NO ROOM FOR INTOLERANT INDIAN???
Edited by: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
Intimidation As A Tool Of Political Mobilisation In India!
Why Whom? Have An Answer?
The Sacred and the Polluted: Intimidation as a tool of political mobilization: Harish Khare:
An Uneducated Man Who Can Never Appreciate Intellect In India:
Why? Have An Answer?
STATECRAFT
1. The Sacred and the Polluted: Intimidation as a tool of political mobilization: Mr. Harish Khare.
2. “If the proverbial anthropologist from the Mars were to visit India this week, the visitor would have considerable difficulty in figuring out what was all this fuss over a 20-year-old girl from Jalandhar. The anthropologist would be at a total loss at understanding why over a billion Indians have been made to feel so insecure and vulnerable just because one young woman uploads an “anti-national” placard on social media.
3. Why should India be manufacturing insecurity, anxiety and nervousness on this grand scale — that, too, despite all the accoutrements of a robust republic?” Harish Khare.
4. "On the one hand are those (critics of note ban) who talk of what people at Harvard say and on the other hand is a poor man's son who through his hard work is trying to improve the economy," Modi, who was addressing a rally at Maharajganj, said."In fact, hard work is much more powerful than Harvard" he said without elaborating.
5. Amartya Sen, a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and a Nobel Laureate, called the measure a "despotic action that has struck at the root of economy based on trust".
6. Sen, a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and a Nobel Laureate, called the measure a "despotic action that has struck at the root of economy based on trust".
7. Non Aligned:Typical comment of an uneducated man (MODI) who can never appreciate intellect.
8. Indian_NGO Non Aligned:This illitrate wife deserter wants Indians to remain illitrate and a 3rd world nation so that he keeps getting votes on religious lines by scaring Hindus against Muslims all the time.
9. GDP numbers highly suspect, govt misleading public: Congress
10. The Congress on Wednesday dubbed the GDP numbers as “surprising” and “highly suspect” that could dent India’s global credibility and accused the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister of “misleading” the public.
11. Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said the GDP numbers released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) are “misleading” as these do not factor in the adverse impact of demonetisation, including losses in jobs and production.
12. “The GDP numbers that have been released are surprising and highly suspect. The GDP growth as projected is questionable and will also undermine the crediblity of Indian data globally,” he said.
13. Asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley not to “mislead” the public and address the real issues instead, the senior Congress leader said the government “propagandists” should refrain from “premature celebrations and misplaced euphoria”.
14. Indian_NGO: The world already know that Modi has always been fudging figuers and only doing fake marketing of himself and his so called projects and achievements. The world Economists and leaders discount him around 75% as standard.
15. Simbha: These are cooked figures . Fake degree , fake promise , fake everything . The governor of reserve bank told Modi that he can 2 and 2 and come up with an answer that will please Modi . It doesn't have to be 4.
Intimidation As A Tool Of Political Mobilisation! Why Whom?
16. “So now, how dare a woman say she would not allow herself to feel intimidated? The ruling party and its street “cadres” feel offended: listen, lady, we have the monopoly — backed by the state’s coercive instruments — over intimidation, bullying, browbeating.
17. We — and, we alone — decide who is national and who is anti-national. And we will back our definitions and decisions by violence in the streets and on the campuses.
18. Those who do not agree with our blue-book of saffron nationalism will be dealt with accordingly. We will decide who has a right to speak on this or that campus.
19. The universities will have to be devalued and destroyed as sites and nurseries of dissent and disagreement.
20. There is a grand design to this tableau of intimidation. The ruling establishment managers know things have not quite worked out. Even after the surgical strikes, our soldiers are still getting killed in Kashmir; the terrorists are still at it; the stone-pelters still in business.
21. Worse, we are being nudged by the international community to start a conversation — if not a dialogue-with the “Pakis”.
22. China remains intractable. The neighbourhood chooses to remain unimpressed; and, we do not know what the Trump administration would do for us-or, to us. Will all those who cheered at the Madison Square Garden be deported?
23. If the global developments and arrangements do not provide any comfort, things back home too are not exactly cheerful. The assembly election results, for example in Punjab, will show that the youth have already weaned themselves off the Modi effect.
24. Having ramped up unrealistic expectations of joyful “achhe din” and knowing full well that disappointments are in store for all those who gave a “historic mandate”, the masses have to be entertained and enthralled on a different taal. The uncertain and anxious Indians have to be reassured with a bit of a new codified doctrine, with a checklist of beliefs and practices, codes of conduct, and social taboo. Thought-control is to be added to moral policing.
25. It is possible to argue that the struggle over Gurmehar Kaur’s relaxed nationalism is a political ploy, intended primarily to institutionalise the politics of intimidation, all geared up — cynically, calculatedly — to changing the rules of the game for the 2019 battle.
26. The grand strategists take pride in their cleverness and in their ability to out-think the political adversary. They are good at planning ahead.
27. If the Leader is to be re-elected, then new anxieties and fears have to be injected into our political blood-stream.
28. The sacredness of nationalist urgings and sentiments has to be packaged as a menu of polluted vulnerabilities”. Mr. Harish Khare.
Highlighted extracts courtesy by: The Tribune, VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, CHANDIGARH.
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It is possible to argue that the struggle over Gurmehar Kaur’s relaxed nationalism is a political ploy, intended primarily to institutionalise the politics of intimidation, all geared up — cynically, calculatedly — to changing the rules of the game for the 2019 battle.