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Though pluralism was long the linchpin of India’s robust democracy, Modi has recast the republic as a Hindu nation. 

He has bullied critics, silenced dissidents, and suffocated the press into endorsing his sectarian vision for modern India. 

newstatesman.com/world/asia/202…
A country with thousands of newspapers & hundreds of television channels dedicated exclusively to news, dissent has shrunk to the point of near-extinction.

Primetime television shows on most-watched networks are packed with panellists who trip over one another to praise the PM!
“Influential owners, anchors, editors across the nation,” the journalist Krishna Prasad observed, serve as an “advance party to quell dissent, manufacture consent, set the agenda, drum up support, and spread fear, venom, hatred, and bigotry — sometimes through sheer silence.”
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The Muslims of India are on the streets.

For The Constitution and the Idea of India.

Not for Shariat.

For the second time.

The first was when they chose a secular India as compared to a theocratic Pakistan in 1947.
Today what you see is their hurt. And yet...an affirmation to the Idea of India and a call.

They chose ...in 1947.

It is time that we choose whether we want a theocratic India and disenfranchise our brothers & sisters.

That! Is the fight.
And it is personal.
And a moral fight.
The time for egos and opinions on social media is being whetted down.

Step out of your comfort zones and walk the talk!

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#thread on resistance pics...the fight to reclaim the nation from the anti-nationals
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"I wanted this week to write something good about the first few months of Narendra Modi’s second term as Prime Minister."

-Talveen Singh, devout bhakt of my lord

And Talveen swears that it is not because her son has been exiled.

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"Of course, I believe this was done out of petty vindictiveness, but this does not influence the opinions in this column. Only small-minded, venomous termites (such a lovely word) whose claim to fame is that Modi follows them would have such degraded thoughts."

This is devotion
"The truth is that I continue to nurture the hope that Modi will be able to transform India if he gets his priorities right."

I refuse to believe that Talveen is infected with Stockholm Syndrome but she is having faith based addiction!
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