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Kaun jaat ho and Christian missionaries

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Kaun jaat ho and Christian missionaries

One fine morning I was scrolling through my Facebook posts suddenly I tumble upon a post from a Facebook friend that I know, he shared a post of praising Jesus with some quotes from Bible, for a second I thought he had shared it like other ignorant Hindus do, while saying “Sab Dhram Barabar Hai” as they don’t know the difference between ‘Majhab’ and “Dharm”. After that I start digging more and found out that such posts are shared by him regularly. Two days later I got to meet him and asked him about this (he was a practicing Hindu bearing Tilak on forehead and swarn by jaat), he simply replied he had left Hindu Dharm and he was now a devotee of Jesus, they cured his allergy and promised him that my wife will deliver a son. I asked him who he followed- catholic, orthodox or protestant. He said he didn’t know. I asked who took him there and he replied, a chemist (kabirpanthi by jaat). Then I interacted with that chemist and asked why he converted.

Here comes the “kaun jaat ho” effect, he was a Dalit by caste and someone told him that he didn’t belong to these upper caste people’s Dharm. Swarn tortured his people and exploited them. I tried to make him understand that he belonged to Hindu Dharm and about the Varna system, but all in vain.

After that I got interested to study the situations that led to conversion. I started studying about birth of Christianity and how they spread the “faith or Majhab”. After research I found out that this faith conquers territory or people with force and military rules in the older times, now they use foreign funding, fraud and forced conversion in distant places. Normally we say that the Islam’s empire is drawn with the blood of kafirs, but we mostly don’t know that Christian empires are also built on rivers of blood and corpses of non believers. They destroyed many great civilizations like Yunnani, roman and Mayan civilizations. Let’s look at some examples. First we start with America. Columbus started sailing for Bharat instead reached America and the people found there are called red Indians, the natives of that land, in today’s America no red indians are found. Where did they go? They were ethnically cleansed by these Christian missionaries, the number of people killed is approx 80 lakh.

Next comes the Latin american countries , here the number of people killed could be upto 8 Crore. Many Vatican popes have asked for forgiveness for atrocities done on these people. This shows they have done it and they know it. Next comes the Africa here the number could be 5 Crore, here people are enslaved, sold, murdered and raped. Next comes Europe it is said that Hitler hate Jews and gypsys and killed them in large numbers. The reason is, the Christian missionaries believe that Jews had hand in the killing of Jesus, and in the service of Christianity Hitler killed them. Hence it is proved that Christianity is not a religion of peace and love. Why we need to assert that because they say u will get peace once u got under the umbrella of Christianity, what kind of peace is that? Next example is of witch hunting that was prevalent throughout Europe and other places and lasted over 300 years killing upto 2 lakh women (i.e from 1450 to 1750).

Now come to the point how they came to Bharat and started their atrocities in Bharat. First they came to Bharat as Syrian Christian refugee seeking refuge as they were hunted down by fellow Christians, they landed up in Malabar and they were given full freedom to practice their faith and first church was constructed by Hindu ruler of that time. This was our DNA, in May 1498 Vasco-Da-Gama came to conquer Bharat and spread Christianity followed by saint Xavier and his army in 1542 to convert more people and end up setting “THE GOA INQUISITION” that was a major tool for converting people and killing ones who do not. There is famous “HATKATRO KHAAMB” which was used during this period by so called saint to tie up people who do not convert and cut their hands, kill them for not converting. But none of the pope asked for forgiveness for atrocities done to us because Indian Christians consider them Christian first and Bhartiya second. For more please read the “NIYOGI COMMITTEE REPORT ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES “.

The atrocities done by them can go on for several pages. Now come to the part how can we stop them. After reading and listening to many scholars I came to the conclusion that it can be stopped by educating the society about “SVA DHARM” and the real history of “CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM”. The atrocities done by them to our ancestors and the new fraud technique of their’s, we say Islamist are cruel but these “RANGA SIYAR’S” are more dangerous, they wear “BHAGVA CLOTHES” with cross hanging around their neck, the sang Christian Bhajans, they lure you with money, they target the weaker sections of society, people with ailments, they even start saying that Jesus reincarnated as “VISHNU”. But Christianity doesn’t believe in reincarnation, they spread these frauds to lure you to convert. For a fact Christianity time moves in a straight line not in circular like ours, they say you take birth once and die once. Next comes the “JAATIVADI” structure. We need to stop this nonsense and make society a united place. There is no place for “JAAT” in today’s world and all “HINDUS” are same. Teach your children that and help society to eradicate this stupidity of caste-ism.

Lastly please teach people “DHARM “and its importance for their peaceful existence in this sub continent, otherwise your future generations will not forgive you with having option of death over conversion. Please spread and share this message, convey to every person u meet, if they knew they will think twice before converting.

Delhi’s government evil xenophobic intention behind sealing off its borders also exposes the indirect link with migrants crisis

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Delhi’s government evil xenophobic intention behind sealing off its borders also exposes the indirect link with migrants crisis

So I was listening to Mr. Arvind Kejriwal ji and was troubled to hear his reasons and intentions of closing the border. He thinks that it would be good for “people of Delhi” as the hospital beds will only be reserved for them.

I’m even open to the idea that “okay in this time of crisis, Delhi Government hospitals should be for people residing in delhi”

But hear me out and bear with me with this reasoning:

1) What about the hospitals under central government? Delhi has a few of the best central government hospitals only because Delhi is the capital of India

2) Since Delhi is a metropolitan city, and the national capital of India and has various other locational benefits, many private hospitals have invested there. Won’t this move affect them?

3) If someone has an ongoing treatment say, maintenance chemotherapy in a private hospital of Delhi like Apollo Hospitals, wouldn’t he get affected? Wouldn’t many other patients will be affected who needs immediate care in non-COVID treatment?

Sad part is, it’s not like he’s unaware of this. He even said in that interview that “People also suggested alternatively to just close Delhi government COVID hospitals for non residents of Delhi”. Still he is willing to seal the border.

People were crying about migrant crisis! Migrants are going to their home. Around 4-5 million people have left for their home states. Now won’t you think that denying them facilities, spreading rumours about buses at border were all aimed to lessen the burden of the states so that hospital beds are there for the people of the state because at the end of the day they are only going to vote for you!

If this is not xenophobic and stupid I don’t know what else is!

US – China cold war – How did it come to this

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US – China cold war – How did it come to this

Why Democratic US, Champion of free speech and markets, needed Autocratic, Communist China’s partnership:

Post 1945, after the end of WWII, USA had established clear economic and political dominion over the globe. Over next 20-25 years US economy saw a very stable and consistent average annual economic growth of 3%. This growth cycle lasted till mid 60s and brought unprecedented wealth and standard of living to American population. But towards the late 60s the US economy started entering stagnation. This is when the American corporations and economists realised that US economy had hit a major roadblock with the economic growth, which was saturation of workforce.

When the economy grows consistently, it provides employment to more and more people. As it further accumulates wealth and approaches full employment, the overall wage rates go up. This process improves the standard of living of the masses. But as the wage rates rise, the production cost of goods also rise which makes production less profitable. This fall in profitability leads to fall in new investments which leads to economic stagnation!

Capitalists in US didn’t like this situation one bit as they wanted their ‘profits’, or in wall street terms, ‘bottom-lines’ to expand infinitely!

Key economic problems that American capitalists and economists faced were:

  1. How to produce things cheaper in order to expand the profit margins with skyrocketing wage rates in USA
  2. Where to generate the demand from, with labour market in saturation, there were no new workers being employed in economy and this was leading to lack of growth in demand

To solve these two problems, American economists thought of an idea which they thought was brilliant! The idea was to ‘outsource’ the production of goods to underdeveloped countries where the wage rates were fractional compared to that of US, ship these finished goods back to USA and sell them to American consumers at heavily marked up prices. This boosted their profits multifold overnight with massive fall in production cost. They also hoped to sell American products to the new class of workers in the countries where American factories created employment through outsourcing, this meant new market for the American products leading to more ‘profits’! This idea was named as ‘Globalisation’ for marketing roadshows.

Why Communist China Shook hands with Capitalist US in the middle of cold war:

When American capitalists were cooking up this idea to grow a generation of billionaires through outsourcing, there was also a cold war heating up with Russia, then USSR. A key player in this cold war was communist China, as it was by Russia’s side. China was a large, highly populous nation with nuclear capabilities and it was important for US to befriend China in order to isolate Russia in cold war.

China was a very poor country then (mid 70s), messed up with the massacres of the ‘Cultural Revolution’ under Mao and decades of chaos caused by impractical communist experiments. The ambitious Chinese had realised the lack of pragmatism of communist ideals by then. They knew that a massive infusion of external capital and technologies were needed to create wealth and build their country.

This is when American politicians saw an ‘opportunity’ and shook hands with China. The deal was, China would distance itself from Russia in cold war in exchange for American capital and technology to start mass production.

It’s said in investment banking that ‘There’s always a winner and a loser to every deal’. But the Americans were so happy with their own brilliant political and economic engineering which on one hand helped defeat Russia in cold war and skyrocketed the corporate profits of American corporations on the other, that they didn’t even analysed the merits of this deal for decades! They even coined phrases such as ‘Chimerica’ to highlight the glory of their engineered partnership!

Inception of ‘Chimerica’ – An unnatural Communist – Capitalist partnership which lasted for more than 4 decades:

Chinese used their ultra long term, dispassionate (communists are not so fond of material wealth) communist vision to gauge the ultimate desire of Americans and they found that all that the Americans wanted was dirt cheap production to boost their profitability. If China fulfilled this one desire then were to gain;

  1. Massive American capital in investments along with cutting edge technology
  2. Large scale employment of Chinese labourers, with free American training which was developing Chinese human capital at mass
  3. Valuable foreign exchange, as all the goods manufactured were being exported back to west

After weighing the pros of the deal, the Chinese decided to go a step further to pamper the Americans and to minimise the cost of production. Tailor made policies were developed so that the Americans don’t hesitate to pour in greenback. Policies such as:

  1. Wage caps that limited the wages paid to different classes of workers. These wage caps were existing till late 2000s and were capping wages at rates lower than poorest South Asian countries including India.
  2. Chinese pioneered the concept of Special Economic Zones (SEZ). They designated large land parcels where any production made and exported was exempt from all taxes!
  3. China started investing a large portion of their trade surplus in US T bills. This was a cherry on the top as US loves leverage

On the other side of the pacific, this idea of shifting production to China was gaining a massive traction! All the American corporations lined up to shift their production to communist China. Hence producing their goods at literally fractional cost and overnight multiplying their ‘profitability’.

A very fitting example of is Apple and the rise of it’s current CEO Tim Cook. His rise in apple was credited to a major achievement when he shifted the entire production of Apple to China and hence multiplied profit margin. Also the reach of the brand in the market increased as Chinese excelled at producing massive volumes very cheap and fast. This gave Apple huge market at a massive profit margin which converted in their gigantic market cap, making them the first company to hit $ 1 Trillion in market cap.

Over the period of time, China started producing most of the goods consumed by the west, ranging across many and most of the industries and became THE backbone of the global supply chain.

Ultra long term Chinese Communist planning dominates short sighted Western Capitalist Democracies

This experiment started with west and US helping China overcome poverty by infusing massive capital and technology but within a decade, tables turned and the west became highly ‘dependent’ on China. What were these dependencies:

  1. Western corporations had developed a strong taste rather addiction for the profits resulting from cheap production in China
  2. There were no competitive alternatives to China for production as Chinese were offering dirt cheap production with SEZs, wage controls, etc.

China started leveraging this dependancy to unilaterally make changes to the rules of engagement for trade with west. This is when they started currency ‘manipulation’!

The bilateral trade is imbalanced when a country is exporting more to a certain trading partner than it’s imports from it. This phenomenon leads to appreciation of its currency compared to that of it’s trading partner. Normally, this appreciation in the currency acts as automatic stabiliser of trade to level out the imports and exports.

When China started mass production with American capital, their exports grew exponentially. At the same time, China heavily controlled imports from the western economies by levying heavy tariffs and duties. This resulted in huge trade surplus for China (Aka ‘trade deficit’ for the losing trading partner, which Trump generally cribs about). This setting should ideally result in ‘value’ of Chinese currency Yuan to rise. This rise in value of Yuan would in turn subsidise imports of western goods in China and detriment the export of Chinese goods to west till the Yuan loses its ‘value’ enough to level out the imports and exports with the west.

Communist China didn’t play fair as it knew that West won’t be able to withdraw it’s capital so easily even if it cheated! Hence they started ‘manipulating’ Yuan. Basically what they did was, they literally printed huge amount of Yuan to forcefully devalue their currency which was gaining value due to massive trade surplus with west! This way, they consistently ran trade surplus and yet kept up the graph of exports growing and graph of imports flat. Its like, ‘heads I win, tales you lose’!

Awakening in west to the reality of Chinese domination and expansion – Too few, Too late! 

The administration on the other side of Pacific was rather ignorant with all of this till Republicans ruled US till 2008 mess. Republicans were only concerned about the wall street valuations of American corporations and these valuations were bulging pretty well and consistently for decades. Valuations are a result of profits and profits in the books of accounts were exploding with cheap Chinese production.

First real initiatives was started by Obama right after he took over in 2009 to check China on currency manipulations! But to his surprise, a lot of big American corporations launched a massive lobbying effort in US against Obama’s move as they wanted to defend their profits! by keeping China in good books.

After Obama, Trump took over the baton of China bashing. Trump’s voters aren’t intellectuals like Obama’s voter to understand the complex economics of currency manipulations and the fallout of the same. Hence, Trump changed the key term from ‘Currency Manipulation’ to ‘Trade Deficit’ to drive his China bashing campaign. He’s been bashing for over 3 years now, very close to end of his term now and yet hasn’t got any tangible progress over China.

on the contrary, there’s a class of Elites in US which still lives in bubble. They advocate US is still;

  • The epicentre of the Financial activity
  • Has high tech research and patents over cutting edge technology
  • Has best of the universities which draw crowd from all across the world
  • Has the biggest and mightiest military in the world!

One thing that’s common amongst all these things is, they are intangible, fictitious assets. They are glorious when masses perceive them as valuable.

On the other hand, China has gained massive tangible strength over last few decades, they have grabbed massive wealth from the west riding on decades inflow of foreign investment, exports, trade surplus.

  • They are promoting evolution of Crypto currency which can pose a serious challenge to USD over which the whole western Financial order is built.
  • They have been leveraging the human capital trained by west for their own production, to imitate western technologies and launch their own products at much competitive prices. All the western patents are useless once Chinese imitate them.
  • They have built massive military capabilities. But given, even Kim Jong Un having nukes, military powers are to a great extent irrelevant. The real battle is of socio-economic domination. Just like Chinese, real utility of mighty American Military is highly limited too.
  • Since they are the production house for the entire world, they dominate consumption of commodities which drives many industries and natural resource rich countries in the world, hence they have gained a lot of geo-political and economic grip of the world.

Payback of Karma and way ahead..

What has actually happened is, Karma has played it’s full circle. It started with American greed for infinite corporate profits and extremely short sightedness of American politics (A president’s term lasts mere 4 years Vs. Chinese communist party has been in power since 1949).

These two combined led Democratic America, an advocate of free speech and markets to land in bed with Autocratic, communist China!

If we look back in time over last cold war, Russia never stood an actual chance over combined strength of the west. Although Russia tried hard to match the military strength of the west, it never had an economic and demographic strength to stand a chance against the combined free world of the west.

But China has all the things in abundance which Russia lacked, it’s the most populous country in the world with really hard working people. They are very well integrated in global supply chain with the whole world dependant over them for almost every consumable! They are the second biggest economy in GDP terms and the biggest economy in PPP terms, this gives them the monetary and demographic muscle which Russia lacked to back their massive expansionist ambitions. The west has created a much bigger, stronger monster in an effort to destroy one.

This whole situation of the Covid19 crisis, the Chinese origin of the virus, China hiding critical information about the virus, allowing it to spread across the world, followed by their effort to push national boundaries across the region with Hong Kong, Taiwan and India, these things strongly point that the Chinese link to the virus is not a coincidence. There seems to be a high probability of a foul-play. If China did actually resort to such tricks again (which they have history of playing), world is staring at a much more challenging future….

We need to wake up to the reality of the new cold war. We need to unite all the democracies and free markets based economies under one banner as this new enemy is mighty, highly competent and free of any moral baggage with a very long term planning and ambition!

Divided by colours

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Divided by colours

“What is it you most disliked? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstitions” – by Christopher Hitchens

It feels little demotivated and uncomfortable to write about any of the current events taking place across the world not because they are uncontrollable but occuring specifically in different spheres like earthquakes beneath the earth surface, continuous cyclones brewing over the ocean water all set to devastate the coastal cities. covid-19 which claimed more than 3 lakh lives as of now, and what is most disturbing among all these natural phenomenon is the human mindsets taking over a simple natural factor. Yes you assumed right I am writing about Racism.

The recent killing of George Floyd has sparked a downtrodden issue having the magnitude to affect the whole world both politically and emotionally. It generally was an extra straw which broke the camel’s back. To be little precise George Floyd was a black race African-American hailing from Houston who worked in Minneapolis, a city in one of the 50 states in USA, i.e., Minnesota. He was strangled to death by policeman kneeling over his neck for the activity which they thought of an offensive nature. He was arrested for suspectedly using counterfeited currency. His death has emboldened many faded and disappeared incidents of police brutalities against black race and brought them into public domain through various social media platforms all across the world which now attracting more and more people against police brutality as well as extending support towards marginalised black races.

Racism is a belief of discriminating people on the basis of their colour with the idea of establishing supremacy of one race over the other. Racism is not any new or recent emerged form of discrimination, it has been in existence from centuries ago. It was due to this sole facet that many of the historical events in globe directly or indirectly linked to it. Has anyone ever thought of a simple question as to why blacks are discriminated on many grounds despite having such an overwhelming majority of nothing less than 1.8 billion against the total population of the world which stands at 7.3 billion (sourced from many recent reports)?

Let me try to clarify this. In the pre colonisation era, Blacks basically based in Africa were less modernised but self-reliant, equipped with primitive tools but had large agricultural land and enough livestocks to feed themselves. All these were destroyed when colonisation took place in vast scale entailing almost Africa and many parts of Asia. Blacks were driven away to various plantations in USA and South American continent. Hence the grand childrens of these black slaves constitutes the 34 million population of blacks in USA. The other being native Americans,i.e, Indian American too had substantial amount of population but were reduced to minority from majority by the incessant intrusion and migration of Europeans which in USA are now known as White American. These migrants brought with them the cataclysm of ailments including the most perilous ‘spanish flue’ which took lives off almost millions of native Americans.

Racism as ideology

Ideology is nothing but the different direction which a person sets to walk in. Racism too took the shape of ideology in Hitler’s era. I wonder no one of my readers are unaware of Adolf Hitler’s tyrannys to Jews and the racist ideology prevailed across the Germany in 1950s. However, the kind of racism shaped in Germany was not of much differences in colour but in breeds and not completely but sporadically inspired by the racist ideology. Why Hitler killed millions of Jews. Was it out of threat or it is because he wanted to control Germany? The answer may be acquinant to many of the readers. It was out of that mindset or ideology which had always emphasised to establish the Nazis supremacy over the Jews.

Why did the death of Floyd became so outrageous and led people to streets??

This was not any new incident for black brutalities as thousands of blacks had been killed earlier by police directly of indirectly. One of the most infamous was the Death of Eric Garner in 2014 in New York by New York Police where he breathed his last with the words “I Can’t Breathe” “I Can’t Breathe”. There are innumerable cases like this happening daily in USA. Blacks could be heard saying that they are unable to breathe freely in their own country. The veracity in the fact in evident by the recent data accumulated by one of the leading newspaper which depicts that about 44 African-Americans per million are likely to be killed in police shootings against just 14 whites per million. They are 1.3 times likely to be unarmed compared to white people when they are killed by police. Only 2% of the police officers engaged in the killing get charged and are supposed to be faced with trial while 98% went acquitted.

Many reports reveals that neither African-American, i.e., Blacks in USA are socially active nor are they financially equipped. They do not have access to good medical health care facilities, equal opportunities in terms of employment, having very low income level with least basic facilities such as housing, etc. They stands no where in comparison with whites which has whopping financial benefits, good education and other basic amenities. However, silence too has its own limits and blacks taking their concerns to the streets makes it more clear. The atrocities by police have reached to the brims and now it would be nothing more cowardness than sitting at home. The last words of George Floyd reminds us of Eric Garner, both of their last words, i.e, “I can’t breathe” have become the symbol of freedom, truth, dignity to blacks and what encouraged them more is the attraction they pulled globally through social media amidst Covid-19 both emotionally and politically.

Aftermath

The situation is so grave that Donald trump had to stay in the White house bunker for more than an hour. Things have already been turned violent and may proceed to disrupt the nation more. Experts are seeing it as the peak point of polarisation and warned of bitter consequences as many hate groups like The base and Antifa are setting their foot in what they think as more opportune time. I will try to explain the polarisation in USA which, in my views has really reached its zenith, in my next work as situations in USA proceeds but would certainly say that USA Federal government must step in immediately in the matter without waiting for the right time to come or precisely without thinking about elections due in Nov this year where tough times awaiting Donald Trump and his team. Thousands of shops, malls are being plundered by protesters not alone in Mineopolis but in entire nation, agitations taking communal and polarised shape are happening daily and all this would choke the USA fight against Covid-19 which is the worst hit nation by pandemic in the world. At last what one could sense easily is that this matter is going to dominate whole elections as situations now are not favourable for Trump and his team and his top most priority as of now must be to resolve this matter at the earliest.

Is a polarized society bad?

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Is a polarized society bad?

During a politically charged discussion on my college WhatsApp group, a leftist friend recently accused the BJP and Modi of polarizing the Indian society. This isn’t the first time such an allegation has been made. I have heard it being repeated Ad nauseam by many leftist friends on several forums. Given that I take everything that my leftist friends say with a grain of salt, I couldn’t help but wonder why defamation of the term often comes only from the leftist circles and why the word receives such negative publicity. Now, I am in no way denying that we live in a politically polarized world but I am also not a hypocrite to allege that polarization only started after BJP’s landslide victory in the 2014 elections.

In India, like much of the world, both academia and media have always been fortresses of the left. With its drawbridge lowered only to let in people with similar views and deep, broad moats created to prevent people with divergent views from entering. For decades the Indian left with absolute impunity has taught and amplified its ideas and ideals, from the safety of these fortresses, often unchallenged. While both these institutions remain under the stranglehold of the left even today, with two consecutive wins of the BJP government, there certainly are some successful inroads being made and it is this breach of their heavily-guarded fortresses that has rattled the left. The problem for the left is not a polarized society, in fact it thrives on keeping the society polarized. Divisions between religions, ethnicity, race and economic statures is what has historically fuelled left’s rise and continues to ensure its sustenance. Left’s real problem is that now the divergent non-left views have both, a platform and a confident audience that is not scared to share and magnify its own ideas and ideals.

It is the emergence, platforming and increased influence of these divergent non-left ideas that left accuses of creating a polarized society. Left would prefer if debates and conversations on mainstream media, social media and even our society in general happened within the ideological confines created by the left. The moment these boundaries are violated, the left screams polarization. It then uses the negative publicity that the word receives to vilify its opponents and even calls for boycott and punishing of platforms that air these “polarizing” views. Disagreements on issues within the left ideology and among leftist ideologues are often dismissed as “difference of opinion”. The word polarization is reserved exclusively to demonize and cancel non-left ideas and people.

As someone who studied in a Christian/missionary school and lived in a household with my Sangh associated parents, I was raised in an environment with divergent views. Our dinner time conversations often morphed into debates revolving around politics with a healthy dose of religion thrown in as well. It was my upbringing amidst such divergent ideas where I got my first taste of living in what the left would call a “polarized environment”. The Indian society, due to the presence of competing and conflicting ideas, faiths and philosophies has always been polarized. It just so happens that the “other” voices that had systemically been subdued for decades have finally begun to find their bearings and now reverberate among the masses. It is the emergence and sometimes, mere existence of non-left voices that the left accuses of causing polarization.

A polarized society is not created. By the virtue of our differences, it just exists and there is nothing wrong with it. Left’s solution to rectifying polarization in our society is nothing but thwarting all non-left voices. We must remember that the left defines and demonizes the term polarization just so it can use it to bring down its ideological opponents.

Rohit Pagey

Hotelier by profession and a life-long learner of Religion and Food history & traditions.

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was right to call out rising intolerance

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Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was right to call out rising intolerance

Reports emanated that Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on 31st May, 2020, said there was growing intolerance in the society against the judiciary, especially being fueled through social media. Kaul said that judges were being accused for their decisions and the judicial institution was being damaged when the tendency to criticize crossed certain boundaries.

“Criticism of a viewpoint or a judgement is not a problem, but when imputations and grading start being made, I think we damage the very institution”, Justice Kaul said. “The unfortunate part is that in some of us, those who have been part of the institution itself, there is a problem of ‘after me the deluge’. Which is that since we [retired judges] are gone, everything is going wrong. I will say that itself is a danger.” 

Kaul made these remarks while addressing an online lecture – Freedom of Speech in times of Covid-19 – Fake News and Misinformation – organised by the MBA Academy, The Madras Bar Association.’

It was not a veiled remark but literally a direct one, which came after former Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B Lokur, in a recent article on The Wire, said that the apex court deserved an ‘F’ grade for the manner in which it handled the migrant crisis during the coronavirus pandemic. Kaul was part of the Supreme Court bench that on May 28 took suo motu cognisance of certain faults in government measures to help migrant workers.

Kaul added that “there is a tendency to be critical in a manner which crosses certain lines”. He said that members of the public, bar and judiciary should appreciate challenges of any system. “While criticism is always information that must come to us, I think some boundaries need to be maintained,” he said.

In a reference to social media, Kaul said that it was difficult to regulate the platform and doing so would harm freedom of speech. He said that while it was possible to hold the media accountable for their writings, this could not be said for social media.

The judge said that unnecessary and unverified WhatsApp forwards were contributing to the spread of fake news. “Fake news is more dangerous than coronavirus itself,” Kaul said. “Its ramifications are manifold.”

He added that intolerance had exceeded limits as people rush to courts if the opinion is contrary to theirs. “We are becoming increasingly intolerant of opinions that do not match ours and this is prevalent in all sections unfortunately,” Kaul said. “So people who hold opposing views may be called by each other as a ‘Modi Bhakt’ or an ‘Urban Naxal’ or other labels. What is perceived as the middle ground becomes the casualty.” Such a stinging response was long overdue.

We have also had the spectacle of 20 advocates  supposedly penning a missive to the highest judiciary, which it was ‘suggested’ was the trigger for the Supreme Court to take ‘suo motu’ proceedings. These gentlemen appropriated praise to themselves by themselves.

Of late, it is true that the attacks on the Judiciary have gotten direct and daunting. They are of the hit and run or shout and scoot variants. Particularly, on social media , it can be made anonymously, under cover of not darkness but broad daylight, as identities are suppressed.  The  brazenness on social media can be easily retweeted for convenience and letting it go viral. The sufferer is the institution, as we chip away at the edifice that took long, long years of blood, toil, tears and sweat to construct.

We had already seen a few select senior advocates’ open confrontation in public, in the wake of the Judge Loya case hearings. Direct not barbed innuendoes were launched . And then we had four Justices of the Supreme Court coming out to the lawns and accusing  the then Chief Justice Dipak Misra in being opaque and unfair in the allotment of portfolios as Master of the Roster. Matters got escalated to the level of an impeachment move which got quickly nixed in double quick time,  by the Vice-President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha M.Venkaih Naidu, thankfully.

And the extraordinary irony of it, is that these ‘libertarians’ formerly on the Bench and  the robed brethren in practice, have needled not any Judge. They have infuriated and anguished a Judge, whom they not so long ago called a darling and a leader of free speech. These ‘liberals’ praised Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul sky high, for his  twin verdicts- on the nongenarian painter M F Hussain and author Perumal Murgan, eight years apart, in time vintage.

It was on 8th May,2008, to be exact, that Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, sitting as Judge of the Delhi High wrote the ‘free speech classic’ as these libertarians christened it, upholding the artistic licence of the painter M F Hussain, affording him the peace of mind  to travel to india, amidst a litany of protests against alleged abuse of Hindu goddesses.

It was on 5th July,2016, that the self same Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, as then Chief Justice of Madras High Court, authored the judgment to free Perumal Murgan and his Madharogan novel, from the charge of being provocative, defamatory, prurient and not meant for public consumption and as being impacting law and order, by inciting community feelings et al. The learned Chief Justice came in for encomiums, reserved only for ‘liberal log’, as a protagonist for free speech  ‘who dealt a body blow to intolerance of the conservatives’. This from the very same libertarians, who are now facing the heat from  Justice Kaul’s comments.

Justice Kaul was being honest when he said what he said in the wake of rising ‘intolerance against judiciary’. Judiciary is far too important an institution. The Judges come and Judges go. But the institution goes on forever. Upon retirement, the Judges cannot assume a wisdom as if they were the repository of all knowledge, now out of office, and can grade the Judiciary, as  their whim commnded them. It is singularly unfortunate that a retired Justice was seen to be indulging in such a  gimmick which did not behove the status he occupied and the status he continues to occupy in Fiji Islands, mind you.

It is eminently understandable that there is a group of usual suspects in practice, who  take on the judiciary, as is their wont, as if they were the custodians or champions of free speech, wherever their fancy takes them to. They love the adoration of the liberal media and they themselves indulge in social media hectoring, to pat themselves on the back.

Justice Kaul’s comments were most timely, to call out their intolerance. Constructive criticism is most welcome. Questioning the opinions of the judges on the legal plane and calling the decisions out, on the intellectual matrix, is perfectly fine. But questioning the Judges  themselves or their motives and philosophies  on unjustified pretexts is not on. That is intolerance as Justice Kaul correctly labels them. The champions of free speech cannot challenge this premise, as it has come from a protagonist of free speech from the pulpit, by their own preferential and precedential standards.

The libertarians need to know free speech is not licence for hate speech. Our fundamental rights are not akin to First Amendment Rights, as in the US. There are reasonable restrictions and they have a purpose. Protecting the fair name of Judiciary as a branch of democracy is not the job of  Judges or Justices in office alone. It is the job of Judiciary, which comprises the Bar and Bench. And the Bench even after superannuation. Some members of the Bar and their hangers on, may not care, for all the commercial axes they have to grind, but We do, as citizens of a proud and iconic institution. The men and women who have held office, owe it to the nation and the institution, for the larger purpose, as the Constitution was given to us by We The People.


(Narasimhan Vijayaraghavan- Author is practising advocate in the Madras High Court)

Why Indian web series are not so Indian

Shwetank
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Why Indian web series are not so Indian

Since there is a surge in the viewership of OTT platforms, many people are spending their days and nights on them. Although there are a number of web series made by Indian creators for Indian viewers but you will always feel someone in the background who is cleverly trying to impose western culture in our nation through these series.

Needless to say that most of the web series currently streaming in India are nothing but uncensored and legal porn movies. If you are trapped in any liberal cage then you might say that “What’s wrong in it man, it’s creative liberty. If you don’t like all these things then you don’t watch it. Why do you want to suppress the voice of those creators?” Yes my friends you all are right. Also I say that web series are not the first creation which is serving nudity and vulgarity in India. Many movies have done it much before. But it’s for the first time that on such a large-scale common people of India are being shown characterless

Yes, these craps are doing nothing but exploiting the image of Indian men and women. In most of these web series you will see male characters as Casanova and female characters as sex addicts and uncultured, and the irony is that in many of such contents these characters do not belong to any elite class, they are very common Indian who wear traditional dresses, who are religious, who have families, in short many characters whom you respect in real life you will find them cheap and characterless in these digital platforms.

Many indian web series are insulting common Indian housewives by portraying these characters

Intentions of these modern and liberal creators can be understood. They know that most of their viewers are those who are too much obsessed with sexual fantasies. Such audience doesn’t care any values or morals in front of their desires. They are bored from porn and want something more dirty and realistic.

The creators know that if we will show those characters as sex symbols with whom their audience interacts daily in real life then it will help them to gain more traffic. So for their greed of money these web series creators are ready to exploit the image of Indians, destroy the innocence of our children and make the condition of our culture catastrophic. But the most important question that arises here is “Are you as an Indian ready to support them for your dirty desire or will you stand united against these money-minded perverts? “

Civilisation Struggle Series – Sexual Revolution

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Civilisation Struggle Series – Sexual Revolution

All sexual revolutionaries in the twentieth century have their spiritual roots in Marxism as it advocates that women were sexually oppressed by patriarchal society from the beginning of the advent of civilization and a mythical matriarchial society in the beginning which was usurped by men. The sexual revolution is not only affecting the vast majority of modern men and women but also the whole society. Now almost every government is toeing the line of this agenda.

As a part of world community and in the age of globalization we cannot remain unaffected by this and it shows when new generation openly embrace it and liberals have huge role in this and no traditionalists had say in this makes it worrisome. The new generation have distanced themselves from traditional institutions such as family and marriage and undermine Hindu Scriptures and has habit of putting constitution above all in every aspect of their life. They demand co- education and cohabitation. They used the increased access to education, consumption and free time and sought to organise their own lives instead of being guided by institutions of the past (Elders , Ancestral customs, Gurus & Shastra).

Sexual revolution supporters  want their own utopia so that they can topple the prevailing traditional societal order. Now coming to what consists of sexual revolution I have summarized it in 4 points as listed below.

1.       Feminism
2.       Pornography
3.       Music
4.       Homosexual movement

1.      Feminism

Feminism has liberated women from the slavery of their fertility, thus freeing them for personal and professional opportunities they could not have enjoyed before. It has liberated men, too from their former chains, many would argue the bondage of having to take responsibility for the women they had sex with.

Feminist logic on this is: because women were oppressed by men, women must deny their feminine identity to enjoy the same privileges as men. The time had come for women to break free of the shackles of patriarchal oppression, flee the slavery of motherhood, fulfill themselves in careers, and indulge themselves in “liberated sexuality.” For that, contraception and abortion were indispensable.

The radical feminist agenda had been established:
– Rejection of sexual morality
– Rejection of marriage, motherhood, and family,
– Abortion as a woman’s “human right,” the career woman as the only role model and projection of housewives being  burden
-A power struggle against men.

Women began to rebel against traditional diktats, partly because social conditions had changed through advent of industrialization and communism influence. They wanted a war between the sexes and separation of sexuality from motherhood. They wanted political rights, the right to education, and better social conditions. In the western world, these demands have largely been met and in Indian society this has been seeping in slowly through social media, western sisterhood and feminist pushing for equal rights in everything. Equal rights which would benefit men and prove disadvantageous to women. Women were to work in production and no longer for their husbands and children at home.This was eliminating the woman’s role as the informal ruler of their family.

The great overthrow of the traditional role of women finally breathed it last through legalization of contraception and abortion.

Feminism hadn’t been about equal rights for a long time. The goal was renunciation of heterosexuality and the destruction of the family and marriage. Social structures that cannot exist without the union of man and woman in marriage will lead to downfall of our oldest civilization on earth. Descrecation of marriages in society is already trending with youth acceptance of live in relationship and pre marital sex. Whereupon young girls are waylaid to jumps from one relationship immediately into another one.

This sexual liberation is empowering for both men and women without the benefits of marriage and this poses a threat to the social structure established in our society. This will lead to fall of moralistic attitude and decline in marriage and family (the strongest pillar of a strong civilization)

A person rooted in religion and family is hard to manipulate. First the moral bond to belief in God and the social bond to the family must be broken if people are to be manipulated into  deviancy and degeneration. Once the views and behavior of the masses had been altered in this way, the global cultural revolution could proceed unhindered. Traditionals have huge responsibility upon them but progressive and liberals throw them under bus for rejecting progressive and liberal ideas. Traditionals get shamed for practicing age old rituals of men wearing Janeu, Tilak, Vibhuti and Hindu women wearing Sindoor and Mangalsutra. I remember kids used to mock us when we wore Tilak or Kalawa on our hands. These are our Hindu symbolism which we wear with pride but repeated snubbing and sneering from fascist elements would makes this symbolism irrelevant in long run.

Sexualization blinds people and makes them unwilling to resist attacks on the fundamental pillars of society’s value system. Through determined manipulation of opinion and the sexualization of the entire society, the pressure on the dam of sexual law became stronger and stronger until, piece by piece, it began to give way.

-Divorce laws in India under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955,

-Same-sex marriages are not legally recognised in India nor are same-sex couples, in 2011, a Haryana court granted legal recognition to a same-sex marriage involving two women. Though section 377 has been decriminalised, there is no law in India which legally recognises a marriage between a couple of same-sex (We should be thankful in this case  as marriage is the only social construct which stops the elements from destroying Hindu society).

As radical minorities, feminists and homosexual activists played a central role in pushing the new ethic forward. In the name of freedom, new “rights” have been proclaimed and propagated to undermine religious traditions:

-the right to free love
-the right to contraception
-the right to abortion (“I have the right to control my own body!”)

The right to artificial fertilization (delaying pregnancy through various means of contraceptives and storing eggs and resorting to IVF treatments which only rich can afford. Middle class women have been feed the lies about their biological clock and that time can be stopped).

– The right to freely choose one’s sexual orientation (Children as young as 10 year olds are deciding their own genders and obstructing the natural orientation while parents oblige them).

– Rights of children against their parents (Rejection of ancestral customs to align with new trends like worshiping Abrahamics to prove to your friends that you are secular). Like following monolithic ideologies like liberalism, egalitarianism, secularism etc which has its roots in Christianity.

The term “freedom” is far away from truth and responsibility. People for few cheap moment of thrills give away their whole life and when they turn back nothing is left for them.

2. Pornography

The media sexualized the masses. Pornography is everywhere, and accessible to anyone of any age over the Internet. The child pornography market is booming industry and openly social media flaunts fan pages with explicit contents. Just saying Twitter has kids as young as 13 year can register and easily access the site and lured by paedophiles. Kids on social media unattended gets lured easily

A few decades ago, pornography was almost exclusively consumed by grown men. Boys are significantly more likely than girls to have friends who view online pornography. Pornography is saturating all of society, all classes, all professions, all age groups. Unlike food addictions or anorexia, pornography addiction is not visible on the addict himself.

The saturation point has reached a limit where everything is normalized. Girls sending nudes to random boys online is mark of saturation point where they fear no consequences and feel its liberating and sign of progressive mindset.  There is no stopping of this ripple effect in society. Recently a Hindu girl confessed that she was helping a Hindu girl “set up” with Muslim guy and apparently the girl happened to be teenager. Young girls are easy target for predators and its heartbreaking to see them fall prey on behest of some encouragement from other girls.

Research and data suggest that the habitual use of pornography can have a range of damaging effects on human beings of all ages and of both sexes, affecting their happiness, their productivity, their relationships with one another, and their functioning in society.

Those who start using pornography generally aren’t aware that looking at pornographic images can quickly lead to a clinical addiction. Its ‘Escapism’ from reality and loneliness and no support from family and friends.

We see young girls having no gumption to film themselves doing sexual acts online. Recent spurs of Onlyfan amongst every 16-17 year old girls is alarming. The phrases “Sex work is just another work” does round in every  social circle. This poses as threat not only to sex workers but also creates impression amongst school/college going young girls that they can get easy money without ‘doing anything’ and they also fall into this trap.

Pornography has gone from suppression to obsession. While 50 years ago, a kiss on the lips was all that was shown on screen, today we are bombarded all day with images of sexual activity that have just one purpose, to sexually stimulate the viewer and prompt them to buy products of all types.

3. Music

Music tends to have a strong impact and influences the mind, attitudes, and identity of adolescents every day. The trend in pop music from dissolution of sexual standards to satanic content. From what I see and hear the pop music industry propagating, disintegration of sexual standards was just a step in the moral destruction of youth. I watched what was modern a few years ago, and one can see that for decades popular music has become more and more sexualized. Now pedophilic allusions and promotion of degrading sexual practices—even rape—have become routine. In my opinion, there have never been so many negative influences among “mainstream’ artists. Musician and singers covertly use themes like usage of drugs, normalize prostitution, defend hedonist lifestyle.

Point in case being

1. Madonna overt sexual and Gothic lifestyle. The pop star controversial lifestyle is openly followed and defended by her fans.

2.The emerging cancel culture over artist asserting their personal views like Lil Nas who was viciously trolled for merely saying “Stop pretending there is no correlation between violence and slam. This cancel culture trend has became so much rage that artist prefer to be politically correct or else face industry and fans outrage. Though these are western artist, Indian kids lap it up and project their thoughts and ideas based on the current trends.

Male rappers degrade women into merely objects or tools to be used for sex and lyrics like ‘hoe’ or  ‘bitch’ that provide justification for engaging in acts that are violent or sexual against women. Females in hip-hop rappers like Eve, Lil Kim, Trina, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B– have tried to take back some of the ownership of women being sexually active. Over the years, studies have been performed to determine how exposure to rap music with misogynistic lyrics can cause a person to become sexually aggressive and violent to their significant other.

4. Homosexual movement

LGBT a miniscule population whose sexual tendencies deviate from those of the vast majority have succeeded in turning their interests into the dominant issue of the global cultural revolution. They have largely become a group whose sexuality has taken centerstage when there are whole lot of other issues right now world should focus on. This is serious, because fulfillment of these interests does not contribute to solving the existential problems of society as a whole, but worsens them—including the disintegration of families and the demographic crisis.

Men and women alike are assumed by society to follow and conform with these specified gender roles. In many countries registered civil unions have been introduced, and in some places full marriage equality has been granted to gays and lesbians. Considering the fact that millions in public money are being spent to push through the LGBT agenda, and that this issue finds advocates at the highest levels of politics, one would think that this is a phenomenon that affects the masses. It is therefore relevant what percentage of the population self-identify as homosexual.

Research studies show that identity conflicts in childhood can lead to homosexual tendencies. Various childhood experiences in the family have a major influence on whether a person later enters heterosexual or homosexual marriage.Men were more likely to enter a homosexual partnership if they had had one of the following childhood experiences: divorced parents, absent father, childhood trauma etc.

Capitalism is  responsible for perversions as being decadent and against nature; homosexuality, obscenity, prostitution and pornography would no longer exist under socialism.

The political power and huge financial resources of the UN, the EU, the governments of the United States and other countries, and the billions controlled by foundations, global corporations, and NGOs, have been thrown behind the effort to deconstruct the two gender theory, normalise sexual freedom, dissolve the family, and destroy the social construct.

UN and its powerful sub-organizations fight for

– dissolution of men’s and women’s sexual identity

– elimination of marriage and the family

– forsaking sexual morality

–  for abortion as a “human right”

It seems as if the powerful of this world have been hellbent to destroy the social construct which protects them against malevolent ideas and establish a new social order where upon freedom of choice is everyone gets to have their “chance” with anyone.

Summary

Conservatives and traditionalist decried the fall of traditions and moral values. Some feared that civilisation would decay as social construct might break down allowing primal drives to take over. Sexuality was seen as a dark force that needed to be channelled by age old institutions such as marriage and promote chastity amongst females and men upholding patriarchial values (protecting women of their household). Traditional upbringing and following Hindu customs with rigour and devotion and continuing the traditions for our progenies. Our traditions and customs are different from “others” we are upholder of world’s oldest religion. PROTECT traditions and RESIST progressive western ideas

Due to the extent that these institutions and ideologies, were deeply ingrained in our culture, we have resisted western degeneracy and still going strong but for how long?

Minnesota, the latest victim of a ‘coup experiment’

Vignesh
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Minnesota, the latest victim of a ‘coup experiment’

This is a time when all of us are seeing visuals of the riots in Minnesota. The riot videos were shocking. Some rioters were assaulting women and differently abled people. Some ended up harming themselves. The cause of this unrest was an act of police brutality which led to the unfortunate death of George Floyd. This deserves the highest condemnation and punishment according to the law of that land. Any racist act or police excess must be condemned and dealt with, accordingly. I’m sure there are laws for this at the appropriate level in USA. To those who know, the intention of the rioters is to bring down Trump and blame whites for rioting.

Shaheen Bagh

India had similar riots in Delhi, earlier this year. Mobs wreaked violence in the streets and destroyed the lives of many. North East Delhi was the worst affected. Shaheen Bagh had been the epicenter of a gathering where women and children were propped up to carry out the ‘struggle’. An Amendment which had nothing to do with Indian citizens was deliberately misinterpreted to create fear. There were reports of a baby dying of exposure to cold at Shaheen Bagh, to evoke anger. In this case, Kapil Mishra and Anurag Thakur were made ‘culprits’ to justify the riots under the guise of fighting ‘against’ Modi’s ‘dictatorship’. This was despite severe provocation from ‘the other side’, some who were threatening the territorial integrity of India and provoking communal clashes.

Using women, students, farmers, poor people or children is a cunning tact in such coups. It’s easy to downplay any provocation from their side. On the other hand, the government and its forces will be in a catch 22 situation, weighing pros and cons of dispersing such an uprising. The violent act of the protesters either gets suppressed or blamed on their opponents. Once the provocations exceed the limit, the government acts to disperse the mob only to face its repercussions. Visuals of ‘government cracking down’ on (violent) protesters make it look more like a dictatorship, so that it gains international support.

Previous ‘experiments’

In 2011, Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit seller immolated himself as a form of protest. He had been humiliated by the municipal officials after his wares were confiscated. This became the starting point of the Arab spring, as the Tunisian President fled the country. The months that followed saw various uprisings and revolts against his ‘dictatorship’. Many protesters aped Bouazizi’s style of protest, to regret it later. This was the situation of a President who was ‘elected’ for the fifth time. He died, in exile at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Now, do you need to oust the head of a country for an act committed by municipal officials?

The News on Alan Kurdi’s drowning

This is where the power of a narrative lies. A photo or a video taken at the right time, with a catchy caption and spread widely can evoke strong emotions. It can whip up sympathy, an acute sense of justice and repercussions from almost every corner of the globe. Such an incident need not be within the political boundaries of a country. Few years back, the photo of a 3 year old’s body lying on the beach went viral. Alan Kurdi lost his life as the boat he was on, capsized in the Mediterranean sea enroute to Europe. It influenced the Canadian Federal elections, 2015 since it occurred when his family was going to Europe after they were denied asylum in Canada. Have kids stopped drowning in the Mediterranean sea after this?

Conspiracy

These were common people who were part of groups which faced some or the other problem at a local or minor level. Were they the only ones or groups who faced problems? No. There would have been scores of such tales about injustices meted out. But, how were only such isolated incidents blown out of proportion while the others got ignored or suppressed? This is where the ‘other side’ comes into play. Let’s face the fact that there are few sections of our population ready to riot and run amok at the drop of a hat. Their reasons for such a mindset, could be anything. But, they need an acceptable ‘valid reason’ to vent it out. This is the reason we see disproportionate violence as a response to some minor problems which maybe there (or imagined) in a system.

This is also where narratives and a co-ordinated action plan from something influential comes into play. If you go to the Wikipedia page of Demonetization in 2016, there is a separate heading for ‘deaths’, something which finds no mention in the Wikipedia page of Emergency in India. One, was a decision taken with extreme caution and planning for various fiscal and economic reasons. The other, an attempt to cling on to power, while brutally crushing the opposition. The deaths apparently ’caused’ due to demonetisation got emphasised to evoke a powerful response. The deaths due to emergency got downplayed as it badly affects the reputation of India’s prime opposition party.

Comparison between the Wikipedia pages of Demonetisation and Emergency.

In India

There are similar narratives being spun around the lockdown in India. The focus was mainly on migrant labourers who got stuck in far flung corners of the country with no option to return home. Were the migrant labourers the only ones, affected? No. Yet, they got most of the attention. Probably they wanted to drown any news of illegal immigrants stuck in India, unable to go back due to lockdown. Soon the fake news on trains being diverted and deaths started flooding the social media. The Rajasthan CM (of Congress) took potshots at the Railway Minister. When the issue of Floyd’s brutal killing came in to the picture, some shady people instigated Indians to riot by drawing false equivalences. All these events read together, show that there are multiple attempts to repeat the coup experiment in India.

The common rhetoric during any political slugfest in India is to portray the government as a ‘friend’ of crony capitalists. An evil ‘dictator’ who sells the country to them. Though there are many corporates, the ones who get attacked the most are Ambani and Adani. Such things usually came from the Communists who opposed Capitalism but, now times have changed. However has anyone seen a Communist in India attack George Soros, who’s a convict? Or isn’t he a “Capitalist”? He had recently earmarked one billion Dollars for ‘fighting would be dictators’. If you remember the story of the Tunisian president above, he had won elections 5 times. It won’t be difficult in that context to overthrow a democratically elected stable government, by branding it as a dictatorship.

Easing lockdown a gamble?

Rupankar Dey
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Easing lockdown a gamble?

It has been a regular debate in the television and newspaper in recent weeks on whether India’s draconian total lockdown was a justifiable decision. Many experts are expressing their concern on whether relaxing lockdown is a wise decision when the Covid-19 positive cases are still rising. At a macro level this is a gamble. It is expected that in a highly populous country like India, these rising number of positive covid-19 cases might shoot up like a bullet as soon as the lockdown is lifted. Moreover, there might be many other concerning consequences which will manifest like a forest fire whose burn will be felt by a major percentage of the population. Here in this following piece I am going to explain to my readers that why the Government doesn’t have any other option, except to lift the three month long lockdown.

According to a report published in an article in Business Standard, it was estimated that around 812 million people out of India’s 1.3 billion population were under Below Poverty Line before the lockdown started. That same article commented that while during the phase of this lockdown this figure shoots up to another 100 million which will lead to a catastrophic result in the livelihood of millions of poor people. As per the 2018-19 NITI AYOG economic survey data, quoted by the Business Today, about 93% of the total workforce is in informal sector which is already in a gloomy stage due to the existing economic recession which has been continuing for the last successive quarters. On top of this economic recession, arrival of this draconic lockdown puts the economy in a completely static state.

People engaged in various small businesses and MSME are mostly hard hit. Owners of these businesses cannot earn any profit as there is a no demand in the market, as a result of which they cannot pay their workers. So the labourers and workers are not even getting their wages properly. This resulted to the huge migrant crisis as many of them have come from various states for improving their livelihood. But now they cannot even pay their rent and buy food. This labour force in a new way came under the above mentioned 100 million club poor people who within months receive sudden pay cuts, lost their jobs and felt the repercussion of the worst hit of the economy. According to the data published by Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, some of 122 million people lost their jobs in this lockdown as a result of which, daily wage labourers and small businessman like road side hawkers, vendors, ricksawwalas etc, they moved to below poverty line graph. And by default they slowly cut their calorie intake and most of them going hungry which will gradually lead to the rise in the state of mortality due to hunger.

While in parallel manner if we compare the mortality rate due to COVID in India it is one of the lowest among the world and that is around 2.83% as mentioned by our Honorable Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on 1st June 2020. Moreover, with an improving recovery rate at 48.19% as of Times of India 1st June report. Although up till now there is no COVID antidote to defeat the virus but it can be controlled by physical distancing for which the state rigorously have to carry on strict measures while in the other case if the lockdown prevails more people will die due to hunger because of the rising poverty, which will grow up if the factories, markets and other sectors are not set to open. Beside that, lockdown cannot be continued for indefinite period of time it’s simply like a pause button which will give more time to the administration for buckling up and setting up the health infrastructure to fight against the pandemic and to aware its citizens. It’s our moral duty as a citizen to follow the rules and regulations set by the state in various offices, factories etc.


Sources –
1.https://wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/economy-policy/coronavirus-impact-over-100-million-indians-could-fall-below-poverty-line-120041700906_1.html
2.https://www.businesstoday.in/sectors/jobs/labour-law-reforms-no-one-knows-actual-size-india-informal-workforce-not-even-govt/story/364361.html


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