The PM is keen to show India as the ‘mother of democracy’, but this is one of the most undemocratic periods in its history, says the journalist Rana Ayyub
Mother ??
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As foreign delegates across the world travelled to India to meet their counterparts in the run-up to the G20 summit, calls for a social and economic boycott of Muslims were made in Gurgaon, the satellite city of Delhi, by far-right Hindu nationalist organisations.
Earlier this year, dozens of rallies took place across the state of Maharashtra, attended by leaders from Modi’s BJP, demanding laws against inter-religious marriages.
Modi has praised and defended two films that have been criticised as deeply Islamophobic, The Kashmir Files and The Kerala Story, in his election rallies.
Controversially, local police also charged a Muslim journalist, Mohammed Zubair, for allegedly disclosing the child’s identity by sharing the video online.
The Wall Street Journal reporter who had posed the question to the prime minister was brutally trolled on the internet by the Indian right wing and shamed for her Muslim-ness, forcing the White House to issue a statement in solidarity with the journalist.
In the week of the G20 summit, when India needs to project itself as an inclusive plural democracy, the discussions are now focused on renaming it “Bharat”, to allegedly break free of colonial chains.
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Why do you call posting news articles on news zines as spam?
It is annoying seeing the exact same story appear in your feed 10 times.
Is there a way to cross-post to different zines?
Not that I know of, which is annoying.
To be clear, it’s not your fault that discussion of news is spread across multiple magazines, but that doesn’t change the fact that many of us end up seeing the same story 10 times rather than having it posted on one single large magazine/community.
If this was a frivolous issue, I’d be content with posting on one zine and calling it done. But this is an important topic and concerns the future of 1.4 billion people. It also concerns the erosion of democracy and the rise of fascism, all global issues,
Every news zine has a different reach and audience. Some of the audience overlap, but most don’t. I can’t suggest that people stop subscribing to multiple zines, neither can I cross-post. So what other option do I have to posting on multiple zines?
You don’t. It’s not your fault. You should be able to post it in multiple magazines/instances.
It’s due to the nature of the fediverse that some of us get to see the same story multiple times.
Thank you.
Then maybe - and I know this sounds radical - just downvote and scroll past it.
Sure penalise me for the way the fediverse is structured.
That’s not exactly fair either. OP isn’t breaking any rules by posting it on multiple instances.
The problem is the fediverse not allowing crossposting and not having large coalesced magazines(?)/communities yet.
Modi is very dangerous.
He is a megalomaniac fascist who is creating corporate monopolies and using Hindu supremacists to gain power.
This is one of the very few times I would say “both sides” in this conflict are absolute garbage people with no place in modern society. The only other time I can think of is the Israel-Palestine kerfuffle.
can you explain what you mean by “both sides” in this conflict?
Insane violent cultists vs. insane violent cultists.
can you please name both the sides as well?
We should be careful about bothsidism. The Muslims who suffer racist violence in India are rarely violent cultists. They are everyday people trying to live their lives and look after their families. Just like us.
Given the brutalities, hatespeech, and religious persecution Indian Muslims and Indian Christians have been suffering quietly without support from either democratic developed countries or Islamic countries, India’s religious minorities are the most patient and secular communities in India.
I trust that you mean Hamas, not Palestinians in general?
Hey, nice comment history. Are you okay?
