After 9/11, everyone’s world has changed. Over the last forty years, life has become far more difficult for the liberal, sensitive Muslim whose interests include innocuous subjects like accounting and finance.
Boosting economic growth and export growth is as much a productivity challenge as it is going to be a political economy challenge for India. Is India’s statecraft up to it?
Talk of a third world war is simplistic and hasty, but certainly you see indications that a new Cold War is on in Europe, and it is indeed being fought economically.
Globalisation & India's quest to be taken seriously as a world power go hand in hand. But India must conform to certain minimum standards of modern ideas of equality & governance.
Until now, units operating even in recognised industrial areas needed a separate factory licence. The move is expected to especially give a boost to small and medium enterprises.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
Nationalistic fervor champion Narendra Modi should think about this: where would he win the recent Howdy applause if the USA were to start a NRC campaign in that country? His supporters can say that Indian Americans are playing a constructive role in that country. Well, are the NRC victims in Assam begging by the roadside? They have been productive in their own ways. They could fend for themselves ; they were not dependent on Assam government’s dole. NOW they will become so.
When Narendra Modi was saying his propaganda line in different languages, the loudest shout went out when he said, “everything is fine” in Gujarati. That means, the maximum number of those 50000 people were Gujaratis. That is the story everywhere. In all foreign countries the maximum number of Indians are Gujaratis. If a wave of patriotism inundates all lands as the one of Hindutva is desperately being tried by our two Gujarati leaders to inundate India, and if all Gujaratis are shunted out of everywhere as Idi Amin once shunted them out of Uganda, then what will be the price of land in Gujarat – – one crore rupees per square foot? Is that the kind of wealth we are aiming to create?
These are weak, bored, and boring arguments. Even a schoolboy does not want the new boy to come and sit at his bench. But so what? Don’t boys ever grow up? Talk of nationalism and patriotism etc are okay upto a point, and mature leaderships should and do find a way for the natives and (some of the) outsiders to coexist. To throw all of them into the sea is the suggested way out of those who are out of their depths.
“where would he win the recent Howdy applause if the USA were to start a NRC campaign in that country? ” USA already has an ever going NRC like campaign to evict illegal immigrants. It’s run by a permanent organization called ICE. Maybe, India should have one. The Indians, whom you saw in the Howdy Modi event were either naturalized citizens or people of Indian origin or those who hold valid visas and entered the country legally. They were not illegals immigrants. Modi received such a big support because it was symbolic expression of their patriotism for their motherland and their desire to see India and its people thrive.
Your comment is LOGICALLY flawed for several reasons :
1. Indians in the USA are there Legally – they came there legally and they became residents of the country Legally.
2. The NRC process in India that is monitored by the SC is a process to remove ILLEGAL immigrants who have crossed the border without any authorization and come and occupied land in Assam illegally.
3. Comparing Legal immigrants to illegal Immigrants is a serious flaw in your logic and a great crime. It is like comparing Sonia Gandhi who has become an Indian citizen legally with a Rohingya illegal immigrant – they are NOT the same.
4. The fact is Indians are celebrated in America not just because they are immigrants – but because they are SUCCESSFUL immigrants who have embraced American culture, contribute positively to society by working hard and are not a burden on Americans.
Apparently 13 out of 19 lakhs in the final list are Hindus. Now we have started hearing about dissatisfaction expressed by I think the CM of Assam himself, saying that no Hindu will be deemed illegal and sent to any camps. So the distinction between legal and illegal, on the basis of documents presented by residents of Assam has already broken down. It has come down to giving some, read Hindus, THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. That’s very good, but where is the “legality” in that?
50 years ago people were not document-savvy, there was no way to store documents safely, there was no way to obtain authenticated copies easily. And remember, we are talking of not just cities but also farflung villages of Assam.
We cannot compare awareness levels of people of Assam from that Era and the present day Indians who migrate to USA or other countries.
If you want to compare apple-to-apple, find out how many of the Indians who migrated to the Caribbean islands 100 years ago as labourers have sufficient documents available with them today.
Indians are not burdens on America. True. Even our NRC suspects are not burdens on Assam government. At least not so far.
Trump and Modi are birds of the same feather, which is why they get on so well. Both are a threat to “others”.
Yes, Modi’s most definitely a threat to Pakistani ‘bhais’, who don’t play nice.
Globalisation has delivered, lifted countless families out of poverty, faster than ever before in human history. Unclear what the little Bolsonaros will do for their countrymen. The vacuity of President Trump’s agenda would have shown up if he did not have the privilege of controlling the largest, most dynamic, innovative economy in the world. Even so, he has single handed tipped the global economy into recession. We should keep our fingers crossed that he does not ignite conflict in the Middle East.
Nationalistic fervor champion Narendra Modi should think about this: where would he win the recent Howdy applause if the USA were to start a NRC campaign in that country? His supporters can say that Indian Americans are playing a constructive role in that country. Well, are the NRC victims in Assam begging by the roadside? They have been productive in their own ways. They could fend for themselves ; they were not dependent on Assam government’s dole. NOW they will become so.
When Narendra Modi was saying his propaganda line in different languages, the loudest shout went out when he said, “everything is fine” in Gujarati. That means, the maximum number of those 50000 people were Gujaratis. That is the story everywhere. In all foreign countries the maximum number of Indians are Gujaratis. If a wave of patriotism inundates all lands as the one of Hindutva is desperately being tried by our two Gujarati leaders to inundate India, and if all Gujaratis are shunted out of everywhere as Idi Amin once shunted them out of Uganda, then what will be the price of land in Gujarat – – one crore rupees per square foot? Is that the kind of wealth we are aiming to create?
These are weak, bored, and boring arguments. Even a schoolboy does not want the new boy to come and sit at his bench. But so what? Don’t boys ever grow up? Talk of nationalism and patriotism etc are okay upto a point, and mature leaderships should and do find a way for the natives and (some of the) outsiders to coexist. To throw all of them into the sea is the suggested way out of those who are out of their depths.
“where would he win the recent Howdy applause if the USA were to start a NRC campaign in that country? ” USA already has an ever going NRC like campaign to evict illegal immigrants. It’s run by a permanent organization called ICE. Maybe, India should have one. The Indians, whom you saw in the Howdy Modi event were either naturalized citizens or people of Indian origin or those who hold valid visas and entered the country legally. They were not illegals immigrants. Modi received such a big support because it was symbolic expression of their patriotism for their motherland and their desire to see India and its people thrive.
Your comment is LOGICALLY flawed for several reasons :
1. Indians in the USA are there Legally – they came there legally and they became residents of the country Legally.
2. The NRC process in India that is monitored by the SC is a process to remove ILLEGAL immigrants who have crossed the border without any authorization and come and occupied land in Assam illegally.
3. Comparing Legal immigrants to illegal Immigrants is a serious flaw in your logic and a great crime. It is like comparing Sonia Gandhi who has become an Indian citizen legally with a Rohingya illegal immigrant – they are NOT the same.
4. The fact is Indians are celebrated in America not just because they are immigrants – but because they are SUCCESSFUL immigrants who have embraced American culture, contribute positively to society by working hard and are not a burden on Americans.
Apparently 13 out of 19 lakhs in the final list are Hindus. Now we have started hearing about dissatisfaction expressed by I think the CM of Assam himself, saying that no Hindu will be deemed illegal and sent to any camps. So the distinction between legal and illegal, on the basis of documents presented by residents of Assam has already broken down. It has come down to giving some, read Hindus, THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. That’s very good, but where is the “legality” in that?
50 years ago people were not document-savvy, there was no way to store documents safely, there was no way to obtain authenticated copies easily. And remember, we are talking of not just cities but also farflung villages of Assam.
We cannot compare awareness levels of people of Assam from that Era and the present day Indians who migrate to USA or other countries.
If you want to compare apple-to-apple, find out how many of the Indians who migrated to the Caribbean islands 100 years ago as labourers have sufficient documents available with them today.
Indians are not burdens on America. True. Even our NRC suspects are not burdens on Assam government. At least not so far.
Trump and Modi are birds of the same feather, which is why they get on so well. Both are a threat to “others”.
Yes, Modi’s most definitely a threat to Pakistani ‘bhais’, who don’t play nice.
Globalisation has delivered, lifted countless families out of poverty, faster than ever before in human history. Unclear what the little Bolsonaros will do for their countrymen. The vacuity of President Trump’s agenda would have shown up if he did not have the privilege of controlling the largest, most dynamic, innovative economy in the world. Even so, he has single handed tipped the global economy into recession. We should keep our fingers crossed that he does not ignite conflict in the Middle East.