محترمہ پربھا ✅Just another day in new India, Hindus not wanting a Muslim professor to teach Sanskrit. But Hindutva is different apparently 🙄
Amit Ramesan 🇮🇳Prabha, you are just doing the same thing the BJP is doing : conflating Hinduism and Hindutva.
Hindutva by itself is morally indefensible ; why allow it to hide behind Hinduism?
Agreed, Hinduism itself has a long way to go before we can create an egalitarian society in India.
The "boil the ocean" approach isn't going to work ; let's prioritize the struggle against Hindutva and save our nation first, over reform in Hinduism.
@AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan
Please don’t do false equivalence. Hindutva ideology did not do this Hindus did this, same with many other things. Let’s stop pretending that majority Hindus are turning bigoted
Manny@Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan We keep on denying, but everywhere FB, Twitter & WA groups, the story is the same. We label them as Hindutva, but all of them happen to be our own friends, colleagues & relatives. Just handful of Hindus who r openly calling out the hatred. V keep on saying 31% when almost the entire country voted for Modi with a massive mandate. It's time we recognize this. At the moment, I personally feel, all is lost and V r no different than the Nazis.
NSure ✔@cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan
You forgot the EVMs, friend!!
I am finding more & more bhakts unhappy with snoopy. Some themselves feel the pinch, others have bros/ sis/ dear friends feeling the pinch and so, the change!
Neither ultra rich nor ultra poor will feel it - one has too much money to bother, the other isn't bothered coz they haven't seen money...
It is the middle class that feels it and the majority of us are middle class!!
I don't think we should blame EVMs whenever the result goes against us; look at MH results.
Besides, do consider the various opinions here that Mr. Modi still enjoys substantial, if waning, support.
Let's prepare for the scary scenario : there's no fixing.
There's a lot of good work being done by @naukarshah , @poonamjourno et al. on EVM issues in parallel, so I'd say , once again : we should prepare for the scary scenario of "No fixing."
@AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan i never believed that EVM have been solely responsible. I have asked so many people, shopkeepers, uber drivers, househelp here in Pune, Maharashtra. All of them voted 4 Modi in lok sabha elections. The state elections too, they voted for BJP. There is a huge class divide. For them Modi is a cult figure, who has destroyed the rich & the corrupt Khangress & he is correcting the wrong
Ranjona@cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan
And yet i have met many who said they did not vote Modi, especially in May 2019 and yet... anecdotal evidence although us journalists use it all the time, is interesting but not a complete yardstick.
And yet i have met many who said they did not vote Modi, especially in May 2019 and yet... anecdotal evidence although us journalists use it all the time, is interesting but not a complete yardstick.
@ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan my observation might not apply 2 other places, because Pune is urban and has large Brahmin population who always votes 4 BJP. I know so many who distributed sweets when Babri was felled down. Many have distributed pamphlets in the 90s that Taj Mahal was built over a shiv temple. Those pamphlets also provide proofs (all false). My own relatives r all blind bhakts, except 4 just 5 of us.
ansh_blue@cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan it's a combination of both then, where the race is neck to neck tamper the evms... But we've turned far right in extremely short span of time
@ansh_blue @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
Maybe, friend. But what goes up will come down too!