Dhruv Rathee’s viral video asks if India is becoming a dictatorship. The problem is that it is an over-stylised description that lets the present govt off the hook.
Be it media, social media, human rights movements, political leaders, or even judges, there have been concerted efforts to get them toe the line of the state.
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.
India should aim to get European investments that are clearly no longer going to China. That is where the dots of its efforts to save Asia from China’s dominance converge at its most basic.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Of all the criticism Dhruv Rathee has come under, the one about him living in Germany and raising such a question is the lamest. It seems that we as Indians only want take hear good things about India and anyone who points out very obvious problems is someone “against” India. It is almost as if people have forgotten that dissent is also a form of patriotism. The sad reality is asymmetrical content now between the BJP and the rest. The composition of the Lok Sabha gives the northern states a huge share of sears and the very poor quality of mainstream Hindi media whose only job now is to take in money from taxpayer funded advertising and praise the BJP, has left the average voter very poorly informed about the reality. The only hope is that people vote with their pocket books because the sold reality and the actual reality are quite far apart.
Of all the criticism Dhruv Rathee has come under, the one about him living in Germany and raising such a question is the lamest. It seems that we as Indians only want take hear good things about India and anyone who points out very obvious problems is someone “against” India. It is almost as if people have forgotten that dissent is also a form of patriotism. The sad reality is asymmetrical content now between the BJP and the rest. The composition of the Lok Sabha gives the northern states a huge share of sears and the very poor quality of mainstream Hindi media whose only job now is to take in money from taxpayer funded advertising and praise the BJP, has left the average voter very poorly informed about the reality. The only hope is that people vote with their pocket books because the sold reality and the actual reality are quite far apart.
Irony is that the German shepherd is saying this while sitting outside India 🤣🤣🤣🤣