While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
People seem to have forgotten that China is still a communist nation with state-controlled media and severe repercussions for whoever dissents. Their people pretty much have no rights. Also, the severely negative sex ratio, high levels of corruption and class disparity faced by its society. The horrors of the one-child policy are still very much alive in the memories of millions of Chinese families which lead to millions of children growing up in orphanages. Not to mention the brutal treatment of the Uighur Muslims. The memory of the people is certainly short-lived.
Political theorist, John Dunn, is recently quoted to have observed that India’s is ““the most surprising democracy there has ever been.” Characterized by daunting poverty, sustained relative peace amid diversity, and the persistence of regular elections despite abuses of power, the democracy is not structured to deliver, the most stinging evidence being that the country has remained “home to world poverty” ever since its birth in 1947. The latest “surprise” has been that PM Modi promised Achchhe Din and massive job opportunities in 2014 election but ended up adding to the penury of India’s poor and middle class. Then, he goes to win even a bigger majority in 2019 by staging a firefight with Pakistan, and now subjects the country to the most divisive of measures such as CAA, NRC, NPR, and tampering with Kashmir autonomy, while none of them should have been the priority in the face of the persistence of daunting poverty, steady economic slowdown and mounting joblessness. While India must seek its future in Asia, it has done everything in its power to alienate the emergent economic powerhouse, China that could have been of massive help for rebuilding India economically. In short, unless India redefines and restructures its democracy to make it more responsive to the needs of the people and its leadership genuinely accountable to the electors, the country would continue to be “the most surprising democracy” at the world stage.
Your sentiment is appreciated but your figures are incorrect.
Nowadays Nigeria has the largest amount of poor people in the world. And India’s total population is more than 5 times Nigeria’s.
Speaks volumes about the progress India has made. But yes a lot more needs to be done to truly make India a world power.
The policies the author suggests are not what China did. It did mercantalism. Outside firms were only invited in if they were going to allow technology transfer, as a general rule.
Do what they did, not what you’ve been taught, but what actually works. (It also worked for Japan.)
Good article by the author. I’m generally a supporter of Modi, but have been concerned about lack of economic growth in India. Let’s hope GST and IBC start to have positive impact on the economy soon. One thing we need to realize about India is that it is hard to implement major reforms. It is a very complex environment. So anyone who rolls out these initiatives, will face these obstacles.
I do not really agree with the author that social reforms should wait while we carry out economic reforms. However, implementing these will also cause major headaches. The Government should decide carefully, how much social reform to push as implementation of these will also be a challenge and could negatively impact the economy (as the author points out). Would like to see more focus on reviving the economy. Also would like to see the Government take feedback from the country on its social agenda so that the economy is not negatively impacted.
Don’t make the mistake of comparing Chinese model of economy with India. It is an authoritarian country and can implement any plan without regard to public opinion. China has ruined its environment as a price for rapid economic growth and now paying price by way of polluted rivers, polluted air, unhygienic living conditions.
Another brainwashed leftist, spreading the same canards as done by other comrades. Never go by the names of these comrades, they are full of hate towards anything remotely Indian, Hindu & Traditional. These same people, when they get depressed practice ‘mindfulness’, they are too ashamed to call it meditation. These people have immense love for Islamic atrocities, Islamic Terror & they call most terrorists with sympathetic names like ‘Headmaster’s Son’. But, they refer to Indian army & Indian Martyrs as ‘oppressors’. They will celebrate China’s growth, but never talk about the immense suffering, atrocities that China has heaped upon its population. You will never find them speaking about China’s treatment of its Muslim population. These people look in India for non-existent concentration camps, but never criticise Chinese detention camps. They find intolerance in India, they find indian EVM’s faulty. But, they never mind the theocracy & lack of democracy in China. A brutal extermination of Hindus from Kashmir is projected as ‘rightful anger of poor towards prosperous pandits’, but invasion of india by economic insurgents is celebrated as a symbol of democracy by these ‘intellectuals’. When an Indian leader, a man born to a poor mother who washed utensils in other’s homes, a man from a backward caste, rises to the top of the political landscape & dwarves the demigods that these leftists worshipped for decades, these people cannot digest this phenomenon. They find excuses, spread canards, spread intellectual terror, use social media for spreading violence. But their opponent emerges stronger after each of their devious schemes. Now, in their complete helplessness they get together and write a dime a dozen such falsehood spreading articles, which only no one reads except maybe a few stupid people like myself, with perhaps too much time on their hands! At the end of the day, Modi is everything that You were afraid of and he will demolish the underground tunnel systems of Naxalism, Terrorism, Appeasement & Votebank polictics built by You. For You, the worst is yet to come.
if the author of this article was based in India, she’d already be dead in the hands of a jobless hindu fanatic. women or minorities are not safe in India.
You mean jobless “Islamic terrorist”. Hindus are having jobs more than muslims, they contribute and work , not busy like you in 5 times arabic prayer drama. If India gets rid of 19 cr or whatever number of people with Arabic followers, we would work better similar to what China did
you are spreading these canards & lies. You look very safe to me! We dont kill liars in india. We just counter their lies by truth. Thats what they hate most.
Dil se garib, stop proviking unnecessarily.!
Another NRI pseudo liberal calling herself a researcher, does not live in India or China, and conveniently forgets that the very same criticisms she makes about the Modi government [except for headline which is true, of course, but is a necessity for democratic elections to work unlike that of China], which has been going on for 6 years has been happening in China for the past 60 years.
Let me make a point by point rebuttal:-
1. GDP Growth – China’s economic figures are always suspect in the eyes of the world and China calculated GDP provincially and in a piecemeal manner unlike the centralised, uniform, international accounting standards followed in India.
2. Corruption – China has the luxury to allow excessive corruption to boost growth and then making a turnaround and summarily executing several government officials within a period of 1 year for corruption
3. Religious persecution – Author seems to have forgotten that Chinese do not have the right to religious freedom & the persecution of UIGHURS including the sale of their organs in the Chinese organ donation market which is a big medical tourism business there. If India or the US were allowed to conduct such a business, imagine the earnings. We are atleast not selling the organs of our minors on an industrial scale to foreigners.
4. Sedition – Let us say our sedition law is of the colonial era but where does the Chinese law come from. Even if modern, does anyone have the guts to say the same things in China? How many artists & intellectuals have been in jail for decades without trial in China? Can the author name one person in India who has been denied judicial trial with full public disclosure and complete media coverage?
There are many more points but I understand that the American University system is just as shitty if someone like you is called a researcher when you lack complete objectively. Reviewers on youtube of cars etc have far more objectivity in India and yet, they do not call themselves researchers.
TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE PRINT – Sir, could your editorial board atleast please vet your articles for objective presentation rather than going by the fancy titles from American & British Universities of NON RELIABLE INDIANS?
Why bother about rise or fall of others. We should focus on our economic problems instead of turning Nelson’s èye to them.
Completely agree to you Dr. Mahesh. ..
Amen. You said it. Sadly, the lesson is still lost on India. Current boast is since 1 AD, India was the super power for 75% of the time until 259 years ago !!!,
Did the author mean to say social “engineering” instead of social “reengineering”? There is no doubt that Modi’s second term is putting “society and culture” above Economy and law & order, but “reengineering” implies the previous regimes also indulged in engineering. So is this a simple case of the wrong word or is the author unwittingly holding the previous regimes too to account?
At a broad level, the statement that China built its economy and military power before announcing itself as world power (though it ignores the dark period of cultural revolution), along with the fact that India is still mired in social engineering rather than building a strong economy is fine. Rest of the article is however, usual rant of a left liberal sickular. However, what Modi has failed to do is to initiate basic structural reforms to get economy out of the quagmires of Nehru Indira socialist days and deeply obstructive role of bureaucrats in economic matters. He can do this even while going ahead with his outreach to poor under various schemes. That Modi has finished most of the contentious issues of India polity is a fact and there is no going back ever in future on Art 370, Ram Mandir, Triple Talaq, UCC, reservation for general category, consolidation of Hindu castes versus minority appeasement, CAA and NRC etc or even how to deal with Pakistan. Having achieved this new normal, the next milestone has to be India’s economic rise, which should be his real legacy. There is a hardly any point in debating on numbers like GDP growth rate, unemployment rate or inflation etc; as they will keep moving up and down due to many factors temporally, Modi or no Modi. What is fundamental is that Modi must re-architecture the framework of economic management and in this task which at this time the country expects from him, he has so far failed.
Very true. There is not much hope left for this country. There will be no progress. Most parties are not convinced about economic reforms. For 29 years, no major effort was made to sell reforms to the people. Instead what was done was by stealth. Reforms by stealth have run their course.
Indians just talk too much with no effort or desire to make long term changes. India is not on its way to become a great power. Political parties are just stoking people’s egos by talking big. The Govt is not making the needed investments in education, healthcare, infrastructure, maintenance of law & order, and defence to build up state capacity. The less said about science & technology, the better. Apart from making some investments in ISRO for showboating, there is complete neglect…. even in agriculture which affects nearly half the population.
The overall picture of India looks quite bleak because after this demagogue, his best pal will take over. He doesn’t inspire much confidence either given his track record. Just as hundreds of successful entrepreneurs have voted with their feet and already moved their base abroad, abandon ship!
Excellent article, as a Muslim son of Indian parents, i couldn’t agree more. India is a nation that is known for bigmouths and no results. Its infrastructure, economy, military, academics, sports, foreign service and every other measure trail China but it still imagines itself a major power while being a large Bangladesh basically.
Hindu nationalists are the worst and are most blind to India’s foibles. Modi is their even more blind leader!
China is kicking your religion out, they solved their social problem first then moved for addressing economic problem and now India is doing the same. I know that is why it is hurting you.
China treats Muslim Uighurs very different from Han Chinese Muslims who have halal restaurants, mosques, preachers. Plus they treat all religions poorly. But India only mistreats Islam!
Note China provides MuslimPakistan with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons to hit Indian Hindus. They can’t hate Muslims that much if it ensures the survival of 200 million Muslims!
People seem to have forgotten that China is still a communist nation with state-controlled media and severe repercussions for whoever dissents. Their people pretty much have no rights. Also, the severely negative sex ratio, high levels of corruption and class disparity faced by its society. The horrors of the one-child policy are still very much alive in the memories of millions of Chinese families which lead to millions of children growing up in orphanages. Not to mention the brutal treatment of the Uighur Muslims. The memory of the people is certainly short-lived.
Political theorist, John Dunn, is recently quoted to have observed that India’s is ““the most surprising democracy there has ever been.” Characterized by daunting poverty, sustained relative peace amid diversity, and the persistence of regular elections despite abuses of power, the democracy is not structured to deliver, the most stinging evidence being that the country has remained “home to world poverty” ever since its birth in 1947. The latest “surprise” has been that PM Modi promised Achchhe Din and massive job opportunities in 2014 election but ended up adding to the penury of India’s poor and middle class. Then, he goes to win even a bigger majority in 2019 by staging a firefight with Pakistan, and now subjects the country to the most divisive of measures such as CAA, NRC, NPR, and tampering with Kashmir autonomy, while none of them should have been the priority in the face of the persistence of daunting poverty, steady economic slowdown and mounting joblessness. While India must seek its future in Asia, it has done everything in its power to alienate the emergent economic powerhouse, China that could have been of massive help for rebuilding India economically. In short, unless India redefines and restructures its democracy to make it more responsive to the needs of the people and its leadership genuinely accountable to the electors, the country would continue to be “the most surprising democracy” at the world stage.
Your sentiment is appreciated but your figures are incorrect.
Nowadays Nigeria has the largest amount of poor people in the world. And India’s total population is more than 5 times Nigeria’s.
Speaks volumes about the progress India has made. But yes a lot more needs to be done to truly make India a world power.
The policies the author suggests are not what China did. It did mercantalism. Outside firms were only invited in if they were going to allow technology transfer, as a general rule.
Do what they did, not what you’ve been taught, but what actually works. (It also worked for Japan.)
Good article by the author. I’m generally a supporter of Modi, but have been concerned about lack of economic growth in India. Let’s hope GST and IBC start to have positive impact on the economy soon. One thing we need to realize about India is that it is hard to implement major reforms. It is a very complex environment. So anyone who rolls out these initiatives, will face these obstacles.
I do not really agree with the author that social reforms should wait while we carry out economic reforms. However, implementing these will also cause major headaches. The Government should decide carefully, how much social reform to push as implementation of these will also be a challenge and could negatively impact the economy (as the author points out). Would like to see more focus on reviving the economy. Also would like to see the Government take feedback from the country on its social agenda so that the economy is not negatively impacted.
Don’t make the mistake of comparing Chinese model of economy with India. It is an authoritarian country and can implement any plan without regard to public opinion. China has ruined its environment as a price for rapid economic growth and now paying price by way of polluted rivers, polluted air, unhygienic living conditions.
We have the same polluted air and water and none of the per capita GDP. Think before commenting
And Indian rivers and air are the cleanest in the world…
China did their asat test in 2007, when their economy was the size ours is today.
Another brainwashed leftist, spreading the same canards as done by other comrades. Never go by the names of these comrades, they are full of hate towards anything remotely Indian, Hindu & Traditional. These same people, when they get depressed practice ‘mindfulness’, they are too ashamed to call it meditation. These people have immense love for Islamic atrocities, Islamic Terror & they call most terrorists with sympathetic names like ‘Headmaster’s Son’. But, they refer to Indian army & Indian Martyrs as ‘oppressors’. They will celebrate China’s growth, but never talk about the immense suffering, atrocities that China has heaped upon its population. You will never find them speaking about China’s treatment of its Muslim population. These people look in India for non-existent concentration camps, but never criticise Chinese detention camps. They find intolerance in India, they find indian EVM’s faulty. But, they never mind the theocracy & lack of democracy in China. A brutal extermination of Hindus from Kashmir is projected as ‘rightful anger of poor towards prosperous pandits’, but invasion of india by economic insurgents is celebrated as a symbol of democracy by these ‘intellectuals’. When an Indian leader, a man born to a poor mother who washed utensils in other’s homes, a man from a backward caste, rises to the top of the political landscape & dwarves the demigods that these leftists worshipped for decades, these people cannot digest this phenomenon. They find excuses, spread canards, spread intellectual terror, use social media for spreading violence. But their opponent emerges stronger after each of their devious schemes. Now, in their complete helplessness they get together and write a dime a dozen such falsehood spreading articles, which only no one reads except maybe a few stupid people like myself, with perhaps too much time on their hands! At the end of the day, Modi is everything that You were afraid of and he will demolish the underground tunnel systems of Naxalism, Terrorism, Appeasement & Votebank polictics built by You. For You, the worst is yet to come.
if the author of this article was based in India, she’d already be dead in the hands of a jobless hindu fanatic. women or minorities are not safe in India.
You mean jobless “Islamic terrorist”. Hindus are having jobs more than muslims, they contribute and work , not busy like you in 5 times arabic prayer drama. If India gets rid of 19 cr or whatever number of people with Arabic followers, we would work better similar to what China did
you are spreading these canards & lies. You look very safe to me! We dont kill liars in india. We just counter their lies by truth. Thats what they hate most.
Dil se garib, stop proviking unnecessarily.!
Another NRI pseudo liberal calling herself a researcher, does not live in India or China, and conveniently forgets that the very same criticisms she makes about the Modi government [except for headline which is true, of course, but is a necessity for democratic elections to work unlike that of China], which has been going on for 6 years has been happening in China for the past 60 years.
Let me make a point by point rebuttal:-
1. GDP Growth – China’s economic figures are always suspect in the eyes of the world and China calculated GDP provincially and in a piecemeal manner unlike the centralised, uniform, international accounting standards followed in India.
2. Corruption – China has the luxury to allow excessive corruption to boost growth and then making a turnaround and summarily executing several government officials within a period of 1 year for corruption
3. Religious persecution – Author seems to have forgotten that Chinese do not have the right to religious freedom & the persecution of UIGHURS including the sale of their organs in the Chinese organ donation market which is a big medical tourism business there. If India or the US were allowed to conduct such a business, imagine the earnings. We are atleast not selling the organs of our minors on an industrial scale to foreigners.
4. Sedition – Let us say our sedition law is of the colonial era but where does the Chinese law come from. Even if modern, does anyone have the guts to say the same things in China? How many artists & intellectuals have been in jail for decades without trial in China? Can the author name one person in India who has been denied judicial trial with full public disclosure and complete media coverage?
There are many more points but I understand that the American University system is just as shitty if someone like you is called a researcher when you lack complete objectively. Reviewers on youtube of cars etc have far more objectivity in India and yet, they do not call themselves researchers.
TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE PRINT – Sir, could your editorial board atleast please vet your articles for objective presentation rather than going by the fancy titles from American & British Universities of NON RELIABLE INDIANS?
Why bother about rise or fall of others. We should focus on our economic problems instead of turning Nelson’s èye to them.
Completely agree to you Dr. Mahesh. ..
Amen. You said it. Sadly, the lesson is still lost on India. Current boast is since 1 AD, India was the super power for 75% of the time until 259 years ago !!!,
Did the author mean to say social “engineering” instead of social “reengineering”? There is no doubt that Modi’s second term is putting “society and culture” above Economy and law & order, but “reengineering” implies the previous regimes also indulged in engineering. So is this a simple case of the wrong word or is the author unwittingly holding the previous regimes too to account?
At a broad level, the statement that China built its economy and military power before announcing itself as world power (though it ignores the dark period of cultural revolution), along with the fact that India is still mired in social engineering rather than building a strong economy is fine. Rest of the article is however, usual rant of a left liberal sickular. However, what Modi has failed to do is to initiate basic structural reforms to get economy out of the quagmires of Nehru Indira socialist days and deeply obstructive role of bureaucrats in economic matters. He can do this even while going ahead with his outreach to poor under various schemes. That Modi has finished most of the contentious issues of India polity is a fact and there is no going back ever in future on Art 370, Ram Mandir, Triple Talaq, UCC, reservation for general category, consolidation of Hindu castes versus minority appeasement, CAA and NRC etc or even how to deal with Pakistan. Having achieved this new normal, the next milestone has to be India’s economic rise, which should be his real legacy. There is a hardly any point in debating on numbers like GDP growth rate, unemployment rate or inflation etc; as they will keep moving up and down due to many factors temporally, Modi or no Modi. What is fundamental is that Modi must re-architecture the framework of economic management and in this task which at this time the country expects from him, he has so far failed.
Very true. There is not much hope left for this country. There will be no progress. Most parties are not convinced about economic reforms. For 29 years, no major effort was made to sell reforms to the people. Instead what was done was by stealth. Reforms by stealth have run their course.
Indians just talk too much with no effort or desire to make long term changes. India is not on its way to become a great power. Political parties are just stoking people’s egos by talking big. The Govt is not making the needed investments in education, healthcare, infrastructure, maintenance of law & order, and defence to build up state capacity. The less said about science & technology, the better. Apart from making some investments in ISRO for showboating, there is complete neglect…. even in agriculture which affects nearly half the population.
The overall picture of India looks quite bleak because after this demagogue, his best pal will take over. He doesn’t inspire much confidence either given his track record. Just as hundreds of successful entrepreneurs have voted with their feet and already moved their base abroad, abandon ship!
Beautifully summarised article.
Excellent article, as a Muslim son of Indian parents, i couldn’t agree more. India is a nation that is known for bigmouths and no results. Its infrastructure, economy, military, academics, sports, foreign service and every other measure trail China but it still imagines itself a major power while being a large Bangladesh basically.
Hindu nationalists are the worst and are most blind to India’s foibles. Modi is their even more blind leader!
China is kicking your religion out, they solved their social problem first then moved for addressing economic problem and now India is doing the same. I know that is why it is hurting you.
China treats Muslim Uighurs very different from Han Chinese Muslims who have halal restaurants, mosques, preachers. Plus they treat all religions poorly. But India only mistreats Islam!
Note China provides MuslimPakistan with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons to hit Indian Hindus. They can’t hate Muslims that much if it ensures the survival of 200 million Muslims!