India is a South Asian country with the largest population in the world. It is a growing economic and political power in the region, and is known for its linguistic, cultural, and geographic diversity. Its large population and vast history mark its economic and cultural importance.
Even though India has a long history, its current borders can be traced back to 1947, when the country gained independence from British rule. Today, India has 28 states and 8 union territories, and its capital is New Delhi. India is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, and has many religions, sects, castes and tribes, as well as more than a dozen major and hundreds of minor linguistic groups.
In this complete commentary, Muslims are just mere bystanders. They do not have any agency or choice. Maybe Huntington reincarnated as Laden.
If I were an islamist with an insidious agenda, I would pay for exactly such an article that makes Islamo-Fascists look like people lost in an airport. Harmless and clueless.
The photograph shown is of Bajrang Dal, but the title and story are for BJP. Imagine if news articles started showing Maoist gunmen for all leftist parties. And that’s one reason why I don’t trust Mr. Ketkar’s articles. He may have a point, but he lets his biases clour his journalism.
So says the political appointee of the congress who was rewarded with RS membership. Tax paying classes do not get benefits be it roads or infrastructure, by doing reservation for many minorities and others congress only gave political doles for vote banks this was the reason for middle class to abandon the congress, unfortanately for India BJP is continuing with same reservations for vote bank politics
In any society, the middle class is the custodian of its values, plays an important role in its public affairs, including the media. One is not sure that the middle class supports religious polarisation, violence against minorities, turning one’s face away from modernity, intellect and excellence. It is also aspirational and deeply interwoven with the health of the economy.
While you are not completely wrong about middle class apathy towards political development in the country, you have totally forgotten to write about political apathy towards middle class and their aspirations.
(Tax paying ) Middle class today is smart enough to understand (and not understand) what is noise vs. real issue. As you rightly said – all of these were always part of our DNA. Both journalist and politician do not like (at least publicly) to say good things about good food – our culture/language/food/literature is languishing somewhere. This is because whole generation of politician (like people who runs BMC) didn’t let us evolve – anyone born in this century aspirationally only wants to speak English, only wants to eat/dress like westerner. For how long do you want to talk about Nehru and Gandhi only, why not talk about Birla, Murthy, Bansal (these are being discussed today in the Khan Markets restaurants).
Since politician make policies only for poor (not for Mumbai or UP or India), middle class is leaving this country at increasing rate – I am worried about my country (about corruption, about lack of jobs, about mob lynching) and I proud of eating at fancy places. You continue to eat in stinking ‘Galli’ because that’s what is prescribed for non-middle-class by vote grabbing political parties and embedded journalists.
Kumar Ketkar Saheb has driven us to historical facts. He is right that the liberals have lost space in the present scenario of politics and Left are left with confusions with whom to travel. I visualize anti-Hindutva I.e RSS will come together to save India, it’s democracy &Sovereignity.