The Indian example has always been a sense of wonder: a post-colonial country that was able to sustain democracy, avoid military rule, and protect its territory with little social strife.
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21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Lol why are u looking for WEST’s approval. Are u still slave of west.
The more powerful India becomes the more hatred we will get from WEST. after all it was the west only which colonised Asia and destroyed India’s economy. So why is print looking for appreciation from WEST?? Still having a colonial hangover.
Can’t u see how west is threatening china realising china is moving ahed of them
News dalal media outlets like u who have sold their soul to WEST is the reason India is a poor country
I was born and grew up in the UK. A Punjabi Sikh who grew up in what became a indian ghetto within the UK ( Yes these existed and still do in some areas). The author has staked the entire article on the premise that not long ago India was a viewed as a wonder and respected for the struggles that it went through. This assertion is little more then a fantasy, I vividly remember the news reporting and general views expressed throughout Britain in the 80s, 90s and 2000’s (ditto for Canada were I have spent several extended periods) and the only ‘wonder’ I recall was entirely focused on the gift of the railways (ignoring the fact each km of rail laid cost 4 times as much as UK equivalent) and the English language (conveniently forgetting that during the days of the so called Raj literacy levels in India alongside life expectancy collapsed). I would suggest the author consider the negative impact that a character called Apu in the Simpsons had for most people of indian heritage in the USA. Apu would in fact be a more appropriate metaphor for how the west viewed India and Indians. The remainder of the article is little more then a puff piece designed to provide funding and grants and in my view is no different to the propaganda in the 1900 – 1940 period produced by many ‘loyal’ Indians to explain why the Raj was good for us and that my grandparent should just shut up and die – I have no intention of shutting up BTW.
The CAA and NRC do not go against Islam . Who are protesting against , they are Zihadis. For this kind of activity , the Rohingyas thrown away from Myanmar. If the western countries are kind enough to Zihadis, please take all Muslims from India and Myanmar. Let live India and Myanmar with peace.
Let entire earth become without religion. We have no problem with that. But will you be able to convince Abrahamic jiv?
Indeed, not just developing countries but also others look-up to India for a host of achievements – during my travels I met a Lithuanian chemist who said our independent pharma is watched withe envy in his country, in a conference in Tunisia our truck and car manufacture was held-up as an example to follow, in France a software engineer was complaining that soon he will have to join Infosis since that company was soaking-up all the jobs. The trouble with Bhakts is that they need to have a narrative where no progress was made in India in the last 70 years. That would mean that India was better under the British than it is now!
Had you read history not written by liberals and leftists, you world have not written this stupid comment. At least view your Shashi Tharoors video. Some of it should make sense to you.
I refered to no history – just my personal experience and one bit of logical inference. Open your eyes, if you are a bhakt. And don’t forget to ask for minimum wage if you are a paid-IT-cell .
What a disingenuous and misleading article. I mean there should be laws to punish such misinformation and political hack jobs like this. Only in India, apparently, that too from someone attached to venerable Hudson Institute can someone like Aparna Pande mis-characterize and invent incendiary labels like “Hindu” Rashtra on a law which is actually to provide a new life to religious minorities being persecuted in India’s neighborhood. My mind is blown, I mean really, wow, such sleazy opinion piece is unacceptable! No wonder Trump hates the “establishment” and it’s about time Indian nationalists took note of such vitriol and took a leaf from Trump’s strategy to ignore and label such garbage as “Fake News.”
no double you believe that the PM and HM speak nothing but the truth even when they contradict each other? Get real and look up the definitions of “truth”, “falsehood” and “opinion”.
Cite an example of falsehood. If you cannot do that, go back to kindergarten or hold a flag at JNU.
jago bhakt! just go back and read all that Shah said about CAB/CAA/NRC , then hear Modi’s speach in Delhi – one or the other must be telling lies. In any case, one can wake someone who is sleeping but one can not wake someone who is pretending to be asleep!
Let’s leave it back for another day. When was the last time Russia, China, UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, US asked the whole world if a policy decision that they took was right or wrong ? When did US ask the world whether the decision on H1B was right or wrong or when did UK ask everyone when they changed the HSMP rules. Interestingly do we know if politicians in UK consulted with other EU leaders before deciding on bringing the Brexit bill
The writer needs to get real. India stopped being a great example and a sense of wonder long ago and this has nothing to do with the present ruling dispensation. No country which has failed to even sort out it’s citizens basic necessities can be an example of any sort. India is at the bottom in any measure of human development with most countries, who were behind it, having overtaken it long ago. India remains nothing more than a poor, over-populated, indisciplined country with abysmal living standards. It’s famed philosophy and spiritual values exist only in textbooks. If India was ever so good and great the author herself would never have migrated to the US.
Mahatma Gandhi, the constitutional idol BabaSaheb Ambedkar & all the members of the constitutional body ,who decided & dedicated their lives for the Secular Indian nation,are now at the lowest ever.No doubt India once attracted the world for its rich heritage.But with the Problems of CAA & NRC & slowly & gradually heading towards Hindutva,no doubt losing it’s world wide fame .Its philosophy has become monotonous. The subject of the article & the thoughts it put forward are very apt
India is not appease West, we are here to do things which are beneficial for us not for West. If West is not able help us we may look to Japan or China.
Absolutely. But, I’m really surprised by the political hack job that Hudson Institute is now propagating. Hudson Institute lost a lost of credibility and respect from me.
China wants Aksai Chin and Arunachal. Japan is interested in India’s vast market for its products.
Predictable. All such articles come from so-called scholars stationed comfortably abroad, usually the US. Armchair philosophizing is easily done. Unlike during Indira Gandhi’s times, I am yet to see NDA government violate any provision or principle of India’s Constitution.
Exactly, this people sometimes work more for West than India. We need to learn from Chinese more than West.
China is 1/4 like Tokyo ans other major cities. The other three fourths are like India. This was their choice.
Agree. Having said that, such low quality opinion piece from Hudson Institute is unacceptable. I mean if these ultra-liberal Think-Tank keep producing such garbage 2020 might be the year when traditionally Democratic American-Indians switch to Republicans and for good. This may be one of those inflection points in political landscape. Indian government should not relent, actually, it needs to double-down on it’s progressive initiatives. I agree with Rajvir, India needs to model on Japan/ China hybrid model. I mean lets take a leaf out of Japan’s MITI ( Ministry of International Trade and Industry) That was a great concept and China is doing some innovative things as well.
India’s image has takena battering because of the news media like you who support the left no matter what, who twist the facts to get your TRP going and give a shit about the country
Problem is in India priority of ruling party politicians is to divide and get votes. After winning election priority is to divide further and get more votes or retain the votes. Building economy, human capital , military capability may wait.
American Indian author writing on political scene of the country but wants to stay miles away, doesn’t know ground reality, doesn’t move with the public, does not speak to them, doesn’t listen to their views. Maybe authors research is only based on what is televised by leftist channels, written by liberals who misuse the word secularism because they are free loaders and depend on left government grants, congress grants. Come to India speak to the common man on streets. You will get your answer. Speak to those migrants who have faced atrocities in neighbouring countries, you will get your answer. Write about China and then try visiting China of your really dare or care, you will get the answer. You can visit India any number of times mind well.
I don’t understand why the author, Indian at least by origin, should speak-up for all sorts of problems but not for India or Indians! Bhakts do not understnad that the most legitimate protest is agaist one’s own – government or society. they only know absolute obedience and tu-tu/main-main level politics.
Lol why are u looking for WEST’s approval. Are u still slave of west.
The more powerful India becomes the more hatred we will get from WEST. after all it was the west only which colonised Asia and destroyed India’s economy. So why is print looking for appreciation from WEST?? Still having a colonial hangover.
Can’t u see how west is threatening china realising china is moving ahed of them
News dalal media outlets like u who have sold their soul to WEST is the reason India is a poor country
I was born and grew up in the UK. A Punjabi Sikh who grew up in what became a indian ghetto within the UK ( Yes these existed and still do in some areas). The author has staked the entire article on the premise that not long ago India was a viewed as a wonder and respected for the struggles that it went through. This assertion is little more then a fantasy, I vividly remember the news reporting and general views expressed throughout Britain in the 80s, 90s and 2000’s (ditto for Canada were I have spent several extended periods) and the only ‘wonder’ I recall was entirely focused on the gift of the railways (ignoring the fact each km of rail laid cost 4 times as much as UK equivalent) and the English language (conveniently forgetting that during the days of the so called Raj literacy levels in India alongside life expectancy collapsed). I would suggest the author consider the negative impact that a character called Apu in the Simpsons had for most people of indian heritage in the USA. Apu would in fact be a more appropriate metaphor for how the west viewed India and Indians. The remainder of the article is little more then a puff piece designed to provide funding and grants and in my view is no different to the propaganda in the 1900 – 1940 period produced by many ‘loyal’ Indians to explain why the Raj was good for us and that my grandparent should just shut up and die – I have no intention of shutting up BTW.
The CAA and NRC do not go against Islam . Who are protesting against , they are Zihadis. For this kind of activity , the Rohingyas thrown away from Myanmar. If the western countries are kind enough to Zihadis, please take all Muslims from India and Myanmar. Let live India and Myanmar with peace.
if the whole earth was Akhand India once, as beieved by all RSS gang, it is all India now, says Bhagat ji
Let entire earth become without religion. We have no problem with that. But will you be able to convince Abrahamic jiv?
Indeed, not just developing countries but also others look-up to India for a host of achievements – during my travels I met a Lithuanian chemist who said our independent pharma is watched withe envy in his country, in a conference in Tunisia our truck and car manufacture was held-up as an example to follow, in France a software engineer was complaining that soon he will have to join Infosis since that company was soaking-up all the jobs. The trouble with Bhakts is that they need to have a narrative where no progress was made in India in the last 70 years. That would mean that India was better under the British than it is now!
Had you read history not written by liberals and leftists, you world have not written this stupid comment. At least view your Shashi Tharoors video. Some of it should make sense to you.
I refered to no history – just my personal experience and one bit of logical inference. Open your eyes, if you are a bhakt. And don’t forget to ask for minimum wage if you are a paid-IT-cell .
What a disingenuous and misleading article. I mean there should be laws to punish such misinformation and political hack jobs like this. Only in India, apparently, that too from someone attached to venerable Hudson Institute can someone like Aparna Pande mis-characterize and invent incendiary labels like “Hindu” Rashtra on a law which is actually to provide a new life to religious minorities being persecuted in India’s neighborhood. My mind is blown, I mean really, wow, such sleazy opinion piece is unacceptable! No wonder Trump hates the “establishment” and it’s about time Indian nationalists took note of such vitriol and took a leaf from Trump’s strategy to ignore and label such garbage as “Fake News.”
no double you believe that the PM and HM speak nothing but the truth even when they contradict each other? Get real and look up the definitions of “truth”, “falsehood” and “opinion”.
Cite an example of falsehood. If you cannot do that, go back to kindergarten or hold a flag at JNU.
jago bhakt! just go back and read all that Shah said about CAB/CAA/NRC , then hear Modi’s speach in Delhi – one or the other must be telling lies. In any case, one can wake someone who is sleeping but one can not wake someone who is pretending to be asleep!
Let’s leave it back for another day. When was the last time Russia, China, UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, US asked the whole world if a policy decision that they took was right or wrong ? When did US ask the world whether the decision on H1B was right or wrong or when did UK ask everyone when they changed the HSMP rules. Interestingly do we know if politicians in UK consulted with other EU leaders before deciding on bringing the Brexit bill
The writer needs to get real. India stopped being a great example and a sense of wonder long ago and this has nothing to do with the present ruling dispensation. No country which has failed to even sort out it’s citizens basic necessities can be an example of any sort. India is at the bottom in any measure of human development with most countries, who were behind it, having overtaken it long ago. India remains nothing more than a poor, over-populated, indisciplined country with abysmal living standards. It’s famed philosophy and spiritual values exist only in textbooks. If India was ever so good and great the author herself would never have migrated to the US.
Mahatma Gandhi, the constitutional idol BabaSaheb Ambedkar & all the members of the constitutional body ,who decided & dedicated their lives for the Secular Indian nation,are now at the lowest ever.No doubt India once attracted the world for its rich heritage.But with the Problems of CAA & NRC & slowly & gradually heading towards Hindutva,no doubt losing it’s world wide fame .Its philosophy has become monotonous. The subject of the article & the thoughts it put forward are very apt
Senior journalist Kanak Mani Dixit of Nepal conveys a somewhat similar assessment. The world wants India to succeed.
India is not appease West, we are here to do things which are beneficial for us not for West. If West is not able help us we may look to Japan or China.
Absolutely. But, I’m really surprised by the political hack job that Hudson Institute is now propagating. Hudson Institute lost a lost of credibility and respect from me.
China wants Aksai Chin and Arunachal. Japan is interested in India’s vast market for its products.
Predictable. All such articles come from so-called scholars stationed comfortably abroad, usually the US. Armchair philosophizing is easily done. Unlike during Indira Gandhi’s times, I am yet to see NDA government violate any provision or principle of India’s Constitution.
Exactly, this people sometimes work more for West than India. We need to learn from Chinese more than West.
China is 1/4 like Tokyo ans other major cities. The other three fourths are like India. This was their choice.
Agree. Having said that, such low quality opinion piece from Hudson Institute is unacceptable. I mean if these ultra-liberal Think-Tank keep producing such garbage 2020 might be the year when traditionally Democratic American-Indians switch to Republicans and for good. This may be one of those inflection points in political landscape. Indian government should not relent, actually, it needs to double-down on it’s progressive initiatives. I agree with Rajvir, India needs to model on Japan/ China hybrid model. I mean lets take a leaf out of Japan’s MITI ( Ministry of International Trade and Industry) That was a great concept and China is doing some innovative things as well.
India’s image has takena battering because of the news media like you who support the left no matter what, who twist the facts to get your TRP going and give a shit about the country
Problem is in India priority of ruling party politicians is to divide and get votes. After winning election priority is to divide further and get more votes or retain the votes. Building economy, human capital , military capability may wait.
American Indian author writing on political scene of the country but wants to stay miles away, doesn’t know ground reality, doesn’t move with the public, does not speak to them, doesn’t listen to their views. Maybe authors research is only based on what is televised by leftist channels, written by liberals who misuse the word secularism because they are free loaders and depend on left government grants, congress grants. Come to India speak to the common man on streets. You will get your answer. Speak to those migrants who have faced atrocities in neighbouring countries, you will get your answer. Write about China and then try visiting China of your really dare or care, you will get the answer. You can visit India any number of times mind well.
I don’t understand why the author, Indian at least by origin, should speak-up for all sorts of problems but not for India or Indians! Bhakts do not understnad that the most legitimate protest is agaist one’s own – government or society. they only know absolute obedience and tu-tu/main-main level politics.