will not be asked of him because they will be asked when this era passes. And people who will be left to answer them will be the RSS. Look at RG – he has to answer questions from the Nehru era – a time when he was not even born!
The second institution which is suffering long-term damage is the judiciary. It has forgotten that its constitutional role is adjudication. The role demands strict neutrality – when future generations will demand accountability, this lack of neutrality will be held against it.
I hope other readers (including Shivam Vij himself) realise why some people atleast support RG – not because they are elite or corrupt or don’t love India – they do so because they value naysayers. And as Shivam Vij points out, democracy needs naysayers. We cannot and must not be like China.
Tu aur tera Dilip Mandal b jayenge.
” shoe i am ” you STUPIDO. IT IS TIME THAT DISRUPTORS ARE PUT BEHIND BARS AND A MESSAGE SENT TO FOREIGN POWERS SUCH AS CHINA THAT THEY CANNOT USE MAOIST KILLING SQUADS AND THERE RINGLEADERS AGAINST INDIA AS FORCE MULTIPLIERS ( CERTAIN PROZELYTIZERS USE THIS LEFTIST AND MAOIST COVER TO ATTACK HINDUS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS) . How many of this extremist leftist were seen on ground helping during pandemic ? WHEREAS RSS and large number of HINDU ORGANISATIONS WERE PUTTING THEIR LIFE AT RISK HELPING POOR PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN RESOURCES. This LEFTIST were used as a means by your political bosses to create havoc and thereby increase poverty by oppossing developement. PLEASE CONCENTRATE ON BIHAR ELECTIONS AS MY 50 YEAR OLD BABY MUST NOT RISK HIS LIFE IN PUBLIC. MAMMAMIA!!!!!
False narrative. I always keep my my eyes straight on almost each and every political and social events of India. The way the so-called liberal and antiindia groups flocked together and trying their level best to destroy the thousands of years old Indian culture is really alarming. In the situation like this Mr. Modi is the best alternative to save the Indian culture. The way the antiindia groups indulged in corruption and have been opposing all the popular actions of the government and supporting the antiindia programmes of the sessionist groups, the most common peoples of India even who had never been interested in politics moreso remained deeply devided in millions of sects and groups hating and zealousing each other are now flocking together each and every day seeing the very existence of their life and culture at stake. The peoples of India could see and understand well what had happened and are still happening in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh against the original culture of India. Not only that, they also realised, what would happen in India most specifically to their customs, culture and religion, if the so-called liberals or Congress could come to power in the centre.
I would suggest this author is put into jail for peddling lies. CAA does not take away anybody’s citizenship. It gives citizenship to the minorities from Pakistan Bangladesh and Afghanistan. India has no obligation to give citizenship to illegal Muslims from Bangladesh.
I would suggest that this retard, “gary” who has chosen a creative name as an it cell coolie be put to jail first for being a complete and utter waste of space.
Speaking against the country and wishing India to be broken into pieces or praising Pakistan openly by raising her flags or eulogizing terrorists and criminals and drug lords are not great examples of expression of free speech. If the problem is Modi then there should be an effective strategy crafted to attack Modi directly without incurring electoral impacts. That requires some strategic brains and deeper thinking and clear positioning of ideas, but with competitive appeasement politics that does not pan out very well for the so called secular opposition parties. The result is often calling names, attack on Hindus as if they are majority punching bag that when you punch get you the bounty of votes from other side. If you want to attack Modi attack Modi don’t attack the whole of Hindu community or India’s identity or worse still praise China and Pakistan or the Tukde-Tukde gang that wants India to be split into separate nations so it suits their type of politics. Free speech requires imagination to capture mind space of the people and that is what is lacking in the opposition parties now. Time for some intropsection before dishing out free advice to Modi.
At least post a better picture, Chinese are laughing at us!
Sanghi troll army is going to be here any minute and start hurling abuses towards Shivam for speaking out truth. You can count on it! They are the enablers of Modi’s fascist regime. But when the whole nation goes down the tubes they will pay the price too, the sooner they learn this lesson the nation could perhaps still be saved, else we are headed to hell in a handbasket.
Yes. Anyone having little sense of democracy is already regretting.
A little less democracy would do no harm to Indians. After all , seventy years of democracy could not provide basic facilities for the poor and the country was looted right and left. What Indians got instead are a bunch of lumpens like Laloo, Bhaloo, and Pappu.
Hindutwa is an Agenda which Indira Gandhi did not have. Moreover it is RSS that guides and run this Govt. which is unseen which Indira Gandhi did not have. Opposition was divided then also when Indira Gandhi declared emergency and did try to suspend even elections for some time but this Govt. do not want to suspend election while this has used all loop holes in the law which is basis of forming Election commission, to its advantage, this is also gift of previous Congress Govt. that played with the election commission and made suitable amendments to make it docile. Congress Leadership or for that matter political parties in India have always depended on the mistakes that ruling party makes and take it to the people while it awaits on the wing giving sense that this is the party that is coming next. But narendra Modi is very clever at that and is doing his best not to allow such things to happen at lease giving sense to the people that nothing of the sort is going to happen and he is going to continue.
Abey O bangali, you improve Waste Bengal first then talk about RSS.
Utter BHAKWAS indeed! What is free speech? Read Article 19 of the Constitution of India with stringent attention to Art.19(2) to 19(6). Even without the same the so called Rights violated can be seen to be calling for action per the Indian Penal Code. I and every right thinking person, I hope, would acknowledge that deeds like, hurling bombs at Parliament house at least won’t be claimed as a violated Right by the Modi Government by your Good conscience!
What this man is writing? Is he out of his mind or feigning ignorance or a deliberate ploy to mislead people? The political prisoners he mentioned are no more than terrorist and criminals. Is this Shivam really a journalists or paid by enemies of india? Sometimes I really wonder about the intentions of The Print who publish such rubbish and nonsense.
No, we will never regret putting your masters in jail.????
Thanks for writing this. But you didn’t mention Sudha Bharadwaj.
Give examples, where Modi government has put anybody in Jail for having different ideology.
It is my challenge to any so called intellectuals to prove me wrong.
Modi is the best PM, India could have got.
You should have read the article before shooting your mouth off!! The examples are there!! 😀
Either speak up now or you will be next. The Modi government is locking up anyone that opposes them and the courts are letting them get away with it!
This govt is the most intolerant ever to any criticism . It does not believe in the concepts of accountability and transparency so integral to the functioning of a true democracy . India is on a slippery road towards a fascist rule but our citizens are in a coma ! If they don’t wake up and protest now, it may be too late !
Instead of regretting, all real and patriot Indians would remember Modi for fighting corruption and putting the corrupt behind bars. It doesn’t matter if the corrupt person is a politician. Modi is the first PM who is totally incorruptible and patriot from toe to head. India’s corrupts that includes most librandus are using all tricks to put pressure on Modi but they fail again and again. It’s not easy for corrupts to tame an honest leader like Modi with unflinching public support and GOD on his side.
You idiot how much lies will you keep on repeating. If voices are stifled how is that every alternate day, you and yoir ilk spread lies and abuse Modi. Go and lick 10 JPs feet. That is the only thing you can do. I dians have put that behind them. Yes and Maoists supporters and abbaters will remain in jail as that is their only place where they can rot. This country will not tolerate violence engineered by congress, leftists and their stooges in the media who fan it. For long the minority appeasement card has not worked so there is now a new design of engineering cohesion of Dalit Muslim and chest beating that they are getting raw deal. Modi Shah have not learnt politics from air conditioned newsrooms. They have slogged for 40 years plus amd learnt how to takemon amd defeat anti national forces including likes of you. Keep more articles ready on similar lines. Modi Shah are here to stay at least for the next 25 years.
Sure this country will tolerate violence by the right-wing and BJP bhaktards
Most of indians, don’t care, they are cowards to say anything against government. Those who say are put in jails and others fear it. Modi is definitely like dictator like indira Gandhi but his faulty economic decisions along with enemity with neighbors will cost india badly.
Every one was how someone peed in his pants on confrontation on LAC and left LAC and made buffer zone in his own area and left his own area.
Funny ??????
Write something original mate, how long can you sell the same wine in new bottles?
How can a contributing editor write his personal views.This is view of THE PRINT and be brave enough to say it.Don’t hide behind “vews are personal”
The Print is anti national media and hence encourages urban naxal like Shivam Vij
Thank you for telling us what we should and should not regret about. Will you also like to direct me how to breathe? Or how about what I should feel? Would the majestic personalities among the all-knowing intellectuals be so kind to sprinkle their wisdom among us brain dead masses, for we clearly don’t have ability to think for ourself, in your opinion. For why else would all the so-called secularist and leftists and socialist be loosing elections one place after other, surely it must be because we don’t know how to think for ourself not because you are too incompetent to even be considered for ruling.