Don't convert India into a Jurassic republic with two dinosaurs!
~ inspired by Kapil Sibal
@anand_n
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The lynch-mob and the rapists share the same moral depravity -- their criminal actions are a result of self-righteousness and their sense of being aggrieved by those who they torment. And their victims are always the weak and the out-numbered.
I agree fully with Kanishka Sinha.
"The barbarity of a civilization is created by two inputs.
The depravity of the crimes we do nothing to prevent.
And the depravity of the punishments we create to prevent them."
Have a theory. Make a testable prediction based on this theory.
Then wait for events to unfold. If the prediction turns out right, the theory gets strengthened. Else the theory needs to be abandoned or revised.
The above is the essence of the method of science...
At least in one part of India, in Kerala, we have a functioning democracy. Sure, with flaws. But these well within acceptable levels of tolerance.
Indeed, Kerala is one State, where the poser, "What have we achieved in 70 years since Independence?" sounds stupid!
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[India, since independence] has always functioned as an upper-caste Hindu state.
But the conceit of secularism, hypocritical though it may be, is the only shard of coherence that makes India possible. That hypocrisy was the best thing we had. Without it, India will end.
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And we are learning, too late, to cherish hypocrisy. Because with it comes a vestige, a pretense at least, of remembered decency.
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~ Arundhati Roy
If "national interest" can justify abrogating of basic democratic freedoms and fundamental rights in one state of India (as has been done to Kashmir), then the same moral argument would apply for taking away these in ANY state of India!
With the precedent, "national interest" can now be used to shut down whole of India -- for months or even years.
Why should we think the Courts will protect democracy from depredations by a rogue State, when we see them failing so tragically in Kashmir?
Batra’s RTI inquiries revealed how the Reserve Bank of India, the Electoral Commission and several opposition parties had bitterly opposed the bonds.
The papers revealed how ministers in the Modi government had lied to Parliament about the bonds, that the Prime Minister’s Office had broken the Finance Ministry’s rules to open a special window for electoral bonds, and that the Finance Ministry broke its own rules when it allowed for expired bonds to be encashed.
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Reacting sharply to the incident in BHU, eminent Sanskrit scholar Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri said: "It is uncalled for and most unfortunate." He said that in order to study Sanskrit in English, one has to read the translations of Mahanirvanatantram by Sir John George Woodroffe (1865- 1936) and the books on Hinduism translated by him along with his critical appreciation.
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